Akala - Fire In The Booth PART 2

Akala sets fire to the booth for Charlie Sloth in the Radio1 studios

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[fifaking1903]

Fire In The Booth part 3 comes out Monday !

[Liam Pocknell]

No evidence like the sphinx's face being of an African ? I thing his master degree in Egyptology give him a foot to stand on..

[Daniel Miller]

When the same knowledge is there for anyone to access, the point you make of having a unique education is ridiculous as it's impossible. You can't know something that no other person knows. What do you mean exactly when you say 'hold back?'

[dothejordman]

yeah man. And you are corerct, in way. I am not at all trying to make 'a mockery' of anything. But open your eyes, how does something taught to hundreds+ make anyone unique? It doesn't. It fills their head with shit a bunch of other twats know, Not to mention, how much does the education hold back? If your answer to that is NOTHING then you are living in a fairy world bud

[RealityMusic RapDuo]

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Honest comments appreciated!

[J Johnson]

Fair enough, I hear that. I do wish some people of my own race were more rigorous in researching these kinds things, rather than just accepting them, but I understand why it happens. Because there was so little research into non-Egyptian African history prior to a few decades ago, this kind of thing is a defense against people saying 'black people have only ever been slaves' etc. It's a shame because of how rich Africa's history is; Aksum, the Songhai, Mali and Gha empires, Nubia and Kush etc.

[Avizuh]

drake/ndubz & other artists like that shouldn't be marked as a rapper, akala deserves drakes kind of fame, he speaks 100% the truth, fuck the fakes.

[dog75k]

Yes you are absolutely right. There was a huge number of black people in Egypt and it was indeed a melting pot of many different races and cultures. As you said the 25th dynsasty were black Nubians and are quite famous for that very reason (being referred to as "The Black Pharohs").

It just infuriates me when people warp history to suit their own beliefs and the idea that Egypt was a land populated and ruled purely by Sub Saharan Africans based on the look of the Sphinx's face does just that.

[J Johnson]

*hear

[J Johnson]

On the Egypt point, largely you're right, but there was significant mixing because of Egypt's status as a hub of trade in the ancient world, Berbers from north west Africa mixing with arabs and Sudanese and other Africans from south of the Sahara. This is why you here people talking about Nefertiti as a black queen, she probably wasn't, at least not completely, but there was a good chance she was mixed. Research the 25th Dynasty of Pharaohs as well, they were Nubians who were all black.