Day 478 Real Rapper-Cale Sampson

Recently, a friend pointed me to some cool music from the Info-Rapper Cale Sampson. Listening to Cale is a breath of fresh air. He coined the term info-rapping because he packs his raps full of words like a history lesson with the what's up of what's really going on, while also being an easy and enjoyable listen that is loaded with an education too.

Many many times within past years, I can recall saying to people I wish I heard more rappers, rapping about real shit.

So many artists out there are so FAKE.

Check out the depth of substance within Cale Sampson's song "Reach Up".

Lets take a look at the lyrics for a moment:

Artist: Cale Sampson
Album: The Big Picture
Song: Reach Up

[Chorus]
( People ), it’s time to unite
Time to reach up and defend all our rights
( We know ), there’s so many people in pain
It’s time to reach up, time to create a change
( People ), it’s time that we speak
Time to reach up and demand world peace
( We know ), that we’ve all got to believe
We’ve got to reach up if we want to be free

[Verse One]
The top one percent of the population
Owns forty percent of the wealth
Over thirty thousand children die every day
In poverty from lack of health
This wealth gap keeps increasing between rich and poor
There’s more slavery now than ever before
Although democracy’s supposed to be equal
Government is controlled by a small group of people
Bankers and corporations are in charge
They finance presidents who then help them make laws
All the candidates are really pre-selected
So it doesn’t matter which party ends up elected
Central banks control the money supply
The crazy thing is that they’re all privatized
Every dollar that’s printed and ever exists
Is a loan that we need to pay back with interest
The fractional reserve system’s a scam
That keeps the whole nation in debt and that’s the plan
This is happening across the whole entire
World, it only leads to global empire
The U.S. uses the world bank and I.M.F.
To pay off politicians and put countries in debt
That debt’s so big, they can never repay
So they’re forced to sell all their resources as a trade
At the end of the day, it’s all nothing more than
Economic bribery and extortion
So more and more people are becoming desperate
Potential terrorists that can be arrested
And your home can be searched now without a warrant
You can be detained indefinitely and tortured
These laws are designed to destroy our liberties
So when we fight back it limits our abilities

[Chorus]
( People ), it’s time to unite
Time to reach up and defend all our rights
( We know ), there’s so many people in pain
It’s time to reach up, time to create a change
( People ), it’s time that we speak
Time to reach up and demand world peace
( We know ), that we’ve all got to believe
We’ve got to reach up if we want to be free

[Verse Two]
We live in a system based on profit
Regardless of what the environmental cost is
So in this society, monetary gain
Always comes first before people’s well being
Now think about the theory of supply and demand
Everything is worth more the less of it that’s on hand
If the goal’s to make money by any means
It makes sense to deny people of what they need
In reality, energy is abundant
There’s no need for anyone to die of hunger
Everyone on earth could be housed if we wanted
But technology that could help isn’t funded
Instead businesses that control market share
Purposely keep all our resources scarce
People are forced to fight, cheat or lie
Cuz’ there’s not enough money for us all to survive
When greed and corruption is rewarded
It means our whole value system is distorted
We need to think critically, change our perception
Almost everything we’ve been told is a deception
For centuries, things like race and religion
Have been used to keep us focused on division
We’ve been conditioned to see ourselves as different
From everything else and that’s the point were missing
Humans are trained to look at disparities
That are trivial compared to our similarities
And not just with people, were talking about
Completely detaching from nature itself
Our planet’s a system that’s interconnected
Everything we do, something else is affected
Without animals, elements or plants
We can’t survive on this earth, humans have no chance
So look at everything as an extension of you
Atomically were all the same it’s just a different world view
And the faster this realization spreads
The better off the world will be moving ahead

[Chorus x 2]

credits

released 01 August 2013
Produced by: Andre Flak
Additional Vocals by: Devon Brady
Mixed by: Ted "Measuring Man" Onyszczak
Mastered by: Andy Krehm at Silverbirch Productions

Some self-forgiveness that comes up here in the moment:

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for taking all the fake artists bullshit personally.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for not realising and understanding that to be a poser is like a letter off from loser which is not to say a a poser is not a loser, but a poser and a loser are in the same category of person within the human race.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for believing that people choose to be posers and losers.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for not realising and understanding how extensive the human conditioning is, and that it' so ridiculously absurd to judge anyone because chances are the individual is not even aware of what they are accepting and allowing within themselves.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for questioning whether it is ok to take issue with all the fake artistic expressions existent.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for judging myself for talking about fake artists as posers and losers.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for not realising and understanding the point of how I have been bothered by seeing and hearing fake artists because fake artists exposes myself within how I have been living as a life poser.

I forgive myself or accepting and allowing myself for not realising and understanding that going into conflict is just revealing what is already existing within myself...and so it is cool to face all points of conflict within myself as an effective self-nurturing and therapeutic remedy as the means necessary to enable the facilitation of self-correction, within seeing the errors and mistakes of my patterned behaviours.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for picking fights of conflict, as like taking a point of information as like something I realise as a physical fact...and creating judgement about that particular fact...as like me becoming an opposition to that particular physical fact...and taking the physical facts personally, as like a self induced way to charge and brew energy within myself.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for always trying to find ways to fuck with some sort of energy buzz.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself for thinking about Cale Sampson in competion with other rappers...as like there being some form of conflicting energies between artists I  regard as fake, and the ones I regard as not fake.

When and as I see myself looking to generate conflict between persons, I stop and breathe, I realise I don't require to generate conflict between persons as a means of getting an energy fix.

When and as I see myself taking artistic expression personally, I stop and breathe, I realise and understand the ridiculous absurdity of judging artistic expression.  I realise when a point consumes me, and I am preoccupied with looking at a particular point within another, ...that the other is in fact actually helping me to see the point that exists within me that I have been avoiding to look at.

When and as I see myself desiring to start chirping people out as a means of putting people down, I stop and breathe, I realise and understand that self-righteous acts are not cool.

I commit myself to learning from every reaction.

I commit myself to self-perfection.

I commit myself to natural artistic living.

I commit myself to dare to be original within artistic expression.

I commit myself to Real Life Artistic Expression.