Diary of A Sane Man

He took one of my favorite protest songs and made it relevant again:

For those of you who don’t know who Saul Williams is, he’s the dude in the movie K-PAX. Before his movie career he was better known for his spoken word hip-hop. Motherfucker is good. Listen intently to the lyrics from Penny For A Thought, Nigga’s Way Back, or Tao Of The Now. My friend John Noto knew I was into political music and, despite being primarily into Punk and Metal, was also into Hip-Hop and Rap (hell the third album I ever owned as a kid was RUN D.M.C.’s “Raising Hell”). He put on Penny For A Thought for me and I was instantly hooked. He’s been around for quite some time now and his music spans many different styles and genres. I just found this cover song’s video (Niggy Tardust, the album the video is from, is a collaboration with NIN’s Tent Reznor). and thought I’d pass along info about a great artist in case some people didn’t know about the man.

-=Grim=-

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