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Please note dates on items in video, this is history to be thought about and perhaps discussed sanely, not personal commentary on what's right and wrong with things that have already happened. Obviously we have come along way.




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Blackface images set to Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's "Famous and Dandy" - Fred Astaire tribute to Bojangles

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Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury is the debut album by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, released in '92 found some critical acclaim, although the album leaned away from the then-rising G Funk that came to be the dominant sub-genre within west coast hip hop. Television, the Drug of the Nation was released as a single. It was recorded previously by Michael Franti's first band, the Beatnigs.
The Disposable Heroes' solitary album represents much more than Franti's fiercely intelligent narratives. Where hyperbole, bombast and finger-pointing had been the order of the day in hip-hop, Franti includes his own inadequacies in his diagnosis of the problem.
The Disposable Heroes recall Public Enemy both in their aural assault and in the rhetorical dexterity of rapper Michael Franti...A blistering, state-of-the-art album about the state of the soul of contemporary American society.
Franti's soft-spoken condemnations are pitted against a series of deceptively seductive tunes. Franti's smooth poetry sounds more like that of Lawrence Ferlinghetti than the hip-hop which later came to dominate.
Village Voice (3/2/93) - Ranked #19 list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Track listing
1 "Satanic Reverses" (Franti)
2 "Famous and Dandy (Franti)
3 "Television, the Drug of the Nation" (Franti)
4 "Language of Violence" (Franti)
5 "The Winter of the Long Hot Summer" (Franti)
6 "Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury" (Franti)
7 "Everyday Life Has Become a Health Risk" (Franti)
8 "INS Greencard A-19 191 500" (Franti)
9 "Socio-Genetic Experiment" (Franti)
10 "Music and Politics" (Franti)
11 "Financial Leprosy" (Franti)
12 "California Über Alles" (Biafra/Greenway)
13 "Water Pistol Man" (Franti)
SAMPLES
"Satanic Reverses"
Miles Davis - "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down"
"Famous and Dandy"
Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man"
"Television, the Drug of the Nation"
The Meters - "Look-Ka-Py-Py"
"Language of Violence"
This Mortal Coil - "Barramundi"
"The Winter of the Long Hot Summer"
This Mortal Coil - "Waves Become Wings"
Wally Badarou - "Ayers Rock Bubble Eyes"
"Everyday Life Has Become a Health Risk'
Public Enemy - "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic"
"California Über Alles"
"California Über Alles" by Dead Kennedys
"Water Pistol Man"
Wally Badarou - "Leaving this Place"
Personnel
Michael Franti
Charlie Hunter - Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Voices
Rono Tse - Percussion, Drums, Drums (Steel), Noise, Sheet Metal
Simone White - Drums
Jack Dangers - Mixing

Fred Astaire from Swing Time - 1936
If you can get past the blackface, "Bojangles" is a classic Astaire solo, and the first of his "special effects" dances, backed by three gigantic shadows of himself. The dance is presented as a salute to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, most famous for his work with Shirley Temple. Presumably the studio wanted a blackface number, and Robinson at the time was box office success.

Special thanks to U.M.G. for letting me keep this post up.

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[soulxx1]

Just realised that this isnt the right video that accompanyed their song. Get real.

[yrusocrayzee]

The -more info- discription, the comments box, and the end of the video explain this isn't the original video. I'm not sure if the original is available anywhere. This video is taken from a chicago public access TV show from back in the 90s. The film is a clip originally from "Swing Time" (1936). UMG owns the song. Possibly, if you contact UMG they might know how to get the original video.

[roadnate]

By the way, the line at 1:17 is "We learn to lie to be brand name negroes." Just a small mistake. Thanks for posting this!

[yrusocrayzee]

it's kinda fixed... Thanks

[SuperUbf]

you put up a video with fred astaire in black face,among others,and have the nerve to type "racists comments will be deleted" posting these images are racist on your part.you are a "disposable zero of lunacy!!"

[mp01juve]

I love that bridge that comes on first at 1:39

[ButherLi55ett]

Like the song. Though I think African independent nationalism is still a form of bourgeois ideology in the main because it rejects class. The description in the video reminds me of forms of Islamic nationalism e.g "Ummah". A muslim 'anarchist' - in reality a liberal in this case was trying to explain the concept to me once. And it is interesting, but it mystifies material reality and class relations. To paraphrase, if one muslim is hurt all muslims suffer (or the whole community).

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

Oh... and for the record. I go WAY back with the Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy. Like WAY BACK to 1987 when they were still being interviewed on local, public access TV channels in San Francisco/Bay Area. I've been a fan for a long time. You happy now?

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

Which is the EXACT SAME PROCESS that happened here... NOW, you tell me. What were YOU just taught? Now, go point your crooked little finger at someone else. smh.

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

@flatchest32 Calm (THE F) down. First of all... I'm no one's 'kid'. I'm 43 and I've been working/paying taxes since before I graduated high school.

NO ONE is trying to take away from any other process of making music. Sure, I've listened to this song and "get" the words/message. I've been a Hip Hop DJ since 1983 and producing since '93. The "POINT" of mentioning that video was that you can take a song and add video of people dancing on an entirely different tempo and it will STILL WORK.

[flatchest32]

@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO It's not about remixing or stronger music. Have you listened to the words(or read them?) Damn, what the hell were you kids taught????

[bigdave6777]

used to like this love it thanks for uploading this

[omojamie1]

¡me encanto!