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Download Youthful Folly
1990
I started doing my own rapping on a friend’s four-track. My politics and production values were both pretty slipshod. I knew I was full of righteous rage, but I had not yet identified how best to express it. This album is named from the fourth hexagram in the I-Ching, which reminds us that life allows us all a time for making mistakes and asking stupid questions. I was taught to toss the pennies to access the ‘Ching by my elders and I often received this hexagram during the production of these songs. This is why many of these tracks portray the influences from my ancestors and predecessors. Recorded on the most basic of four-track or two-track.
1993
I was beginning to realize how much of my struggle was self-destructive and aimless. My only rebellion so far against bourgeois society was making myself less useful to them; I wanted a better way to seize the time, our Generation X time. This is where I begin my shift towards a revolution and resistance theory. This time reflects my frustration with the OSL (Old Sectarian Left) for losing all its fights. I saw a promise of a popular front with the emerging Green and Black movements. We all want to win, we all want freedom! The Anarchist flashmobs were beginning to heat up and I was their poet. Technically, my production is still poor and I am not taking myself seriously yet as an artist. "Where's the Sack" was my first big underground hit, which stacked up huge numbers at mp3.com before they removed it for sample violation. This was a pro pot anthem from a socialist point of view, looking at the communal sides of a high, raising the problem that today’s cannabis clubs are tackling. My reach is spreading, the message recognized by all age groups. We’ve gotten email from all over the world, from a teenaged Serbian Marxist to a over-sixty Australian Red! "Ride Tonight" is for my Anarchist ‘rades, who have the heart, but not the brains for revolution. It’s an old but tight hammer blow on how you make chaos of the man’s system
1995
The masses were showing me the way. The popularity of certain songs on this album was proof enough to convince me that I was connecting with a vanguard audience of the highest political consciousness. And that audience was huge and widespread. My work was being picked up all over the net, from Sweden to South Africa, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Italy, as well as the U.S. and Canada. Here in the Bay Area I connected with the slam poetry culture, and did live appearances for Left meetings and fund raisers. I started taking the musical sound production, beat selection and lyric writing more seriously. This period produced some real nice dialectical classics. "Defend Yourself" was a huge hit, getting downloaded thousands of times a day.
Zearle
Youthful Folly tracks:
1 . Bust Chains
2 . Defend Yourself (mez mix)
3 . Real Revolution
4 . Deadest System (fetish mix)
5 . Where's the Sack?
6 . In to You
7 . Are We Doomed?
8 . Government Has Failed Us (featuring Mic Danja)
9 . Happiness or Sorrow
10. Behind the Iron Mask
11. Penalty of Death (featuring John Nickels)
12. Really Down
13. Tonight We Ride
14. Dust to Dust
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