Wednesday, August 25, 2021

BAM without Jazz/Black Classical Music ain't Revolutionary Jazz, Conscious Rap can be revolutionary, Pussy and Dick rap, Gangsta rap nada

 


Don't Fuck with the Gemini Twins, Marvin X and Sun Ra

And if you can't comprehend Marvin X and Sun Ra, don't claim to understand the 

Black Arts Movement

Don't come at me with some weak ass revisionist shit about 

a Neo-Black Arts Movement

bout rap is classical

rap a child of jazz

conscious rap only

revolutionary

not pussy and dick rap

jewish rap steal black conscious rap dreams

jewish rap producers pussy and dick schemes

jewish rap producers like yellow girls video ho's

black girls no chance

yellow girls asians miss ann the plan

peckerwood white/black nigga pickerwood same

pimping blackness same

afrofuturism exhibit same

miller like my woman say

and she got my brain

Afrofuturism exhibit Miller lite she say

don't let me talk

I say same

don't curate no black shit

you go insane

think you know what you know

but don't know shit in yo white brain

you try to be honest true

but the black heart escapes you

the black heart you'll never know

you not evil

just down't know

how to pick cotton how it grow

was you in the cotton field miss ann

did that cotton prick your hands fingers

did you pick the hunid pounds

yo master told you so

can't see ta can't see

did you git yo hunid off da row

is you tired bitch miss ann

did you pick all that cotton on last row

did you weigh yo sack

was it full of dirt

did the contractor whip yo ass

fakin da funk

miss ann what you know

get yo ass out da cotton field bitch

tell yo daddy to kiss my ass

I'm robbin' da contractor today

fuck hunid pounds

me and my boys goin ta town

movie with the girls

buttered popcorn

finger fuck her same hand

til movie say THE END

popcorn gone

pussy dry

baby say bye bye.

Imagine life a movie

soon come The End

lights come on

white man killing Indians gone

you cheered for white man killing Indians

Yo grandmama Cherokeee

had long straight hair

but yo stupid mind make you cheer for white man

You so sick don't deserve no land

Let the white man pimp yo ass another hunid years

take all his virus vaccines 

take booster shots of his toxic white supremacy dreams

inject yourself like Tuskegee 

wonder why whitey didn't tell you it was all a lie.

you so stupid motherfucka

every lie whitey tell you you suck it in by and by

for chicken wing or leg

you so glued to whitey ass

you can't wait to get the pass

eat shitty food at his restaurant

Martin Luther King, Jr. told you where to eat

where to sit on the KKK toilet seat

Sunday brunch

fancy hat women sip fake drinks

praise Jesus

but black man they fuss

single women with everything

cept black dick

make 'em sing

thank you Jesus

their voices ring

chorus of love

when black man ring their bell

deliver them from hell

plastic dicks only work so well

Sunday brunch

church hats

no black man

oh well.

--Marvin X

8/25/21


minus Jazz/Black Classical music

kiss my ass

Ain't no BAM without Jazz

kiss my ass

you fakin' da funk

get da fk up outta here

my dear

you live in fear

BAM was straight revolution

we don't kiss no politician's ass

they give you but it don't last

new regime

new machine

cut yo funds

 so keep it clean

no politician kill BAM dream

New York cut Black arts funds

saw BAM no fun

poetry plays music of revolution

politicians play along

then cut funds

Baraka went home to Newark

Met Amina black as night

grew up on Howard Street

worst street in Newark

Ben Caldwell turned her on to Baraka

Sylvia was already into black arts

went to arts high school

didn't need baraka to teach her

blackness

he was detoxing from beatnik life in Village

Hettie Jewish girl

thought she had baraka for life

half jewish children

Baraka mama loved them so

Not them pica ninnies 

from Amina's womb

Would his mama love them now

Ras the Mayor

Middy Jr. Chief of Staff

Mama Jones

what you say

you love them half jewish girls

or Ras and Middy Jr

black warriors from your way

Them half jewish girls qualified in Baraka mythology

children without sin

it's parents do children in

children are children

no matter mother or father

they love each other

except interruption

unresolved trauma grief of mother

or father for that matter

wash guilt down the drain

let children love

they feel the spirit

DNA same

children live myth of fathers mothers

no matter denial

truth transcends myth

truth of children same

perform myth of mother dad

denial is sad

children don't know mother dreams

sometimes father too

children dream

think their dreams true

not from father mother new

children in denial

parental dreams children make true

in their blindness children swear

their dreams didn't come from you

No mama dad

this my dream and it's true

that's a lie chile

your dreams came from





your daddy and me

we see you dreaming our dreams

what can we say of you

Let us be silent until your dreams come true.

