To the East, Blackwards

by X Clan

To the East, Blackwards cover art

Operating as the musical wing of the Blackwatch activist movement, the Brooklyn-based group delivered an uncompromising masterpiece of Afrocentric, conscious hip-hop. Anchored by the commanding rhetoric of Brother J, the album heavily utilizes Parliament-Funkadelic samples, profoundly shaping the trajectory of 90s funk-rap.

Genres

  • Conscious Hip Hop
  • Political Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. Funkin' Lesson
  2. Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It?
  3. Tribal Jam
  4. A Day Of Outrage, Operation Snatchback
  5. Verbal Milk
  6. Earth Bound
  7. Shaft's Big Score
  8. Raise The Flag
  9. Heed The Word Of The Brother
  10. Verbs Of Power
  11. In The Ways Of The Scales