AFA Friday Flicks: "Ya Playing Yourself"

So here I am, hoping that my saved videos on YouTube are not being removed for copyright reasons, and lo and behold my saved Jeru The Damaja - "Ya Playing Yourself" is still there.



yay

But as I read the comments below it, a few in there surprise me. People keep saying he "disappeared" along with a few other mindless comments (gotsa luv da intranetz). So in response to a comment on the page I wrote the following 500+ character response. (I had to knock it down a bit cause YouTube cuts you off).

Snare01 said:

He absolutely did not "disappear". He is still making music to this day and was recently on tour in Brazil. Just because an artist is not on "mainstream radio" does not mean they have "fallen off" or "disappeared".
He has been pushing his own music on the independent tip.
If you don't look you'll never find great music. You have to put in the work and stop letting others tell you what to listen to.

The industry will forever keep holding the true "artist" down as they try to force feed you what they think you want to hear.

myspace.com/jeru (free track) & thedamaja. com

So enjoy this video & keep searching for old artists and new ones any way you know how.

I know for a fact that we here have an MC named Nemesis Alpha that has many spectacular moments when freestyling. His lyrical flow is a throw back to the great ones like KRS ONE & Jeru Da Damaja. MC's that inspired him when he was 1st starting out.