Gabriel Teodros "Blossoms Of Fire" Music Video

I feel like the last person to post my own video... if you haven't seen it, here it is! The lead track off "Colored People's Time Machine" which drops in less then one weeks time! If your in Seattle you get to see this project come to life LIVE @ Chop Suey this Thursday, January 19th. Tickets here.

So the song and video "Blossoms Of Fire" were inspired by a beautiful, inspiring film of the same name, which follows the extraordinary lives of the Isthmus Zapotec people in Southern Oaxaca, Mexico. The film gave me a new way of thinking about matriarchy among other things, as well as more fire to keep going in the fight for cultural survival.  The lyrics reference the film in a few places, but it's still kind of just a kodak moment of where I was, the moment after seeing it.  And when I wrote this? I was in Washington, DC letting something new blossom after something old went into flames... I'll just leave it at that.  The video was directed by my amazing sisters Barni Qaasim and Shadi Rahimi who each do such important and inspiring work... around the entire planet!  And I'm so honored that they took time out to do this piece (and Barni's organizing in like no time at all? whoa.)  It's a very Bay Area video... that's The Mission in San Francisco, Lake Merritt and Fruitvale in Oakland, CA.  Much love to all the sisters who are featured in the piece... and to Dume41 and to Khingz... wouldn't of been the same without you, for real! Track produced by BeanOne aka Beancognito aka that dude Khingz got a new project coming out with too (watch out!) ...Fresh Chopped Beats!  This video is dope because of the people around me, word up. This is true for life as well.