Name: PHILOSOPHY
Duration: P00H04M15S
Description: Marvin Gaye was able to make a political statement in the subtlest of ways. Listen to 'What's Going On' and you'll hear what I'm talking about. How can something so hard-hitting sound so smooth and mellow? So we were inspired to try to make a 'What's Going On' for these times. Ambitious certainly, misguided maybe, but we gave it our best shot. The outcome is this. Enjoy, think and feel.

PHILOSOPHY

from Not Too Busy To Hate by Hakim Jamal

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Marvin Gaye was able to make a political statement in the subtlest of ways. Listen to 'What's Going On' and you'll hear what I'm talking about. How can something so hard-hitting sound so smooth and mellow? So we were inspired to try to make a 'What's Going On' for these times. Ambitious certainly, misguided maybe, but we gave it our best shot. The outcome is this. Enjoy, think and feel.

lyrics

(Out of touch…
Out of time…
Out of luck…
Out of line…)

Your people are…
Your politicians are…
Your nomination is…
Your generation is…
Your personality…
Your gun laws are…
Your ammunition is…
And your p’lice brutality…

And your fake news media…
And your racist hysteria…
And your middle America…
And your one-eye senators…
And your voter registration…
And your stupid relations…
And your criminal justice…
The way you talk about Hispanics…

Your conservative tradition…
And your Mars mission…
And your lack of decency…
‘America First’ policy…
And your war in Afghanistan…
And your war in Vietnam…
And your war in Pakistan…
And your war in Portland…

Doug Jones of Alabama…
Pat Roberts of Kansas…
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky…
Cory Booker of New Jersey…
Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire…
Shelly Moore of West Virginia…
Ben Sassee of Nebraska…
Joni Ernst of Iowa…

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from Not Too Busy To Hate, released July 9, 2020

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Hakim Jamal Manchester, UK

The music created by Paul Ashley Wheatcroft is inspired by 70s artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. English musician Paul signed for Big Life/Polygram and is published by Universal Music.His new incarnation is a collective called The Mint 400. ... more