[http://www.saulwilliams.com/ His website]
==Life & Work==
Born in Newburgh, NYC, in 1972, Saul Williams is a graduate from New York University. He has a B.A in Philosophy and a Master’s Degree in acting. <br>
He is well known for his performances at the Brooklin Moon Café at the «Open Mic Sessions». In 1996, he became the Nuyorivan Poet Café’s Grand Slam Champion.
Saul William was also featured in the film «SLAM» and has collaborated with the Fugees, KRS-One and many others.
Besides being a rapper and a brilliant poet, Saul Williams is also a writer. He has been published in newspapers (The New York Times, Details, Esquire, Bomb Magazine and African Voice).
His first book is entitled «The Seventh Octave».
In the «Esquire», Saul Williams is described as ''"a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets"''.
==Quotations==
''"It's about leaming that you're not a victim, regardless of how many times you are told you're a victim."'' (Saul Williams)
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==Coded Language==
===Video===
[http://www.theonenetwork.com/playvideo.asp?speed=300&type=music&videoid=saulwilliams_coded Coded Language] Video
or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lQRklU9nc here] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8 here]
====Other work====
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSR7H580e5U Scene from Slam] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vapwh7HCBU another scene]
[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=saul%20williams&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=1 Online search of his work]
===Lyrics===
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Saul Williams - '''Coded Language Lyrics'''
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the
diasporic community to its drum woven past.
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling
mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun
backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet
at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to
catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards
of dialogue.
Statements, such as, 'keep it real', especially when punctuating
or
anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically
or physically
or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be
seen as
retro-active and not representative of the individually
determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of
this state of
being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and
their secular
manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to
be increased
by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as
vocal
aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a
number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's
speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of
the
unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the
truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars
to erase the
centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of
cause and
effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as
been given
for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent
restricted to the
diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and
deformative
symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce
and crushed
pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in
darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with,
Ignorance, but
with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT,
HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE,
WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ,
SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUERDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN,
HAMER, HOLIDAY,
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE,
RACHMNINOV,
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON,
RIPPERTON,
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS,
NEFERTITI,
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY,
KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY,
COSBY,
SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall
guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and
a hand full
of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned
upside down
supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and
bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the
new day for
today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing
frequencies
into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography,
carpentry,
crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their
responsibility to
uplift the consciousness of the entire f**king World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers
slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers
slain
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==The Pledge of Resistance==
free [[Mp3]] download: http://www.notinournamemusic.com/mp3/01_Pledge_of_Resistance(original).mp3
===Lyrics===
We believe that as people living<br>
in the United States it is our<br>
responsibility to resist the injustices<br>
done by our government,<br>
in our names<br>
Not in our name<br>
will you wage endless war<br>
there can be no more deaths<br>
no more transfusions<br>
of blood for oil<br>
Not in our name<br>
will you invade countries<br>
bomb civilians, kill more children<br>
letting history take its course<br>
over the graves of the nameless<br>
Not in our name<br>
will you erode the very freedoms<br>
you have claimed to fight for<br>
Not by our hands<br>
will we supply weapons and funding<br>
for the annihilation of families<br>
on foreign soil<br>
Not by our mouths<br>
will we let fear silence us<br>
Not by our hearts<br>
will we allow whole peoples<br>
or countries to be deemed evil<br>
Not by our will<br>
and Not in our name<br>
We pledge resistance<br>
We pledge alliance with those<br>
who have come under attack<br>
for voicing opposition to the war<br>
or for their religion or ethnicity<br>
We pledge to make common cause<br>
with the people of the world<br>
to bring about justice,<br>
freedom and peace<br>
Another world is possible<br>
and we pledge to make it real.<br>
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