Luther Allison Live in Chicago (Disc 1) Live at Chicago Blues Festival 1995

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This is my second Christmas video and it’s a song by the great Donny Hathaway. I really love this time of year and hope that ‘this Christmas’ will signal the start of the best part of your life and mine.

Donny Hathaway, This Christmas, Cliff Kast, cliffkast, Stevie Wonder, Elliot Yamin, Donnie Johnson, Michael Jackson, Trey Songz, Ruben Studdard, Joe, Johhny Gill, Lauryn Hill, Luther Vandross, Fender Rhodes, Hohner Clavinet, Van Hunt, Musiq Soulchild, Prince, Rahsaan Patterson, Soulive, Floetry, Bebe Winans, Cece Winans, Marvin Winans, Neo Soul, Nu Soul

Thanks to BlueFXVideo for sharing his work.

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Black History Month: Tribute to some of the trailblazers of American Black History

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A custom Music Video by Kevin Rivera aka DJ Skandalous

TupacNation.Net

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http://www.dolobeats.com/ The Hottest Beats For Artists & Best Sounds For Producers

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SHAUN BOOTHE Presents the 4th of 12 Unauthorized Biographies: The Unauthorized Biographies of Martin Luther King Jr & Barack Obama

1st: JAMES BROWN
2nd: BOB MARLEY
3rd: MUHAMMAD ALI
4th: MLK Jr. & BARACK OBAMA

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Lyrics:

Born January, 1929
Atlanta Georgia, they were poor but
He was a good child from a good home
Read the Good book, took the good road
And at 15 he was in college now
On the fast track
But on that last lap
Somewhere deep inside he realized
A life serving the lordhow can he surpass that?
So then he became a preacher just like his father was
Montgomery Baptist Church
Tired but he had to work
Cause those days
There wasnt much hope if you dont pray
In the segregated south
Where they degraded and played us out
He said forget the law
Its ok to disobey and resist
If the civil disobedience has a noble cause
And its done non violently most of all
Then along came a seamstress
By the name of Rosa who chose ta
Not give her seat up
When they threw her in jail a movement would erupt
A 380 day bus boycott where Martin was the leader
And so they refused to ride, unified
They would rather walk than pay one fair
With laws thats unfair
So they walked and they walked
Til the city buses were vacant
and they gave in
But our victory was bitter sweet
Seeing all that misery
Fast forward new day
On with the crusade
Next stop Freedom Rides
They continued risking lives
As a group of interracial youth take two
Buses thru the deep south
Everybody freaking out
Just exercising constitutional rights
And they beat us wit lead pipes
Buses got slashed tires
Bombs thru the window
They watched it catch fire
But, Martin, see he knew
Their violence would backfire
And when it made the evening news
That meant the world was watchin
And the president had no other option but to hop in

So in comes The National Guard
And we won that battle but the war raged on
So young Martin he was back on his job
Went from Albany to Birmingham
Really I dont understand
How they can treat a learned man
Like he wasnt worth a damn
They took Martin, locked him up
Still he said aint no stoppin us
Came out a renewed man
Said lets find a new plan
They knew that their phones were tapped
So they spoke in code for that
He said to overflow the jails would be the only way
Create a crisis – make em negotiate
He was right and ordered segregation be let go
And in 63 they signed Kings Manifesto
Fast forward to Selma Bloody Sunday
Whod a thought this one day
Would be one of the most N O T O R I O U S
The U.S. would ever know

Bombs at his home
Still he kept goin
Blade thru his chest plate
He was back thee next day
In and outta chains
He shouldered the pain
Only thing that could stop him
Was that bullet with his name
God Bless

The unauthorized biography of MLK JR
From being the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
Or his Ghandhian non violent approach to fighting for equality
Hes probably most recognized for his Lincoln Memorial Speech I have a dream
He wasnt alive to see it
But that dream came true
(and here he is)

Born Barack Hussein Obama
Mama white as a dove, father black as they come
Honolulu, Hawaii is where he was first brought up
Growin up he was caught up
Playin ball, poor grades
He was just livin up to what Black people were thought of
Til one day he said thats not us, not at all
Buckled down
Got into Columbia, Harvard Law
Spun around
Right into The U.S. Senate
And after that keynote speech at the DNC
He would be
Seen as someone who can lead the way
In a Presidential race for a country in need of change
And when he beat McCain he became
The 1st African American to be elected President
Looking back they say Martin walked
so Obama could run
three dots
because his legacy has just begun

Next Chapter

Jimi Hendrix

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SHAUN BOOTHE Presents the 3rd of 12 Unauthorized Biographies. 1st: JAMES BROWN 2nd: BOB MARLEY 3rd: MUHAMMAD ALI 4th: MLK Jr. & Barack Obama 5th: Jimi Hendrix

