"A teacher, historian, a jazz griot" someone wrote
Cannon could blow a sermon with every note
Departed at the young age of forty-three plus three »
Jive Samba Quiet After the Storm
by Dianne Reeves
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A day spent in your presence
Was the picture of hospitality!
This music was transmitted by the griots
Who painted vivid portraits of the kingdom »
Birima Special Fin D'annee Plus
by Youssou N'Dour
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A day spent in your presence
Was the picture of hospitality!
This music was transmitted by the griots
Who painted vivid portraits of the kingdom »
Birima [Original Dakar Mix][#] SOS Planet Earth
by Youssou N'Dour
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griots and gigolos
Kings, queens, bitches and silly hoes
Money, cars, clothes and diamond rings
Houses, horses, stock, the finer things
Food, family, »
I Think I Know Too Much Hip Hop and the World We Live In
by Aceyalone
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like the Nile
but remember, don't mistake the smile
Deep rooted is my rhymin
Like ancient African griots, precise is my timing
But let me get »
Lifesaver Hip Hop: A Tribute To Urban Culture
by Guru
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not star-spangled
We not patriotic, the heroes are not them,
Ghetto griots like rims, you stop, they still spin,
Tall tales at the bar, witnessed »
Lost Desire Rising Down
by Talib Kweli
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not star-spangled We not patriotic, the heroes are not them, Ghetto griots like rims, you stop, they still spin, Tall tales at the bar, witnessed after »
Lost Desire Rising Down [Clean]
by Talib Kweli
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'em Give you that nasty, tangy feeling Check it out Free rhymes for griots in Fiats and Klingons And wee tots with crayons and Koreans In Reeboks in »
Say That The Album
by Latyrx
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i guess i got no choice but to be a poet i guess i got no choice but to be a prophet i guess i got no choice but to be a griot a gangster a athlete »
Headaches and Woes All Balls Don't Bounce [Revisited]
by Aceyalone
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to be a prophet I guess I got no choice but to be a griot A gangster, a athlete, a bum A nobody, a criminal, a convict A black man, a MC, a MC, a MC
I »
Headaches & Woes All Balls Don't Bounce
by Aceyalone
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and the Fellowship took it and we held it for dear life The Inner City Griots, the wild, the style, the crew The ones they got their styles from, but claimed They »
Project Blowed Accepted Eclectic
by Aceyalone
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a little more pleasant?
[Chorus] What if the story woulda ended like this? I'ma kick it again but only with a slight twist It goes one for the griot Two for »
One For the Griot All of the Above
by J-Live
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