Roy Ayers - Black Family

[funkyflautist]

biggest Ayers fan; this is one of his most restrained solos and for that reason the best... lyrics, phewww x

[Gulyjam]

So its good to helped the united atares. (stop call yourselves América, because América its the hole continent) in cost of they freedom........c'mon man

[Gulyjam]

Great song. Great lyrics too.



[giseba7]

Assuming Ayers is speaking of Black Americans -African people were imported during the colonial days through the triangular trade. They helped America gain its existence and prosper, obviously at a cost, their freedom. But they are rooted in America, as some of the earliest immigrants.

[giseba7]

Wow, I hear a rap in here! Like the Sugarhill Gang!

[MrCommonlawyer]

@giseba7 Yes, but this rap has a message. Rappers's Delight is whack...

[bilbosilbo]

No one cares, DAWG.  AIIIGGGGGTTT??? Smoke some crack, DAWG!!!

[jamaicangoodguy]

THIS IS A FELA KUTI SONG.ROY CAN SING IT BETTER BUT DOES NOT CAPTURE VILE ANGER AND RAWNESS OF FELA. BLACK PRESIDENT IS THE FELA ALBUM IT COME FROM.

[ShabazzAllah1]

Look into their faces, what are they thinking? Black people can never forget what are people went through in slavery, we have to represent them from the grave because a great injustice was perpetrated on them and us today. I carry photos of are ancestors in slavery from the Library of Congress in my cellphone and I look at them often to remind me of the past and what must be done for Black people to have a future in the west.

[BLACKREDTAILANGEL]

@ShabazzAllah1

Totally on point comment! The photo moment frozen in time. So thought provoking. I see Unity. A commonality.

I see community and Family. And Survival. I feel shamefully detached. I (We) need to reconnect...to know...to remember and re-member.

Thank you for the edification...

[mrragera]

@ShabazzAllah1 you exagertae or wherever you got this from

[giseba7]

@ShabazzAllah1 They have the same look the Native Americans have when the Europeans captured their pictures.

[SuperXavier30]

Let the truth be told...Roy Ayers is a living legend!!

[FUNKYNDONUTS]

IGNORANCE!

[mityo]

serious

[batchmister1]

before the lyrics started i was gonna say it sounded like ITT, but now it's obvious

nice treat. appreciated

[funkhouse111]

WOW

[blksoul75]

this brotha is da truth ruth!!!! right oooon!

[Joramboo]

FELA

[djmrbrown00]

PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING ON THIS!!

[BLACKREDTAILANGEL]

@djmrbrown00

OK?? That's why I'm forwarding this RIGHT NOW!

[FUNKspex]

SERIOUS

[jabdi]

SIRIUS!