God Hop Mixtape review

This project right here was a long time coming. I remember when Kalik Scientific first asked if I would be interested in the God Hop Confederation. I remember filling out the membership forum, participating in a couple of conference calls and all that, even having Kalik Scientific, Kil Ripken and others involved in God Hop on TRUE SKOOL RADIO to promote.

What is God Hop you ask? Well as Kalik Scientific alluded to on TSR, imagine a plane called hip hop taking off and elevating as high as it could  till one day it was hijacked and then crashed. Imagine only a few original passagers surving, emerging out from the debris who then built a space craft that could not be compromised. THIS is God Hop! As Sol Messiah says in the Intro, it’s hip hop all grown up with no negativity and only positive energy and elevation.

Often hip hop heads will complain about the lack of any good female mcs anymore. Well, one of the most impressive features of this mixtape is the number of sharp, witty, intelligent female mcs with crazy flow on here, from the queen of God Hop Sa-Roc who gets the cuts scratches and beats party started with Scarlet in which she pays respect to KRS by saying, “the teacha told me knowledge reigns supreme over churches”, to Stahhr who channels Rakim on Microphone Fiend 2013, to the author of one of the hardest hip hop tracks ever called White Man’s Bitch in Aisha Sekhmet who comes correct with Iggin on the mixtape, as well as Narubi Selah’s Hookless which Sol Messiah does justice to the original with his remix taking nothing away from Selah’s potent darts like, “you listen to Minaj? Word? You should kill yourself and everybody that you came with!” There is just so many other dope female mcs who are dope mcs PERIOD! Elijah Muhammad said a nation can rise no higher than it’s women and it’s great that Sol Messiah made it a point to have such a female presence on the first God Hop mixtape as when we think of the golden age of hip hop to now, that presence has been missing (at least in the lamestream)

To have some sense of familiarity Sol Messiah also includes joints from well known artists in J Electronica who channels and pays homage to Rakim as well on Atom Anthem with spoken word great D. Prosper “Jay Elec get stronger as I get older/I’m measured with the heat that’s made by Solar/I represent the UPT Magnolia…” There’s also Immortal Technique included, Big KRIT, Lupe Fiasco, Planet Asia, Nas, Ab Soul and 2pac with the joint Unchained that many first heard for the first time during one of the more memorable scenes in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained movie starring Jaime Foxx and Leonardo Dicaprio.

Some more stand out tracks are Pharoah Monche’s Haile Selassie Karate, Kil Ripkin’s Timeless, the phenomenal Regan by Killer Mike, Jasiri X’s Pillars with Brother Ali, Scarface’s Rain and On the Air by Labratz who are very reminiscent of Outkast. Jay Z’s controversial Open Letter is included as well however the crown jewel of the mixtape is the first single for the Organizing is the New Cool documentary in Wrath of the Siafu

which is a posse cut featuring some of the hardest “conscious artists” out the ATL letting you know “the A” got more than just the crunk dboy trap ish you been hearing as Zayd Malik, El Sun, Ekunday, Methuzelah Gem, Mike Flo, Great Scott, Flux Wonda, IsReal, Sa-Roc, Chosen and Stahhr all show and prove. Check out the great interview with Kalonji Jama Changa discussing Organizing is the New Cool on TRUE SKOOL RADIO here

Now, while you can just press play and pretty much listen to this whole joint without getting mad or shaking your head in disagreement, the mixtape does run kind of long and everything on it is not as superb as what’s mentioned in this review but instead of knocking anything I’ll let the listeners decide that for themselves. Personally I didn’t care too much for the cursing or use of the n word on some songs I heard and would have liked to seen the inclusion of individuals that I knew to be God Hop affiliates like Kalik Scientific and Haiti Bluez or at least been able to hear the full version of United Nations……http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejiRG7b2pE

and I was expecting to hear a lil more scratching however for the first God Hop mixtape I’m not mad at this joint at all and I highly doubt those that are looking for more hip hop music devoid of the coonery buffoonery Uncle Tom Man Tan sellout yassa bossin’ rap, I highly doubt they will be disappointed. This is just the beginning, it’s only gonna get better. Let the devil have hip hop, because for everything the beast steals and destroys we always build something new and improved. That plane hip hop crashed a while ago, instead of trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, recognize that GOD HOP is the future. You can cop the God Hop mixtape here

