1969
2009 · Fake Four FFINC006 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Myka 9
- Title
- 1969
- Release
- 1969
- Year
- 2009
- Label
- Fake Four # FFINC006
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · West Coast Hip Hop · Conscious Hip Hop · Jazz Rap
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
1969 (Myka 9) Hip hop. Kent State (although 1970 despite song name!!), Chicago demonstrations Counter-culture, Civil Rights "Hippies, politicals, hippies to sexual revolution
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — 1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs
Myko 9, West Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop / Jazz Rap artist, born Michael Lafayette Troy on 16 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California. The song "1969" (Fake Four Inc. # FFINC006) referenced many political issues and events of the 60s/70s. including Civil Rights, the counter-culture, and two well-known Vietnam evens: (a) the Kent State shooting - which took place on 4 May 1970, in Ohio, where members of the Ohio State Guard shot and killed four students, and (b) demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 1968: "the peace movement took Chicago late and they took four dead in Ohio".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Hippies, political, hippies to sexual revolution / Led Zeppelin, Woodstock plastics, innocence / Jimmy Hendrix, free love and indeed sunshine of your mind / The peace movement took Chicago late / And they took four dead in Ohio / The nakedness awakening a riot / Monty Python was flying in the circus / Bliss concerts, you know the doors are open / Anti-Vietnam War, Bob Dylan, Electric Kool-Aid Acid tests once more / Soul Shakedown, Further bus tour, Bob Marley, Weather The Storm / Ken Kesey, Jamaica and the shores / Alistair Crowley, Blowfly records / From Rocksteady to hardcore / The Gutter Punks that rock and roll adored / Every memory all around me / Every energy comes forward to show / What was all in me back in 1969 / With my mother and my father's seed / Love movement to discovery / From the moments that I came to be when I began to breathe / Back in 1969
About the artist
Myko 9, West Coast Hip Hop / Conscious Hip Hop / Jazz Rap artist, born Michael Lafayette Troy on 16 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
Themes
Civil Rights · Chicago Seven · Kent State · Woodstock · Bob Dylan
In collections
1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs · Civil Rights Songs · Kent / Jackson State Songs · Rap / Hip Hop Songs