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Tha Truth : Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II
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Sounds like Martin Luther King Jr, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Marley, and Jon Lennon had a baby who made a hip hop album
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap: Political Rap
Release Date: 2007
Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II Record Label: Creativity Recordings
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Public Address Intro ft. Martin Luther King Jr. 2:43 $0.99
The Camden 28 Intro ft. Howard Zinn 1:03 $0.99
The Camden 28 4:30 $0.99
Ralph Nader On The System 0:31 $0.99
Universal Healthcare 6:07 $0.99
Popular Music Today 0:10 $0.99
The Real News 2:47 $0.99
Intelligence (The CIA) 4:40 $0.99
Origin of Religion 0:50 $0.99
Free Your Mind 4:03 $0.99
We Need Peace Ft. Lady JAM 0:21 $0.99
Equality 3:27 $0.99
What They Don't Want You 2 Know 3:07 $0.99
The Real News (remix) 3:13 $0.99
Global Warming 1:04 $0.99
It's Time (Part 1) 2:46 $0.99
Take My Advice 5:15 $0.99
Keys 2 A Better World 3:55 $0.99
Outside the Box 4:06 $0.99
Words From Pam Africa 0:17 $0.99
Solutions 2:56 $0.99
End of The Newark March 0:32 $0.99
F Bush (Remix) 5:24 $0.99
Its Time (Club Mix) by DJ Filthy Rich 1:13 $0.99
Bring The Troops Home 0:49 $0.99
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Album Notes

Tha Truth is a conscious/political hip hop artist, poet, and “rap-tivist” known around the Philadelphia area for battling imperialism, inequality, corruption, and discrimination.

He has performed in countless venues at concerts, colleges, demonstrations, conferences, and benefits. Among these appearances Tha Truth performed at “The People’s March for Peace and Justice” in 2007 in Newark, NJ where he shared the stage with Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now!” and Congressman Jon Conyers (one of the initators of HR 676/the Universal Health Care bill). He was also featured as a special guest performer along with M-1 of Dead Prez at the 2008 People's Peace Conference at Rutgers University Law School in Newark, NJ.

Tha Truth has performed at the ISO Conference at Columbia University in New York City, the Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) benefit concert in Philadelphia, and the Worker's World National Convention in New York twice. Additionally, Tha Truth performed in the "Drop Beats Not Bombs" concert at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Veterans for Peace National Conference at the University of Maryland, and the 2009 Green Party National Conference at North Carolina Central University.

In other appearances, Tha Truth spoke twice at Rowan University, He performed at The University of Pennsylvania, and he was also one of the artists who took part in the “Rock the Rulers” concert outside the Capitol Building in Washington, DC during the Troops Out Now Encampment of 2007. On the day before the 2008 Election, Temple University's radio station in Philadelphia interviewed Tha Truth and asked him to speak to the students about the issues. Tha Truth's song "U.S. Drug War," was included on the official American Drug War Movie Mixtape CD release.

Environmental benefit events Tha Truth has been featured in include concerts at Pennsylvania’s Cedar Brook Middle School Earth Day Festival, “Arts in The Park” in Elkins Park, PA, and The Brown Bear Music Festival to expose pollution in the Monoshone Creek in Philadelphia.

Tha Truth put out his debut CD “Tha Civil Rights Movement” in 2006. His second CD “Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II” was released in 2007 and is encased in a new form of packaging known as an eco-wallet. The eco-wallets are made of 100% recycled paper with 0% plastic. These CD cases still have a spine (side), and look similar to other cases, but the CD is held in place by paper instead of plastic.

On this project Tha Truth continues in his mission to enlighten the public about important social issues through his music. Unlike his first album, there aren’t many lyrics about his personal life. This time around it is obvious that he has evolved with time, done a lot more research, sought more knowledge since his first CD, and is eager to get it all out there. All around, it is obvious that this effort is much stronger than his debut release. The flow is tighter, the lyrics are more urgent, compelling, and complex, and the production is also notably improved.

Tha Truth’s lyrics on Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II address poverty, global warming, inequality, universal healthcare, Fox News bias, independent media, the CIA, Co-Intel-Pro, LGBT rights, right wing hypocrisy, distribution of resources, and the crimes of the Bush administration. Other themes of the album include the story of The Camden 28, and combating conformity, materialism, and sexism. Between songs there are some thought provoking skits by activists like Larry Hamm and Pam Africa (of Philadelphia’s The MOVE Organization).

In a time where the most well known musicians drone on apathetically about trivial, stereotypical, and unoriginal subject matter, Tha Truth represents a breath of fresh air; he is an artist in every sense of the word. Utilizing originality, creativity, and a desire to use his talent to move the world in a better direction, Tha Truth is a rapper/social critic one ignores at their own risk.

For more information on Tha Truth visit www.thatruthmusic.com (link on this page) and check out his other CD releases (links on this page).

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REVIEWS

Civics class now in session
author: TouchTheClouds
"THA CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, PART 2" picks up right where "PART 1" left off. PUBLIC ADDRESS INFO sets the tone for the album by mentioning campaign reform, Mount Rushmore, the CIA, and much more. "You want dumbed down music? You got the wrong one." And he's not kidding. This guy is as much a teacher as entertainer. For everyone who believes in the concept of UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, you now have your anthem. It even comes with a built-in mantra: "It don't matter who, what, why, or where. All people need universal healthcare." Every song on this album is a little lesson in civics and civilization. THE REAL NEWS takes a shot at people who make headlines at the expense of what is actually going on in the world. INTELLIGENCE blows the lid off Iraq war, including the mercenaries in Blackwater and the rest of the corporate thugs making money from it. EQUALITY talks about how gays are people who were born that way and how prejudice against them is ignorant. Once again, the instrumentals are not limited to the standard hip hop beats. In the appropriately-named OUTSIDE THE BOX, Tha Truth raps about being original and being yourself. To emphasize his point in what may be a hip hop first, the song features a bluegrass banjo alongside classical strings and a drum loop. F BUSH (REMIX 2.0) updates a hard-hitting track from "PART 1" by calling for the impeachment of the entire Bush regime for the senseless loss of life created by their war in Iraq. BRING THE TROOPS HOME ends the album on a simple, yet very powerful note with a chant of "Bring the troops home. NOW!" We can only hope that someone in power is listening.
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Education and Motivation to Change The World
author: Lee G
I appreciate this album because not only did Tha Truth\'s flow and energy keep my attention but the subject matter was actually educational. It reminded me of KRS-ONE, because after I listened to each song I would feel like a teacher had taught me a lesson. If you care about whats going on in the world today or want to, you should buy this album because not only will it EDUCATE but it will also MOTIVATE you to make a change.
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Thank You for what you do
author: Pamela W.
I am Proud of all that you do to try to let people know what is going on in our country. Please never think that you haven't touched peoples lives for you touched mine. You made me more aware of what not only our President is doing but also what I wasn't doing by sitting quietly while our Government was going toward places that I would have never seen without you. Thanks Again
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Worth the Wait!!
author: Jon Blaq
You can tell Tha Truth put a lot of reasearch into the project fo real and it took me forever but i finally got this album !!! and it was well worth the wait. I had already been checkin the sample version on cdbaby so I already knew it was tight... I'm still in the process of digesting it so im not really familiar with song titles, but this album got some fire tracks and the information Tha Truth is spittin is crazy so all i can say is keep doing your thing Truth, cause the joint is fo real a banger and the topics u hittin on from the cointel pro to all the politricks thats going on is an eye opener for alot of people that just dont have a clue of whats going on....
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