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AKALA Ted Talk about The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company

2011-12-12T10:27:00.001-08:00

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LEFT FIELD IN MOTION TOUR STARTS NEXT WEEK

2011-11-11T09:48:00.001-08:00

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Akala Fire In The Booth

2011-08-03T00:04:00.001-07:00

It just occurred to me I had not actually put this up on the blog!!

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Videos From Yesterdays Presentation

2011-07-15T02:18:00.001-07:00

I've added in a couple more videos than those I played yesterday.

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DOUBLETHINK DAIRY 13

2011-07-05T14:35:00.001-07:00

DOUBLETHINK
Diary entry 13
The discovery of my disease
I was thirteen when it happened, it is clear now. We were at the secondary
indoctrination centre we were learning about the flea bitten inhuman
savages¹ that we had to remove from this land before we would found this
great nation of ours. I am not sure what it was, something in the
indoctrinators speech or manner or just the smell of the air that day but I
could taste a rage building in me with every word she spoke. In my mind I
kept getting images of these¹ savages¹ and their children being killed, and
their books and buildings being destroyed, and the few of them still alive
being whipped into submission. Somehow those savages seemed regal and wise
and of course not perfect, but human to me, and for a brief moment that was
a characteristic that I found endearing. And I just lost it. I leapt out of
my chair and screamed at the indoctrinator that what she was saying was
nonsense and that the massacre of human beings could never be justified, I
screamed that they were humanoids just like us and actually we could have
perhaps learned a thing or two from them.
At that last comment my whole class paused, frozen in indignation, I could
see a few faces grimacing as if bitten by a slight truth they felt in what I
was saying but their bodies disobeyed this bite and as the indoctrinator
rang the bell for the enforcers of ignorance to come and collect me and the
rest of the class held me pinned to a desk to await their arrival, those few
conflicted souls sat in their seats and just watched. They just watched, as
I was beaten by the enforcer¹s electro-metallic sticks and my bloody body
dragged by its feet leaving a viscous red smear on the floor. They just
watched.
They just watched as something they knew to be wrong unfolded and happened
before their very eyes. The elders tell me that all that needs to happen for
humanity to sink into barbarism is for people to just watch.

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DOUBLETHINK DIARY 12

2011-05-12T08:38:00.000-07:00

Food and medicine
Food and medicine are of course also put to their appropriate use in
Ignoratia; that is to maintain a general and accepted level of illness.
This is perfectly logical, as a healthy body equals a healthy mind and as we
have learned from our ancestors healthy minds do not easily become ignorant
and therefore cannot be controlled. It is therefore beneficial to the order
of things that a diet of wholly synthetic, processed, chemicalized food and
drink be consumed. All fresh fruit and vegetables are illegal (unfortunately
there is still a huge black-market for these products that we have not been
able to fully quash) and home growth is sacrilege. A minimum per day calorie
intake is also enforced; our dietary ideology can be summed up by the
following maxim;
A hamburger an hour
Keeps illness in power
You see illness is seen almost as a communal right of passage by the people
and as everybody they have ever met has always been at least slightly sick
it becomes self evident that sickness is as normal as breathing. All herbal
treatment (as laughable and ineffective as it obviously is) has still been
outlawed, as we of course can¹t have people experimenting with those dangers
and potentially harming themselves. It is quite simple, as man is the
pinnacle of creation the more man [and not a woman] has affected a given
thing the better that thing becomes and this is most clearly demonstrated in
medicine. The more processed, complicated and confused the treatment the
more often it should be applied. As the people are kept totally ignorant of
how their bodies actually work and are so petrified of death we can prey
upon them to the point that they will drink engine cleaner and eat rat
poison and then have the resulting disease treated with more toxic
substances as long as we tell them to.

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10 YEAR OLD BOY SPEAKS ON THE N-WORD! VERY INPIRATIONAL MUST WATCH!!

2011-05-05T16:33:00.001-07:00

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I wonder if people noticed the references to all the Biggie tracks in this???

2011-04-11T11:52:00.001-07:00

Made You Look Freestyle War Mixtape Vol2
Don¹t believe in heaven cos were livin in hell
You wana know WHATS BEEF? I GOT A STORY TO TELL
He had SUICIDAL THOUGHTS he was READY TO DIE
KICK IN THE DOOR waving the 44 to HYPNOTIZE
No WWARNING NOTORIOUS THUGS gave him long clips
YOUR NOBODY TIL.. somebody give you the LONG KISS
NO MORE CHANCE THE WORLD'S FILLED with greed
And NASTY BOYS that Love The Dough and make N****S BLEED
EVERYDAY STRUGGLE MACHINE GUN FUNK Soundtrack
THE SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT when your TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE CRACK
Infact it¹s a countdown to your LAST DAY
MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS when you get it the fast way
Sky mask way will turn your song to an INTERLUDE
You Can scream GIMME DA LOOT and even get it to
JUICY you can F*** HER TONIGHT and then another one
But it never will be enough if you need another gun
Haters plot your DOWNFALL and now they MISS U
And SOMEBODY GOTTA DIE for what they did to you
And that¹s THE WHAT? The hood the street the life
UNBELIEVABLE its just an INTRO before you see the knife
You could be show stoppa or top shotta
For respect enemies and Friends Of Mine meet BIG POPPA

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Akala Find No Enemy - Official Video

2011-04-01T01:49:00.001-07:00

Directed By GlobalFaction

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Hugh Masakela - Coal Train

2011-03-29T16:27:00.001-07:00

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Capital city of Congo in 1668

2011-03-22T17:20:00.001-07:00

This is a picture of Loango capital city of Congo as seen by Dutch observer
Olfert Dapper in 1668 ....

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Fear

2011-03-19T01:16:00.001-07:00

nothing is to be feared only to be understood, intoxicated often does what
the sober would, if he thought he could, if he had the power, he¹d abuse it
and that seems clear to me. What is dear to me, is also fear to me, because
pain is the price of what I hold near to me, to which I¹m attached and I
can¹t light the match, if I did I¹d see everything I think I lack, is right
here already, I¹m a part of it, not the end and nor am I the start of it,
but apart nonetheless, scared of what is under flesh and everything i cant
posses so instead i disconnect.
And to numb the stress, take a blunder guess, rather than know, I don¹t
know and just accept, I view it as a test and I must pass, it¹s only real if
its something that I must grasp, nothing else counts a bit if I cant count
it quick, so lets count figures, let us count figures. Figures in the bank,
figures mowed down by tanks, the steel boot of the figure stamps on the
ants, but they want more than figures, we ain¹t figured that we need them¹
and we¹re projecting the reflection of how were really feeling, when we kick
them¹ kill them¹, leave them¹ there dying bleeding and say they did it
first, we are just getting even.
And repeated until it¹s something that we can believe in, the truth is
that inside we are screaming and we hate ourselves that¹s why we act this
way, when we strike out we should punch ourselves in the face, that is what
we¹re really doing, got no clue what we¹re pursing, the mirror or the
million, what are we really viewing? We can take a microscope and analyze
atoms or telescopes to the sky, the same thing happens, it¹s the same
picture, they both go on forever, so when we place limits on things, is that
clever? In fact I define myself by my limitations, my station or my status
or my silly faith in papers. The type that I read or the type that say i¹ve
read, the type for which they bleed or the type that say you bled and now
the ego¹s fed but never had its fill,
so until we shed, let¹s accept the deal, we will steal and will kill just
for the thrill, that¹s my dose of truth, give me the blue pill
and let me swallow, wallow now in my sorrow, don¹t want to find my own
truth it¹s easier to borrow.

