Lyrics
“My platform is a rap song.”
—Nas, “Black Man In A White World” [with Michael Kiwanuka], 2016
This dissertation is comprised entirely of digital sounds. It begins with the scratching sound of a needle placed onto the outer grooves on a record, an artificial call to consciousness of its entanglement in the histories of sound technologies, an attempt toward sonic modernity …
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- Intro: [Dixie Remixed, or I Wish We Were So Great]
- Dissertation [Part I: The Introduction]
- Willie Revisited
- Impeach The President
- Internal Contradiction [The Showdown]
- Grand Wizard
- Black Love Poem [for Amiri, Malcolm, Martin, and Mandela]*
- Talking To Ghosts
- Golden Silence [“Live” From Saas-Fee, Switzerland]
- The Song I Should Have Written
- Find The Ledge
- Take Two Listens
- See The Stripes
- Truth On The Beat
- If I Could [Tell You]
- S.A.T. [Part II]
- Time Tales Tell
- Waiting For
- Letter Home
- Ferguson, MO
- Some Thoughts [On Just Us]
- Message
- Sick
- Documented
- 80’s
- Broken Windows
- Second Amendment [Shoot Back]
- Good Mourning, America [Live]
- Familiar
- Word.
- Scribbles
- Grading On A Curve
- Trapped
- Talking To White Folks