With a video causing a little tsunami in SA’s cultural circles, Dookoom’s ‘Larney Jou Poes’ screams back into whiteness, writes Andile Mngxitama.
The Mutant Nation came out of the underground in great numbers last night – sliding across the red-hot tarmac of the CBD of Cape Town like Alexandra’s cat-eating rats to witness the launch of Dookoom’s Larney Jou Poes!
The video is causing a little tsunami in the cultural circles of South Africa. The lead singer, Isaac Mutant, is a hip-hop legend in the Cape Flats, having had a hand in the making of one of the most celebrated hip-hop creations from two decades ago – The Prophets of da City.
The Prophets spoke black truth to white power. And the people gave them love for bringing the horror of the ghetto to the open so that no power can claim not to know that a people discarded by the racist system lives a socially dead life.
It was a powerful invitation for the re-imagining of liberation.
Dookoom’s Larney Jou Poes! screams back into whiteness with such intensity, one gets the sense that a disaster is not too far off. The question is whether this black noise can bring down the walls of white Jericho.
The video abandons all niceties and mobilises the most vile form of expression to try and reclaim the stolen land and humanity of black people from whiteness.
See Mail & Guardian for full report and link to the video.
