Loyalty is a track off Blue Scholar's latest album (ep) Butter & Gun$. There is an official music video, but the hosts have disabled embedding. I highly recommend visiting YouTube and searching for 'Blue Scholars - Loyalty' to see their amazing music video.
Blue Scholars is composed of rapper Geologic, a Filipino communist & community organizer, and producer Sabzi, an Iranian jazz pianist and practitioner of the Bahá'í faith. Together they produce hip hop music that is reciprocally tangible emphasizing the the 'daily grind', '9 to 5', and everyday experiences of working peoples.
Blue Scholars have released one full-length album (Self-Titled, 2004) and an 8-song EP (The Long March, 2005) emerging out of the Northwest hip-hop scene with soulful beats, poetic yet political rhymes and a reputation for energetic live performances. With their second full-length release, Bayani, due out on June 12, 2007 on MASSLINE in collaboration with Rawkus Records, the torchbearing Seattle duo seeks to blend the personal and the political, while not afraid to party in the process.
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this is the first time in print that i've seen geo labeled as a communist. is that from a press packet or something you assume of the rapper?
In the song Cornerstone Geologics says 'My purpose as a Maoists is to serve my people to the fullest,
Knowing that my name is somewhere written on a bullet.'
Then there is Geo's prolific references to Maoist slogans and history.
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