This installment of visuals captures the art of resistance, transformation, and healing as Knoxx [ Music Producer // MC ] addresses the struggle for human rights against colonialism and environmental racism. When you are creating beauty out of disaster, community organizing & cultural work are critical in our movements not only as survival but to thrive as human beings.
Knoxx delivers this beautiful message of freedom, and we keep the sacred tradition of storytelling alive through film, dancing, painting, beats, poetry, & rhymes. This is a freedom song, and music is medicine.
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Music Production & Instrumentals by:
Sacramento Knoxx
Lyrics by:
Sacramento Knoxx
Directed by:
MAFX
David Romero, EZ Media
Produced & Edited by:
The Aadizookaan
Filmed in:
Washington DC, NYC-Manhattan-Queens, Southwest Detroit
Thank you Giizhigad, Merk, Nicole, Andres, Nancy, Krystyna, Tee, David Romero, EZ Media, Soufy, Sharif, Candida, DJ Fungus, Mixo, Boombox, Supreme Flows, Row, Benji, Black, dPress, Nemiki, Vega, Peps357, Blaze, Cam Minor, Undefined G
lyrics
LYRICS:
DJ FUNGUS DROPPING THE TRUTH
Eye ain't got no strings attached on me
Fighting for our lives to just be free
x2
Verse 1
_aanii, Its that return of la bamba
Moving thru every city and lifting up that concious
I'm nauseous, cuz I'm sick of all these Lil' problems
This-That-same indigenous medicine dropping
This is ceremony, just updated with technology
Periodically I'm just reminding all the prophecies
Organizing with my people, that is all around me
Power to the people, AINT no body ever stopping WE
_ _ playin no games of monopoly
Shut your game down so properly, anthropology
prolly gonna tell me where the snakes chill,
We know the deal, of Innocent blood spilled, five hundred
Years of resistance up in them fields,
For real.
But they must of forgot that we been always keepin it trill
We the opposite of kill
ALWAYS giving life
Taking care of all the channels
Now the movements up in sight, like!
DJ FUNGUS DROPPING THE TRUTH
Eye ain't got no strings attached on me
Fighting for our lives to just be free
x2
Verse 2
_See you later alligator, as I wave Bye
_i aint got the tiiiime - to catch a stop siiiign
a clock with no hands, peace to the sunset
breathe casually as moments circulate from the chest
Flick-flick shine-ing, take a quick pic look-ing
as a second glimpse shook-ing up in a piece rhyme-ing.
Back to a time when: "Cook-ing up a master plot"/
_way before big & pac got shot/
same hands make that puppet dance,
pants on fire, liar liar, who dare ask?
It's nada
been beefed out when boogie got the man, proper
a doctrine of trauma, mind state shock 'em
_it all starts wit some gods & some villians
the law & some child-ren, lock em up in prisons
indians and pilgrims, take yo mind steal 'em
Resurrect electro-mag-netic frequencies feel 'em
DJ FUNGUS DROPPING THE TRUTH
Eye ain't got no strings attached on me
Fighting for our lives to just be free
x2
Verse 3
_paint pictures of resistance, poetry of living,
power moves on the beat, top rockin'
aerosol perfume when we dance with the moonlight
glowin, capture rap life
going in slow motion LIKE!
_WATCH OUT, we organize the rise against oppression
Finding out my music is the weapon for protection
And for liberation sakes, gotta catch it all in one take
Move up and levitate, My goons wake n bake cuz
Our heart beats shake, like the bottom of a pound
Ride around the cities really loud, And repping that we Brown!
White supremacy strings tryna always hold us down
But when we move in leaderhsip, we balancing the crowds
We used to be ghetto kids, a gangsta's fellowship
Now I'm flying in my indigenous spaceship
Cuz the creations we makin, always will be sacred, I said
the creations we making,
Will always be sacred.
DJ FUNGUS DROPPING THE TRUTH
Eye ain't got no strings attached on me
Fighting for our lives to just be free
x2
credits
Music Production & Instrumentals by:
Sacramento Knoxx
A stunning journey through Detroit's Black musical traditions from one of the city's longtime beat music stalwarts. Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 16, 2022
