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    All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 3xCD box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.

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lyrics

Who Sold Soul?

Who sold soul?
Who sold soul?
trivialized, and romanticized
until all of its traces are turned
upside down and forgotten.
Unless you were there, unless
you, were there...
Can blackness be sold?
Who sold the afro pick?
Who sold the lo, high-five?
Who sold, big funky booties
and succulent Chaka Kahn Lips,
WHO SOLD SOUL?
Was it you, Kevin Klein,
when you finally realized
that sistas could ride horses,
into fake orange sunsets
dip their heads into sky-blue waters
and rise up, looking remote and sexy at the same time?
or was it you, Godfather of soul, funk, hip-house,
believing in all that governmental slapstick, only
to be imprisoned by southern rednecks, labeled
and ridiculed as if you were, just another entertainer?
WHO SOLD SOUL?
WHO SOLD SOUL?

Question!
what is a 'black-thang'
and will it outlast black history month?
Question!
Is there such a thang, as a superior race
and if so, who won the race?
Question!
Was Madonna really Elvis in drag?
And if so, who really gives a fuck,
because you know, you know,
they have no real soul,
WHO SOLD SOUL?
WHO SOLD SOUL?

You better wake up
wake up, wake up.....

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from Marvin Tate's D​-​Settlement, released November 4, 2022

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Marvin Tate's D-Settlement Chicago, Illinois

D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: a trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with biting wit and political commentary. Led by Marvin Tate — a poet, artist, playwright and raconteur who wore pipe cleaners in his hair — and supported by a large, dynamic cast of characters, their music was both of and ahead of its time. ... more

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