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Lyrics:

November 27th, 1942
Seattle, Washinton – Johnny Allen Hendrix was due
His mama named him
But at 17 just a little schoolgirl
Instead of raise him
She dumped him on whoever she could
Till his father came home, he was away at war
Renamed him James Marshall Hendrix
When he walked in that door
Growin up was so rough
They were livin so poor
There were times when he would starve
Mama drank too much and it finally caught up
And at 15 she was gone
And around that time’s when he got his first guitar
Bought by his father for five dollars,
And little did they know it birthed a star
He would turn the radio on and he would play along
That’s how he learned his chops
Then an electric guitar finally came along

A right handed supro ozark
A gift from his father, but the dope part
Is he was left handed so he electrified crowds
When he got onstage and played it upside down
Got in trouble with the law, stole a car, got cuffed
They said u can either join the army or get locked up
Came back a year later – honorable discharge
Went legit and hit the chitlin circuit hard
Little Richard, James brown
He was touring with the stars
Playing da background with his upside down guitar
But in 65 things would soon change
When he formed his own band
Jimmy James And The Blue Flames
See as a sideman he was too constrained
But as the frontman he could do his thing
And then performin at some hole in the wall club
Greenwich Village, New York
The young brother was discovered

By Chas Chandler from the animals
Told him ill make u famous in london baby vámonos
So he gave him a new name and a new band
And said London
Here he is The Jimi Hendrix Experience
And the british pop scene went delirious
Hey Joe, Purple Haze,
Who’d a thought he’d start a craze
Innovating on the stage
Changing the way guitars were played
But he didn’t break America until he did The Monterey
Pop Festival
Where Jimi ended his set by settin his guitar aflame
And a star was made
A rock archetype,
Phychadellic voodoo child
Marcian-like
So outta this world he was larger than life

And they couldn’t believe that
He would take something as undesirable as feedback
Use it like its music and fuse it into this new sound
Fuzz pedals, wah wahs, he was breaking new grounds

And it was cosmic the way it caused this epiphany
Of all the electric guitar’s possibilities,
And it happened so fast
3 landmark albums in a year and a half
But then things would go differently
Pressure and the drug abuse
Would break the whole band up bitterly
But even with all the misery
Summer of 69,
He performed at woodstock and made history
And like that he was immortalized
And no one would achieve more in such short a time
An icon in the hippie movement
A half Black, part Cherokee kid that couldn’t read music
Still he was onstage wit his Stratocaster
Fearless individuality – no master
But his mastery put him on top of the globe
A year later he was dead – rock n roll

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SHAUN BOOTHE Presents the 3rd of 12 Unauthorized Biographies. 1st: JAMES BROWN 2nd: BOB MARLEY 3rd: MUHAMMAD ALI

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The Unauthorized Biography of Muhammad Ali

Lyrics:

Born Cassius Clay Jr.
January 17th in 42
Louisville Kentucky he grew up
A little boy doing what a little boy do
Til somebody stole his bike
Swearing up and down they would pay the price
A police officer overheard
Laughed at the child and gave advice
Told him to take that rage to fight
Come to my gym and train to fight
Little did he know that would change his life
Make him a star, put his name in lights
As an amateur he would bandage up
anyone he faced
due to his tutelage
even then you knew the kid
was destined to be great
golden child
8 golden gloves, on the road to Olympic gold in Rome
Everything he dreamed
Got his ticket then his feet got cold
Praying in the aisles on the way to the fight
He made it
And in that 1960 Olympics victory
He declared himself the greatest
Critics watched and frowned at his boxing style
Said he couldnt keep his guard up
He went pro and they still couldnt knock him down
Hands low, damn he could dance though
Made em look too stiff to box
A punch too quick to clock
You get hit before you get from tic to toc
And by 64 he was giving knockout predictions
What round they would hit the floor
Ridiculing his opposition
Dismissed as the Louisville Lip
Outspoken but never out boxed
Liston finally gave in
And Clay got his first title shot
He even put out an album
Threw a few Sonny poems together
And called it I am the Greatest
Some say the 1st battle raps ever
He said hed knock him out in 8
But nobody believed, nobody listened
Till the headlines came
Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston
And after that huge upset he upset the world
When he announced he was a member of the nation of Islam
He lashed back like What was it I did wrong? Huh?
And in the fashion of Malcolm X
For whom he had profound respect
From his slave name he said Im free
And he became young Muhammad Ali
Then the love for him got out weighted by outrage
And fear of his new devout faith
To an organization perceived as only being about hate
Then he refused the draft, denounced the war
On the grounds of religious beliefs, then they hated him more
They told him go to jail or go to Vietnam
Then they took his title and his boxing license
So he took it to court and fought 3 years long
Now somewhere in that time America realized the war was wrong
And he went from traitor to hero
And in a year or so he was coming back strong
Moving with such grace and ease
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Hand cant hit what your eyes cant see
Then came the fight of the century
Ali. Joe Frasier
As far as match ups there were no greater
1st professional loss, but he would beat him in a rematch later
But by the n Frasier lost the belt
To a man by the name of George Foreman
Much stronger and younger than Ali
Still he said Im in if youre in
Then came the Rumble in the Jungle
Promoted by Don King
In 74 they went to Zaire
He got out the plane like What do I hear?
They were saying Ali Buma Ye Ali Buma Ye
It was much more than some ego stroke
He knew he gave the poor people hope
Against the odds, toe to toe
Swarming crowds overflow
But no matter how hard he fought
They said Foreman would never be stopped
But instead of going blow for blow
He let him go for broke
Punch himself out
Later they would call it the rope-a-dope
And in the 8th round everything turned around
Ali springs from the ropes swinging fearlessly and Foreman goes down
And the whole crowd erupts in amazement when he cant beat the count
And a new King is crowned
Fighting for the poor and oppressed
His victory made history
But it was more than just being the best
It was character, it was charisma
Being someone that cares for us
He redefined the word CHAMPION
To a category that the rest cant be in

