The Hardline's Inaugural Day Mixtape

Rebel Without A Pause - Public EnemyThe Cult of Personality - Living Color: "Only you can set you free.." be happy, but Be Cautious. Suggested Reading Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at BeyoncΓ© Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation…

Rebel Without A Pause - Public Enemy

The Cult of Personality - Living Color: "Only you can set you free.." be happy, but Be Cautious.

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Young, Gifted and Black - Nina Simone

When the Revolution Comes - The Last Poets: "You'll know it's revolution, because there will be no commercials"

Mosh - Eminem: "Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together"

Black President - Fela Kuti (intrumental breakbeat)

Eric B for President - Eric B and Rakim

Funky President - James Brown

James Baldwin @ UC Berkeley:Β  "A witness to… and survivor of… the lastest slave rebellion…"

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron

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