Happy Home
2007 · Blacksmith 0902663160 1 8 · Brooklyn, New York
- Artist
- Talib Kweli
- Title
- Happy Home
- Release
- Liberation
- Year
- 2007
- Label
- Blacksmith # 0902663160 1 8
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · East Coast Hip Hop · Conscious Hip Hop · West Coast Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
Talib Kweli, East Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop artist, born Talib Kweli Greene on 3 October 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, member of Black Star with Mos Def. Songs referencing Vietnam included "Get By" (2003) (with Kanye West, JAY-Z, Mos Def, and Busta Rhymes), "Happy Home" (2007 (with Madlib), "History" (2009) (with Mos Def), and "Learn Truth" (2013) (with R.A. the Rugged Man).The song "Happy Home" (Blacksmith Music # 0902663160 1 8) - a collaboration between Talib Kweli and Madlib - West Coast Hip Hop artist, born Otis Jackson Jr., born on 24 October 1973 in Oxnard, California, USA. It told the story of Talib Kweli's father, Perry Greene growing in the 1960s Civil Rights and Vietnam era - it described him escaping the segregated South, to the hippie New York folk scene: "through the Segregated South... Perry was out, livin' like a hippie in the sixties... headin' to The Village to see Bob Dylan". His father then received the draft call: "got this draft card in the mail". It contained a Civil Rights message, noting the draft resistance of Muhammad Ali: "the champ said, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong" - Ali had asked why he should fight brown people in Vietnam…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Talib Kweli, East Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop artist, born Talib Kweli Greene on 3 October 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, member of Black Star with Mos Def. Songs referencing Vietnam included "Get By" (2003) (with Kanye West, JAY-Z, Mos Def, and Busta Rhymes ), "Happy Home" (2007 (with Madlib ), "History" (2009) (with Mos Def ), and "Learn Truth" (2013) (with R.A. the Rugged Man ).
Themes
VC · Civil Rights · Draft · Muhammad Ali · TV War · Bob Dylan · Draft Resistance