Bring 'Em Back Home
Zoneil - June 23, 2007
Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy is looking like the streets we named after him -- permanently under construction...
Directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi, Blue Scholar's "Back Home," off of the recently released Bayani, is powerful, poignant and necessary. Sure, the video's not terribly original (cemetery setting, weeping widows, kids holding portraits of lost loved ones) but it captures the inevitable suffering and pain that comes with war.
I know I've posted about Blue Scholars [1] before but I'm just geeked off the fact that there are still some rap cats making meaningful music instead of those annoying [2] ass [3] dance [4] songs. If only the masses would start taking note...