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Recorded Live at the now defunct PoP! In Brixton on 13th July 2016
Apples and Snakes presents
STRAIGHT OUT THE BOX
Curated by Charlie Dark & Roger Robinson
Boasting an exceptional line-up of artists from poets to musicians, writers to DJs, Straight Out The Box offers up a fresh series of new events set in Brixton's pioneering space, Pop Brixton.
Whether you're a music fan, spoken word enthusiast, or simply out to seek a new creative experience, Straight Out The Box is guaranteed to surprise and satisfy even the most eclectic of tastes. Curated by Run Dem Crewfounder, DJ, and poet, Charlie Dark, and musician, dub-poet, and writer, Roger Robinson.
Lineup:
**Mastermind of a sound that is honest, poetic and witty Darkz**
**Poetic grime-ster Eklipse**
**Sound innovator and host Charlie Dark**
**Plus conversation: boys to men - growing up in London**
Hosted by: Charlie Dark
Resident DJ: Mr Trouble
lyrics
Two Hundred Dollar trainers mean
your feet don't grasp the grasses green
how will you feel the earth between your toes
or heavens nose
from which you mask your musk; your hoodie
hiding heart and soul
retention of intention
held inside imperfect black
and reason tantamount to treason
in this green and pleasant land
Our Nubian kings and queens inherit armour
and a chance to carve a bread and butter lifestyle
thus designed to fall face down
give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespass
as we stack it with the Lurpack because
something is BUTTERS in the state of Denmark
when its princess can make more drama with Obama at
Mandela's final salutation to a generation that it
too scared to shake its spears
- but happy to study Shakespeare? Are
Wordsworth's words worth ore than mine? is my
free speech second to Naomi Kleins?
I'm hustling to make this stand I'm not
trying to be a next Russel Brand if the
only think I can bank in is more porn pictures of Tyra Banks
acting as "America's Next Best Second Class Model Citizen"
What does it mean for you for me to be black in Britain then? If
everything I'm trying to feel is from the most high ethereal and
all your trying to do is sell me more and more "White Material" then
Imperial acuisitin is your mission but you're missing out
on how your lust for riches got your liver filling full of gout you
fat bellied bankers in Bankgok, buying teenage brides
and Selling Northern Rock Lock Stock and Barrell; never tried
to save the sub-prime situation; you were never concerned
with the salvation of this plantation situation
We're not the digital slaves that Chuck D feared; it's clear
for all that care to see we are the overseers
never to complain or change because we got a chance
to make beats for crackers to get hit with, and jive and dance
Our Nubian kings and queens inherit armour
and a chance to carve a bread and butter lifestyle
thus designed to fall face down
credits
from OUT! The Mixtape,
released January 29, 2022
Vidal Montgomery - Beats and Vocals
Audience - ARMOUR
