It's a good song you can bounce for hours. 'If I turn on the radio now,' says Tajai, 'it sounds like one long song. When being yourself - and doing it yourself - got you radio play. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday.

Marx and Engelss revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. A time and a place where rapping about money in the ghetto and the Communist Manifesto under a redwood canopy - there was room for all of it. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Tajai says the title track of Soul's debut album, '93 Til Infinity, was an anthem for an era. We were talking about the variety of different groups coming out - you said The Coup, Too Short, E-40, Del - as far as our Oakland, we used go hang out in the forest for hecka hours, rapping.' On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a group of German. But even more influential on the Souls of Mischief, he says, was the juxtaposition of the gritty East Oakland streets he grew up on with the serene beauty of the Bay's nearby beaches and forests. The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marxs more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. He says it helped inform his group's sound. Tajai Massey describes Bay's do-it-yourself mentality as scrappy.

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