aja monet – hollyweird (Official Video)

“hollyweird” by aja monet out now on drink sum wtr.
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Credits:
Production Company: Mochilla
Producer: Pablo Aguilar
Directors: B+ (@bpleasel) and aja monet
DP: Coleman (@ecoleye)
AC: Jeff Cerritos (@simpleassjeff)
Additional Camera: B+
Art Direction: Tsz Man Lo (@lozan816)
PA: Sam Wohl (@samwohl)
Catering: Vera (@veraheartbeatmusic)
Editors: Eric Coleman (@ecoleye) & Ollie Tristram (@ollietristrampost)
Post-Wizardry, effects and color: Troy Browne (@troybrowne)
Archival Research and Consultant: Antonio Buyard
Creative Consultant: Claudius Ansah

Cast:
Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter: Vic Mensa
Assata Shakur: aja monet
Eartha Kitt: Medusa
Eric Dolphy: Justin Brown
Horace Tapscott: Sam Lemoyne
Jayne Cortez: Veronica V.C.R. Ratcliff
Joe Hill: Lee Boek
Leila Khaled: Xuly Williams
Mike Davis: Mike “the poet” Sonksen
Octavia Butler: Georgia Anne Muldrow and Sabaah Foylan
Paul Robeson: Josh Lane
Ras G: Terry “Hymnal”
Ricardo Flores Magon: Marco Loera

Additional Talent:
James Tillman
Novena Carmel
Rocio Contreras
Ruben Molina
Yousef Hilmy
And the beautiful people of Los Angeles, California

In memory of
Mtulazaji P.E.A.C.E Davis

Lyrics:
Burning bushes pop across a screen
Threads of prayers btwn watch duty app notifications
Evacuate hollyweird
Gridlocked in sparks of fear
An arsonists wet dream
Rolling down runyon canyon
Weather in the mind
Santa ana’s hands shivering against the window
Shattered winds
Ash on the lung
A sky of blazing breath
A flame on the distance looking back
The hue of cough
The scent of tickling sneeze
It has not rained
Dry as silence in the dragons mouth
Boulevards btwn capitalisms teeth
A neon cotton candy cloud hovers
Over koreatown buildings at midnight
Hungry for water
A rusted sunset
Some say smart meters
Directed energy weapons
Or edison powerlines
Are to blame
An oligarchs impending inauguration
The mayor’s in ghana for dutty december
Neoliberal americans in africa on the rise

From palisades to palestine
An actress compares the la oceanfront to gaza
Never mentions the rafah border
The cut off of 2000 aid trucks
Neglects to mention body bags
Rubble or the israeli snipers aimed at children
But everyone’s donating their wardrobe to people without closets
Can a millionaire be homeless?
All of a sudden we know the meaning of community
All of a sudden the spirit of giving is in the air
The people kindle around the flame
Nothing like disaster to shock a heart into beating

The feel good volunteers did reiki before they dropped off outfits
For people with no events to attend
Skid row knows how to read the room-less
The undocumented avoid handouts framed in the halls of fascism
To be on house arrest with no house
Just arrested

Everyone’s worried about clean air
HEPA can’t filter this corruption
Maybe
Maybe socialism is on its way!
(Maybe socialism is on its way)
Look at us who took the breeze for granted
Running faucet of dreams
Mutual aid
Octavia butler newscasting premonitions from a gravesite in altadena
The ghosts of consequence stain the air
What’s the insurance policy
For chickens coming
Home to roost?

(What’s
The insurance policy
For chickens
Coming home
To roost?)

Dumpster diving
The nudge that brings us to kneel

Everyone is living their life on layaway
Buy now pay later
Kidnapped by masked ice cold blooded agents
Sos formation of bodies near the everglades

Gullible low frequency
No research
No risk taking
Four drunk travelers with bloodshot eyes
Sip on sweating beer cans just off the corner
Waiting out the downtown protests
A trans woman in a burgundy crop top
With yellow geometric sunglasses
And an ivory umbrella shielding the sun
Sips an iced tea from her straw
The universe is universing

The tow truck tricksters try to boost the tires of the people
Pawns pedaling for the state
Every job
Every job can be undone by the will of the worker
Who sees fit to serve a good
Greater than petty personal pocket delusions
Troops are everywhere
A country torn apart
Doom scrolling debris
The what can you do for me
Cashapp me in my caption
Get over get ahead culture
Open tabs generation
In the echo chambers of greed
A bunch of individuals who want to go viral over commentary
All caps baby boomer text threads
No spine having niggas
Dumb as doorknobs

When people show you who they are

Be
Leave
Them
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aja monet – hollyweird (Official Video)
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