Will you then turn to us and say

Mama and daddy I confess I am you.

--Marvin X

8/25/21




Black Arts Movement co-founders, Marvin X and Sun Ra, aka, Father of Afrofuturism. Sun Ra and Marvin X perfected the Black ritual theatre BAM dramatists sought to create in Harlem NY at the New Lafayette Theatre and Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre. Sun Ra began ritual theatre with his original music, poetry, synthesizer, light shows, dance productions, including music for Amiri Baraka's Black Mass. Sun Ra was solid in the Sankofa tradition of reaching back to Kemit/Egypt and forward to outter space as in Space is the Place, his cult classic produced in Oakland. 

Marvin X perfected ritual theatre with his production of Resurrection of the Dead, a myth-ritual dance drama, music by Juju, 1972. But Black Arts West Theatre musicians taught Marvin X ritual theatre as the poem below describes.

In the pick above Marvin X and Sun Ra  are outside Marvin X's Black Educational Theatre on O'Farrell between Fillmore and Webster, SF, 1972. Both brothers were lecturing in the Black Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Marvin was blessed to house the entire Sun Ra Arkestra when they couldn't afford the rent John Handy was charging. Marvin was blessed to have the full Myth Science Arkestra at his disposal, so he did not hesitate to house Sun Ra's Arkestra at the many spaces he occupied at the time by the grace of Allah.

Sun Ra's Myth-Science Arkestra performed the musical version of Marvin's BAM classic 
Flowers for the Trashman (See Black Fire, TDR, SOS, Black Dialogue Magazine). BET was Marvin's off campus classrom.  At BET Sun Ra's Arkestra had more people than in the audience of the old Greek church BET occupied. but Sonny's band played as if there was a full house.

For historical accuracy, we must note that before Sun Ra arrived, BET was blessed with the great musical sounds of Juju, under the direction of Plunky. They provided the music for Resurrection of the Dead, Marvin's opus magnum of ritual theatre. It included a name giving ceremony at which the actors were named for life by Imam El Muhajir, aka Marvin X. 

He and Sun Ra produced a five hour performance of TCB, i.e., the musical version of Flowers for the Trashman. The Harding Theatre production had a cast of fifty, including BET actors, Myth-Science musicians and dancers, plus the Raymond Sawyer dancers and the Ellendar Barnes dancers. Yes, five hours without intermission. SF Sun Reporter Newspaper reviewed this Marvin X/Sun Ra extravaganza.


Where is the jazz in my world
imagine BLM marched to Coltrane, Sun Ra, Shepp Miles
Liberation music supreme
no other sound except silent night
jazz liberation
thank you Pharaoh Sanders
the Harlem benefits we all did
musicians, poets, actors dancers
At the New Lafayette Theatre
Robert MacBeth Ed Bullins Sonny Jim
New Lafayette women so beautiful
But jazz foundation of revolution
avant guard expressed communal condition
oppression hollers wails of cotton fields
Billie's strange fruit
Lou Rawls Tobacco Road
What did I do to be so black an' blue
Wail Ayler brothers
Beat your drums Milford Graves
wild man banned from bringing jungle beats downtown
Stay in Harlem Milford
let natives hear your jungle beats
break open Harlem hearts
leave us heartless downtown
Milford your wild animal wails screams shouts
too mad for uptown civility
Max was mad enough with sassy Abby
Uppity wench singing bout freedom
And Nina singing bout them women
Mississippi Goddamn
Nina you got to go

