Black History Music - Finale

In celebration of Black History Month, the Ear Candy Update intends to celebrate landmark recordings by black artists that have shaped the collective consciousness, mentality, and sense of cool the world over. Next, the full podcast. 

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There’s no conceivable way I could encapsulate the spectrum of black music. It’s just not real. Now I can’t and won’t speak for everyone, so I’ll speak for myself here. I’m gonna play the hell out of my Prince and Pac records. I’m gonna celebrate everyday people, and like Jimi told me, I’m gonna let my freak flag fly. Black was never an adjective and I know that in my bones. Until the rest of my nation understands that in the hearts they pray and feel with, I’ll be here with my records exercising the fuck out my white privilege doing what I do. Nothing moves me quite like this music, and I long for a day when no one will have to call it black music, or black literature, or black culture. One day we’ll understand that as a nation, and then we might have a different anthem to sing…

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The tracks:

• I'll Take You There - The Staples Singers
• I Want to Take You Higher - Sly and the Family Stone
• Let's Go Crazy - Prince
• Skew It On the Bar-B - Outkast
• Wanna Be Startin' Something - Michael Jackson
• Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud) - James Brown
• Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
• Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
• *Excerpt from "Be Cool" by Cedric the Entertainer
• I Will Move On Up a Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson
• Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
• Fight the Power - Public Enemy
• Niggers vs. the Police - Richard Pryor
• Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A.
• Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
• Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
• Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
• Respect - Aretha Franklin
• Love Train - The O'Jays
• What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
• Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
• I Ain't Mad At Cha - 2Pac
• Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park) - Nas
• Living for the City - Stevie Wonder
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
• The Blacker The Berry - Kendrick Lamar
• So What - Miles Davis
• Acknowledgment (Pt. 1) - John Coltrane
• Umi Says - Mos Def
• Everything Is Everything - Lauryn Hill
• Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians
• Day-O - Harry Belafonte
• That's How Strong My Love Is - Otis Redding
• O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps
• Can It All Be So Simple - Wu-Tang Clan
• Things Done Changed - Notorious B.I.G.
• Hard Times - Baby Huey
• Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
• Express Yourself - Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
• For God's Sake (Give More Power to the People) - The Chi-Lites
• The 6th Sense - Common
• One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament