Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises in the East (1994)

[Album 803/1001]

Are there any things you know/facts that you’ve learned…where you’re mildly embarrassed about how you acquired this knowledge?

For example, knowing that the sun rises in the east (and therefore, sets in the west).

I’d like to say that I remember this fact due to hours hard work & in-depth research into the rotation of the earth / time zones / altitudes / longitudes.

But it was actually due to hours of watching Beauty & The Beast (“certain as the sun, rising in the east”).

I imagine I’m not alone in hearing Dame Angela Lansbury’s voice when remembering the direction of sunrises!

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Thanks to Jeru the Damaja, and his debut album, The Sun Rises in the East, I’ve now got another memory hook.

Speaking of hooks, the chorus to Da Bichez is as catchy as they come, if somewhat of an inappropriate selection to sing around the dinner table.

And his Mind Spray claim of “I annihilate, as I articulate” lays out his game plan succinctly: his delivery is often aggressive, but it’s well-crafted.

So perhaps if I wanted to appear ‘cool,’ I could engage in some revisionist history & pretend that I learned about the axial tilt of the earth from Jeru the Damaja.

But now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn’t be timid that I learned about sunrises from Dame Angela.

I might even argue that Ms. Lansbury exudes coolness: did you see how many murders she calmly solved on Murder She Wrote?!

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Verbalize the Positive

Happy Saturday!