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Today is the final day of Black History Month. I won't get into the politics involved with this month-long event, other than to point out that the person who originally created the holiday assumed that it would eventually be phased out after a few years because "black history" is ultimately a part of "American history." I'll leave it up to you to decide whether we have reached that point in American society.
It seemed appropriate to put up a track today from Boogie Down Productions, one of the most popular conscience rap groups behind perhaps only Public Enemy. BDP, specifically rapper KRS-ONE, focused quite a bit on educating its listeners on black history. They also were the first American rap group (that I know of, anyway) to mix reggae/dancehall/ragga with rap.
I'm putting up a live version of BDP's My Philosophy. You can buy the original version, off of BDP's album By All Means Necessary, here.
Download Boogie Down's Live Version of My Philosophy (mp3)
You can read more about Black History Month here.
2/28/2006 10:15:28 AM posted by Fresh