Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL (Official Video)

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Hip Hop Caucus, creator of People’s Climate Music, has partnered with Taboo, solo Hip Hop artist and member of the Grammy Award-winning pop group Black Eyed Peas, to debut “Stand Up/Stand N Rock”. This song and video were created in support of the Standing Rock Reservation and the Sioux Tribe, as they lead a peaceful, powerful, and diverse movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

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1. Looks like it includes a clip of Supaman @ 2:56 mark :)

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2. 3:26 is where he starts rapping. Here is an indepth article regarding the video:

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Those organizing in it seem to recognize this, too. Some 2,000 veterans have joined the demonstrators with the goal of reinforcing their frontline. It's the latest show of support for the cause, which has rallied people from across the country and helped draw together the Native communities of North America in an unprecedented way. In that vein, a collection of artists and public figures, most of whom are Native, are releasing a new song and video today, titled "Stand Up / Stand N Rock," in support of the movement. Organized by Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, who has Shoshone heritage, the song is meant to serve as both a tool to promote awareness, as well as an anthem for the indigenous people across the country who've united in the effort against the DAPL.

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To accompany him on the song, Taboo recruited a number of Native artists, including Apache and Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation flutist Tony Duncan, Navajo vocalist and model Kahara Hodges, Seminole singer Spencer Battiest, Plains Cree MC Drezus, and Crow beatboxer and rapper Supaman, who drops a verse in his tribe's native Apsaalooke tongue. Over the track's uplifting beat, which was produced by Taboo in the same vein as his productions for BEP, this proved to be a challenge, Supaman tells me. But after spending time at the demonstration and seeing how Native people were coming together, he was eager to express his enthusiasm.

"My tribe is Crow, and our traditional enemies are the Lakhotas, and they shared a [peace] pipe together at [Standing Rock]," he says. "They haven't done that in a long time."

Supaman is not alone in his excitement over tribes coming together. Drezus, who is from Saskatchewan, believes the collaboration among indigenous people has been the biggest takeaway of Standing Rock. He still remembers his kokum (the Cree word for grandmother) warning him to not interact with members of various other clans—a result of century-old disputes created by colonization, he believes. Through his involvement with the demonstration, he's been able to bypass those longstanding beefs and go back to a time when the border between the US and Canada, his home country, didn't exist. "[Standing Rock has] kind of reinforced the fact that they just drew borders on a map and ran with it," he says.

Much more: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/native-artists-have-united-to-make-a-song-for-standing-rock

[Donkees]

3. Many thanks, I love Supaman :)

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4. Why Supaman Mixes Indigenous Culture With Hip Hop - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Published on Sep 14, 2015
Native American hip hop artist and dancer Supaman's art breaks down stereotypes beat by beat. Hear him talk about his unique performance style and how he came to meld his Indigenous culture with hip hop in order to spread a message of hope.

Supaman (Christian Parrish) performed at The Banff Centre in 2015 for National Aboriginal Day.

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5. Love Supaman!!!!

Nice!!! thank you!

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