Shining Soul: “All Day” World Premiere

Shining Soul’s newest video for their song “ALL DAY” was filmed along the international Mexico/United States border and at a United States Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tohono O’odham Nation by Klee Benally of Indigenous Action Media. Community members from the Mexico/United States borderlands appear in the video from Shining Soul’s third album POLITCS ASIDE, unapologetically contesting Berlin Wall-era foreign policies from the current U.S. President.

With “ALL DAY”, Shining Soul does not hold back their message or music production to confront oppressive policies. Shining Soul emcee Bronze Candidate samples an “old school rola” from his early childhood musical influences and gives the original tune a new life with a thumping 808 punch. Emcee Liaizon’s lyrics “Gotta make ’em bounce with the war cry we announce/Or with the O’odham I pronounce” is a statement of cultural pride and hip hop swagger.

Shining Soul recognizes that border militarization is bigger than one group or one community and bigger than Hip Hop. So for the “ALL DAY” video, they received help from supporters in Phoenix, Tucson, Tohono O’odham Nation, and Nogales to highlight people from the beautiful and enduring resistance to border militarization.

Tina Vavages-Andrews of the Ak-Chin/Comobabi villages of the Tohono O’odham Nation appears in the video and said, “I support Shining Soul because I love their music, but more importantly because the “ALL DAY” video shows some of the struggles and frustrations that Tohono O’odham have lived with for years since checkpoints intruded upon our homelands. The video expresses our opposition to Border Patrol policing us and our movements.”

Leilani Clark, who was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, says border militarization impacts the O’odham and migrants. “Borders will never end migration. All they accomplish is appropriating Indigenous lands as corridors of enforcement, and protecting the movement of commercial goods while killing people on those same routes. The “ALL DAY” video is a platform to inform the masses and to challenge power.”

Ruben Rivas from the Sells Community/Sells District of the Tohono O’odham Nation stated, “In a time of oppression, we need to remind Native America that we are survivors, that we existed before borders, and that we are intelligent and beautiful. That is why I wanted to help with the video. It was perfect that I am holding the “No Borders” sign, to document O’odham resistance to what they do.”

View the video at : https://youtu.be/hIaGI1L00Co
Purchase song and album POLITICS ASIDE at : https://shiningsoulmusic.bandcamp.com/

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