Umoja (oo-MOE-jah)
Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
LYRICS
As One we reach
As One we choose
As One we grow
Not simply to lose
As One we teach
As One we share
As One we stand
When no one is there
Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Self Determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
LYRICS
Kujichagulia Kujichagulia Kujichagulia
Self Determination
With Words of power we name ourselves
Define ourselves
Speak for ourselves
Ujima (oo-JEE-mah)
Collective Work & Responsibility
To build and maintain our community together and to make our Brother's and sister's problems, our problems and to solve them together.
LYRICS
Collective Work
Responsibility
That Ujima
Ujima
Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah)
Cooperative Economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them.
LYRICS
Cooperative Economics
Where does your money go?
(Bluesy call and response chant)
Nia (nee-AH)
Purpose
To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
LYRICS
Nia
What's your purpose
Nia
Nia whats your purpose
Your are Nia
Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah)
Creativity
To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful than when we inherited it.
LYRICS
Creativity's a place we find
when bitter times are felt
through days.
Then our weary eyes will glow silently
On the way.
Kuumba's creativity
Kuumba's creativity
Kuumba's creativity
Kuumba's creativity
Imani (ee-MAH-nee)
Faith
To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
LYRICS
Our Struggle for faith in our people
Our Struggle for faith in our parents
And righteousness
For Victory of
Our Struggle for faith in our teachers
Our Struggle for faith in our leaders
And Faith in ourselves
And Faith in ourselves
We must invent
We must innovate
We must reach inside ourselves and dare.
about
This is a community based recording project.
Hello,
This is Jason Davis. I wrote this music in 1999 while working in the South Dallas Cultural Center recording Studio with my friend and mentor Uriah Ellion Jr. Each participant of this work donated their time, talent and art. I am sharing this CD with you in hope that it will continue to evolve into even larger bodies of work (plays, musicals, films, concerts and etc.)
You can contact the composer at: dallastrackfactory@yahoo.com
credits
released December 24, 2013
FIRST FRUITS OF THE HARVEST
CD CREDITS
VOICE OVER INTROS AND INTERLUDES:
Sandria Samms
Alexis Davis (Imani) kids voices
Jesse Davis (Imani) kids voices
VOCALIST:
Jesseca "Afrobetty" Williams (Verse 1 on Track 6), Twymeika 'Jendayi' Hill-Jones,
Verb Kulture, Iv Amenti, Ebony "Black Page" Paige (lead vocals on Track 4),
Candace "Mahogany" Miller (Intro Verse on Track 6),
Alejandro Perez Jr. (rap on Track 3) (Verse 3 on Track 6),
Vicki Meek (Verse 2 on Track 6), Chandra Calloway (lead vocals on Track 2),
London Calloway, Ashley Wilkerson, Emotion Brown
BAND:
Danielle "Pocket" Brown- Drum Set
Jason Davis- Bass, Piano, Organ, Keyboards, Percussion, Saxophone and all other instruments
FEATURED POEMS WRITTEN AN PERFORMED BY:
Verb Kulture- Umoja
Ashley Wilkerson- Kujichagulia
Alejandro Perez Jr.- Ujima
Iv Amenti- Nia
Emotion Brown- Nia
SONGS AND SONG LYRICS WRITTEN BY.
Jason Davis
INSPIRED BY:
Uriah Ellion Jr.
RECORDED MIXED and MASTERED BY:
Jason Davis, Devon Boyd, Candace "Mahogany" Miller and Rich Smith
RECORDED AT:
THE SOUTH DALLAS CULTURAL CENTER
DALLAS TRACK FACTORY STUDIO
CD COVER ART BY:
Chris Herod
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa
Uriah Ellion Jr.
Tisha Creer, Harold Stewart, The Pan African Connection, Iv Amenti & Du Shakeres,
Kwanzaa Choir 2012 and 2013
Candace Miller
Zula B. Wylie Library and Vicki Meek
Dallas Track Factory is a program of the South Dallas Cultural Center.
South Dallas Cultural Center is a division of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
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