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- Source: The Sun Rises in The East
The Sun Rises in the East is the debut album by American hip hop rapper Jeru the Damaja, released May 24, 1994, on Payday Records. It was produced by DJ Premier. The album features fellow Gang Starr Foundation member Afu-Ra. The album cover depicts the World Trade Center on fire only one year after the 1993 bombing of the North Tower.
The Sun Rises in the East was well received by most music critics upon its release. The album has been considered by critics to be Jeru the Damaja's best work.
"You Can't Stop the Prophet" is featured on the soundtrack of the video game NBA 2K16. The soundtrack was partially curated by DJ Premier.
Critical reception
Melody Maker named The Sun Rises in the East "bloody essential", calling it "hypnotic and chilling as a blues party on Pluto" and "another step forward for hip hop." NME said that "Jeru is more original than most [rappers]", while The Source remarked that "the music both contrasts and complements his disjointed flow and deep poetical lyricism." The Indianapolis Star wrote, "Skeletal, basic and tough, this rap disc ... is exciting for its directness, lacking only in its failure to take full hold of its theme promoting Brooklyn as the mecca of rap knowledge."
Track listing
All songs produced by DJ Premier
Singles
Charts
= Singles
=References
External links
The Sun Rises in the East at Discogs
Retrospect for Hip-Hop: A Golden Age on Record?
The Sun Rises in The East is an independent documentary film created by Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. It is the first feature-length film to examine the history of The East, a Black cultural organization and meeting place formed in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Synopsis
Through first-hand interviews with founding members and people who grew up in the organization as children, archival photographs, and videos, The Sun Rises in The East depicts the reverberating impact of the organization co-founded by educator and community leader Jitu Weusi.
The film shows how The East organized itself around the principle of Black self-determination, developing an independent African-centered school, daycare, restaurant, newspaper, bookstore, clothing shop, and food co-op, among other businesses. The film also depicts how the collective attracted notable figures within the Black Arts Movement to perform at its renowned performance venue -- from poets like Gil Scott-Heron, Sonia Sanchez, and Haki R. Madhubuti, to musical legends such as Max Roach, Betty Carter, Sonny Rollins, Roy Ayers, Sun Ra, and Pharoah Sanders, among others. Beyond highlighting The East at its pinnacle, the Giwas also examine the challenges that led to the organization's eventual breakdown, including gender politics, government surveillance, and financial challenges.
The Giwas created the film to bring the story of the organization's influential yet little-known history to a broader audience.
Release
The Sun Rises in The East debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 24, 2022. The Giwas were invited to screen the film at multiple festivals including the New York African Film Festival hosted at Lincoln Center, Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, BronzeLens Film Festival, and Sidewalk Film Festival. The documentary earned an African Movie Academy Award nomination in 2022 for Best Diaspora Documentary, and was featured by The New York Times.
The documentary was acquired for digital distribution globally by Indie Rights and released for streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Google Play, and YouTube in May 2023.
References
External links
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
BronzeLens Film Festival
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
- Xanana Gusmão
- Elvis Presley
- Song Kang
- Kebangkitan dunia Arab
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
- Ava Gardner
- Daftar film terlaris
- Henry King (sutradara)
- Daftar episode SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Sun Rises in the East
- The Sun Rises in The East
- Sun path
- Jeru the Damaja
- Moonrise and moonset
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- The Dark Knight Rises
- East
- Come Clean (Jeru the Damaja song)
- If the Sun Rises in the West
