Blue Scholars
Blue Scholars is an American hip hop duo based in Seattle, Washington, created in 2002 while the members, DJ Sabzi (Saba Mohajerjasbi) and MC Geologic (George Quibuyen), were students at University of Washington.
The name "Blue Scholars" is a play on the term "blue collar," an idiom for workers who often earn hourly wages for manual labor. Their music and lyrics frequently focus on struggles between socioeconomic classes, challenging authority and youth empowerment. These themes are often specifically addressed in relation to the Seattle region ("Southside Revival", "North by Northwest", "50 Thousand Deep", "Joe Metro", "Slick Watts" and "The Ave"), and heavily draw upon Geologic's history as an activist within the Filipino American community dealing with issues of immigration, racism, and U.S. neo-imperialism in the Philippines. Recent music has begun to extend even further outward, reflecting the group's greater West Coast and Pacific roots including an album devoted to exploring Geo's Hawaiian heritage on the OOF! EP.
Blue Scholars (album)
Blue Scholars is the self-titled debut release by Blue Scholars, a Seattle-based hip-hop duo. It was originally only available in the Seattle area in 2004 before being given a national release in 2005.
The 2004 release of the album contained tracks 2-11 (the original release had a different introduction, track 1; it was called 'Solstice intro') and came in a jewel case with a cover resembling a spiral-bound notebook. This version of the album was voted "Best Album of 2004" by the Seattle Weekly.
The 2005 release of the album added three new tracks to the end of the album: "The Ave," "Life & Debt," and "No Rest For The Weary." The re-release comes in a digipak-style case with revised cover art, featuring a silhouette of the Seattle skyline with the band's more common graffiti tag logo.
A video for the track "Freewheelin" was produced in the summer of 2004. It features Geo and Sabzi walking with an increasing group of followers through a number of Seattle neighborhoods, including the International District, Beacon Hill, and Capitol Hill. The final scene of the video features the duo performing in Hing Hay Park to their crowd of followers. The video is available on the 2005 version of the album and can be viewed at YouTube.
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ALBUMS
- Cinémetropolis released: 2011
- Bayani released: 2009
- Blue Scholars released: 2004
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Wounded Eyes
by: Blue Scholars(Sendin' this one out...)
All right, yo, yo yo...
My wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student, I study to survive
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student.
I'm listening to the music of the countryside circling
the city for the victory
Liquor shop philosophy: scary, but necessary
Pops was a military man, and seein' what it did to him
and fam, it was never in my plans
My method is one hand open and one fisted, skin burnt
like the sun kissed it
Consistently committed to community-building, they
could never put the theory into practice
Who are they to be illin'? I made a killing, not for
profit but respect
And unless it's for a benefit you better cut the check
Dude, compensations for the blood and the sweat, see I
do for my people cause I love 'em to death.
In my geography, you gotta be smart, boss, it's crucial
Paranoid, don't smoke as much as I used to
Even more broke than before we made music, but maybe
one day we'll get through it.
Now, my wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon
to die
Who am I? A student, I study to survive
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student, I study to survive.
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many brutalized
So we rise and fight for the future we strive
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student.
Observing my environment to see contradictions in
concrete conditions
Evidence we're living in an obsolete system, poverty-
stricken, folks constantly livin' hope
American dreams danglin' from a rope, I got folks
working in the public school sector
Who lose one youth to death per semester, I guess the
cost of living is going up
While the chance of living is going down, what the fuck
is the basis?
I'm saying never no more, the solution for the poor,
recruit 'em for the war
They kicked in the door, waving the .45 cal, one
million died, I survived, now alive
I reside where the struggle and the hustle coincide,
and this moment in time, a shift in the tide
Get the blindfold lifted from your eyes, and see what
we see, and stop pretending it's all right man
My wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student, I study to survive
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
Who am I? A student, I study to survive.
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many brutalized
So we rise and we fight for the future we strive
Wounded eyes seen through the lies, many soon to die
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