00:00Quiet on the set.
00:02I love doing that stuff.
00:05Blackfire is about revolution, rebellion,
00:08charting new territories and new pathways.
00:11We were entrepreneurs.
00:13We were starting our own record labels.
00:15Blackfire started with Oneness of Juju,
00:17but Jimmy Gray was recruiting
00:19other nationally known jazz artists.
00:22Blackfire is history.
00:24Blackfire is magic.
00:27Blackfire is power.
00:29If you listen to most of the music
00:31that came out of Blackfire and out of D.C.,
00:33it was a message.
00:35It was a message to the people.
00:36Massively influential.
00:38Blackfire really documented
00:40the aesthetic of Washington, D.C.
00:42and brought it to the world.
00:43It was bringing that African culture back.
00:45Do, do, do, do.
00:47Shake your thing.
00:49Call and response, baby. Let's go.
00:51Blackfire was part of the movement
00:53to a better place.
00:55It really is an embodiment of black power.
00:57All these political movements
00:59have been going on to empower black people
01:01and Blackfire Records is one of those,
01:03sort of a cultural arm of that.
01:05Black art, black creativity.
01:07Blackfire is present and past
01:10and we're still here to last.
01:12Blackfire, the flame that burns forever.
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