The People vs. Empire: A Griot’s Court of Justice is a groundbreaking spoken word album and narrative courtroom drama that puts 500 years of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, and cultural erasure on trial. Told through the voice of a griot-judge and poetic prosecutors, the album journeys across volumes—“The Crimes of the Empire,” “The Lies of Civilization,” and “The Empire in the Shadows” etc—exposing the brutal truths hidden behind conquest and so-called progress.

Each track is a living testimony: from the Middle Passage and stolen lands, to puppet governments, corporate theft, and psychological warfare. Through historical evidence, dramatized witness accounts, and Afrocentric sound design, the project resurrects ancestral memory and invites modern audiences to reflect, remember, and rise.

With its tagline—“The gavel is the drum. The witness is memory. The verdict is yours.”—this work reclaims African narrative authority, honors the fallen, and confronts power with clarity. But it doesn’t stop at indictment. It ends with a people’s verdict: a call for reparations, unity, and rebirth.

The People vs. Empire is not just an album. It is a reckoning. A ceremony. A fire lit for future volumes. The case is not closed. The griot will return.