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Poem - BLOOD STAINS THE PAVEMENT

2011-03-14T07:11:00.001-07:00

Blood Stains The Pavement
Red, Viscous and Black
Once the yelping, bending body is gone
The Blood Give Character To The Slabs
A Rainbow Of Bile, Phlegm and Punctured Arteries
A Monument To Another Mind

Wasted, Wasted

This Shitty Little Stain
The Only Memorial
For The Loss Of Possibility
Once The Pavement Is Cleansed
There Is Nothing To Show
Nothings Standing To Let You Know
On This Day We Lost Greatness.....

Again

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Akala Spit It Out

2011-03-06T12:15:00.001-08:00

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Peace/What Is Real Animation

2011-02-24T14:19:00.001-08:00

By @bjsatire and @shaunladd Big Up again guys

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7/2/11 Poem

2011-02-07T12:42:00.001-08:00

Words of wisdom work for purpose
Eternal utterings brought to surface

Histories curve bends to freedom
Each thought or thing affects the curve

Confused we are and I the most
For attempting to answer a question posed

The worldy wise speak in silence
Needing to be right or liked is a need of tyrants

Craving praise the weakened will
Is made a slave to peoples thrill

We trade our channel for screen and screams
And having made it there are still not pleased

Nothing's too much
Everything is not enough

I live this lie Don't call my bluff

My title, My Wage, My privilege, My Cage
The scructures that house my fear of days

Stripped, I am, not woman, or man
A speck of an energy I don't understand

The invisible hand (Not death as a market)
But life as a cycle, the flame that sparks it

With or without my buildings and bombs
And blabbering bullshit I put in a song

The show will go on
The show will go on

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Yours And My Children Animation

2011-02-03T05:21:00.001-08:00

Big Up to @bjsatire and @shaunladd for this one

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Yours And My Children Animation

2011-02-02T10:16:00.001-08:00

http://bit.ly/ezWaGr

Big shout to @bjsatire and @shaunladd for this one

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23/1/11 Poem

2011-01-23T08:37:00.001-08:00

A Restless Mind
A Sweaty Brow
An Aching Back
An Uneasy Sleep
A Rushing Day
Bills To Pay
You Sow and Sow
But Do Not Reap

A Pair Of Palms Full Of Blisters
A Pair Of Ears Deafened By Drills
A Pair Of Dreams Put On Hold
For What Are Dreams When We Have Bills?

A Pair Of Lungs Ruined By Smoke
A Pair Of Eyes With Half Dead Sight

The Very Same Eyes That Once Saw The World As An Oyster
Have Now Realized it's actually A Crab That Bites

A Small Cheque
A Months End
A Beer Or 6
A Pair Of Friends

A Bit Of Cancer

The End.

CAPITALISM WORKS

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FREE GIVEAWAY: AKALA VS APHEX TWIN AND BUCKETHEAD

2010-12-23T14:44:00.001-08:00

As the Tour Starts Tomorrow we thought we'd give something away to
celebrate, you can download both these tracks FREE from here!!!

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The Age Of Reason (5511 KB)
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Fear by Akala (4985 KB)
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A Little article I wrote about reading

2010-12-03T12:59:00.001-08:00

It never got printed in the end but I thought I'd share it with you anyway

You are what you read
From the scripts of the ancient Nile Valley and Mesopotamia to the Quipu
system of notation using knots and thread in medieval America through to the
most enduring system still widely in use (Chinese) via numerous other
variations to this the Roman script that I am currently communicating in,
the process of symbol creation and codification we call writing is in many
ways one of the quintessential human and humanizing processes. As we embark
on our quest of naming the world, writing attempts to distill our realities,
or perceived realities and preserve ideas, thoughts or feelings in a
permanent or (given the destruction of many of the greatest collections of
books throughout the ages) semi-permanent state. Of course many of the now
most acclaimed and sought after written works began life as oral traditions
and their credited authors¹ are people that told rather than wrote them
(the Malian epic of Sunjata and the Homeric epics are two famous examples).
One may ask whether this rendering of such works into a committed form locks
them into a static state where the creativity and potential for evolution in
such tales is rendered dormant. That is a valid discussion in some respects
but writers seem to re-interpret and re-tell other writers ideas and motifs
just as readily and dramatically as oral communicants.
Perhaps this is because if writing is a process of crystallization, reading
is quite the opposite, that is, a process of the most spectacular
transformation. It was reading that transformed a young man from Stratford
Upon-Avon with no formal university education into the most revered writer
in the English language, it was reading that transformed a 25 year old
street hustler¹ in prison nicknamed Red¹ into one of the centuries most
noted political intellectuals, it was his access to literature unlike so
many of the other millions of Africans in bondage in the Americas that not
only enabled but somehow forced Toussaint L¹Ouverture to lead the Haitian
revolution that eventually compromised the entire trans Atlantic slave
trade¹. It is this potential for transformation, self-discovery and
evolution that is readings almost sacred purpose. The way we are able to
communicate with fictional characters and narratives that are somehow more
real than anything we have ever physically experienced. The way these
narratives serve as archetypes to meditate upon. The ways we each process
these ideas differently but they inevitably change who we are and thus who
we are to become. Anyone familiar with the work of Japanese professor Masaru Emoto will be
well aware of the transformational power of words. For those not familiar
let me briefly elucidate: Professor Emoto experiments basically consist of
examining frozen water crystals under a microscope whilst speaking different
words at the water or even just passing pieces of paper with particular
written words inscribed on them over the water whilst monitoring if the
presence of different words changes the crystal structure of the water in
any way. What he overwhelmingly found (crazy as it may seem to many who have
never studied Quantum phenomena) was that positive, loving, affirmative
words caused the water crystals to align in a way that made them look like
beautiful often geometrically perfect snowflakes and that hateful,
offensive, degrading words caused the crystals to form ugly distressed¹
shapes. Now if we are 70% water and simple words and phrases have this
effect on water then what is the power of stanza¹s, pages, whole books worth
of either degrading or inspiring information on not only the human water¹
but psyche as well?
I have personally as a young man growing up experienced many conflicts that
arose simply out of two people not being able to communicate what they
really wanted to say effectively and we¹ve all had family members or spouses
that we wish were more commutative or have wished that of we ourselves had
better command of the language. This command of the language and expression
does bring about a radical change in how we feel about who we are and thus
how we act in society. This is again the vocation of reading. Not some
elitist activity to only be partaken in by old professors in dusty halls
with classes full of Victorian thinkers ready to espouse, robot like
whatever they have read verbatim. Not only is that vision of who is and who
should be reading silly, it¹s outdated and always was astoundingly
inaccurate. Reading is about learning to think for your self and not
swallowing something wholeheartedly just because it¹s been committed to
page. However one cannot deny that we live in a culture torn, in which
reading for the masses of the people is continually being degraded as an art
and being presented in a way not too dissimilar to the stereotypical
depiction above, with vacuous celebrity driven hyper-materialism being
marketed (especially to the young) as the preferred cool, aspirational
lifestyle. I have worked with thousands of young people (or people younger than
myself!) and see first hand everyday just how damaging these ideologies are
to peoples self-esteem, their outlook on the world and ultimately their
behavior and belief of what they feel is possible or attainable to them.
Fortunately I also see just how strong the desire to be educated (the root
meaning of the educate is to draw out that which is within¹) is in ALL
young people once it is switched on or stimulated in the way of dialogue not
dictatorship. However education does not occur in a cultural vacuum and if
we are to be the society we can be and the world we can be in 21st century
the way in which we market, view and treat education and reading has to
change dramatically. Ultimately those who really shape our societies are the
so called geeks¹, technicians, architects, engineers, doctors, philosophers
etc so anyone that is telling you these same people are not cool is either
very confused or trying to limit you in life.

