Being one of the most sought-after tunes from my album Under The Influence,  I decided to release a remix single of Wildfire Winds with treatments from THE INTEGRALS, ROLAND SCHWARZ and SHANTISAN as well as myself.

To reveal the true deepness and brilliancy of the lyrical poetry of Veda36 and Edd Dee Pee of the BLAKTRONIKS I wanted to share a lyrical analysis of Wildfire Winds with you.

Release date: August 16th 2010

Lyrical analysis:

My verse for “Wildfire Winds” addresses the issue of violence within the African/African-American or urban communities throughout the U.S. The lyrics depict a mother giving birth to twin sons, one being human and the other being a gun. In the song, I take upon the perspective of the human son, who has struggled within the womb to avoid the violent eruptions of my twin brother, the gun.

I rely heavily upon imagery to illustrate such a struggle. Lines such as “Nine months, amniotic twin, wrestle the gun / Inhale powder black, louder clap, light through the clouded sac,” are intended to place the listener in the amniotic sac with the human son as he deals with the thunderous gun claps and brief flashes of lightning-type light. After a prolonged pregnancy of 38 weeks, the mother finally gives birth to the human son and the gun. (Incidentally, when I mention the line “ . . . deuce deuce to tre 8,” I’m not only referencing the weeks of the pregnancy, but I’m also making allusions to types of guns. [i.e., .22 and .38 caliber handguns]).

Although initially trying to avoid and “silence” his brother, the human son and the gun become inseparable, and together, they perpetuate the cycle of the violence so prevalent in African-American communities. In the last three lines of my verse, I mention the following: “When I asked moms, she said street was his father / The potent mixture of sex and violence / Every sibling got a twin, rapid spit, no silence.” As is implied through the lines, the mother was “impregnated” or influenced by the “streets” or environment in which she lived. (The subtext is that many mothers within African-American communities are often left to raise children on their own.

Unfortunately, sometimes as a result of the mother working long hours to make ends meet, the child is parented by the “streets.”) The message is that violence not only affects the victims and their families and the perpetrators, but it also has a detrimental impact upon all within the society or community. Further, it is important to recognize some of the factors, such as poverty and societal neglect, which often plant the seeds of apathy and violence.

On a final note, in my verse, as well as edd dee pee’s, we both describe the conditions on the streets of inner city America as we see them. The hook for the song was developed through an analogy that edd made between life on the streets and the recent California wildfires (hence the term the “streets is hot”).

Lyrical analysis by Veda36