God Hop Mixtape tracklisting

intro

1.Sa-Roc Scarlet
2. The Ritual- Ahkil Heru
3. Atom Anthem- D. Prosper featuring J. Electronica
4. Hookless 2.5 – Narubi Selah (sol messiah remix)
5. Sheik Ron- Moslem of The West
6. Isis the Savior – Street Chronicles
7. Immortal TechNique- Sign of The Times
8.Big K.R.I.T – REM
9. Ptah Ra Tehuti ft. Kektet – Lyrical High
10. Lupe Fiasco- Around My Way (Freedom Aint Free)
11. Stahhr – Microphone Fiend 2013
12. Quadir Lateef- Whos Gonna Save My Soul (Sol Messiah Mix)
13.Planet Asia and Elemental Rhymes – Reflection
14..Amun Ra – Ancestral Magic
15.Nas- Chain Glow
16. Ab Soul – The Book of Soul
17.2Pac- UnChained (The Payback Untouchable)
18. Chop – School is in session
19.Red and Blu Pill- Transform
20. Dynasty- Stay shining
21.Mighty Kalipssus – Supreme Elohim
22. Obi1 – Doing It
23. Pharoahe Monch featuring Denaun Porter- Haile Selassie Karate
24. Aisha Sekhmet- Iggin
25. Thaahum Mst3k- (My Soul Transcends Creating Perfect Kingdoms)
26. Kil Ripkin- Timeless
27. Iron SHeik – The Real Active Moor
28. AA Rashid – Racist
29. Kiiler Mike – Regan
30. Jasiri X feat. Brother Ali – Pillars
31. Abiye – Blind Man
32. Scarface – Rain
33. Labratz- On the Air
34. Jay Z- Open Letter
35. Methuzelah Gem ft. Boog Brown – Pay Homage
36. Ekundayo -Light Writer
37. Translee Ft Raheem DeVaughn- Does Anybody Love Anymore
38. Zayd Malik, , El Sun, Ekundayo, Methuzelah Gem, Mike Flo, Great Scott, Flux Wonda, IsReal, Sa-Roc Chosen, Stahhr – Wrath of Siafu

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Fear of a Black Planet

Shouts out to Supreme Design Publishing who recently put out a book called When the World Was Black. Even though due to priorities I have not been able to purchase the book yet, I highly recommend it for everyone reading as their consistent track record with suppressed truth the world could benefit from as well as practical information oppressed people can apply to help better there situation is well…….supreme!  However looking at the title on face value many would say it implies the world is no longer black, those people would be wrong in their assumption for that is not what the book is saying, I KNOW that without even reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPuNHsV9uUU

However judging by what you see in media in THIS country I could see how some people would think that because as Frances Cress Welsing said, “when you turn on the tv all you see is white white white.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKumU_V5s70

The premise of much of Welsing’s work is in tandem with the title to Public Enemy’s classic 1990 album which is also the title of this build. It was building on much of the idea of the threat of white annihilation due to black or original people being the most dominant species on the planet as white genes are recessive. I don’t agree with Welsing’s point once upon a time as to why MLK was killed due to him “preaching for all to love one another despite racial differences” though. Yes, it’s true that if nothing but the opposite sexes with one being black and another white laid down to have babies this would eliminate the “white race” eventually (it’s science! This is one of the main reasons white militia groups shun interracial relationships, not just because they are some racist pricks that suck at life) however I don’t feel that’s why MLK was assassinated (that’s another story though)