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MUDDY WATERS: MANISH BOY (If this ain't a Hip-Hop groove I don=?ISO-8859-1?B?uQ==?=t know what is??)

2010-11-14T05:58:00.001-08:00

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Taalam Acey-There's a market for n*****s

2010-11-03T09:28:00.001-07:00

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A List Of Album Reccomends

2010-10-21T03:13:00.001-07:00

People have been asking me for a list of music recommends so here goes, its
a mix of classic stuff with some fairly recent bits, some of which you've
probably heard others maybe not but all albums I find very inspiring

Amadou and Miriam-Dimanche à Bamako
Sacred Spirit-Culture Clash
Wu Tang Forever
Buckethead-Electric Tears
Led Zepplin-Led Zepplin 4
Muddy Waters-Electric Mud
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
The Disposable Heroes of Hip-Hoprisy-Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
Saul Williams-Saul Williams
The Dead Weather-Whorehound
Curtis Mayfield-Superfly
Gil Scott Heron-Spirits
GZA-Liquid Swords
Killa Bees-The Swarm
Freedom Rhythm and Sound (Revolutionary Jazz Compilation)
Miles Davis-kind Of Blue
Ornette Coleman-The shape Of Jazz to Come
Radiohead-In Rainbows
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Nas-The Lost tapes
The Mars Volta-Deloused in The Crematorium
Gravediggaz-The Pick The Sickle The Shovel
Public Enemy-It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold us Back
Dennis Brown-Promise Land

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Yours And My Children Review in todays METRO

2010-10-18T04:31:00.001-07:00

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Black (African) History Month Reading List

2010-10-06T09:09:00.001-07:00

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a beginning.

Among all the signing and dancing that organizations that claim to represent
'black' culture are bound to put on this month it's easy to forget why Black
History Month was started in the first place. It can also be easy to get
caught up in that word 'black' and forget that this a part of the history of
humanity as a whole.

Hope you enjoy

CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
The African Origin Or Civilization Myth Or Reality?
Civilization Or Barbarism
Pre Colonial Black Africa

IVAN VAN SERTIMA
They Came Before Columbus
The Golden Age Of The Moors
Blacks in Science (ancient and modern)
Egypt Child Of Africa
Egypt Revisited
African Presence In Early Europe
African Presence In Early Asia
Black Women In Antiquity

UESCO General histories of Africa Vol2-G. Mokhtar

Black Athena-Martin Bernal
Africa In History-Basil Davidson
The Ruins of Empires-C.F Volney

Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome- Dr Joy Leary
Remembering The Dismembered Continent-Ayi Kwei Armah
The Destruction Of Black Civilization-Chancellor Williams
Before The Slave Trade-Robin Walker (Picture Book)
When We Ruled-Robin Walker
Brazil Mixture or Massacre?-Abdias Do Nascimento

From Columbus To Castro-Eric Williams
The Black Jacobins-C.L.R James

BLACK BRITAIN:
Ancient And Modern Britons-David Mac Ritchie
Staying Power-Peter Fryer
There Ain't no black in The Union Jack-Paul Gilroy

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Akala And MC Marechal on Westwood

2010-10-02T17:17:00.001-07:00

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Yours And My Children Official Video

2010-09-22T18:04:00.001-07:00

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One of the greatest musicians of the 00's

2010-09-22T03:58:00.001-07:00

Omar Rodriguez is a genius

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Incase You wondered what the Wounded Knee Poem was about

2010-09-06T10:34:00.001-07:00

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Dreams Are... (Collaboration with Aziz)

2010-09-06T07:45:00.001-07:00

Dreams Are. by Akala (3744 KB)
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Feeling generous today so we'll give this away hopefully this will cheer
someone up with they grey weather.

The Guitar is played by my good friend and incredible musician Aziz Ibrahim.

Its still a work in progress but we thought it worth sharing anyway

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: Poem

2010-09-05T10:54:00.001-07:00

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I have no use for it anymore
It still beats, but the rhythm is off
Off, off, strange
The music of fate to which my hips gyrate
I dance with destiny
My soul left with the last treaty
Promises, promises, happy servants, offices
Ushered, moved, herded, the cattle of the blue coats
Milked of our wills, now meat for the kill
Bury my heart at
wounded knee
I left it there anyway
cover it with earth
or dirt as you may say
gut the earth for all she¹s worth
use her guts for garters
but when they are worn,
a woman scorned
will spawn a race of martyrs
death dressed as progress
the suit is a misfit
but no one will tell the emperor
(he shoots you with cannon balls)
death dressed as
help
murder hides in the bushes
reach down my throat
pull the rations from my stomach
with the same hand that pulls triggers if I don¹t comply
Bury my heart at wounded knee
it¹s a weight in my chest
for an open heart is a closed coffin
in the world of the fork tongue.

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YOURS AND MY CHILDREN OCT 11TH

2010-09-02T08:06:00.001-07:00

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Legendary Mc Marechal

2010-08-08T07:20:00.001-07:00

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Rocinha Brazil

2010-07-30T18:15:00.001-07:00

This is where we shot the bulk of the video for yours and my children

(don't watch the grainy footage the video will not look like that!!!)

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At least a years worth of books to read

2010-07-22T14:30:00.001-07:00

For all the people who were at the Birmingham Library event yesterday (and everybody else) here are some books you may enjoy!

1984-George Orwell
Brave New World-Aldos Huxley
WE-Yevengy Zamayatin
Blindness-Jose Saramago
Of Water and the spirit-Patrice Some
Native Son-Richard Wright
100 years of solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They Came Before Columbus-Ivan Van Sertima
The African Origin of Civilisation Myth or Reality?-Cheikh Anta Diop
The Secret Life of Plants-Peter Tompkins
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
The Black Jacobins-C.L.R James
1491-Charles C Mann
The Shock Doctrine-Naomi Klein
The Prophet-Kahlil Gibran
The Awakening of intelligence-J.Krishnamurti
Self Reliance-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep-Phillip K Dick
The Glass Bead Game-Herman Hesse
The Urban Heritage Of West Africa
The First Emperor Of China-Clements
Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome-Joy Leary
The Ruins Of Empires-C.F Volney
Song Of Solomon-Toni Morrison
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I can't even lie I cried when I first heard this

2010-07-14T14:28:00.001-07:00

Pedagogue Of Young Gods by Saul Williams (3098 KB)
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The Word

2010-07-12T13:03:00.001-07:00

THE WORD.doc (35 KB)
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AKALA ANNOUNCES DOUBLETHINK FULL UK TOUR

2010-06-25T01:19:00.001-07:00

AKALA 'DOUBLETHINK' TOUR FLYER.pdf (1095 KB)
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Spread the word as ever good people

See you there

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A little spoken word story from 08

2010-06-18T10:17:00.001-07:00

A Tale Of Two Puppets by Akala (2436 KB)
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Untitled

2010-06-09T05:07:00.001-07:00

Some people never die http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpWRAnDO_A
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I think I was a 70's baby really..

2010-06-08T10:39:00.001-07:00

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Catach Akala live @ Parklife festival Manchester this Saturday

2010-06-08T10:16:00.001-07:00

http://bit.ly/AkalaParkLife2010
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A view of what is happening in happening in Jamaica that I read....

