Lost Languages

A person's "native tongue", or "mother tongue", is general regarded as the language that a person is immersed in and learns due them being raised in a particular culture. Taken in a broader meaning, a mother tongue can speak to many facets of an individual's home and cultural upbringing, ranging from clothing, to interpersonal mannerisms, to music. Once upon a time, hip-hop was the mother tongue to a generation of people who's voices were indiscriminately silenced, giving birth to a legion of thinkers, doers, poets, artists, dreamers, believers, intellectuals, and creators. Over time, this vernacular of the downtrodden has become muddled and diluted, hidden behind a wall of greed, industrialization, and ignorance for so long that the vocabulary therein no longer makes sense to those that speak its true form. We are keepers of the mortuus lingua, seeking truth through its speech, and striving to create art from a forgotten prose.