Mixerr Reviews was a news blog/local business from Austin, Texas, US that operated from 2012 to 2023. This blog is no longer operational and has been discontinued since Michael Mixerr is currently a writer, narrator, and content curator for Bout Dat Online.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Mixerr Album Reviews #258
This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review One Million Strong by The Next Level. This was released on cassette in 1995 on AMPA Records out of Flint. It was released as a cassette maxi single only.
One Million Strong was influenced by the famous 1 million man march on Washington DC when Martin Luther King made that speech in 1968. Think CORE in the Civil Rights movement. That's what this song was influenced by. The reprise is a breath taking masterpiece done very well. It's a bit longer but it's well worth it. It's another FOI style track.
The Wake Up mix of Brotha Brotha is about brothers killing each other over colors and mainly over nothing. It's a negative meets positive track even though it retains that dark brooding feeling. "Wake Up Brotha Man!" is a well memorable quote by The Next Level. Don't give into the plan of the Ku Klux Klan. Brotha Brotha reminds me of the Self Destruction single by the Stop The Violence Movement. The messages in both songs are very similar.
I was going to rate this single 4/5**** stars, but that would've been a dumb move.
I rate this single, One Million Strong, 5/5*****!
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