2010-06-02T04:54:00.001-07:00

As the Dudus saga plays itself out in Kingston, two of the questions that
remain unanswered are 'why is the United States pushing so hard?' and 'why
now?'. The world is full of dons and drug lords, not to mention the fact
that the American plate is full with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a
billion Muslims who are being encouraged to attack anywhere at anytime.
You would think that they had more immediate things to concentrate on.

Yet they continued to poke and push, treating every Jamaican that went
through U.S. customs like a criminal, openly questioned the personal
honesty of the the Prime Minister Bruce Golding and even suggested that the
Jamaican Labor Party were in violation of their mandate to govern Jamaica.
In fact, the Americans haven't even got an Ambassador to Jamaica anymore.
Obama has left the position open, a serious diplomatic slap in the face.
All of this tension is for the Don of Tivoli Gardens? Something isn't
right. Dudus just isn't that big of a problem.

The idea that outside interests have manipulated the situation for a
long time begins to form when you question the truth of what we are being
told. For two years now Dudus has had an excellent run, controlling the
docks in Kingston (on Tivoli Gardens turf, and the true value of the
constituency) with his buddies running the government. He has grown more
powerful than ever before, with so much money that he doesn't have to rely
on politicians for anything. In the old days back in the 1970's, when the
street gangs were first created by the political parties, they had to get
their weapons and cash from the JLP or the PNP, but since the cocaine
business showed up, that relationship has slowly turned full circle. Now
the politicians need the gangs to control the vote, but the gangs don't
need the politicians for support. They have become an independent power.
The outside control in this is that the international cocaine business is
not run by Jamaicans. Nobody manufactures coke on the island, it all
comes in from South America, mostly Colombia. Somebody else determines how
much of their product is moved through Jamaica, which in turn determines
how much money ends up in the hands of the gangs. Dudus is more powerful
than ever before because whoever is controlling The Business decided that
he would make him powerful. In fact, it looks like they wanted him to
become a 'threat to national security', and be such a handful that outside
military assistance might be necessary.

Since the Iran-Contra hearings in the United States in the early
1980's, the world has known that the biggest player in the illegal drug
business is the U.S. military. The enormous wealth involved is enough to
weaponize entire armies of 'insurgents', which are then used to destabilize
any country they choose. They have the best killers, the best weapons and
the best intelligence, and it's all in cash. No records. There are
American military troops on the ground in Colombia and Afghanistan, by far
the largest producers of cocaine and heroine respectively. This is no
accident.

So it isn't a stretch to consider the idea that growing Dudus into a
serious problem was a manipulation that was within the control of U.S.
interests. By why flare it up now, and why so hard? They could have
cranked up the tension any time they wanted during the past year. What is
America up to that they are forcing a dangerous situation, totally ignoring
the fact that by doing so, there is a very good chance that war will erupt
all over Jamaica, and innocent people will be killed?

Why would the United States want Jamaica to descend into chaos now?
One idea that comes to mind is oil. Try this one on for size -
although Jamaica has never produced a single drop of oil, has no wells, no
rigs, no infrastructure, the Minister of Mining and Energy, James
Robertson, spent March, 2010 in England, and April, 2010 in the United
States, presenting 'Jamaica's Second Formal Licensing Round 2010', billed
as 'New Prospects, New Opportunities', to the Geological Society of England
and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The agendas for
these meetings are on the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica's website.

He reviewed the new seismic data just before the first coffee break at
10:00 am, and the bid procedures info around 11:30, just before the lunch
break, and in between talked about the investment climate in Jamaica. He
was in New Orleans during the second week of April, and was in Texas at the
end of the month. By May 22nd, just three weeks after showing all of this data to the oil
executives in the States, Jamaica found itself suddenly on the verge of
crisis, and American military personnel were seen landing at Manley
International in Kingston. The next day, May 23rd, the Prime Minister of
Jamaica, Bruce Golding, went on national television to declare a state of
emergency.

Add to this the fact that the Government of Jamaica signed a new $1.27
billion US '27 Month Standby Agreement' with the International Monetary
Fund for balance of payment support in February, 2010, and a different set
of motivators enter the picture. Less than a month later the Jamaican
Minister of Mining and Energy is out pimping a non-existent oil industry to
England (controls the IMF) and the United States (controls the World
Bank).

The per capita debt burden of Jamaica is the 4th highest in the world.
Over 50% of the Capital Expense Budget goes to servicing the debt. PM
Golding has an impossible situation on his hands - he has to somehow find a
way to impose financial discipline enough to keep up with the payments,
but he has no way to build economy with what he has now. A Jamaican oil
industry would help him out big time.
However, the real trick is going to be the fine print of that IMF
restructuring agreement. This same ploy was used on Argentina to force
them to sell off State owned assets to raise the cash to pay the debt,
which ended up with a Spanish oil company, Resopl YPF (odd in the fact
that Spain has no oil, but is really a front for BP), owning all of the
rights to Argentina's oil. Later is was discovered that there are
reserves of around 500 billion barrels just off the coast of the Falkland
Islands. Argentina does not own it's oil because of IMF debt restructuring
rules.

So in February Jamaica signs a new IMF debt restructuring package, and
in March the Mining and Energy Minister is in England presenting new
seismic data and bidding instructions on an industry that doesn't exist,
and in April he's doing the same thing in the United States, which is about
the time the Deep Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. Three
weeks into May, Kingston has been transformed into a war zone by
unrelenting and unexplained American pressure, which includes American
military on the ground.

Hmmm. Three weeks after showing the data to the Americans, there are
armed U.S. troops on the ground in the capital city.

The Deep Horizon might have something to do with that. One of the
facts that CNN doesn't talk about much is that BP was drilling way, way
deeper than anybody knew. The deepest working oil well on earth is around
20,000 feet, but six months ago the Deep Horizon drilling tapped 35,000
feet when they had some sort of 'catastrophic event', which ended when they
sealed it up and left things alone. They were drilling again at 30,000
feet when the explosion happened. Outside of the rule breaking, they
proved that the technology exists to go almost twice as deep as any working
well, which means that they can now access oil that was once thought to be
unattainable, in places that have never produced oil before.

In October, 2008, Cuba announced to the world that they had new seismic
data which doubled the size of their offshore reserves to 20 billion
barrels of oil. That's as much as the United States has with 3.5 million
square miles of territory. Cuba is around 42,000 square miles. Whatever
oil they found, it's a deep, deep reservoir.

In 2007, Cupet (Cuba) and PdVSA (Venezuela) signed an agreement to
jointly explore Cuba's offshore areas. A consortium of Resopl YPF (Spanish
BP 40% and operator), Norsk Hyrdro (Norway 30%) and ONCG Videsh (India 30%)
announced that they would begin to drill an offshore exploratory well in
2010, and in 2009, Cuba signed exploration agreements with Zarubzhnieft
(Russia), and Petrobras (Brazil) completed seismic work on Block 37.

At the end of 2008, Cuba announced to the world that it was sitting on
20 billion barrels of oil, the 12th largest deposits among countries, and
that it was involved in developing it with Venezuela, Russia, Spain, Norway
and India. Cuba is about 70 miles from Jamaica.

If you stand on the top of the Blue Mountains and look north, you can
see the lights in Cuba. If they have oil that deep, you can bet that
Jamaica has oil that deep, and Haiti, and the Domincan Republic. That
earthquake in Haiti last January was suspicious from the start, but the
'over the top' response from the United States might now make sense. The
American military controls Haiti. The foreign assistance was an army of
occupation. This week they landed in Jamaica.

