Saul Williams - Skin of a Drum

A video I assembled for Skin of a Drum. Check www.saulwilliams.com for more.

If you do rate this, rate it for the song, not my video (please).

Portions of this video use video from Saul's "List of Demands" video. All other video is under my ownership. Available in 1080HD if wanted.

Category:

Music

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• saul
• williams
• niggy
• tardust
• video
• list
• demands
• doug
• stewart
• douglas
• dollars
• edmonton
• alberta

[shonuxs]

What is the song at the begining?

[dougstewartorg]

I don't remember exactly, but I believe it was from the first track of the same album.

[Anjiruu]

skin of a drum = the fragile gets hijacked by hip hop

[dougstewartorg]

Truly, in some cases. In an interview with Trent, he said that unused pieces from the Fragile sessions or pieces that never fit with NIN albums were used on Tardust. Saul is a great MC and poet, but I think a lot of the music on his albums has been collaborative.

[thePolerin]

hijacked? Bull. This was a collaboration, purposeful and focused. Hijack gives the feeling that something unnatural and criminal has occurred. Because hip-hop HAS to be about crime right?

Beyond that I don't know that this can be qualified as hip-hop. While the vocals are indeed rhythmic, they are not characteristic of rap in pattern or intent, and Reznors beats aren't really hip-hop in nature.

So if the vocals and the music aren't hip-hop... why do you call it that. Gee. I wonder.

[dougstewartorg]

I took his use of hijack to be a positive thing.

It's not about you or what you define things as. And where you took offense to the single use of 'hijack', another could easily take offense of your willingness to assume what someone else believes when they use the word.

Another possibly positive comment ruined by people trying to define the world and words of others under their own terms. Keep up the great work!

[wonnatryit]

Trent Reznor, Saul Willims, EL P and new comers AllFlaws and B Dolan.

all so fresh and talented

[simonk512]

@shonuxs its list of demands

[COOPstercopter]

@shonuxs Black History Month.

[gleader]

saul and trent could flip hip hop on it's ass if they wanted to. it could change everything. 

[newunited0606]

@shonuxs Black History Month from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

[merauxshere]

@Anjiruu You clearly have never heard hip hop if you think Saul Williams is hip hop.

[merauxshere]

@shonuxs Convict Colony

[inimical01]

@Anjiruu exactly!

[n0thank7]

@thePolerin The vocals are nearly hip hop(speaking poetry and then singing a hook )and the music isn't totally unhip hop. The verse part is very influenced by music that is very NIN/Bjork, and both of them are totally influenced by hip hop. Its very dancable. You're overly sensitive.

[TallNegro]

@shonuxs: the song in the beginning was called 'Black History Month'. it was the first track of the album 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust'.

[acsmilf]

@shonuxs it's called black history month