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