The bidding process for the contracts to develop these new Jamaican oil
fields are in play right now. An armed foreign military in the middle of
your capital city is a very powerful negotiating tool, and that brand new
$1.27 billion IMF loan restructuring came with some nasty conditions, and
that runaway well is pumping out an enormous amount of oil, which is going
to raise a few questions about just how much oil is down that deep and when
can the rest of the world start drilling for it?

Jamaica needs an oil industry before it can sell it to the Americans to
pay off the debt. That's why the IMF and the World bank were created to
begin with, to manipulate poor countries into such an enormous debt load
that they would have to sell off their natural resources and utilities to
pay it. This is the plan in action.

The cat jumped out of the bag before the deal was done when that well
exploded, but now it's living proof of the size of the discovery, which is
apparently big enough to destroy all life on the planet if BP can't figure
a way to shut it down. That's a lot of oil. America wants to wrap this
one up fast. For 600 years they've taken all of the wealth from sugarcane
and fruit. For the past 70 years they've taken all of the wealth from
bauxite and alumina. For the past 40 years they've taken all of the wealth
from tourism. Jamaicans live in poverty because vampires from Babylon have
been sucking it dry since Chrisopher Columbus sailed by on his way to
discovering America. Imagine the palace that Jamaica could have become if
all of that wealth had stayed on the island.

Now more money is in play than all of that combined. Black Gold.
Texas Tea. The Devil's Blood. One of the largest oil deposits ever
discovered. This whole Dudus soap opera is really just a manipulation to
create a situation where America can get their hands on Jamaican oil, which
most Jamaicans don't even know about. Bablyon has come calling because it
wants something, not because it cares about saving Jamaican lives or
locking up a bad man. This is the same country that thought up slavery,
and then did it for 400 years because it made them rich.

If America is involved, you know it's about money.
The only solution is probably impossible. Every single Jamaican has to
ask themselves if they love Jamaica enough to make peace with each other.
This attack is on Jamaica, not Jamaicans. They are just the victims, but
the oil the Americans want is as much a part of the island as the snow
white sand, the swaying palm trees, the spectacular ganja or the incredible
reggae.

This trick works only if Jamaicans battle with each other. If America
can somehow manage this flare up to get a military presence on the island,
they will control the oil. The only path out is for each person to raise
his spiritual consciousness to the point where they are prepared to
forgive and make peace with their brothers and sisters. Only Jamaicans can
do what is necessary. They are the living, breathing soul of Jamaica, and
it is up to them to stand as one and shout out 'No More!'. If they don't
then Babylon will crush them down like never before.

This isn't about JLP, and PNP, and Posse's, and Matthew's Lane, or Rema,
or Tivoli Gardens, or Dudus, or running the docks, or selling cocaine.
It's about manipulating all of that so Jamaicans see each other as the
enemy, and keep warring. It's about Babylon stealing the Big Money while
Jamaicans fight like dogs over the Little Money. There are at least 50
Garrisons in Jamaica, with 16 in Spanish Town alone. There are around 20
Posse's affiliated with the JLP, maybe 30 affiliated with the PNP, and at
least 30 Posse's that are 'unaligned' and can be hired when needed. It's
an unstable combination that is designed to break down and destroy.

Dudus and the others like him have been played like a piano. They are
the perfect excuse for American military intervention, 'one of the world's
most powerful drug lords', according to CNN ...over and over and over
again. The reality is that the DEA estimates the total cocaine volume
through Jamaica each year at 100 metric tonnes, which is worth $25,000 per
kilo if it's sold in North America. About $2.5 billion US. The estimated
world total consumption of illegal drugs is $400 billion a year. The
cocaine going through Jamaica is worth about half of one percent of the
market. Nobody in Jamaica is in the top 200, let alone one of the most
powerful.

The oil deal can alleviate all of the debt, all of the poverty, all of
the illiteracy, all of the hunger, for every Jamaican on the island
...forever. The palace that Jamaica was intended to be can be built, but
Bablyon knows it, and has no interest in seeing the island become strong
and independent. Then Jamaica might turn into a Dudus themselves, powerful
enough to stand up and say 'No More! What's ours is ours, and we're
keeping it this time.'

The only way out of this trap is peace. How's that for a Babylon
trick?
This could also be the work of Jah, forcing the right kind of threat
into action so that the spiritual consciousness of every Jamaican shakes
itself awake and realizes that they are blessed to be born at this time,
that they are warriors who have been forced to endure the humiliations of
poverty and oppression so that when the time came they had a voice and were
aware, and would raise their game to the level required to finally free
themselves of Babylon.

Right now might be the most pivotal time in the entire history of
Jamaica. Not 1834 and the end of slavery, not 1962 and Independence, not
1981 with the death of the Prophet Robert Marley, but 2010 and the
discovery of oil, the point in time the future generations of Jamaican
children will always remember as either the greatest of achievements or the
worst of failures, when their parents and grandparents faced the demon
straight on and decided what the future of Jamaica would be. Simply put,
are Jamaicans strong enough to forgive each other the past, in return for
a better future? If they can, they win BIG. More wealth than anyone ever
thought possible. If they can't, then their children, and their children,
and their children, will be doomed to the same vicious cycle of poverty,
violence and oppression. Are Jamaicans strong enough to fix this? Do
they love their children enough to accept the responsibility to give up
their claim to vengeance, so that their children can live free of the
burden?

It's all on the line right now. That's why America is pushing so hard.

On May 25th, a Jamaican born Congresswoman in the United States, Yvetee
Clark, was on the front pages in both countries, saying that she was going
to seek the help of the U.S. State Department to restore peace and
stability in Jamaica. A State of Emergency had been declared for less
than 48 hours and already 'Jamaica's best friend in the U.S. Congress' was
calling for the release of American soldiers on Jamaican soil to kill
Jamaicans. Nice.

We are looking at the beginning of an American military occupation of
Jamaica. Once they get control of the oil and begin to invest billions to
develop it, the term 'Strategic Resource' will apply, which also means
'vital to U.S. national security interests', which will require U.S.
military bases to protect it. Think Iraq.

This is part of the militarization of the Caribbean. It started in
Haiti after the earthquake in January and it has reached Jamaica by May.
With WWIII looming in the Middle East, America is going to need new sources
of oil, and with the Russians, Spanish, Venezuelans, Norwegians and India
already active off of the coast of Cuba, they are playing catch up in
Jamaica. What is at stake is enormous - a change in the balance of power
among the nations of the world. Done right, Jamaica will rise up. Done
wrong, Jamaica will drop to it's knees and beg forever.

With that much money in play the corruption of politicians will be
child's play. This gambit is for the sovereignty of the country. It has
little or nothing to do with gangs, cocaine, ganja, guns, violence or even
Dudus. It is all about oil, soldiers and America taking it all ...again.

Babylon is back on the island, and the only thing that will make it
leave is love. One Love. Remember the Prophet. He saw this coming 30
years ago and drove himself to death to make sure that when the time came,
Jamaicans would have the tools necessary to finally defeat the bastards in
Babylon. Now is that time. One Love. I and I.

Free yourselves. Free Jamaica. Stop the fighting. Don't give them
the excuse they want. One Love wins this war, once and for all. Freedom
is 35,000 feet straight down, and all you need is love. Stop the
fighting. Why is America pushing so hard? You know. Look at the timeline.

