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While folks all over the world were confined home setting up new ventures, creating new labels and dedicating themselves to something productive not to get psychologically annihilated by the media induced fear, our project was totally disrupted instead. It took the first wave to fade away to gather our stuff together and movin’ the production forward. Anyway, whatever the reasons, the album came ready and mixed by march 2021. So here we are. Further than the two acclaimed singles “Break Free” and “Sitting On Top Of The World”, the tracklist includes 6 completely new songs, a smashing cover of Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Sympathy” and the rearrangement of the two classics “There Are No Winners” and “Mother Got A Way”. 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As I take account, there’s always been a person(s) at every pivotal moment in my life that has been there to lend a hand in some form or another. Whether it was that time I was heartbroken, homeless, hitting that game winning shot, releasing my first album or stepping onto the theatre stage for the first time, I know without a doubt the spirits sent someone my way. I can and do however take credit for my unpredictable yet calculated zeal and willingness to change directions, try new things. That being said, I have come to the realization that I should never under any circumstance take anything nor anyone for granted, which leads me to express my utmost gratitude to each of you. Even if today is the first time you’ve come to hear the name Jason “Jay” Nemor Harden, thank you for taking the time to read these words. 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Following up on Funk Investigators, although no longer with an autobiographical slant but as a real journalistic novel, was not easy task. I hope you will enjoy reading it at least as much as I enjoyed writing it, although I would have preferred to do it in a less complicated period of my life. I am also happy to announce that, in the coming months, both books Funk Investigators and A Panther's Story will also be published in Spain by Colectivo Bruxista, the most eclectic and underground publishing house in the Country. Thanks to Carlo Babando (of Blackness fame) for the superb preface. \"A Panther's Story\" is dedicated to my father, my children and my brothers and sisters (you know who you are). It is also dedicated to liars. There ain't no hole deep enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Panther on the run. Hunted down by J. Edgar Hoover's Special Agents over one of the most turbulent years in recent American history. 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To promise them he'd be back.\u003cbr\u003eThe day before the police stormed the Party’s headquarters, a tip came from a copper who the DeVonne Brothers used to bribe. They imported to the hood some special heroin from Southeast Asia and had run the city's largest clandestine betting ring for decades, the so-called Numbers, so they were always craving for information and protection.\u003cbr\u003eThat tip was bad news. Jalon could not allow himself to waver while waiting for them to be confirmed by facts. Not that he was guilty of anything, not anything he had done or anything the cops thought he was going to do, but in those tense times there was no need to actually be guilty. If you were a member of the Black Panthers the cops wanted to arrest, they would have set you up and make it to prove your guilt by all means available. To make certain and demonstrable facts that never happened. So it was better to disappear, and quickly.\u003cbr\u003eThe copper's mind wasn't bright about what was going on in those days. He said that strange people were over at 28th Precinct, up in Manhattan North. Folks you’d never seen before, going back and forth from Captain’s office in cheap gray suits instead of standard issue blue uniforms, plotting diagrams on large urban maps of the hood, wide open on the meeting room’s table. Maps of Harlem with notes and symbols scribbled on 7th Avenue and 141st Street, exactly where the Black Panther’s chapter of New York had office.\u003cbr\u003eEstablished just a year earlier, it was among the younger sections of the Party and its ranks had rapidly grown to make it one of the most important branches in the entire nation. The members had increased exponentially just when the hostilities with security forces had turned in what Jalon Perry and his crew called a real guerrilla. The murders of Malcolm X in '65 right there in Harlem, of Martin Luther King in April of '68 down in Memphis and, two days later, that of Bobby Hutton of the Oakland Panthers had done nothing but increase the fear and the level of self-awareness in all black communities of America. The Black Panthers were taking...\u003cbr\u003e© 2022 - Alberto Zanini - All Rights\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TESLA GROOVE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41876284833948,"sku":"PANTHER1","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_e0caabf6-505b-452c-ba74-d7c0926e524e.jpg?v=1661501258"},{"product_id":"gillespie-co-feat-dolly-james-keep-on-doin-what-youre-doin-1","title":"Gillespie \u0026 Co.  feat. 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