drums - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T09:05:13Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/drums"We Remain Sovereign" The ZYG 808 Delivers Keynote Speech for MassDOT Native American Heritage Monthhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/we-remain-sovereign-the-zyg-808-delivers-keynote-speech-for2018-11-26T13:00:00.000Z2018-11-26T13:00:00.000ZMwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/Mwalim7DaPhunkeeProfessor<div><p><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hygWD4DpITI/W_sm-G3DUWI/AAAAAAAAIbA/2lDXnCu3H8oIXYyRBT1r-Qnw2QSK3qH0gCLcBGAs/s1600/Zyg%2Bsolo%2Bon%2Bbench%2Bpr.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hygWD4DpITI/W_sm-G3DUWI/AAAAAAAAIbA/2lDXnCu3H8oIXYyRBT1r-Qnw2QSK3qH0gCLcBGAs/s400/Zyg%2Bsolo%2Bon%2Bbench%2Bpr.jpg" width="338" alt="Zyg%2Bsolo%2Bon%2Bbench%2Bpr.jpg" /></a><b style="color:#444444;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Grammy nominated Hip-Hop Jazz artist and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Member, The ZYG 808 Delivered the keynote speech and performed for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's Native American Heritage Luncheon.</b><br /> <b style="color:#444444;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">A large room full of MassDOT employees and members of the general public gathered for the Native American Heritage Month Luncheon and Presentation at the DOT building in Downtown Boston, last Monday, November 19, 2018. This years keynote speaker: 15 year-old, Grammy nominated hip-hop jazz, The ZYG 808.</span><br /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">An active member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Youth Council, as well as a sophomore on the honor roll at Mashpee Middle High School, the young musician came to share his thoughts on sovereignty as well as perform some of the Grammy nominated songs from his debut EP "At The Party".</span><br /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Within his presentation he addressed the Land Into Trust Issue faced by his tribe after the current administration chose to reverse the tribe's status as a sovereign tribe.</span><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">In his presentation, entitled "We Remain Sovereign", he addressed the gathering with the following words:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cUWrpfvXrfo?feature=player_embedded&wmode=opaque" width="320"></iframe></div><p><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /></span> <i><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">What's Good?</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">……………</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">A curiosity with words, language and the oral tradition is something that my family has maintained in various forms for many generations.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">The word "Sovereignty"</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"> -According to the Oxford Dictionary- means, "…supreme power or authority; or the authority of a state to govern itself..." Free will is a form of sovereignty, where you have the freedom to make choices of both actions and words.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">My traditional name is </span><b style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Ahanamasq</b><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">, which translates to "Laughing Bear". Having a traditional name is a type of sovereignty;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"> considering that we had names forced upon us by he colonists and subsequent governments.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">However, with the rights of sovereignty and free will also come responsibilities. The question for a person or government exercising </span><span style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">sovereignty</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">is this:</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Are you ready, able and willing to accept responsibility for and the consequences of your actions?</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Are willing to verse yourself and your leadership in the ways of good governance?</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Are you ready, able and willing to address the needs and concerns of the people you govern and those affected by your actions with temperance and equity?</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">The Mashpee Wampanoag are a sovereign people, and for some of us that sense of sovereignty pre-dates being granted Federal Recognition by the US government. It's a sense that is reflected when we maintain and practice our social traditions.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">For example;</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Our sovereignty is reflected in the efforts of my elder Jessie Little Doe Baird in reintroducing our language to our people;</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Our sovereignty is present in the work of my elders Gail Hendricks-Hill, Carla Riley, Marl Perry, Vonnie Brown, my father, and Joan Avant who provide a solid and culturally enriching education for upcoming generations.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Our sovereignty can be found in the efforts of my father and cousins to revive and preserve our </span><span style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Ahanaheenun</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">or "Sacred Clown" practices;</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Our sovereignty is seen when elders like Vernon "Buddy" Pocknett, Ralph Hendricks, and Courtney Mills to preserve and continue our hunting and fishing traditions;</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· We remain sovereign because elders like John "Jim" Peters, and Hartman Deetz lead by example on the front lines in standing up for our rights.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· We are sovereign because of the efforts of Robert Peters, Annawon Weeden, and Russell Peters Jr, in preserving and teaching younger generations how to build our traditional dwellings.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">· Our sovereignty lives in the work of Martin "Bruzzy" Hendricks, Chiefy Mills, Brian Weeden, Keon Jackson, the Wakeby Lake Drum, the Native Suns Drum, and Crystal Maddox in seeing that our traditional songs and dances are passed on to upcoming generations.