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Just in time for election season, “United We Stand” is a thought-provoking politically conscious song that addresses the controversial death of Iman Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a Muslim leader who hailed from the same Detroit community as Journalist. Iman was shot twenty times by FBI agents during a raid of a downtown Detroit warehouse in late 2009. Federal authorities present at the raid claimed that Abdullah was armed, refused to surrender his weapon and began to open fire. However when medical-examiner-office investigators arrived on the scene, they discovered the deceased laying face down with his hands cuffed behind his back.
if live gives you lemons, cut them, scratch them and put them in a beat. for that special flavor take blu’s soothing flow to sugar it up, add exile’s cuts to give it some spice and make sure to replace »sour« with »refreshing«. blu is back, happy to pour you some lemonade and his hommage to the one and only guru is straight boom bap with a scratched hook by his partner in crime exile, over a raw production by beat make jake.
the song will be released as a limited 7″ in early october, 400 copies, hand screen printed cover.
get the song here and pre-order the vinyl if you like to.
“‘Rejex’ is a compilation of tracks that didn’t make it to my debut mixtape ’1999′. I decided to put this project together because I have a lot of unreleased material that I didn’t want to keep from the ears of my fans and supporters. (…) I also have a couple of tracks on here I did when I was 15 years old and I want to show people the progress I’ve made in a couple of years.”
For Bekay, it was 15 months of back to back heart break, where he lost both friends and family to murder and illness. Bekay has always used music as an outlet to work through life’s speed bumps, but what happens when those speed bumps become mountains? On “15 Months of Bloody Violins,” Bekay returns to the mic after taking an inevitable hiatus to purge his mind of the trails and tribulations that have kept him at bay from what he loves most – rapping his ass off. Call this song Bekay’s catharsis, or call it plain insanity, either way Bekay hasn’t lost a step and spits with even more ferocity than even his most die hard of fans are used to.