West coast jazz at Black Arts West Theatre
Cross from Tree's Pool Hall on Fillmore
Rafael Donald Garrett
Monte Waters Big Band
BJ Oliver Johnson
Dewey Redmon
They taught us ritual theatre
running from stage to audience to 
Fillmore Street
bumper to bumper cars
musicians call and response to car horns
musicians and people are one
jazz alive black classical sounds
music of intelligence transcending pain suffering
liberation sounds
no other music sufficed to free our minds
blues told of suffering jazz told us to revolt
Armies march to music Sun Ra said
His band of angels and devils lead the way
I didn't come to play Jesus he say
You ain't gonna crucify me
All them people talking about freedom justice equality civil rights
They in the cemetery got they last rites didn't they
Stop teaching yo actors freedom Marvin X
They born free
teach discipline like me
how you think I keep my musicians together
discipline is what you see
Stop teaching freedom Marvin X
I can't use freedom round me
Creator set me free with discipline 
You gotta have discipline to be with me
My Myth-Science Arkestra born free
Maavin X Maavin X Sonny say
you so right you wrong
You took the truth out your play
the low down dirty truth
people don't want truth
they want low down dirty truth
X Maavin X you so right you wrong
Ain't you heard the righteous man is a laughing stock
Don't be so right you wrong
I serve the Creator God
I sing His song
Some of these people I don't know who they are
They ain't like the people I used to know in Birmingham Alabama
Some of these men are beasts
They so evil the devil don't want them in hell.
X Maavin X stop teaching freedom
and you all right with the Creator God
You be on the other side of time with me.
You know I was there when the hit man came to kill you
I was outside your theatre in the Fillmore when he came to me with your picture
He showed me your picture but I put the Ra hand on him and rushed away
See X Maavin X Creator God got the power today
I serve the Creator God and He bless me night n day
All the devil do is play music I call P and D
Pussy and dick is the music of today
Put discipline with pussy and dick
You'll go a long way
I don't want them women round my musicians
They spend the night with women come back next day
can't even play
come back hungry broke
begging me for breakfast money to eat
I tell them go back where you spent the night
Make them women fix you breakfast
Make them women treat you right
Don't come back to me hungry
when you with them girls all night
Sun Ra was a motherfucka
But he taught me discipline
Discard my freedom
Then I be all ite.
RA RA RA RA RA
Black Power
Jazz is music of revolution
Black classical music
fk fusion miller lite confusion
jazz low down dirty truth
teach the youth.
--Marvin X
8/25/21

P.S. Please consider sending Marvin X a generous donation as he completes his creative mission, giving more than a half century to. the Black Arts Movement and Black Liberation Movement. He suffered two self-imposed exiles in Canada, Mexico City and Belize, Central America; was deported from Belize back to America, thrown into jail and Federal prison because he refused to fight in Vietnam. Although he taught at Fresno State University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Mills College, San Francisco State University, University of Nevada Reno, Laney and Merritt Colleges in Oakland, Marvin's tenure was never permanent so he could support his family. He retired from teaching in 1981 from Reedley Community College in the Central Valley with a 97% student retention record. Since then he only lectures and reads his poetry at colleges and universities coast to coast. In the original mission of Black Studies, i.e., take knowledge to the community, Marvin set up his Academy of Da Corner in Oakland at 14th and Broadway, making himself accessible to all the citizens of Oakland and as community planner/organizer was one of the key founders of Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District, established by the Oakland City Council, January 19, 2016. Marvin X is currently organizing the Black Vendors Association with a generous grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He is working in association with James Copes, Director of the Oakland Black Vendors Association at Lake Merritt. We are urgently in need of funds to hire a long term security firm to prevent the incident that occurred on Juneteenth of this year. We would also like to employ are on sanitation engineers. With 18 million dollars taken from the OPD budget we think some of those funds should be directed to the Lake Merritt Black Vendors for our long term general fund, since the Department of Parks and Recreation is requesting a long term plan. We say Lake Merritt Black Vendors are an integral part of the Black Arts Movement Business District that extends along the 14th Street corridor from the Lower Bottom to Lake Merritt, and as such the Oakland Black Vendors Association is connected with the BAMBD and concomitantly with the City of Oakland's Downtown Plan for the Next 25 to 50 Years. We demand equity, call it reparations if you like. The City of San Francisco has established a reparations plan to address the decades of systemic racial discrimination, Oakland must do the same and no other space was a critical example of racial discrimination than Lake Merritt, a space all Blacks who grew up in Oakland can recall Lake Merritt was a restrictive space and is down to this day with the current neighborhood animus in direct violation of SB946, the State law on street vending.

If you would like to support the Black Vendors Association with a generous donation, please contact Marvin X at jmarvinx@yahoo.com or James Copes at oldschoolcopes@gmail.com. Your generous donation can be tax deductible.  Again, we thank the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for their generous grant to help us plan the Black Vendors Association. And we thank the Berkeley Juneteenth Foundation for serving as the fiscal agent of BVA. FYI, a $50,000 generous donation would enable us to employ a community security firm to satisfy our priority security needs. Our female vendors are especially concerned about the lax of security that allowed the homicide and wounding of six individuals on Juneteenth of this year. The incident has diminished visits to our Lake Merritt vending site on El Embarcadero, the one block area we have been restricted to by neighborhood animus and brick and mortar businesses along Grand Ave.
Since we have been restricted to this one block area, we demand the name change to Black Street from El Embarcadero. How many streets in Oakland are de facto white streets? MX 

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