Myka 9

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 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..."

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

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