But Private Press—with tracks like "Mashin' On The Motorway," featuring Oakland rapper Lateef The Truth Speaker—hinted at the collaborative rap and song-based tracks Davis would go on to explore on subsequent albums.
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"Champion Sound" is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim from his compilation album The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder. It features Lateef the Truth Speaker on the vocal track. An alternate version featured on the US version of The Greatest Hits – Why Try Harder features both Lateef the Truth Speaker and Sharon Woolf. It is known for its music video, which features objects falling in a sequence like dominoes.
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"That Old Pair of Jeans" is a song by English electronic music producer Fatboy Slim, released on 26 June 2006 as a single from his greatest hits album The Greatest Hits – Why Try Harder. It features vocals from American rapper Lateef the Truth Speaker.
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Mum and the Sothsegger is an anonymous fifteenth century alliterative English poem, written during the "Alliterative Revival." It is ostensibly an example of medieval debate poetry between the principles of the oppressive figure of Mum ("Silence", as in "to keep mum") and the unruly, wild Sothsegger ("Truth- Speaker", cognate with the modern word "soothsayer").
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Hervé Salters, a French national and vintage keyboard player, was playing keys for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, Matthieu Chedid, Vercoquin, DJ Mehdi) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999 General Elektriks biography, Allmusic General Elektriks review. okayplayer, 2015.. He started working on what would become General Elektriks as he was moving to the US.General Elektriks biography, Allmusic Once in California, he soon became associated with the Quannum Projects collective (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, etc.) and started sessioning for them. He invited Quannum's own Lateef The Truthspeaker and Chief Xcel on a few tracks, then completed the 1st General Elektriks album, Cliquety Kliqk (2003)Cliquety Kliqk album review, Allmusic. He released his debut album in 2003, Cliquety Kliqk, which was produced by Chief Xcel from Blackalicious and features a appearance from Lateef the Truth Speaker.
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"Black heritage sites: an African American odyssey and finder's guide", p.279 Clemens describes him as: > ...handsome, well built, shrewd, wise, polite, always good-natured, cheerful > to gaiety, honest, religious, a cautious truth-speaker, devoted friend to > the family, champion of its interests.... He was the peace-maker in the > kitchen—in fact the peace-keeper, for by his good sense & right spirit & > mollifying tongue he adjusted disputes in that quarter before they reached > the quarrel-point. Griffin worked as the Clemens' family butler for 17 years and appears to have been very close to the family (even after Griffin purchased a house in the city, he maintained a room at Clemens's home in Hartford). This was the period in which Clemens wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Griffin may have been an inspiration for the character Jim, one of two major characters in the novel.
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