Posts tagged "music"

Doesn’t matter how many times this has shown up in your timeline … it would be criminal for me to not post this.

““Are we a lost generation of our people?

Add us to equations but they’ll never make us equal.
She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.
So why ain’t the stealing of my rights made illegal?
They keep us underground working hard for the greedy,
But when it’s time pay they turn around and call us needy.
My crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti
Gimme back my pyramid, I’m trying to free Kansas City.

Mixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.
Well I’m gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman
You can take my wings but I’m still goin’ fly
And even when you edit me the booty don’t lie
Yeah, keep singing and I’mma keep writing songs
I’m tired of Marvin asking me, “What’s Going On?
March to the streets ‘cuz I’m willing and I’m able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you’re selling dope, we’re gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?”

Janelle Monae feat Erykah Badu Q.U.E.E.N 

Tags: janelle monae, Erykah Badu, Black chicks, Dope black art, dope black chicks, music, stuff black feminists like, revolutionary music,
05.01.13 @ 19:31  1,098 notes  Permalink

(Source: centrictv.com)

Tags: black girl, dope black chicks, r&b, 90s music, music, trio,
04.06.13 @ 18:12  16 notes  Permalink

Tiara Thomas has been dope … still waiting on the mixtape

Tags: tiara thomas, dope black chicks, I wanna meet her too, hip hop, music, artists, midwest,
03.20.13 @ 22:48  13 notes  Permalink

Kelly Price, Friend of Mine #MondayMusic

Tags: kelly price, dope black chicks, music, monday music, r&b, retro,
03.04.13 @ 22:25  8 notes  Permalink
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*Folks who have Googled something today may have noticed the drawing of an African woman in the place of its usual logo.

It’s Miriam Makeba, the late singer and civil rights campaigner, honored in a special doodle on what would have been her 81st birthday.

Makeba, who was born in Johannesburg in 1932, worked with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon in a musical career that spanned decades. She is considered to be the first singer to popularize African music internationally, initially performing jazz before moving into a style that is commonly known by the catch-all title “world music.”

The politics of Makeba’s music led to her exile from South Africa in 1959 shortly after she appeared in an anti-apartheid documentary that made her an international star. She was denied access to her homeland for 31 years, only returning in 1990 at the insistence of future president Nelson Mandela who had only recently been released from prison. During her exile she became a prominent critic of South Africa, even testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, which led to her becoming an honorary citizen of 10 countries.

Makeba died in Italy in 2008 during a performance for the author, journalist and anti-mafia campaigner Roberto Saviano.

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— http://www.eurweb.com/2013/03/google-honors-miriam-makeba-today-in-special-doodle/
Tags: dope black chicks, google, race, gender, I had no idea, african women, music, herstory, miriam makeba,
03.04.13 @ 11:47  55 notes  Permalink

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NPR - Nina Simone

‘Why?’: Remembering Nina Simone’s Tribute To The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death.

Simone’s brother, Samuel Waymon, who was on stage playing the organ, talks with Lynn Neary about that day and his reaction to the civil rights leader’s assassination.

“We learned that song that (same) day,” says Waymon. “We didn’t have a chance to have two or three days of rehearsal. But when you’re feeling compassion and outrage and wanting to express what you know the world is feeling, we did it because that’s what we felt.”

Waymon and the band’s performance of “Why? (Then King of Love is Dead)” lasted nearly 15 minutes as Nina Simone sang, played and sermonized about the loss everyone was feeling.

The song later appeared on several greatest-hits collections, most recently on theAnthology release from RCA.

(Source: NPR)

Tags: npr, nina simone, mlk, hate, activism, music, social justice, dope black chicks,
01.27.13 @ 23:33  77 notes  Permalink

American Masters opens its 27th season with the story of African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915-October 9, 1973). One of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Tharpe may not be a household name today, but the flamboyant superstar, with her spectacular playing on the newly electrified guitar, played a pivotal role in the creation of rock ‘n’ roll. Emmy-winning filmmaker Mick Csáky uncovers her life, music and lasting influence in American Masters Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll, premiering nationally Friday, February 22 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) in honor of Black History Month.



(Source: blogs.indiewire.com)

Tags: black women, rock and roll, music, race, gender, rosetta tharpe, herstory, we built this too, dope black chicks,
01.17.13 @ 23:38  12 notes  Permalink

When I Rise is the inspiring story of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted black mezzo-soprano who, as a music student at the University of Texas, found herself in a civil rights storm that changed her life forever.

Barbara had transferred from Prairie View A&M University in the fall of 1956 as part of the first racially integrated undergraduate class at the University of Texas. Shortly after beginning her new life in Austin, Barbara’s innate musical talent attracted the attention of her professors in the School of Music, and she was cast as the romantic lead in the campus rendition of Dido and Aeneas — opposite a white male student.

Tags: dope black chicks, barbara smith conrad, african american women, herstory, history, music, stuff they don't teach in schools, sheroes,
01.10.13 @ 21:34  366 notes  Permalink