Chuck D and his SLAMjamz label of Artists Create HAITI Relief Album.
To show and step up as both a symbol of how quickly a label works in this digital century as well as contributing the gift of music to help those in need, SLAMjamz has helped in creating an album to help those in need of relief from the earthquake in HAITI. The earthquake has devastated the nation. In response a multi track album has been assembled and produced by DJ Johnny JUICE Rosado including Chuck D, KYLE JASON, PROFESSOR GRIFF featuring The 7th OCTAVE , HEET MOB, Dominican roots group PA’LO MONTE , LOWdown, Studdahman connect DONIQUE and the representative blazing ‘Knockin’ on the Lord’s Back Door’ by Haitian MCS , HI COUP.
‘ I think that in this age of technology and communication we can come together with better urgency to address emergency. Since many cannot be there to physically help, the gift of music can connect something we can give for fundraising efforts. There are many organizations reaching out to the call, and it takes that and many more.
Nine tracks are included in the KOMBIT pou HAITI album . Many of the labels artists turned this around in a 24 hour period for itunes release next week. 100% of funds raised goes to the relief operation Lambi Fund of HAITI PO BOX 18955, Washington DC 20036 202 833-3713
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. All artwork and mastering are also donated by SLAMjamz Graphic artist KELVIN FONVILLE, and mastered by EARLE HOLDER of HDQRTZ. Liner notes by Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson
Professor of Black Chicana Studies and History UC Santa Barbara
Release date: 01/25/2010
With all of this going down in Haiti , I am at a loss when figuring out some things in 2010. In case somebody has forgotten, its history and geography seems to be overlooked and undervalued in my opinion. The facts leading up to this disaster have been cooking in this region for 2-3 hundred years. First of all the country of Haiti is half of an island, long conquered from the west by France and Spain. The forced-upon Haitian native tongue is French, and the Dominican Republic side is Spanish. The West enslaved black people from the continent of Africa on both halves of the island, never letting those enslaved people mix, and created fabricated prejudices and bias that exist to this very day. Although Haiti has been the heartbeat for many black people in the entire Diaspora because of the revolutionary liberation led by President Toussaint L’Ouverture, one cannot help but think that the West has damned that liberation.
When the people on an island cannot come and go, as its indigenous people once did, and are forced to be concentrated and compacted by limitations, you have millions of people in Port -au-Prince who flocked to the city for better survival chances. When resources are sucked from a region and the people don’t share and can’t build, you have a recipe for disaster.
The problem in Haiti doesn’t stop just because Americans take it off the news. Long after Wolf Blitzer, Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Fox News, and MSNBC leave the half-island nation, the issues that had been going on before will be twice as heavy. The question remains, what is the West going to do to truly fix a region they screwed up with slavery, takeover and underhanded modern gangsterism?
The West interrupted and destroyed the Caribbean, South America and Asia for the benefit of Europeans, North Americans, and a vast majority of white skinned people. If the West now wants to truly aid they would liberate the entire island. Build townships and cities to redistribute the population and allow Haitians and other people from the descendants of slaves to travel the world for refuge. Provide them with a universal passport, so to speak.
I also have issue with the fact that somebody in this crisis had the nerve to try to discredit Wyclef Jean and the Yéle organization which has been consistently helping throughout these past years when Haiti wasn’t on the international radar. He has been a leader and conduit and we will continue to support Yéle and Wyclef Jean.
For this, a song I picked by artists of Haitian connection speaks volumes of the feeling that ain’t never left. The anger evolves from when people are played with for centuries. Tired and mad as hell and ain’t gonna take it no more.
Chuck D
THIS BIT OF EARTH
(J. Rosado, C. Ridenhour, K. Jason)
Performed by Mistachuck featuring Kyle Jason and DJ Johnny Juice
Produced, Arranged, Recorded, and Mixed by DJ Johnny Juice at the Terrordome – Strong Island, NY Scratches by DJ Johnny Juice Featuring Kyle Jason Background Vocals by Veda Byrd Writers: John Rosado – Juice On The Loose Publishing (BMI) Carlton Ridenhour – Terrordome Music Publishing (BMI) Kyle Jason Smith – Afro Wop Music (BMI)
EXCUSE MY FRENCH
GOD DIDNT DAMN HAITI
FROM THE PLANTATIONS TO CORPORATIONS
THE SAME MENTALITY THAT HATES ME
AFRICANS ENSLAVED TO WORK SUGAR AND COFFEE
TODAY IS SWEATSHOPS FROM LEVIS TO DISNEY
BUT RECOVERYS THE ISSUE
WITH NO TIME TO LOSE
BUT WILL THE WEST STOP PAYING DUES
WHEN HAITIS OFF THE NEWS?
AND HOME PAGE VIEWS?
REMEMBER THE IMF
STOPPED HAITIAN FARMERS FROM GROWING
THEIR OWN FOOD
INDUSTRIALIZATION MOVED THE HAITIAN
FROM THE LAND INTO THE CITY BY DEFAULT
its THE WORLD BANKS FAULT
TO PUT THE MASSES ON A FAULT
JUST SO THE REST OF THE WEST
COULD FILL THE VAULTS.
SOMEBODY HELP
IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ELSE
HELP REDEVELOP THE LAND
AND HAITIS BEING OF SELF
BUT TO KNOW FIRST
INSTEAD OF GUESSING THE CURSE
HOW WE GOT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE
OF
THIS BIT OF EARTH
—————————————- CHORUS (KYLE JASON)
THIS BIT OF EARTH
BEEN OVERLOOKED FOR WAY TOO LONG
BUT NOW WE LOOKING
AS THE BLOOD TURNS THIS BIT OF EARTH RED
WHAT DID WE DO BEFORE THE NEWSPAPERS SAID
DEATH AND DEVESTATION
NOW A PEOPLE WITH NOTHING NOW HAVE EVEN LESS…
…ON THIS BIT OF EARTH
————- WHATS THE SCORE ?
DOWN INTO POVERTY AND DESTITUTE
THE FIRST WORLD PIMPS CREATE THIRD WORLD PROSTITUTES
CARRIBEAN GOT AFRICANS
SPEAKIN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH
ORIGINAL PLAN IN EFFECT
DESTROY THE BLACK PLANET
ASK THE PRIVILEGED TO GIVE AND NOT TAKE
IT FOR GRANTED
THE EXCUSE HISTORY SAYS WAS HOW THEM BLACK DOCS RAN IT
PAPA DOC, BABY DOC ARISTIDE ROUND THE CLOCK
GENOCIDE AND YOU DONT STOP
WITH THE WEAPON IN THE LEFT HAND
UNCLE SAM BEHIND THE MAN
HARD AS HELL FOR GODS PLAN
THAT HAITI BE FREE
AND THE WORLD CAN SEE
WHAT WE SEE
IS STILL AFFECTED BY HISTORY.
SOMEBODY HELP
IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ELSE
HELP REDEVELOP THE LAND
AND HAITIS BEING OF SELF
BUT TO KNOW FIRST
INSTEAD OF GUESSING THE CURSE
HOW WE GOT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE
OF
THIS BIT OF… EARTH CHORUS (KYLE JASON)
THIS BIT OF EARTH
BEEN OVERLOOKED FOR WAY TOO LONG
BUT NOW WE LOOKING
AS THE BLOOD TURNS THIS BIT OF EARTH RED
WHAT DID WE DO BEFORE THE NEWSPAPERS SAID
DEATH AND DEVESTATION
NOW A PEOPLE WITH NOTHING NOW HAVE EVEN LESS…
…ON THIS BIT OF EARTH
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