[talking]

The unauthorized biography of Muhammad Ali
Epilogue
The next seven years of his legendary boxing career were not without its price
And in the early 80s he would go on to develop Parkinsons disease
Presumably due to all of the punishment he had endured
But that didnt stop Ali from what he called his true life calling
In humanitarian endeavours
Travelling around the world as the goodwill ambassador to us all

The end

Next up Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama

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SHAUN BOOTHE Presents the 2nd of 12 Unauthorized Biographies.
1st: JAMES BROWN
2nd: BOB MARLEY

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Unauthorized Biography of Bob Marley

Lyrics:

Born Nesta Robert Marley in JAMAICA
In a small village by the name of Nine Miles
Two slaps on the bottom and he was on his way
Mama only 18 and his father was a white man 32 years her senior
The couple got married but it wasnt too long hed leave her like nice seein ya
Much like the slave masters whod chase after
That young black naïve girl promising the world
He sang the same song and then he was gone
Abandoned, little Bobby and his mama Cedella
So they got up, moved to the city of Kingston to start a new life together
And then they went down
To a government yard in trench town
Some say that it got that name from the open sewer that ran thru her
Either way thats where he grew up
From then on,
In the slums with the squatters, oddly he grew very fond
But little man had to be strong
Cuz in his day it was a disgrace to be mixed race
So he always had to keep his fists raised
And it wasnt long they would call him Tough Gong
Cuz word got around hed lay you down
And often with da rudeboys and the shottas he was found
See back then he was still a boy, just tryna fill a void
That his father left when he left
And thats when he met Joe Higgs
Who taught him how to sing, he released a couple songs
Then he met Peter Tosh who would teach him the guitar
And they started up a group with another friend Bunny
And they dreams were so big
And that group was called the Wailing Wailers
And in 63 when they 1st song hit the scene
They wend from nameless to famous
And they would quickly be the favorites
Finally there was a voice 4 the innercity youth that the people could relate with
However, back at Studio One where the songs were made
they never got paid
Plus Bob Marley was going thru change
Searching for where his heart lies
And in 66 he would marry his girlfriend Rita
Key to his spiritual growth
She would help to convert him to Rastafari

Rasta dont work for no C.I.A.

So gone were the Rude Boy anthems and musically
his new beliefs were fused into every new release
1st album was catch a fire in 72
it wasnt hard to tell he was soon to be
the yardstick against which
reggae will forever be measured

A few albums later Bob Marley and the Wailers
Now internationally known
Try and put on a free show back home
For the poor, ravaged by political war
Suffering
You see he was a political force that rivaled the government
And it being election time they kicked down his door
Gunmen start runnin in and they shot
On the eve of the concert, him and his wife, and they dropped
I suppose they were tryna stop the..
movement of Jah people
they had to make it known
gunsmokell fumigate your home
You aint gonna sway no votes
Singing songs, away you go (gun shots)

And he was left for dead, but there were none braver
Then defiantly, two days later
Arm in a sling, he got on stage
Started to sing, they stood amazed
And he pushed on, millions after millions sold
Transcending all genres, he was healing souls
Then a toe injury from playing football
Turned out cancerous, what was the chance of it
Still he kept on, he said thats how life goes
No matter where it stops he was on the right road
And on his last day, laying sick in bed
Mama by his head, this is what he said

no woman no cry, no woman no cry

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