Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Finale & Invincible: "Locusts" (Video)

Detroit rappers Finale and Invincible teamed up for this song, which is a part of Invincible's new website, Emergence Travel Agency, which is an offshoot of her label. To quote from the website:
ETA reveals the connection between people & places by creating media that resists displacement, gentrification, colonization, occupation, obstruction of movement, denial of the right to leave, and denial of the right to return. ETA is beyond borders, checkpoints, deportations, passports and dehumanizing immigration application processes. Our journey will begin here, online, and continue until we can all travel or stay where our hearts desire.
And here's a caption from the site describing the intentions behind this particular video:
Finale and Invincible spent over five years writing "Locusts." The song writing process began with them each collecting oral histories from friends, mentors, and family. Finale's grandfather drove him around Detroit and showed him the sites of his old stomping grounds, now long gone. He told Finale stories of how the city had changed in his lifetime. Invincible spent time with her mentors learning about the history of anti-displacement organizing in Detroit.

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