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">However, there remain some people who labor to keep tribes and nations like the Mashpee Wampanoag socially, politically and economically disenfranchised. These are the same people who maintain and re-introduce the Anti-Native sentiments of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">These are the same people who feel it is better to jeopardize the water supply of the people of Standing Rock with a leaky oil pipe line then run the pipeline through a golf course; or feel it's okay to build time share condos on ancient, unmarked burial grounds. As a sovereign people, these are some of the issues and obstacles that we face.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Thankfully there are so many people within our tribe like the ones I mentioned earlier who influence and help prepare the tribal members of my generation to function as a sovereign people whether the US Govt. Agrees or not.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">It should stand to reason that economic and educational self-sufficiency are among the things that any sovereign people strive for.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">If it is truly your intention to honor native people, I ask all of you sitting here to call your Congress-people and strongly encourage them to support the "HR - 5244 Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act". This is your opportunity to Stand with Mashpee.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Thank you.</span><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">And now for some hip-hop jazz...</span></i><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">---------------------------------</span><br /><br style="color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Follow The ZYG 808 on Instagram:</span><br /> <a href="http://instagram.com/thezyg808" style="color:#6080f0;font-family:arial, sans-serif;line-height:1.5;">http://instagram.com/thezyg808</a></p></div>The ZYG Rocks The House At Prince Hall Black History Month Eventhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-zyg-rocks-the-house-at-prince-hall-black-history-month-event2018-02-27T21:44:43.000Z2018-02-27T21:44:43.000ZMwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/Mwalim7DaPhunkeeProfessor<div><p><b>Hip-hop Jazz Percussionist & MC, The ZYG performs in Boston for the</b></p><p><img width="275" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828602382,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-right" height="436" alt="3828602382?profile=original" /></p><p><b> Annual Prince Hall BlackHistory Month Program, bringing socially conscious hip-hop to a appreciative audience.</b></p><p><span>It was the talents of the upcoming generation was highlighted at the Annual Black History Month event, hosted by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. About 200 community people filled the William E. Reed Auditorium in Dorchester on Sunday, February 25, and were treated to dance performances by Area 51, Chance Dance Company, Four Star Dance Academy, and readings by the PHGC Youth Circle. As an introduction for the guest speaker, Dr. Karilyn Crockett and her excellent presentation, The ZYG and his drums were center stage.</span><br /><br /><span>Clad in a Dashiki and jeans, with his new locks uncovered, The ZYG gave a very brief talk about his cocktail drum set, explaining that it is based on Afro-Caribbean percussion mixed with trap drum elements and that he likes the kit because , "it sounds like the TR-808 that folks use in hip-hop." He went on to explain that what separates MCs from rappers is that MCs are a part of the oral tradition continuum that came from West Africa by way of the Caribbean known as the Griot tradition, which drew enthusiastic applause from the audience.</span><br /><br /><span>Rolling right into his song, the audience was mesmerized to see this young man play the drums and rap at the same time, but were also deeply moved by the content of his lyrics in the songs "Pioneers" and homage to the founders of hip-hop; and "Insanity (The Sequel)" the looks at American race relations from a youth's point-of-view.</span></p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6g_Yylu6Vg?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <br /><br /><span>As The ZYG is i the final stretch of his freshman year of high school and a busy gig schedule with The GroovaLottos, he is currently in the studio finishing his debut mixtape "The Intro" which will include the songs "Pioneers" and "Insanity (the Sequel". He is also make music videos for each of the songs. The project should come out in late Spring.</span><br /><br /><span>Follow The ZYG:</span><br /><a href="http://thezyg808.com/" target="_blank">http://thezyg808.com</a></p></div>Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor signs with Spirit Wind Records. Set to Release NDN Jazz Album in New Yearhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/mwalim-daphunkee-professor-signs-with-spirit-wind-records-set-t-12013-12-26T20:30:00.000Z2013-12-26T20:30:00.000ZMwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/Mwalim7DaPhunkeeProfessor<div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://ejazznews.com/wp-content/uploads/Smiling-in-the-Woods-Playing-fiddle2.jpg"><img class="align-right" src="http://ejazznews.com/wp-content/uploads/Smiling-in-the-Woods-Playing-fiddle2.jpg?width=536" height="225" width="304" alt="Smiling-in-the-Woods-Playing-fiddle2.jpg?width=536" /></a>From the 2013 Native American Music Awards, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, a soul- funk- jazz musical artist and member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe took home two Top Nominee medals and an offer from Donald Blackfox to join the Spirit Wind Records family of traditional and contemporary Native American recording artists.</p><p>Mwalim, a veteran songwriter, producer, session and touring musician has been recording and releasing albums on his own LMMGM label since 1990, interrupted by a stint at a major label subsidiary as a staff producer and spec artist. As it is the nature of Spirit Wind Records to give complete creative control to it’s artists, this project will be a co-release between LMMGM and Spirit Wind. In November, Mwalim e-mailed a zip file of rough mixes to Donald Blackfox for final approval, who responded “Just listened to the tracks I love them My kind of music. Great Job.” adding the proposed album to Spirit Wind’s release roster for winter of 2014.</p><p>The album is to help raise consciousness of the Indigenous led, Idle No More Movement.</p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Just Is... 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