"Grow Up Before You Blow Up" ft. Luam Kidane
So last year Homeboy Sandman wrote this article on rap music and the prison industrial complex. He made these crucial connections from how a mere 232 media executives control the entire information diet of 277 million americans, to how some of those same media executives have huge stakes in for-profit prisons, to why popular rap music is the way it is.
After processing this information, I then looked around at my community and realized how many independent artists are playing the same role a media giant would have them play, without even having anyone tell them that's what they have to do... as if we're locking ourselves in a cage and holding the keys to our freedom at the exact same time.
This was in 2013 while we were actually mixing the rest of the Children Of The Dragon record... AirMe was just messing around with a beat while we were in between sessions. I was on the couch working on the first draft for my Octavia's Brood story... I heard the earliest version of this beat, quietly opened another window on my laptop, and in 15 minutes the song wrote itself... it even surprised us but it ended up making the album!
Written by Gabriel Teodros & Luam Kidane. Produced by AirMe. Additional vocals by Rebekah.
Mixed by AirMe, Gabriel Teodros & Dume 41. Mastered by Dume41.
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