Ill Doctrine Radio 2/5/22: I, Too, Spin America
Added 2022-02-08 03:55:13 +0000 UTCThis week we kick off BHM with another reading, this time putting the spotlight on James Mercer Langston Hughes, who would've turned 121 on 2/1/22, and give a little extra run to a couple of my favorite new releases from Moonchild and Lady Wray (formerly known as Nicole Wray when she was rolling with Missy).
The full text of the Hughes essay I'm reading can be found here, and here's an in-depth essay on Countee Cullen that touches on some of what we discussed in this episode. Hope you and yours are maintaining!
-Jay
PARTIAL PLAYLIST
Langston Hughes - Let America be America Again (read by Danez Smith)
Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (live version from her estate's highly recommended Youtube page)
Langston Hughes - The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (read by Jay Smooth)
Lou Donaldson - It's your Thing
Evidence - Point A to Point B (instrumental)
Moonchild - Too Good
Wax Tailor - No More Magical (ft. Mick Jenkins)
Lady Wray - Joy and Pain
Cal Tjader - Cuchy Frito Man
Evidence - Better You
Moonchild - You Got One ft. Alex Isley
Th1rt3en - The Exorcist
Rotary Connection - I Am Black Gold of the Sun
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Crisis
Blackalicious - Swan Lake
Moonchild - Love I Need ft. Rapsody
79.5 - Terrorize My Heart (Tall Black Guy Bounce Mix)
Billy Paul - Am I Black Enough For You
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Boom Bap Is My Homegirl
Cleo Sol - Why Don't You
Alecs Delarge x Ile Flottante - MPC Bump
Gil Scott-Heron - No Knock
Brittany Howard - 13th Century Metal (Michael Kiwanuka remix)
Digable Planets - Where I'm from (Remix)
Flavor Unit MCs - Roll With The Flava
LL Cool J - Rock The Bells
Mad Lion - Take It Easy
Kelis - Caught Out There
Today - Him Or Me (my choice for most slept-on classic New Jack Swing record)
Jacci McGhee - Skeeza
Eddie Palmieri - Caminando
