Music Video for the lead single, "Trouble Is," off the new Common Market album, Tobacco Road. Directed By: Zia Mohajerjasbi DP: Chris Bell Produced By: Mariangela Abeo & Zia Mohajerjasbi
*Classic!* This whole album is absolutely incredible! It has helped me many times in my life.. The music Common Market creates, is truly one of a kind. Same for Blue Scholars. Thank you for the timeless music 😊🙏🏾 Peace & Love 💙✌🏾🎨⛅
With his type of voice, he can just flow for hours. Never stop. Not one break. It's just CONSTANT flow and material. HAVE to respect that. LongLiveUnderground
Woah just checked out your channel after all this time. Honored to get a response from someone that's close to this extremely talented artist. Tell'em to keep cranking out the music, he still has fans! (even here on Whidbey Island)
One is born and dies a Djeli. One is a Djeli from father to son, from grand father to father; from mother to daughter, from grandmother to mother. The Djeli is the inseparable link between the being and the spirit, between the woman or man and her or his history, between society and its vivifying blood. What we now call an MC/DJ, is nothing else than a surviving legacy of this sacred ancestral West African tradition born into a New World.
this guy's voice doesnt do justice to how badass he looks. iv heard him many a times and never realized he looked so brolic. he makes for one hard looking country boy
The djeli is a story-teller, poet, historian, philosopher, genealogist, and the archive of his or her people's traditions. The Djeli is a messenger, a broadcaster of good and bad news whether baptism, wedding, fetes, meeting, assembly, death, or war. S/he is also a troubadour who with a drum under arm carries the news from village to village. She or he performs the role of the radio, telephone, and television. The djeli profession is inherited, passed on from one generation to the next.
Let us begin with the voice and rhythm of so called Hip-Hop and where it originated from in West Africa, to no coincidence where the bulk of Africans were accosted and brought here as slaves. In West African culture you have a lineage of both males and females who played the traditional role of what's known as a griot or djeli. Djeli's held the memory of their people in their hearts, preserving history through a vast repertoire of richly detailed chronicles set to music.
Radio, Bet, MTV..... Not ready for this; nor Blue Scholars. Too much thought put into these verses for these knuckleheads that they pander to! I'm blown away!
My young children, simmer down. There is but one of me and many of you who showed up for class today so allow me due time to address each one of your grievances. I feel privileged to be the source of inspiration for such lively dialogue. You have all provided me with much entertainment and I thank you for that.
It can only be authenticated by the transfer of bloodlines and DNA. No one but the African is qualified enough to speak of what it means to be African but the African. Everyone else only speaks from the periphery and fails to accurately consolidate the entire cultural experience into living word over rhythm. Whether we MC, DJ, or not we ARE still Hip Hop. We ARE the living embodiment of the spirit of Hip Hop. Everyone else only follows what we do in Hip Hop/African Culture. This is undeniable.
I liked for all of the following... ...The white chick rapping at him when he was pinned up against the door, his overalls, his lyrics, his unrelenting force of words, Sabzi's sick beat spewing epic sauce everywhere, and last but not least... ...RA's beard.
This was filmed in the gold ol' town of Monroe, WA. My friend told me she was in this video as a dancer and i didnt believe her until i saw it. REPRESENT!
You do not see Hip Hop as a unique expression of African culture because it has been taken outside of its context and turned into a free marketplace for anyone to place their bidding. Whether you like it or not the descendants of Africa will always carry the preeminent pulse of Hip Hop. It's ancestral and embedded within our genetic memory lie the subconscious living experiences of our ancestors who created and carried on these traditions. This cannot be cloned or replicated.
Sorry, just read your other comment, yeh you know it. This video is just unique, like nothing out there, rap couldn't of looked more sinister and smooth in this music video, one of the greatest lol.
It's dope indeed. Shit, I'm even thinking about moving to Seattle now cuz of dude, Blue Scholars among others... haha. I've always had love for the place and these guys made it feel more real.
This is the first time i've heard Common Market... Dayum! I've been missing out!!! btw at some points in this video i thought i saw Keith Jardine lol... ufc fighter... anywayz this is some GOOD MUSIC! Vevo better not get this :D haha
ya, listen to their song "tobbacco and snow covered roads" he talks about his zip code 98272 i looked it up and its monroe washington, he also talk about snohommish in it
this videos dank. I show everyone in the 360.. Hes walking on main street in Monroe, then walks across the bridge in Sultan....Check out Tobacco Road all you small town valley heads...Hip Hops everywhere in Wa State
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Its a crying shame that i stumbled onto this watching other random videos. Goddamn, makes me wanna start a radio station, tv station, newspaper something!!! When I was younger I thought it was just no mass-media catered to my groups needs and likes, but now I know we're shoved shit to keep us stupid. Get this CD, buy the MP3s, turn on your peoples, and lets live learn and grow, regardless of established ways of thinking.
@Linky360 I agree with you on that. but also, most musicians don't make the majority of their music through CDs. even more so now. for every few people that buy the CD, like 50+ times that number DL it. profit is through concerts. and I think you have to give some credit to all the thousands of people that track undergrounbd artists and make sure they know if a concert is comming near them.
