*I had this saved and forgot to post it, it was late but here it is*
I can’t sleep for nada, Tropical storm/depression whatever the classification had me sleeping all day due to the fact, well I wasn’t leaving my house with rain looking like it coming at you sideways. Sooooooo this is a post I’ve entitled Power Impact! Why the title powerful impact? This quote right here “Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind. Heel up, wheel up, bring it back,come rewind. Powerful impact BOOM! from the cannon…”-Busta Rhymes
I know you’re thinking WTF how at 1:30 in the morning you’re thinking of that. Because of the artist I am presenting in this first edition. Powerful Impact is just that, hip hop songs that have that Powerful Impact be it old or new. The first song/artist up to bat is None other than the Abstract himself Q-tip. He has a new album coming out in November entitled The Renaissance and I can’t wait for ths $hit to drop!! He did the song Getting up which is the song of the post. This joint sounds like straight ‘92′ Tribe! Peep the link for the impromptu video that was shot while on tour this summer at Rock the bells. I heard it live at the show and was sold! The song samples Black Ivory’s ‘you and I’
I’ll take back a little bit and let yall reminsce about late 90’s Q-tip.
Vibrant Thing *Shout out to all my class of 2000/1999 people*
Toussaint L’Ouverture…ok some of you all are probably saying who? Not surprising if you don’t know because that’s not common knowledge. It’s also not common knowledge that Danny Glover is doing/has done a film on the man who freed Haiti. The problem, his film is having a hard time seeing the light of day. Are you surprised because I’m shocked! Everybody would rush to support a movie that being funded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. People would line up to see a movie about a black revolutionary leader who stood up to European oppression, hollywood is salivating to support this, this is going to be an Academy award winning picture just like ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Malcolm X’. Oh! Wait they didn’t win Oscars.
I had to let you all know about this, I had a hard time finding info about this. A movie starring Angela Bassett and Don Cheadle and I saw more about Carlos Santana’s song ‘Toussaint L’Ouverture(which I didn’t know existed) when I googled this topic. Props to President Hugo Chavez for supporting this, The Haitain government helped Venezuela in it’s struggle for independence shortly after their long and hard fought rebellion. It’s sad that many people don’t know about L’Ouverture or the Haitain struggle for independence. That one event had a huge impact on the world and shaped the history of several nations especially our own.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
