Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation are an English electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence. Their distinctive sound also combines indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and traditional sounds, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.
Biography
Asian Dub Foundation is better described as a group that arose from a community education organisation. The different forms of music include toasting, dub, funky guitars and many other African instrumentals. "Their distinctive sound is a combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and 'traditional' sounds gleaned from their parents' record collections, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics".
Not in Our Name
Not in Our Name (NION) was a United States organization founded on March 23, 2002 to protest the U.S. government's course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks; it disbanded on March 31, 2008.
Two key documents
Early in their existence, NION produced two documents—the "Pledge of Resistance" and the "Statement of Conscience"—that NION members believe provide focus and expression to the U.S. anti-war movement.
"Pledge of Resistance"
The Pledge is written by Starhawk and Saul Williams, in the style of free verse, beginning:
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
and concluding
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
The pledge opposes what it characterizes as "endless war", "transfusions of blood for oil", invasions of foreign countries, bombing civilians, and killing children. It goes on, "Not in our name / will you erode the very freedoms / you have claimed to fight for." It implicitly accuses the Bush administration of deeming "whole peoples or countries" as "evil" and pledges, among other things, "...alliance with those/ who have come under attack / for voicing opposition to the war / or for their religion or ethnicity."
Not in Our Name (album)
Not in Our Name is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 2004 and released by Verve Records in 2005.
The album is the fourth by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to 1990's Dream Keeper.
Track listing
- "America the Beautiful" (Samuel A. Ward)
- "America the Beautiful" (Gary McFarland)
- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson)
- "Skies of America" (Ornette Coleman)
Personnel
Asian Dub Foundation
ALBUMS
- The Signal and the Noise released: 2013
- A History of Now released: 2011
- Punkara released: 2008
- Time Freeze 1995 / 2007: The Best of Asian Dub Foundation released: 2007
- Tank released: 2005
- Live at Music Planet 2Nite released: 2003
- Live: Keep Bangin' on the Walls released: 2003
- Enemy of the Enemy released: 2003
- Frontline 1993-97 released: 2002
- R.A.F.I. released: 2000
- Community Music released: 2000
- Rafi's Revenge released: 1999
- Conscious Party released: 1998
- Facts and Fictions released: 1995
- Festimad 2003 released:
The Signal and the Noise
Released 2013- Zig Zag Nation (feat. Naga MC, Amy True & Kam Romay)
- The Signal and the Noise
- Radio Bubblegum (feat. LSK)
- Qutab Minar (feat. Imphal Talkies)
- Stand Up
- Hovering
- Straight Jacket (feat. The Gandu Circus)
- Get Lost Bashar
- Bnadh Bhenge Dao (feat. The Gandu Circus)
- Blade Ragga
- Your World Has Gone (feat. Shama Rahman)
- Dubblegum Flute Flavour
- Psychosamba (bonus Track for Japan)
Name Change
I'm getting rap money
Hook:
I'm getting rap money, f*cking groupie hoe,
Poppin' everywhere, rocking stupid shows
Sign to myself, middle finger to the leg,
Almost shit , f*ck 'bout to change my name to Tony Drake
I should ignite, my damn dash, my hair right,
My shake prince, a pick miller
A dear Lucas, a brown William
Bitch I think I'm meryl stiff,
Back back back with federals is bleed
Now then every nigga speak, click the only feature
I was learning not to teach you
Shout out to the stunning, could taught me how to stunt
Could rise it better, could then roll you out the blunt
Hundred kay a better look and don't you roll the whip
You don't gotta chase the p**sy ain't them hoes know the shit
Pink riding with fufure I'm about to close the ..
Had the best tripping now I'm trying f*ck her friend
Shout out to the flow when it took .. pen
Some motherf*cker rap, shout out to surrend
And shout out to my self I'm the realest nigga ..
'bout to make a billion in the motherf*cker minute
Man this is society I'm kane in that kitchen
But I turn the old dog, that the p**sies get the trip,
Hook:
I'm getting rap money, f*cking groupie hoe,
Poppin' everywhere, rocking stupid shows
Sign to myself, middle finger to the leg,
Almost shit , f*ck 'bout to change my name to Tony Drake
I should ignite, my damn dash, my hair right,
My shake prince, a pick miller
A dear Lucas, a brown William
Bitch I think I'm Tony Drake
Bitch I think I'm Sean Connor
Give it biggie dope bitch to rhyme on
Matter of fact nigga, I.. already start it.
F*ck you I think I'm Sean Connor.
That will make the MC the new rock
And this death frog, I'm shook fifth pot
Chris Snoop dog, here Doctor Dre
Young eye eternal fuck around occupe
I think of me class, pop paper pull
I think I'm top dog, yeah I do it for the hood
Never mack teens still I ride through the hood
Pics full me over, watch your motherf*cking hood
Plus it's to the gangstas no I really from the game
Loves the pie rules, no I really do my thing
Lords thanks to the south call me, call me ..
The MC with a new swive
Hook:
I'm getting rap money, f*cking groupie hoe,
Poppin' everywhere, rocking stupid shows
Sign to myself, middle finger to the leg,
Almost shit , f*ck 'bout to change my name to Tony Drake
I should ignite, my damn dash, my hair right,
My shake prince, a pick miller
A dear Lucas, a brown William