[Reader-list] Public Enemy vs Arizona: Sonic Immigration

[Joshua Zeidner]

  I'm writing this from the Arizona Capitol.

  Paul, we don't want your racist politics here.  Al Sharpton has nothing in
common with the illegal aliens.  You are not only a traitor to your country
but a traitor to your own people.  How can you turn against a country that
has given you so much?

  we do remember history.  We remember it very well.

  Check it:  http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/?linkid=410&webid=1000

  -jmz


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hey people - I just finished a studio session with Chuck D from Public
> Enemy. In the wake of Republican Governor Jan Brewer's appalling
> anti-immigrant law, me and Chuck D were rappin' and we decided to put
> together an update of his classic track "By The Time I get To Arizona."
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> You can download the track from here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Anyone who knows about hip hop from the early 90's remembers John McCain's
> unwillingness to endorse creating a local version of Martin Luther King's
> birthday. The update here is a 21st century look in the rear view mirror.
> The cliché that "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat
> it" still holds sway in our hyper amnesiac culture. I remixed D.W.
> Griffith's infamous film Birth of a Nation  with a bit of Public Enemy in
> mind, and later on, they named an e.p. with the same name as my project. Me
> and Chuck D have done several projects in the past around progressive, non
> knucklehead hip hop.
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> Please feel free to download this track and pass it around. We are the
> media. Feel free to pass it around!
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> By the way, this is a mashup, and it's basically not really for sale. I
> just took a riff from Philly Sound (www.funkadelphiarecords.com), and
> flipped it. The result, is what you hear here. It's free, and open. No $!!
> You can download a better resolution version of the track here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Check it!
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