Saul Williams - Leap Life Big Dada

Saul Williams’ 1997 song, Twice For The First Time simultaneously embodied the potential of El-P, and Mos Def in one individual. Twice for The First Time appeared from a compilation called Eargasms The Company Flow song from Eargasms I’m certain is the child of Ornette Coleman’s soundtrack of Naked Lunch. I say that without relistening to either song during the past decade. I say that with love of Charli XCX’s releasing Music, Fashion and Film during Charli’s Lollapalooza Weekend.

Culture can be cool if people care. Saul Williams understood the post-modern and the natural individual spiritual in a simple transcendence moment of speech. Saul Wiliams starred in the film Slam which was kinda like Electric Boogaloo and OZ at the Drexel Movies.

Twice For the First Time is easily one of the most important rap songs of the past 30 years. We can almost consider Kanye West and Slug as the realization of Twice For The First Time glow.

Twice For the First Time hasn’t been duplicated. Even by Saul Willams. Forgive the lack of poetic description in this line:

Saul Williams is the Michael Jordan of Spoken Word, aside of Twice for the First Time. I don’t know the name of another Saul Williams song. In 2026, Saul Williams released an album called Leap Life vis Big Dada. In recent years, l looked at Saul William’s instagram like Amnesty International or the ICC.

Of course Saul Williams opposes the genocide of Palestinians. During Track 5 we find out Saul Williams is Haitian.

We absorbed four songs – abstract collages that are composites of why we like Saul Williams.

Leap Life music sounds like Kara Walker scrolling around a Diaspora Radio Tuner, if you hate Netanyahu and ICE's use of white supremacy for imperialism.

Saul Williams’ Haitian existence is natural poetic truth.

Of course, Saul Williams is opposite of the current embodiment of evil. I probably knew that and forgot it.

The next song is where a poem speaks with clarity. 13 Moons then sings a melody of sounds like Saul’s standing in Williams’ echo chamber. Une Photographie enters a female voice which allows our review mentioning Leap Life sounds lucid dreaming with a movie playing in our background.

During the next song Saul Williams reminds us – a person’s soul and dignity isn’t a commodity.

Which is followed with another bath in Williams’ echo chamber’s opposition of dehumanization. 

Next up is Saul Williams’ song Conspiracy which reaffirms we are built to defeat colonial oppression with our lives. Saul’s is backed by Moor Mother and Gonjasufi during Conspiracy.

Conspiracy is followed by Saul Williams Vengeful Spirit which sounds like a barber shop quartet singing every interlude at Kendrick Lamar’s last Columbus concert while vowing truth’s audience is larger than then the petty liars.

Saul Williams’ voice exists in chorus with time and space. Friends I Ain’t Met Yet overwhelms ICE imposing unlawful borders in our communities like cosmic intelligence from Santana’s Town with divine immunity. 

Leap Life culminates with Coming Forth Saul Williams embraces Rolling Like Thunder’s shared creative space with Twice For First Time with music which sounds like where Ornette meets Constellation Records.

Saul Williams with the assistance of Gonjasufi, Moor Mother, Carlos Nino, Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, Kamasi Washington, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Surya Botofasin….

…Leap Life sounds like where Lift Yr Skinny Fists like Antennas To Heaven! and The Shape of Jazz To Come meet in an organic fragmented collage