Music is the Weapon was one of the first events in Chicago I put together and still one of my favorites. The concept’s pretty simple - it’s a DJ dance party that benefits local non-profits and promotes collaboration between the featured groups. We’ve benefited local NPOs such as Connect Force, Rumble Arts, Original Change Project, CHIRP and En Masse. Since doing MITW, I’ve had the privilege of joining The People’s DJ Collective and doing similarly themed events with them such as EMPACT and Beautiful Struggle. The original flier design by Edit17 has caught a lot of eyes and many friends were asking for shirts. Well, thanks to DJ Junior at Recordbreakin’ Music they finally can. And to keep the MITW tradition going, 50% of sales go straight to an educational/art related non-profit picked by Junior in his current base, Philadelphia.

Shirts are available here:

Men:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_men_shirt.html
Women:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_woman_shirt.html

They look dope:

To celebrate the shirt release, I put together a mix. I used to do a mix for each Music is the Weapon event featuring interviews from the non-profits and socially charged tracks. This one keeps the musical theme and features some of my favorite releases from Recordbreakin’. It’s a revolutionary, social uplifting, self-actualizing themed mix. Starts up stirring you up, asks some questions, gives some hope and ends with in introspective meditation.

Peep the mix here:

DJ Limbs - Music is the Weapon Recordbreakin Mix by DJ Limbs

Tracklist below, enjoy!:
20th Century Steel Band - Heaven And Hell Is On Earth
I, Ced - Another Look @ You vs Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Leroy Heptones - Revolution
The Pimps Of Joytime - H20 (Ft. Cyril Neville)
D’Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray - Water Get No Enemy
Lifesavas - State of the World / Apocalyps
Joy Jones - This Too Shall Pass (Spinnerty Remix)
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Ta’Raach - Liberation’s Lullabye
Mark de Clive-Lowe - Heaven (Ft. Bembé Segué)
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can, Can
Cymande - The Message
Shapes of Broad Minds - Changes
John Robinson - Black Gold
Typical Cats - Justice Coming
Raphael Saadiq - Lift The People
Zeph and Azeem - Time to Wake Up (Ft. Joyo Velarde & Tony Moses)
Willie Williams - No One Can Stop Us
Flying Lotus - MmmHmm (Ft. Thundercat)
Bitone Troupe - All is Full of Love