Dark, soulful vocals, field recordings, great hip-hop and trip-hop, jazz and a brilliant title, this powerful and profound racial history number by the American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, comes from the 2020 album BRASS, with additional instrumentation by Sons of Kemet. Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, is also one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips, and co-leads the group Irreversible Entanglements. This track also features the New York rapper Billy Woods (stylised as billy woods), founder of the Backwoodz Studioz label and Wolf Weston of Saint Mela with production by Willie Green. More of this work can also be enjoyed and bought on Moor Mother’s Bandcamp page, and the album is also embedded below.
Wolf Weston:
Are these your dreams of violent memories?
I have to wake from selectively
Now when your path can be redeemed
And there's red everywhere I spy
I resign my life to wait and tide
Now I'll be draggin' if I try
And set my feet past where they occupy
All day I travel these ruins
And set my feet in pools brewin'
Running to a target moving
Oh, I just keep walkin' through
Ooh, I just keep walkin' to it
Ooh, and they just keep the target moving
Moor Mother:
The blues remembers everything the country forgot
Bloodstain, sweat, slip-knot
Stop with cold chain
More often than not
The gaze the same
Terror, terrain
Christ in your organs, clot from the brain
The blues remembers everything the country forgot
Hands in the rot
Slots in the swat
Lynch swingin' on the block
There goes the neighborhood
Here comes mama with the Glock (bang, bang)
billy woods:
The blues remembers everything the country forgot
We waited and we watched, we waited and we watched
Just up the block, eye on the spot
No need to talk
Notice the cops, three lights apart
Back to the block
We waited and we watched, we waited and we watched
We waited and we watched, we waited and we watched
Patient
Slow meat in the pot
Slow meat in the pot
Wolf Weston:
Oh, I just keep walkin' through
Ooh, I just keep walkin' to it
Ooh, I just keep walkin' through
Ooh, I just keep walkin' to it
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