CHANT DOWN BABYLON; A GUIDE TO SELF DISCOVERY (CONTINUED)
Updated: Aug 10, 2025
Industry plant according to the oxford dictionary means a music artist whose success and popularity is perceived to be achieved through sponsored marketing recommendations and really good public relations strategy.
Fame is a tool and industry plants are branches of those tools used for commercial purposes. Their images are packaged like a commodity and sold to create imagery in the minds of a target audience and they are seen as icons worthy of emulation; but how can they be authentic role models, when their images are products to be consumed?
Advertisement is a kind of communication designed to inform the public about a particular product, service or idea.
Entertainment formely know as intertainment means to enter your mind and main(tain), occupy, amuse or engage your attention through your mental. Through enter(tain)ment (and maintaining your mental), you pay attention which is your energetic currency to your mind through systemized information, musically speaking.
Advertainment is a form of communication that blends both advertisement and entertainment to promote a brand, product, service or concept... So, connect both dots.
Music is a medium that opens the mind because when you pay with your attention it gets into your spirit. Like the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti once said;
Uplifting education should facilitate the ability to boost imagination, qualitative reasoning and the ability to think logically and independently, because if it's done the other way round, the systematic curriculum will negatively affect the cerebrum (and it has already).
The warfares previously mentioned in the first part were Damian Marley's words from the Jah Army song he was featured on by Stephen Marley; the seventh song off his second studio album REVELATION PT.1 - THE ROOT OF LIFE released on 24 May, 2011. Buju Banton was also featured on the song. Album tracklist below.
Let us know if you listened to any of the songs if you haven't already.
All warfares mentioned are intertwined, for without the use of one, the other can't be achieved. Let's briefly break it down so you won't get tired of reading:
PHYSICAL WARFARE: is when groups or organisations involve the use of physical force to achieve an objective through violence and military strategies, using trained soldiers/mercenaries and sophisticated weapons, leading to casualties, displaced persons, economic instability, homelessness, hunger, poverty, loss of infrastructure and properties.
Like Tupac Shakur mentioned on his "Keep ya head up" song released in 1993 off his second studio album (Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z) "They have money for wars but can't feed the poor"
Artistes are messengers and music is a compass, navigating you to the path of reSearch, so you can reMember and reCall.
"Divide and conquer each other, Willie Lynch policy"
What is the Willie Lynch policy? Jude Lemfani Abaga, professionally known as M.I Abaga/The Guy (a Nigerian rapper, songwriter and record producer) mentioned this on the first song off his A STUDY ON SELF WORTH: YXNG DNXZL album.....
(his fourth studio album) released in 2018 titled; Do You Know Who You Are? Take Sometime And Meditate On You featuring Austin Iornongu Iwar, popularly known as Tay Iwar (a Nigerian singer, songwriter, composer and record producer who produced this particular song) and Caryn Solomon (a South African freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist and podcaster).
The Willie Lynch policy popularly known as the Willie Lynch letter and The Making Of A Slave was a document written and presented in 1712 on the bank of the James River in Virginia concerning the slave revolt in that location and how to subdue them. Although there were speculations that the letter was a hoax because it lacked historical credibility, amongst other factors. If you haven't read the letter already and you'd love to, reach out to us and we will happily send you a copy.
Black Ice, an African-American poet and rapper released a studio album in 2006 titled "The Death Of Willie Lynch" produced by Def Jam records. Let us know if you listened to any of the songs or learnt something. Still a hoax right? Album cover below
SPIRTUAL WARFARE: means the struggle between good and evil. The enemy you can't see is much more dangerous than the visible, because you are using the active intelligence of your mind to fight the invincible negative force. Illusion makes your vision ill. Because why do they tell visions through external forces to destroy imaginations?
Visions and imaginations should be a product of innate inception. You have to fight the spiritual battle of the self, by mastering self inside out, taking out all the external noise and listening to thy inner spirit, finding your sound in silence so you can see through the lens of illusion because internal value repels external validation. You have to fight the external force because when you idolize an image, you become a false version of knowing, instead of knowing in.
You have to master your pieces so you can master peace; because you're a masterpiece.
Below is a video of Sister Carol about looking inside yourself. Video gotten from I Never Knew Tv on Youtube:
Sister Carol, born (Carol Theresa East) is a Jamaican-born reggae musician, DJ, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and humanitarian popularly known as "Mother Culture" or "Black Cinderella." With a career span of over thirty years and a Grammy nomination for her album "Lyrically Potent" released in 1996. Let us know if you listened to any of the songs.
DIGITAL WARFARE: Refers to the use of advanced technology for selfish gains and influenced outcomes. The internet made the world a global village, now the internet controls the global village. The internet is flooded with daily distractions as feeds, (social media feeds) feeding your minds with a convoy of trivialities. Remember when Germaine Williams popularly known as Canibus (a Jamaican-American rapper) released One Ought Not To Think in 2007? The part he said "Turn the radio and TV off, think for a second, Technology is a blessing but it's also a weapon, a weapon of mass destruction giving global instructions." It's the thirteenth song off his eighth studio album (For Whom The Beat Tolls) which was influenced by Ernest Hemingway's novel (For Whom The Bell Tolls) published in 1940. Let us know if you enjoy our recommendations!
"When exactly did the world become the Truman picture? Where reality's escapist and the internet's a prison, lines are so blurry it's hard to gauge the difference with vipers tryna come at your neck." These were words from Ghost, the unparalleled warrior soul and one half of the phenomenal Nigerian rap duo, Show Dem Camp (SDC) from their song Vipers, featuring Jesse Jagz and Tomi Thomas; off their ninth studio album (Clone Wars Vol. 5 - The Algorhythm) released
in 2021. If you need the lyrics to vipers, check us as one of the contributors @YaddieExpress on the genius.com website
Why did Ghost recommend Truman picture to us? It's a comedy/science fiction movie called The Truman Show released in 1998 where Jim Carrey played the role of Truman Burbank.
If you've read to this point and something has sparked your intellectual curiosity, satisfy that thirst for knowing the ledge and thank you for watching!
The part where Ghost also mentioned "spit earth, wind and fire like the 5th element." 5th element? Another action/science fiction movie released in 1997 where Bruce Willis was the lead character and played the role of Korben Dallas.
On Kendrick Lamar's Worldwide Steppers song released in 2022 off his fifth studio album (Mr.
Morale And The Big Steppers) featuring Bill K. Kapri popularly known as Kodak Black, recommended "Eckhart Tolle" to us on the intro he took.
That part where Oklama said "The media's the new religion, you killed the consciousness."
The people who worship the media like a religion are the ones who constantly celebrate trivialities as normalities which brings about distorted vision and priorities. The internet should be a tool to facilitate critical thinking, not the consumers turning out to be the consumed and also being intellectually dependent on the media to actually live, because it causes dilution and dissolution of the true essence of creation, to think clearly!!
Canibus said, "meditate; you"ll see it clearly, elevate to a level where your judgment isn't impaired daily." Knowing the ledge is power, but conscious application of knowledge is where the actual power is, then it becomes Knewledge.
Choose your algorhythm intentionally, the one that goes with the rhythm of your essence.
TO BE CONTINUED. . . .
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