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Cannibal Ox released their debut album The Cold Vein May 15, 2001
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Today in Hip Hop History:
Cannibal Ox released their debut album The Cold Vein May 15, 2001
"The future was uncertain🔥, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled."🧯 ― Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
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Below: Stress Rap by Cannibal Ox 🫀🐂
Full lyrics of Stress Rap on genius.com
🇺🇸 Cannibal Ox is an American hip-hop project from Harlem, New York, United States. It consisted of Vast Aire and Vordul Mega, often accompanied by DJ Cip-One. In 2023 Vordul Mega left the project.
⬆ Nina Simone at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. ― Nina Simone
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I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! 🧘♀️🧘
― Nina Simone
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The Rotten Apple is known to be a city with a rather dangerous environment. The same was true during the 90’s, but the crime rate was even bigger: two thousand two hundred and forty-five murders occurred in 1990.
Here both MC’s describe the struggle of living in Harlem, the neighborhood they grew in. It’s titled as Stress Rap as it describes the stress caused by the environment. In the end, Vast Aire points MCeeing as a way to break the cycle of violence.
Ironically or not, while the crime rate in New York dropped in the millenium, Harlem faces yet another social conflict – the problem of gentrification.
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Atrocities were committed against our human family. We killed millions of humans - we degraded & disowned our own - because their way of life was different. It was determined that indigenous lives had less value and they were treated as such. A group of people new to an occupied land decided it belonged to them.
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Christopher Paul Gardner, Sr. (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker.
He became a stockbroker in the mid-1980s and eventually founded his own brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, in 1987.
In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. 📖
The book was later made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.
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Today in Hip Hop History:
Cannibal Ox released their debut album The Cold Vein May 15, 2001
Today in Hip Hop History:
Cannibal Ox released their debut album The Cold Vein May 15, 2001
I rock my "hell I made it" wetsuit stitch So I can swim in elevators crazy wet through piss I'm just a pigeon with one mile left That doggy-paddles through this bullshit ocean of death And these rags-to-riches words will break bones Like the assassination of two birds with one stone That's why I don't associate with bird brains with their beaks in the air Pelicans with wide jaws yap names For fish heads you'll get tossed in the flames Where some archaeologists will find your skeletal frame
