This track has been bubbling for a looooooooooooooong fucking time. somewhere around 2002 myself and JK1 were discussing our extreme distaste for the abuse of power within law enforcement: everything from murder to bullshit unnecessary traffic stops and we decided we wanted to do a track about it. We spent a day doing loads of research on the topic for statistics and stories and all it ended up doing was get us more and more pissed off. The names of victims kept coming and coming.
Either our consciences got in the way or we feared the extremity of our anger, but the song just disappeared.
Still. . . police brutality is too important of a topic for me to not address. One particular story struck me. The story of Michael Stewart. Check the link and listen to the song man. . .
Other info. . . the track also features my homie Wos. Me and this cat made up a fucked up R&B group after a very entertaining karoake night called The Genius Called Beautiful. Look out for the project sometime toward the end of the year on Psi.Dweys Movement haha. . .
I really dig the mixing job Deto did on this track. His mix down definetly pushed this track to the more favorable side for me. I had a very difficult time with this track, The subject matter is soooooo serious and I wanted the beat to still sound fun so this one was a little tricky for me to accept, Deto helped me accept the joint a little more. . . thanks dude. . . you guys could check the track on my myspace page
peace and love y'all come back tommorow for my blog on "Free The Radio"
2 comments:
Yes, I'm def. feelin this track Sketch. Great insight on Michael Stewart's life and controversial death on the Wiki. Lovin' the daily posts. Def. lookin forward to more of them.
Great links. I remember the Anthony Baez case like it was yesterday. He was killed right dowm the block from my school cuz he was playing catch and his football hit a cop car. Damn...
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