1) October 2008 - Cuba announces reserves are now double previous
estimates.
2) January 2010 - Haiti earthquake. American military build up in
Caribbean.
3) February 2010 - Jamaica signs $1.27 billion debt restructuring
agreement with IMF.
4) March 2010 - Jamaican Minister of Mining and Energy presents 'Second
Formal Licensing Round 2010' seminars in London, England, new seismic data
and bid procedures to Geological Society of England.
5) April 2010 - Jamaican Minister of Mining and Energy presents 'Second
Formal Licensing Round 2010' seminars in New Orleans and Houston, new
seismic data and bid procedures to the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists.
6) April 20, 2010 - Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion.
7) April 2010 - American pressure on Jamaican government over
extradition of Dudus escalates to red zone.
8) May 22, 2010 - American military personnel seen landing at Manley
International in Kingston.
9) May 23, 2010 - State of Emergency declared by Prime Minister of
Jamaica.
10) May 25, 2010 - American Congresswoman born in Jamaica calls for U.S.
State Department intervention to stop the violence in Kingston.

In just over a year from Cuba announcing to the world that there are
huge oil reserves deep under the Caribbean, events unfold that result in an
American military build up on Haiti, the island closest to Cuba.

In less than 30 days since signing the IMF debt restructuring agreement,
Jamaica has to present their 'non-existent yet' oil industry to the people
who control the IMF and World Bank, and offer a bid process.

In less than 30 days after presenting this data in the United States,
the Dudus extradition conflict is escalated and Jamaica is destabilized.
You do the math. What do you think?

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AKALA AT ROUNDHOUSE / "DOUBLETHINK" ALBUM REVIEWS

2010-05-22T06:01:00.001-07:00

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Akala @Roundhouse may 28th

2010-05-21T09:05:00.001-07:00

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Doublethink Diary 11

2010-05-17T12:50:00.001-07:00

Control
So all of what I have told you about entertainment the ban of reading etc
are some of the ways in which the perfect order and control is maintained
order here. Fear and hatred [both of which stem from ignorance anyway] are
also fully utilized, but the most effective tool for control seems to be
human selfishness and the ego¹. In Ignorantia it is ensured that each
humanoid only cares about itself, it¹s own ideas, it¹s own career, and in
exceptional circumstances they are encouraged to extend their cares to other
members of their own caste. Egos are rewarded with praise and salaries and
jewelry and status for this lack of compassion. Upper castes are convinced
that privilege, material wealth and rank is their birthright, whilst it is
ensured that the lower castes understand that the lack of all those things
is theirs. Constantly, everday upper castes are reminded that they are
superior in every way and must feel and act accordingly and we of course
lower castes are never allowed to forget for one second that they are
inferior in every way and must also act accordingly, this way they remain
separate and can both be controlled.
What has surprised me since I arrived at Anu is that there is an almost
equal balance of humanoids from all castes here. Remember these are
individuals suffering from diseases of intelligence, reason, and love,
individuals that could not function in the mathematical perfection of
Ignorantia. This tells me that (contrary to what I had been raised to
believe) humanoids of all castes are capable of contracting the
aforementioned diseases and in equal measure humanoids in all castes seem to
find the mathematical perfection of the place where I grew up repulsive.
This has given me serious food for thought as I was genuinely convinced that
the upper castes loved their un-earned privilege and took great pleasure in
abusing and taunting and being oblivious to the pain of those they deemed
less¹ than themselves. It turns out some part of their ancestral memory
seems to know as Kandace tells me that we are all a piece of one collective
energy and all ideas of difference¹ are just illusions. It seems many of us
are born pre-programmed to wake from that illusion no matter how much
Ignorantia attempts to re-enforce it.
Anyway in Ignoratia, of course if any body from any caste gets too far out
of line and really tries to change the social and economic order of things
they are just killed, imprisoned or at the very least labeled as insane, but
most humanoids are so weak from their diet of ignorance, ignorance and
food¹ that this almost never happens.

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Doublethink Diary Entry 10

2010-05-07T11:34:00.001-07:00

Concerning Violence
The second virtue, violence is seen and praised all through out the land
where I grew up. At the centre of indoctrination all day for the first two
years we learn to kill and maim and stab lower castes and barbarians on 3d
computer simulations, blood spurting, intestines spilling, brains on the
ground and we march up the score board to the top of the class in triumph.
However the worship of violence starts even before we are born; as we are
grown in the embryo farm the sound of screams and machine guns is constantly
played while we grow, so that we are born naturally accustomed to the
beautiful operatic sound of war.
Our growing family (according to state regulations) must sit us down every
evening to watch a good wholesome round of murder and pornography or they
can be fined and even imprisoned. Also if we go to the indoctrination centre
and are not up to date with the latest killing machines and sexual positions
we will be ridiculed as intelligent¹ or wise¹ or worst of all
³spiritual².
Every year the nation pauses to come out in salute for the murderer of the
year awards, where we all praise the good men of Ignorantia who have
displayed the greatest level of ignorance and killed the highest number of
savages on this planet that we own.

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Beautiful Poem

2010-05-04T15:07:00.001-07:00

Affirm life......

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Find No Enemy live@DOUBLETHINK album launch

2010-05-01T06:04:00.001-07:00

@eastvillage club 28/4/10

http://bit.ly/do2FP1

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Akala Juelz Acapella Live @ DOUBLETHINK album launch

2010-05-01T01:28:00.001-07:00

Live @ Eastvillage club 28th/4/10

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Exclusive Preview of 3 Tracks from 'DOUBLETHINK'

2010-04-27T02:13:00.001-07:00

To listen to 3 tracks from 'DOUBLETHINK' on Sun Online click the link below

http://bit.ly/cykPxC

Spread the word as ever

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A Little something from back in 05

2010-04-26T16:06:00.001-07:00

Diamonds 2005 by Akala (2622 KB)
Listen on posterous

This is a piece I wrote back when this beat came out that was not on a
particular mix-tape so not sure who has and has not heard it, just came
across it and thought I would post it up.

Big up DOUBLETHINK out Monday keep spreading the word!

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The best poet alive if you ask me

2010-04-20T17:22:00.001-07:00

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A Spoken word piece From 'DOUBLETHINK'

2010-04-15T05:15:00.001-07:00

Big up to PGR on the piano! I was lucky enough to have Paul play interludes
throughout 'DOUBLETHINK' to balance the crazy electro/rock/hip-hop energy of
the tracks, however I had to speak on this one, I could not resist!!

You can pre-order the album here: www.bit.ly/94NMKU

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AKALA-F64

2010-04-13T02:30:00.001-07:00

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: AKALA & BASHY ON MISTAJAM 1Xtra

2010-04-08T16:44:00.001-07:00

First play of the XXL remix Ft Bashy on Mistajam 1xtra show last night!!

A KALA & BASHY ON MISTAJAM 1XTRA SHOW by akalamusic

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Yours and My Children (Snippet)

2010-04-05T05:54:00.001-07:00

Hey People

We have edited some footage of the band rehearsing to a track called 'Yours
and My Children' hope you enjoy.

Now XXL is out and bubbling along we felt it was time to start getting into
the message of 'DOUBLETHINK' which is what the Akala message and the message
of true Hip-Hop always has been; a message of Knowledge, love, respect and
freedom. Hopefully this track conveys that.

If you want to help us spread this message further the best thing you can do
@ the moment is get behind 'XXL' over the next two weeks as the better that
does the further we will be able to spread this message when it's time.

Txt Radio1 to request XXL ON 81199 when you listen in
Also request on 1xtra and kiss
Email MTV nad request the video.

Also support the movement on our pledge page and get friends to as well
www.bit.ly/94NMKU

PLEDGERS ONLY CAN DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO OF THIS SNIPPET WITH A FREE 'RANDOM
THOUGHTS' EP TO FOLLOW NEXT WEEK!!!!!

