Derrick Morgan is a legendary Jamaican artist who has worked with the likes of Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff.
Mistah Rapsey is my name..
staying underground is the experience..
I’ve been traveling since my youth searching for the experience of truth. An old soul back again to discover what I left uncovered. I love to love and live to laugh. Knowledge of self is my school. Paying attention is my drug. Learning to live Life like music and flow with the rhythm, careful not to miss a beat. A renaissance man, Life is my art project. An habitual nomad, I roam to evolve. Music and cannabis are my constant companions. Interested in people, i’m always searching for my tribe. The beauty of the wilderness is the closest i’ve come to experiencing Truth.
Love is the answer..
music, graffiti, vinyl, treeplanting, & mixtapes..
Love is an Action. Love is the Answer. Love is the Movement.
Derrick Morgan is a legendary Jamaican artist who has worked with the likes of Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff.
Derrick Morgan // Fat Man
In 1959 Morgan entered the recording studio for the first time. Duke Reid, the acclaimed sound system boss, was looking for talent to record for his Treasure Isle record label. Morgan cut two popular shuffle-boogie sides “Lover Boy”, a.k.a. “S-Corner Rock”, and “Oh My”. Soon after, Morgan cut the bolero tinged boogie, “Fat Man”, which also became a hit.
The Abyssinians // Declaration of Rights
This is the type of music I can listen to all day, everyday! Put some real dub in your step.
“Fussing and fighting, among ourselves
Nothing to achieve this way, it’s worser than hell, I say
Get up and fight for your rights my brothers
Get up and fight for your rights my sisters..”
- Bernard Collins
Mistah Rapsey // Universal Medicine
Contains audio samples of George Marsh, Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, Jiddu Krishnamurti and The Rick Simpson Story.
Download this medicine and share it with your friends!
(Source: stayingunderground)
Lauryn Hill’s daughter Selah Marley
Bob Marley & The Wailers // So Much Things To Say
My big acquisition of the day was picking up Exodus on wax. This is the second track on Exodus and has also been song by Lauryn Hill on her unplugged album.
“I and I nah come to fight flesh and blood,
But spiritual wickedness in high and low places.
So while they fight you down,
Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises.
‘Cause I and I no expect to be justified,
By the laws of men, by the laws of men.
Oh, true they have found me guilty,
But through, through Jah proved my innocency..”
- Bob Marley
Anna Karina // Le Petit Soldat
“I bet 5 minutes with her, you’d be in love”
Aretha Franklin // A Rose Is Still A Rose ft. Lauryn Hill
This is a single written and produced by Lauryn Hill and recorded and released by singer Aretha Franklin off the album of the same name. Written by Hill for Franklin, the song is feminist-based, focused on a motherly figure giving advice to a younger woman who keeps getting into bad relationships. Throughout the song, Franklin advises that in spite of everything and despite the woman’s “scorned roses and thorn crowns” that the woman is “still a rose”.
I picked this up in the dollar section today while I was crate digging.
likealilikoi said: thank you for this
Mistah Rapsey // MusicalDopeTrip Vol.1
My first mixtape and my probably my favorite mixtape because I love all this music. Download the tape and take the trip.
Directions For Optimal High:
Step 1. Pick a day where you have nothing to get accomplished besides personal relaxation (a rainy sunday morning, a sunny saturday afternoon, April 20th etc)
Step 2. Make yourself some coffee or tea (It’s going to be a long trip)
Step 3. Blaze a joint, smoke a bowl, hit a bong.
Step 4. Curl up in the comfiest spot you can find
Step 5. Press play & MusicalDopeTrip.trip..trip..
Welcome to the land of eargams..
ebonix - Halfway done listening, but this is a good playlist. Laughed @ the intro and the instructions. I kept the instructions for those who can actually follow them. Sadly, I cannot lol April 20th would be a perfect day.
ellisondubois - What I’ve been listening to at work. Seriously the best playlist I have in my library. Absolutely perfect.
(Source: stayingunderground)
Homeboy Sandman // Subject: Matter (prod. by Audio Game)
Homeboy Sandman just recorded this exclusive new track to celebratie the release of his debut Stones Throw release. Sandman explained the EP as “6 rap songs with content no one has ever rapped about before in the history of rap music. Unfortunately not a very difficult thing to do.”
Small Professor // Spare Razor ft. Guilty Simpson & Reef The Lost Cauze
Like your hip-hop gully and rugged? Good, because that’s exactly what you’re getting here on producer Small Pro’s “Spare Razor,” which features the uber-gutter team of Guilty Simpson and Reef The Lost Cauze. They fire lyrical shots over the Philadelphia beatsmith’s neck-breaking drums and moody walking guitars, all of which makes for one hell of a reason to check out his Gigantic Vol. 1 compilation. It’s due out Jan. 24, but just go ahead and keep “Spare Razor” on repeat while you wait. Don’t be too shocked if you get the feeling to go out and rob someone, though. Just don’t blame me.
(via prefixmag)
I love anything with Illadelph’s own Reef the Lost Cauze.
Mistah Rapsey // Music is the Weapon Vol.
I put this mixtape together a couple summers ago during a little break I had from my travels. I didn’t have any access to the internet so I was only able to sample what I had in my library and I had to mix it using a shitty program but I think it resulted in a raw sounding mixtape filled with more knowledge than a little bit!
Tracklist
Check out the second volume titled ‘Street Knowledge’ for a slightly more polished tape inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Arm yourself!
El Seed | This is Just a Phrase in Arabic | Los Angeles
A Justin Mashouf video.
A small social experiment, ‘This is just a phrase in Arabic’ tests the prejudice of the viewer. What do Arabic language and Arabic letters represent in North American mainstream culture? Are these letters strange and obscure, conjuring pictures of burning buildings and irrational extremists? This is a commentary on the fanfare surrounding Arabs, Persians, and Muslims in general. This experiment aims to measure how a simple, innocent phrase in Arabic is perceived through the lens of ordinary North Americans exposed to a stream of unconscious prejudice and derogatory stereotyping.
The Narcicyst // Fly Over Egypt
My brother dropped this yesterday to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. Check it out and spread this (r)evolutionary music.
“More Power to the People
Point out your brothers evils.
Give your sister a hand, although she doesn’t need you…
See Your Flaws when you wake up, they are nothing to sleep through…
and all the money in the world might keep you warm and feed you..”
- Narcy
