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As defiant as the album it's from, Take You There is 2 min of riffage, climaxing in a screaming guitar solo! Think Van Halen's Eruption meets the theme for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, over a backing of pure groove! Following previous single, Get Over Yourself, featured by Rolling Stone France, this could be seen as a brave departure, having no vocal hook - in fact it has no vocals at all.

Yinka explains 'I let the guitar do the talking in this one! If you love guitar riffs and solos this is for you. There's no sung chorus but like the Bond Theme or the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Take You There has a melody that acts as a chorus. It's a raw as it gets!'

Watch on yoututbe here: https://youtu.be/v6aa5sFzy2Y

LONG HAIR
Traditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).
When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.
The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.
Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics.
But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom.

We call this Digital repatriation, there are currently 1000s of stolen artworks held in museums and private collections around the world. With many attempts to return these artworks failing.

Looty Nft - The world's first digital repatriation of stolen art An African NFT To challenge the museum institutions who refuse to return these looted works to the rightful countries of ownership, we are launching NFTs of looted works and returning the first edition of Benin Bronzes to the Oba of Benin.

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