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Lyrics to 'Yours And My Children'

2010-04-01T18:06:00.001-07:00

Hey people I thought it would be interesting to read the lyrics of a song
before you hear it. So here is the first verse and chorus from a track from
DOUBLETHINK called 'Yours and My Children'. This track was really inspired
by my time in Brazil and the gross, ugly, constant injustice in the world in
general.

This should start to give you a picture of what the album is actually gonna
be like. PLEDGERS ONLY WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE SNIPPET OF THIS TRACK FROM
MONDAY!

Yours and My Children
Right here dangerous idea
If we did this, then we couldn¹t feel fear
If there¹s no fear, there¹s no control
If there¹s no control, someone¹s gotta let go
They say I Shouldn¹t say too much they might delete me
Realize I don¹t really care about tv
Keep your awards, your applause I¹m easy
All I can do in this life is just be me
Pilger can say it, so can Niomi Kline
Its free speech for them, that¹s fine
Young black rapper should utter the same words
Utterly absurd, nutter, insane, nerd
Even the fact I call myself black¹
Social conditioning and that¹s a fact
The idea of races has no factual basis
It was made just to serve racists
To justify to doing to some what couldn¹t be done
To others, but they all are our sons
Black or white all of our sons
Muslim, Christian all of our sons
Look up in the sky that¹s all of our Sun
Last time I checked we only had one
So if some were superior, others inferior, based on exterior
Well then surely the sun would know and fall in to line?
It would rain on your crops and not mine?
Air would prefer to inhabit your lungs?
Food would prefer the taste of your tongue?
If that¹s not the case then nature has declared
Despite what we say the worlds in fact fair
Chorus:
Kids in Iraq Yours and my children
Kids in Iran
Yours and my children
Afghanistan Yours and my children
Even Sudan
Yours and my children
Kids in brazil
Yours and my children
Police drive by the favela and just kill them
Kids in brazil
Yours and my children
Police drive by the favela and just kill them

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Support independent music and get limited edition exclusives. (ISR HQ)

2010-04-01T04:16:00.001-07:00

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Akala to team up with pledge music to offer fan exclusives!!!!! Going Live MONDAY@9AM..

2010-03-25T15:13:00.001-07:00

Dear Reader and friend.
I have teamed up with pledge music to create a new exclusive online
experience for you guys; the core group of die hard Akala and Illa State
supporters that you have been through the years. What Pledge music is, is
basically an online experience that offers limited edition exclusives and
special events to your core group of fans. It also allows us to develop
together new ways of you getting involved, helps support independent
artists and also allows us all to give a little something back. I have
chosen to give a 10% of all profits collected through my pledge campaign to
the reading agency, a charity that I recently did some mentoring work for
and that are basically aimed at really spreading the gift or reading as far
and wide as possible. As DOUBLETHINK, like much of what I do was inspired by
something I have read, (in this case 1984) I thought that the Reading Agency
would be a great fit.
Further to this your Pledge¹ will also get you access to our exclusive
³Pledgers Only Updates Page.² Our journey together really begins here, as
this is where I will be offering you never before heard music, words,
photos and videos. From the rough mixes, sketches, new ideas, and poems, to
readings, art and live tracks, as these sixty days and beyond unfold it is
my intention to take you with me and to give you the best experience I can.
This is a pretty new way of doing things and this is an exciting new world
in which to be doing them. I am keen that you let me know what you think
and I feel excited to get this started.

P.S PLEASE NOTE THE FIRST 30 PEOPLE TO PLEDGE THE ALBUM WILL GET TO ATTEND
A 'PLEDGERS ONLY' PRE-RELEASE ALBUM LISTENING PARTY AND FEEDBACK SESSION
WITH ME.
The pledge page will go live Monday 29nd March @9am I just thought I
give everybody notice so it was fair!! Tell your friends!
Yours Akala
Some exclusives available on pledge:
Personalised Signed pre-order of DOUBLETHINK
The DOUBLETHINK BOOK (Contains the whole Doublethink story/all of the albums
lyrics and a collection of Dystopian poems)
Limited Edition Pledge exclusive DOUBLETHINK T's NEVER TO BE SOLD ANYWHERE
ELSE AGAIN!!!
The Chance to attend an Illa State Records Planning meeting and help us plan
the 2nd single campaign
Backstage Passes to An Akala show
Passes to the 'Invite Only' DOUBLETHINK album launch party
The Chance to compete against Akala and friends in a 5-aside football
tournament

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They call him Africa's Bob Marley, I think that's about right

2010-03-25T14:25:00.001-07:00

If You don't know get to know, one of the most important musicians of the
20th century, influenced a whole host of western musicians but is rarely as
acknowledged as he should be

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Can't wait till June to go see them!!!! Some artists are so important

2010-03-25T14:15:00.001-07:00

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I know this is well old but it was funny for those who never saw it

2010-03-24T12:49:00.001-07:00

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBdtMmAwDg

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I know this is well old but it was funny for those who never saw it

2010-03-24T12:46:00.001-07:00

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBdtMmAwDg

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CALLING ALL UP AND COMING GRAPHIC DESIGNERS!!

2010-03-22T17:20:00.001-07:00

As always we love for you good people to be involved with the process as
much as possible so....

If you wanna get involved with the campaign and design some alternative
artwork, skins for social sites etc email info@illastate.com with some
examples of your work before Friday!

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Doublethink Diary Entry 9

2010-03-22T07:04:00.001-07:00

Ignorance part 2:
Concerning entertainment, public figures etc
Perhaps the greatest manifestation of the moral ignorance of our land can be
seen in the field of entertainment. I am told entertainment has always had
it¹s ignorance but again it is in our land alone that one can find the
optimum level of precision within this ignorance. You see it was once
thought that entertainment was supposed to ³inspire² or encourage people to
³question² or ³move² human beings in some way. That is of course complete
folly we have realized that the sole purpose of entertainment is to maintain
perfect, bewildered, inarticulate ignorance. To that end we have a few
regulations.
Firstly, it is compulsory that each room in every household [especially
those of the lowest caste slum dwellers] must contain at least one
igno-screen, which will automatically switch on when a pulse enters the
room. Each humanoid including infants must consume a minimum of two hours of
igno-screen every day and be able to espouse what they have seen and heard
on the igno-screens at the various indoctrination centers they attend.
Contents of the ignoscreen must be;
1] Thoroughly un-challenging to human thought
2] Violent 3] Materialistic 4] Parts played by actors must be strictly in line with their caste
positions
Music videos (which make up a major part of the content of the igno-screen)
must contain;
1] A minimum of fifteen bikini clad women
2] Ten pornographic images
3] Ten products more expensive than a years wage of all but the highest
castes
The ³songs² themselves must contain
1] No words over three syllables
2] At least five terms befitting for the female gender [hoe, bitch, slut
etc] 3]Five violent threats
4] Ten mentions of products more expensive than a years salary, of all but
the highest castes.

We have similar regulations for films, theatre and video games etc, but as
music is considered to be the most potentially subversive and is also the
most veraciously consumed of all entertainment the strictest guidelines are
reserved for music.
One element that is common to all our entertainment however is that to gain
fame¹ an individual must epitomize the core value of ignorance and in fact
the less talent, ability and ideas a person has, the more eligible they are
for fame. The idea is for people to aspire to fame in and of itself, the
idea of fame, the existence of fame, of being known and praised for nothing
other than ones ³fame², not for things as in concrete and inconsequential as
talent or meaning

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A young mc I met in the studio today, greatlyrics

2010-03-20T10:20:00.001-07:00

He was 13 in this video.....

