DOWNLOAD The All Eyes On Me Mixtape
Forget that commercial with the three easy payments — here’s your Obama Inauguration collectors’ platter, courtesy of Mekka Don and Mick Boogie, who broadcast this one from inside the prez-to-be’s dome. I’m not being the least bit sarcastic when I say this concept album (I’m not calling it an EP) would make a beautiful stage show. Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas…
By simply positing the collective vicarious experience of the life, campaign, and election of president-elect Barrack Obama in 10 chapters of assumed-voice verse, they tackle a storybook’s — make that a (re-birth of a) nation’s worth — of psychological terrain, creating, with Remot’s elementally soulful beats, ‘The Making of the President’ as told by Tupac Shakur, rather than Theodore White.
‘Nov 4th’ appropriately opens this decalogue; ‘All Eyes On Me’ tackles Obama-as-spectator-sport; the tough laws of Obamanomics are laid down in ‘How Do You Want It’; ‘Hearts of Men’ takes a look at four presidential influences on Obama; ‘Scandalous’ looks at band-wagoneering Obamatunists, which I’m sure is not a word only I’ve come up with; ‘Trading War Stories’ looks at our current wars and the people who fight them for us, and verse #3 is the story of Mekka Don’s cousin…In ‘Come See Me’ candidate Obama is triangulated within the views of both a brown, ghetto-born man, and a KKK conscriptee, both of whom are separately, but equally unhappy with Obama’s skin color and life-experience or lack thereof, as they see it; ‘Picture Me Rolling’ is just that slo-mo, reflective, world-is-yours (to save) limo ride that everybody imagines himself or herself taking, to which I’ll add something I heard somewhere: ‘You May not have a car at all/But just remember Brothers and Sisters/That you can stee-yull stand tall…but I digress…’Life Goes On’ looks back and Moms and Grandmoms and ‘Dear Obama’ comprises a triptych letter to the President.
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