Finally .....a record label that speaks to the Classic Historical Identity of Black people.
The NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT presents MAAT HOTEP RECORDS. Maat Hotep Records (MHR) was founded by Harlem's own...Shakka Ahmose, who is also the founder and Prime Rep. of the Nile Valley Movement (NVM), and the premier 'artist in residence on this unique, timely, and badly needed record label as well. In a media climate where Black youth are exploited daily with incessant images of Black dysfuctional icons who are equally exploited themselves (many to the tune of millions of dollars), by disaffected media conglomerations possessing interests that run contrary to the economic, psychological, potlitical, historical, Spiritual, health interests and well being of our communities, I am proud to present to you a record label which prides itself on having the mandate and Sacred Ancestral Mission of restoring to a place of dignity and honor (two words not championed in our communities ...AT ALL) the classical image of our Black African forbearers, particularly those of the Nile Valley Basin in Ancient/Classical Africa (ie. Punt, Nubia and Ancient Egypt).
What I find refreshing about this movement and record label (and the media they have produced thus far, songs and videos like the anthematic "Egypt Was a Black Land; The Song, the rap song 'Hotep' featuring a strong dirty South groove and flow and the visually stunning video that accompanies it) are the lengths which they have gone to, in a successful effort to present high quality 'edutainment' (the desired route 'entertainment' should persue for those Black people who are historically grounded and are highly particular about the types of media consumed by themselves and their families) through and in various mediums in a climate where being 'dumbed down', s*xually exploited and the emulation / worship of Europeans and their values / worldview are the overriding and prevalent rule of the day. When so many have done so much, to compromise, to bring harm and damage, to our overall self image as a race, historically and contemporarily, resulting in the absolute MESS we now see before us, I am of the definite opinion that this movement as well as the record label that inspired it (and those at the fountain head of it, ie. Shakka Ahmose ) deserve not only our undivided, much too sought after, but rarely, sufficiently compensated....attention, but that they also deserve our unwavering $upport....a $upport we continually, year in and year out, throw at those who would seek to subvert the values of our communities and the most precious things therein....our offspring, our progeny, our children. We've no one to blame but ourselves.
I view this record label and this sacred movement as an opportunity for us all to place back into the midst of our families and our relationships, with ourselves and others; to put back on the table of national discussion, amongst our own, Black people, this subject matter of 'identity' and it's importance as a compass for guiding us into the future, a future unbroken, and connected to a past, however distant, so many have conspired to deprive us of, an effort in which we have now become complicit ourselves. I view Maat Hotep Record and the Nile Valley Movement as an opportunity to make things right, in areas of our lives much too long neglected by ourselves and exploited by others who would fight for, and maintain a monetary stake in how we choose not to see ourselves, or in how we choose to in point of fact, do so. This is the ultimate power of a people.....choosing your identity.....and it will always be 'your power', this power, that others will fight to claim for themselves, the ability and the means of choosing for us as a people who we are not, who we are, and who we have been, and in doing so, should they be successful, we as a people, descendants of those who created the greatest civilizations ever to inhabit this planet we now call 'earth', would be left as the hybrid, manufactured, easily managed creation we have been socially engineered into being. As a self respecting Black person consciously choosing to wake up from the Eurocentric matrix I once found myself psycho-Spirtually 'incarcerated' in, I choose to say.....
"Long live MAAT HOTEP RECORDS and THE NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT"!!!
It is my deepest wish that you will choose to say these revolutionary words with me,
not just in words, but by $upporting something that is being done for us as a people, just as others $upport that which is done for them, as a people, or have we become so far gone that we have forgotten, or would prefer to forget that we are in point of fact, 'a people', a fact others work so tirelessly to make ambiguous and obsolete, as doing so apparently serves their interests. Say these 'revolutionary words' with me, by going to: nilevalleymovement.com and support ing these monumental efforts, efforts that have been made, on our behalf.
What you will see and hear at the site:
1) A greeting from an image that reflects your Ancient Truth
2) Accompanying music on some of the websites page's that reflect the musical direction of the label itself.
3) An information page explaining what the 'NVM' is about.
4) 5 music videos and a live television performance.
5) NVM & Maat Hotep Records paraphernalia (ie. Beautiful Posters for sale)
6) Two documentaries
7) An opportunity to purchase right there on the site the NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT MUTI MEDIA PROJECT which feature all of the media product produced by the NVM and Maat Hotep Records thus far (both a CD & a DVD... and at a very reasonable price, particularly when in point of fact, your history and your culture, particularly as presented here are........priceless).
So what will it be Black people? More of the same self hating dysfunctional nonsense of which there seems to be no end in sight of, with new rappers rapping the same tired dialogue like a broken record since 1979 (the dialogue has not changed one iota since then people)? Or will it be something new, yet Ancient, something entertaining yet educational, something cultural yet stylish and raw, giving deference to a past so many others have wrongfully claimed for themselves?
Go to nilevalleymovement.com and say those revolutionary words with me
"Long live MAAT HOTEP RECORDS and THE NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT"!!!
...and MAKE A PURCHASE. Play the Cd in your car (as I do over and over again), or watch the DVD with your family and enjoy something you can all hear and see together (this is called 'sharing' remember what that is?) that will create meaningful dialogue amongst yourselves, as so many are finding out, actually occurs when engaging the NVM media that they (NVM) have thus far produced. One very important reason I encourage you to purchase the NVM Multi Media Project asap
is for this very reason; though the media produced by NVM can be seen, heard and engaged on sites such as this one, Youtube and their own website, there is no gurantee that NVM media will always be availabe on any of these sites,
so like the saying goes in any market.....GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!
Luckily for NVM and Maat Hotep Records there are already offers pouring in from around the country from various Black Book outlets and other such type media, as well as television and radio (as of this date NVM content has already been aired on television and radio with airings slated for mass consumption later this year as well as early next year) who wish to feature NVM media. But as with any real movement of significance it is the grassroots purchases that will keep it alive and flourishing for generations to come. This means you, us. Just consider...when was the last time anyone brought us something of this nature, and how long it will be, if ever again, if anyone should ever be of a mind, or talent capable enough to do so...... again.
It's time to take care of what's yours Black People.....$upport the Nile Valley Movement and Maat Hotep Records and let your children lift their heads and look in the face of others, and say with 10,000 years worth of blessed pride..."Our history does not start with slavery in this country or anywhere else for that matter, slavery is only a very very small part of it. Our history dates Back to the dawn of recorded history and beyond, long before Greece and Rome, whom our Black Ancestors educated and civilized. Our history dates back to the creation of civilization; in fact the creation of civilization......is our history...and ours alone".
$upport the Nile Valley Movement and Maat Hotep Records. Why? Because you deserve it, your children deserve it, we deserve it. Our children yet unborn deserve it, as they have only what we leave them.
Respectfully and in the Spirit of our Ancestors who are watching this...
I bid you Hotep (an offering),
and Ankh, Udja, Seneb
(life, health, strength)!
And oh yeah.....before I forget.......BLACK POWUH!!!!
It is forever the coolest thing we can have
CHRISTINE GOVENOR
(the Newest Nile Valley Movement Rep. And you can be one too...smile). Hotep.
Contact Info for Nile Valley Movement NYC:
NILEVALLEYMOVEMENT@GMX.COM
NILEVALLEYMOVEMENT@GMAIL.COM
FOREVERSHAKKA@GMAIL.COM
(347) 269-0671
PS. LET'S DO WHAT WE DO BEST....WIN!!!! HOTEP!
Posted By: Christine Govenor
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 9:41PM
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