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Incase you missed War Vol2

2010-03-18T13:22:00.001-07:00

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The other me

2010-03-17T17:27:00.001-07:00

There is another me
That I am frightened to be
Cloaked beneath my masculinity
Stands my nakedness, which is strength
But I am not strong enough to be naked

There is another me
That I am not strong enough to be
My weakness is still telling me to be 'strong'

There is another me that I am too greedy to be
Chasing the cheque, the compliment,enlightenment
All the same
Yet when I am still and just give
I receive so much more than I could ever need

There is another me
That I am not yet calm enough to be
Rushing toward this, for that
I miss all the beauty

There is another me
That I am not yet ready to be
So for now this pretend one will have to do

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AKALA XXL ON RADIO1

2010-03-17T04:25:00.001-07:00

Hey People XXL just got it's first Daytime play so big up @Fearnecotton!!

You Know How key Radio is especially for us independent artists!

As always we NEED your help good people so get txting!!

TXT RADIO 1 TO REQUEST ON:81199 when your listening in!

Spread the word!

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AKALA TP PERFORM @THE CAMDEN CRAWL 1ST MAY

2010-03-16T07:23:00.001-07:00

Get your tickets for what is always a great weekend of live music here : http://www.seetickets.com/camdencrawl

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AKALA "XXL" VIDEO LIVE ON PS3 *WORLD EXCLUSIVE**

2010-03-15T05:02:00.007-07:00

NEW AKALA “XXL” VIDEO WORLD EXCLUSIVE ON PS3 @VIDZONE: http://bit.ly/akalablogps3

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AKALA 'XXL' OFFICIAL VIDEO!!

2010-03-15T05:02:00.005-07:00

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DOUBLETHINK RELEASE DATE OFICIALLY ANNOUNCED!!

2010-03-15T05:02:00.003-07:00

THE ALBUM WILL HIT STORES ON MAY 3RD PEOPLE

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PRE-ORDER LIMITED EDITION SIGNED COPIES REAL SOON

WATCH THIS SPACE!

IN THE MEANTIME CHECK OUT THE COVER!

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Doublethink Diary Entry 8

2010-03-15T05:02:00.001-07:00

Ignorance: The highest of all virtue

I remember at five years old when I was enrolled in the indoctrination
centre the first day, first lesson, my teacher, bald, tall, wide shouldered,
stiff with mathematical precision as he began to speak.
The three highest virtues;

IGNORANCE
VIOLENCE
CONTROL

It was not the first time I heard this slogan nor my first encounter with
the three virtues but there at five years old with the igno-room full of
children and adults chanting this mantra over and over, (the required fifty
times at the start of each morning) I knew it because I felt it in my young
body, there was something wrong with me. The indoctrination continued, with
ignorance as its spearhead; we were taught to make fun of the lower castes,
we were taught that all human progress was due to the flowering genius of
the higher castes and that it was only through the higher castes that the
lowly savages managed to attain any decent level of ignorance.

We were vaguely made aware that there are other nations on the planet though we were
ensured there was nothing worth knowing about any of them, all we needed to
know was that we were bigger, better and more important than them. As travel
is forbidden we would of course never have known either way.
We were told that in the past our ancient ancestors had experimented with
the three virtues but never came close to perfecting them as we have. The
reason for this was that whilst most of our ancestors nations were founded
solidly upon the three virtues and came to exist and sustain themselves
through ritual war and internal caste systems they still stupidly and
naively fantasized about freedom and intelligence and peace and even went as
far as to have slogans and constitutions that praised these very diseases as
ideas to be upheld. We learned it was that very hypocrisy, that idle
pretending that man was capable of and should aspire to be anything but,
ignorant and violent that was always the undoing of the old systems.

The beauty and permanence in our system lies in the fact that we wholly
accept, embrace and encourage the plain truth that man is ignorant, that
that ignorance begets violence and if he is not controlled that violence
cannot be effectively harnessed and may even be misused [directed toward an
upper caste member for example]

IGNORANCE
VIOLENCE
CONTROL

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Akala

AKALA Ted Talk about The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company

LEFT FIELD IN MOTION TOUR STARTS NEXT WEEK

Akala Fire In The Booth

Videos From Yesterdays Presentation

Suggested Reading List Relating To Yesterday's Presentation

DOUBLETHINK DAIRY 13

DOUBLETHINK DIARY 12

10 YEAR OLD BOY SPEAKS ON THE N-WORD! VERY INPIRATIONAL MUST WATCH!!

I wonder if people noticed the references to all the Biggie tracks in this???

Akala Find No Enemy - Official Video

Hugh Masakela - Coal Train

Capital city of Congo in 1668

Fear

Poem - BLOOD STAINS THE PAVEMENT

Akala Spit It Out

Peace/What Is Real Animation

7/2/11 Poem

Yours And My Children Animation

Yours And My Children Animation

23/1/11 Poem

FREE GIVEAWAY: AKALA VS APHEX TWIN AND BUCKETHEAD

A Little article I wrote about reading

MUDDY WATERS: MANISH BOY (If this ain't a Hip-Hop groove I don=?ISO-8859-1?B?uQ==?=t know what is??)

Taalam Acey-There's a market for n*****s

A List Of Album Reccomends

Yours And My Children Review in todays METRO

Black (African) History Month Reading List

Akala And MC Marechal on Westwood

Yours And My Children Official Video

One of the greatest musicians of the 00's

Incase You wondered what the Wounded Knee Poem was about

Dreams Are... (Collaboration with Aziz)

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: Poem

YOURS AND MY CHILDREN OCT 11TH

Legendary Mc Marechal

Rocinha Brazil

At least a years worth of books to read

I can't even lie I cried when I first heard this

The Word

AKALA ANNOUNCES DOUBLETHINK FULL UK TOUR

A little spoken word story from 08

Untitled

I think I was a 70's baby really..

Catach Akala live @ Parklife festival Manchester this Saturday

A view of what is happening in happening in Jamaica that I read....

AKALA AT ROUNDHOUSE / "DOUBLETHINK" ALBUM REVIEWS

Akala @Roundhouse may 28th

Doublethink Diary 11

Doublethink Diary Entry 10

Beautiful Poem

Find No Enemy live@DOUBLETHINK album launch

Akala Juelz Acapella Live @ DOUBLETHINK album launch

Exclusive Preview of 3 Tracks from 'DOUBLETHINK'

A Little something from back in 05

The best poet alive if you ask me

A Spoken word piece From 'DOUBLETHINK'

AKALA-F64

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: AKALA & BASHY ON MISTAJAM 1Xtra

Yours and My Children (Snippet)

Lyrics to 'Yours And My Children'

Support independent music and get limited edition exclusives. (ISR HQ)

Akala to team up with pledge music to offer fan exclusives!!!!! Going Live MONDAY@9AM..

They call him Africa's Bob Marley, I think that's about right

Can't wait till June to go see them!!!! Some artists are so important

I know this is well old but it was funny for those who never saw it

I know this is well old but it was funny for those who never saw it

CALLING ALL UP AND COMING GRAPHIC DESIGNERS!!

Doublethink Diary Entry 9

A young mc I met in the studio today, greatlyrics

Incase you missed War Vol2

The other me

AKALA XXL ON RADIO1

AKALA TP PERFORM @THE CAMDEN CRAWL 1ST MAY

AKALA "XXL" VIDEO LIVE ON PS3 ***WORLD EXCLUSIVE****

AKALA 'XXL' OFFICIAL VIDEO!!

DOUBLETHINK RELEASE DATE OFICIALLY ANNOUNCED!!

Doublethink Diary Entry 8

AKALA "XXL" VIDEO LIVE ON PS3 *WORLD EXCLUSIVE**