This Is Madness
LITA 001 / VAMPI 010 (LP)
1.) True Blues
2.) Related To What Chant
3.) Related To What
4.) Black Is Chant
5.) Black Is
6.) Time
7.) Mean Machine Chant
8.) Mean Machine
9.) White Man's Got A God Complex
10.) Opposites
11.) Black People What Y'All Gon' Do Chant
12.) Black People What Y'All Gon' Do
13.) O.D.
14.) This Is Madness Chant
15.) This Is Madness
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* Limited Edition 220gram LP w/ original artwork & gatefold jacket
* Rare Photos
* Full Lyrics
* Classic Adverts from Billboard & Rolling Stone
* Contributions from:
- Public Enemy's Chuck D & Professor Griff
- Spoken word master Saul Williams
when the revolution comes...this album will go double platinum again. niggas will no longer spend their earnings feeding the machine that robbed them of their culture. when the revolution comes....niggas will stop running to pose in pictures with donald trump in gucci suits with louis handbags. they will gather the pioneers of our cultural economy like the last poets, sonya sanchez, nikki giovanni, and amiri baraka and pose in dashikis with blank journals in their hands where they will record memoirs of those other niggas who died chasing the wrong dream. they will gather at the graveside of gwendolyn brooks and apologize for being too caught up to listen. when the revolution comes we will write long thank you letters to the last poets for helping birth the idea of hip hop. we will thank them for being public enemies and for raging against the machine at the risk of anonymous gun shots and flying police batons. when the revolution comes...niggas will see clearly how once biggie released "party and bullshit", sampling the last poets, he ushered in the apparent demise of conscious hip hop, yet gave niggas the true power to live up to their words (ready to die?). and the last poets where there at the end of the party, ready to bury the corpses and resurrect the spirits of their people, but with the sunken eyes of parents who have outlived their children. when the revolution comes niggas will honor the legends of their time before their time is up and funerals will become orgies where people will rush to bathrooms and the backs of limos in an attempt to be the vessels of god's latest incarnation of a revolutionary. but until then, we must act as if that time is now.
- Saul Williams
* (included in the liner notes of Light In The Attic & Vampi Soul's Last Poets reissues)
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