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Written by Siddik
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 |
 Boobah Siddik was in LA to shoot a couple videos for the upcoming release of the album. He shot the video for "Harmattan Winds" alongside Sandstorm Ja and Smoka Seez. Lord Cheik could not make it to the shoot because of conflicting schedules. After the initial location for the shoot was dropped because of permit difficulties, it was moved to the Marina Del Rey docks where it turned out the crew was able to get better shots than previously thought. Shadow Zu even got an official mascot in the name of "Red" a half labrador half pit dog that you will get to see in the video. The production was handled by Chubie Egbuho and Eric, two young and gifted up and coming actors/writers/entremetteurs on da LA entertainement scene. The following day, the production moved to Leimert Park to shoot the video for "That Music For Your Soul", which is the official first single for the album. Wanlov The Kubolor joined the shoot that took Boobah Siddik and his clan through this landmark are of Black Los Angeles. After and during the shoot, Boobah Siddik linked up with Silas from Bavubuka, a Ugandan MC who is touring the States right now promoting the African Hip Hop documentary "Diamonds In The Rough". They eventually shot a interview/discussion soon to be posted on UNOHH. The videos are in editing right now and should be available soon come.
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Boobah Siddik Presents: Dead Goats - Chronicles of A Jindoh |
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Written by Team DBS
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
Welcome to Boobah Siddik OnLine!
You have requested it, you have waited for it, and you won't be dissappointed. As the second member of the legendary African Hip Hop crew Shadow Zu to release a solo album, Boobah Siddik has taken almost a year to craft what will go down as a classic in the archives of African Hip Hop. The album is titled "Dead Goats: Chronicles of A Jindoh", a pretty peculiar name for an album but not that peculiar if you are familiar with the work of the "Elegant Gentleman African Accent Evident Je Ne Sais Quoi Element". Behind the cryptic title stands a sound logic and thematic. Dead Goats is diminutive for the Ivorian proverb "Dead Goats Don't Fear Knives", which in English could roughly be translated to "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Roughly because the meaning goes deeper in implying that in the face of certain doom, the great fear caused by the impending deadly danger becomes a source of strength and courage for the victim to escape the deadly situation. It is a call to the basic survival instinct of a man and in the context of the life of Boobah it is a lesson that he learned from his experience living in America as an immigrant for close to a decade.
These immigrants experiences mixed with world politics events and the trials and tribulations of "lifing" (living life) as a Muslim Black African constitute the central thematic of this album. When he came to America, Siddik was like the many other young Africans who saw America as a land of milk and honey where nothing could possibly be wrong. Slowly but surely, he awoke to the realities of life in America, its ups, its downs, its injustices, its pains, its joys, its opportunities and the process helped him build or better yet rebuild an identity that had been damaged and confused by years of "self ignorance" and pervasive mental colonialism. The issues of race and religion, which were dormant in his native Ivory Coast, revealed themselves in foreign land. The result was that Siddik gained a deeper understanding of himself as an African, as a Black man and finally as a Muslim.
This is where the second part of the album title comes from: "Chronicles of a Jindo". As a term, Jindo was created by his fellow Shadow Zu member Sandstorm Ja on the 2004 album "Hipolitics";
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