Jabok - Untold LA History
Rap documentary about LA's hidden origins; If you appreciate rappers with both a unique voice and skilled, rapid-fire lyrical flow reminiscent of The DOC, Canibus, or Brother J of XClan, you most likely WILL enjoy this:
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UNTOLD LA HISTORY
This is Untold L.A. History 101- Hey! Take your seat-
Pay attention, take notes on what I say
The topic for today is a place you MAY
Have heard about in California called L.A.
Los Angeles- YES, this is on the test;
This lecture upon the West
Is ghetto knowledge and game
GUARANTEED to put a lame
fool with degrees from college to SHAME!
Spain used to rule Mexico;
King Carlos the 3rd of Spain thought it was best to go
jack California, cause Russia had Alaska colonized
and Spain wanted Cali first before them or the British guys
So they set up missions
In San Gabriel and San Fernando by the expeditions
of Portola and Serra- but understand-
the Shoshone and others already BEEN in this land
Yang-Na was this villages name
But now its called 6th Street and Main!
SPAIN called it El Rio de Nuestra Señora
La Reina De Los Angeles de Porciuncula! (huh-)
So to get L.A. begun,
They sent 44 colonists in 1781
From Mexico, but heres a little secret thats a FACT:
26 out of them 44 founders were BLACK!
(Chorus)
Untold L.A. History
Untold L.A History
Whats concealed will be revealed with no mystery
Untold L.A. History
Most are BOUND to be surprised about who found this town-
RECOGNIZE- we get around!
16 of the others down were brown
Just two Europeans and thats IT! The facts get
Concealed, for real- NO DOUBT- so Ill reveal
The deal about Beverly Hills:
Its PREVIOUS ruler came to be the SAME
Black woman after which California was named!
Keep in mind, the misnomer Indians alludes
to indigenous folks of California which INCLUDES
Black aboriginal natives whose evidence is found HERE
That dates back ever since 12,000 years!
Was Tom Bradley the first black mayor? I cant say yes
I guess they missed Francisco Reyes
in 1793 At that time, you see
this pueblo was called Reina de Los Angeles!
Now THIS means the Queen of Angels
1818s the year, now HERES the scene:
One of the first U.S. settlers that CAME was black
Four years later, Mexico got free from Spain- in FACT
Pico Boulevard was named after another
Black man named Pio Pico who was the California gover-
nor- and his brother, named Andres
commanded the California Forces what fought the U.S.
troops in L.A., and WON- however THEY
later got beat- couldnt compete with the complete
weaponry of the U.S.A.
So in 1846 them brothers had to retreat!
(Chorus)
The Gold Rush went down and Asians came around 1848
The flag TELLS YOU California WASNT a STATE!
L.A. was the CAPITAL of it- BEFORE Sacramento was it
In FACT, they wont admit
Griffith D. Compton was BLACK- in FACT, he turned out to be
The founder of the CPT!
More things they just neglect to mention, WE
Kicked up dust throughout the 20th century!
Before 92, in 65 it was Watts
In 43, Zoot Suits got em up with sailors and cops!
Now a wild big city from a town
Started by 11 families that were black and brown!
We got the most freeways and cars, cause way back,
L.A. had the countrys biggest train system, for real!
But GM [General Motors] bought all the trains, destroyed them & their tracks
To make EVERYONE buy their automobiles!
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...