VIDEO + AUDIO: M.U.G.A.B.E.E. - oil spill

M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is an acronym meaning Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction, it describes two brothers guided to be musicians, songwriters, playwrights, poets and teachers, seeing themselves as artists, vessels for the word, allowing it to move through them in various forms of hip hop, jazz, spoken word, R&B, and soul.

Born Maurice S. Turner II and Carlton A. Turner, M.U.G.A.B.E.E. slipped into this life in Mt. Vernon, New York in the early seventies. Several years later they relocated to rural Mississippi where they began a career in service to the communities in which they live. Since 2001 M.U.G.A.B.E.E. has been working in communities across the country presenting residencies, workshops, performances and lectures.

M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Mississippi, killing 11 and injuring 17 others. For the next 87 days the oil well at the bottom of the ocean blasted approximately 4.9 million barrels or 210,000,000 gallons of oil into the ocean creating the worst environmental disaster in recorded 

Music video collaboration between M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Raymond, MS) and Mondo Bizarro (New Orleans, LA). 

Music & Lyrics by: M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

Cinematography by: Bruce France & Melisa Cardona

Editing by: Bruce France & Carlton Turner
via vimeo.com

 

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M.U.G.A.B.E.E. - "I Know"