Ĭutting through the cotton fields, sleeping in the Bayou and feeding himself with those Strange Fruits, he could find almost anywhere in those lands, he even swam in the Mississipi river on the banks of which he happened to meet the old sad Mr Blues who tell him an obscure story about 40 acres and a mule. Right away, the Kid started his terrestrial quest. One night, in a sketchie bootleg, Sir Swing confessed that Hip Hop was a student of his in Harlem. There he met the noble Sir Swing and his brave fellows named Rag and Blue Grass. He could also be absolutely affirmative that Hip-Hop was alive.īefore realizing what was actually happening, the Kid was pushed by Mr Garvey himself into a Black Star Line ship on the shore of a place refered as New-Orleans. The preacher of the community, known as daddy Reggae, had this reminiscent vision of himself, preaching to the young Hip-Hop in the streets of the Bronx. Therefore, the Kid was indeed very pessimistic about his chances to track down his supposedly dead brother.Īnd when precisely when he had almost lost himself in the arms of this mysterious indigeneous named Mary-Jane that a prophecy came up out of a rastafarian ceremony.

Hesitating for a while to leave on his own his young and orphan cousin Ethio Jazz, he finally barked in a slave ship for an epic journey through the Atlantic.Īfter few weeks of deportation, he finally reached a weird island that he believed was the american continent. Nevertheless, one gloomy day, some rumors brought by a western wind tended to suggest that Hip Hop was dead and buried. Eclectic Beats / Organic Grooves / Roots music / Cultural Vibrationsīorn in the freshly independant Kalakuta Republic around the same time his brother Hip-Hop was given birth in New-York, Kalakuta Kid learned how to walk in rhythm and harmony through the infernal go-slows of Lagos.ĭuring his childhood, living the High-Life in the Motherland, he used to receive regular and inspiring news from his american brother who was established at Uncle Sam's mansion.

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