Darkim Be Allah „Corpus Christi" [ALBUM]

 

This one deserves attention. Darkim Be Allah, Bronx native and longtime Wu extended family affiliate, works with Shakim Allah from Queens. Shakim is the nephew of Father Allah — the founder of the Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths, that spiritual movement which since the 90s has been one of the most defining intellectual sources for Wu-Tang and Rakim. "Corpus Christi" is the first part of a planned three-album trilogy. The format is unconventional: thirteen tracks, most of them exactly one minute long, only "Street Monk" breaks out at 1:36. That's deliberate compression — every position a concentrate, no extended song, no hook stretching. Titles like "Street Monk," "NY English," "Black Fact (King Crush It)," "First Born (We The Gold)," "God City," "Genius On The Blackside," "Never Prostrate," "Corpus Christi" work with Five Percent vocabulary and carry it in dense, quick fragments. "Never Prostrate" is particularly sharp — Five Percenters don't "prostrate" in the Islamic prayer sense, they refuse submission to any authority outside their own knowledge. Shakim Allah produces, records and mixes everything for Dr. Van Sertima Productions — named after the Guyanese-British historian whose books about African presence in the Americas before Columbus are part of the intellectual foundation for many Five Percenters. Howie Weinberg masters — legend, has mastered Beastie Boys and Public Enemy among many others. Artwork by Myse One, the Queens graffiti father. The whole thing is dedicated to King Asiatic Allah and Bernice Inge, Father Allah's sister. What makes this album special: it's an educational work that makes no concessions. If you don't know the Five Percent terminology, you'll miss many references. But that's exactly the point. Darkim Be Allah and Shakim write for their community and simultaneously document a system of thought preserved in rap form. That's underground in the deepest sense — not economically, but intellectually.

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