- Give It To You
- If You Go Away
- Dollar Wine
- New Kids On The Block (Album Version)
- Let’s Try It Again
- Naughty Girls Need Love To
- Bring Me To Life
- Are You Down? (Album Version)
- Chills
- Lavi New York
- Legend of the Fall-Offs
- Where’d You Go
- Jumpin’
- Fuck Me Pumps
- Say
- Blue October – She’s My Ride Home
- Kanye West – Gossip Files
- Monica – Sideline Ho
- Marc Anthony – Si Te Vas
- Dirty Little Secret
- Like A Boy
- She Don’t
- Tell Him
- What If
- Rehab
- Dutty Wine
- It’s Not That Serious
- A Hold On Me
- 4 Minutes
- Can’t Satisfy Her
- The Rain
- King Of The Dancehall
- Trent Tomlinson – Drunker than me
- Cry Me A River (Remix)
- Babyfather
- I Got It
- Make The World Go Round
- Emergency Room
- Woodstock
- Pulse
- Anti-Love Song
- Fake Is the New Real
- Hands Tied
- The Pleasure Principle
- Do My Bad Alone
- Pass The Dutchie
- New Religion
- Lessons Learned
- Kill Dem
- I Used To Love Someone
- Careless Whisper – JK Style
- Wait Your Turn
- Let Freedom Reign
- I See You
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artist(s): Chrisette Michele (ft. Talib Kweli & Black Thought)
title: Let Freedom Reign
album: Let Freedom Reign
drop date: unreleased as single
thoughts: REAL Hip Hop has resurfaced. This song is not only poignant for Bamboozled Month but is necessary for the current world we live in. If you seek bubble gum, this ain’t for you – so keep that shit steppin’. 2010 was the year that most believed we “overcame” once another Negro was placed into the White House, yet they failed to see the undercurrent of discourse, tomfoolery, and fuckery that existed and still exists within this nation.
Talib Kweli: “…freedom ain’t free, gotta put it on my black card; my passport claim I’m an American citizen
the constitution said I’m three fifths; I’m not a simian gorrilla
make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon; truth is the Lords gave the native people syphillis
Consider this: Christopher Columbus ain’t know where he was goin’
So lets stop calling our Native brothers Indians…”
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This song approaches the bullshit and hits to the heart of many issues. “Let Freedom Reign” is one of the hottest songs from 2010 is not the hottest song. It has officially been adopted as The Bootleggers’ Chronicles song and will always have a place in our MP3 players.
Black Thought: “…in this World, the Coonery and Tomfoolery; all I’m trying to do is stay true to my community
the daily news ain’t the only thing that’s schooling me; watching these haters operating with impunity
this dirty dollar signs, black and white collar crimes; running out of time, out of sight, out of mind
it gets realer than Israel & Palestine; troubles of the World start to seem intertwined
war criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home
five star generals, telling lies in press conferences and interviews…”
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Meaningful lyrics, truth of a fraudulent nation, issues that many would like to forget and not acknowledge are put on the table in this song. Michele recruited conscious rappers for a conscious track on a strong album that has been ignored by the main stream media that favors fluff in place of reality. A reality that this nation celebrates pirates, rapists, liars, and thieves and renames them “founders.”
Chrisette Michele: “…Freedom isn’t given it is taken; freedom isn’t free it’s earned
not, known, it’s learned; been hung and burned,
it rests in peace, resurrect it please; this ain’t black or white, it’s grey
this is not about my face; most of us don’t know what to say
right from wrong or free from slave…”
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An album worth having; a track worth cherishing.
Let freedom truly reign. Let REAL Hip Hop reign. The music of consciousness. The music of awareness. The music of reality.
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