Welsing stated that most people who when they have babies want the baby to look like them subconsciously even if they say they don’t care, that is unless their self hatred is on par with Uncle Rukus. Those in power that run the media suffer/suffered from the same dilemna in who they would want to put on their networks, shows, movies, commercials, in political office etc etc etc. This type of white washing has been going on for centuries but after doing the 1 to the new Ironside trailer on NBC, I was thinking about how things come in cycles and how much media can inform us of where society is going. With the whitewashing of many biblical figures (even though none of the ish is of the historical record the stories were written by original people thus the characters they wrote about would be original because shoot…….the world was BLACK!) as well as movies where Cleopatra was played by Elizabeth Taylor (and to my understanding Angelina Jolie is playing her in an upcoming movie) and tv shows like Isis, I feel with a black president (in entertainment like 24, Deep Impact, White House Down, 2012, The Event which Blair Underwood was also in), Spider Man, Nick Fury, Kingpin, Honeymooners, Catwoman (shouts out to the first black one Ertha Kitt, the original Harvey Dent in the first Tim Burton Batman was black as well) we are seeing a changing of the guard, let me explain….

Most likely with white people writing positive black characters or heroes, more times than not they probably aren’t racist. The white inviduals who were the founders of white washing when they first started doing it most likely were. When it is said Obama is the first hip hop president, it doesn’t mean hip hop voted in droves to elect him. It means hip hop (which is the most influential tool on the planet creating new trends, slang and culture the whole world tries to emulate or use to manipulate and exploit) helped to establish an atmosphere where this nation could accept a black president and not loot and riot and go out “hanging nigras in record numbers” like they would have in early 20th century. FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET, this is why the old power structure hanging on by a thread is still trying to suppress this reality in what they control. Look, you’re never going to get another Public Enemy where you hear their songs on lamestream radio or see their video in the middle of the day. Doing that has lead to what I was saying earlier and has taught others the meaning of civilization. Hip hop is so powerful and unfortunately it’s mostly those that are afraid of it who are the only ones that realize this. We have whole generations now that grew up listening to PE and NWA saying fuck the police who are now in politics, judges, police and creating media. Do you see where I’m going?

Now granted, there are NUMEROUS people who grew up on hip hop music and it was just a fad to them. They know what time it is but they get in a certain position and sellout the culture by acting like they don’t know what time it is or just fall into their white privilege or sellout role. It’s a war right now. Like the network that learned from their mistake in putting out that special in the 60s on the Nation of Islam entitled The Hate that Hate Produced (thinking who it was directed at would find the NOI crazy but it turned out to do the opposite as many watching it said to themselves, “that’s what I’m talking about” and wanted to learn more or get involved), powers that be today are trying to undo what they did by showing an element of what they call hip hop culture (when it’s not even hip hop but what we refer to as the rap industrial complex) that will have the whole world that is influenced by it thinking the main folks who make up the performing artists in it are a bunch of ignorant, sex crazed, no conscious having, self hating, mysogynstic, egotistical, wannabe republican capitalist slave robots when we have had a track record of being the most conscious and most leftist revolutionary block of this country.

One of the main reasons for the Million Man March was to show the world how great we are and to combat the misconception  much media including the controlled hip hop (because it was already on the downslide in 95, many people like to point to the release of Dr. Dre’s Chronic in 92 as to when the “golden age” of hip hop ended which is usually defined as 88-92) had people believing. Seeing TWO MILLION brothers in DC coming together for one common cause in peace with no problems had a HUUUUUGE impact on other world leaders and opponents of America who support the black struggle. The tours Farakhan commenced to do afterwards helped to show a side they weren’t seeing. That work he did is being undone now similar to how much work folks like Malcolm and Clarence X did in Harlem was undone by the assisted Frank Lucases, Nicky Barneses and Bumpy Johnsons. Similar to how the work of the Black Panthers, BLA and other progressive organizations was undone by the blaxploitation film era. Out of that was birthed the hip hop movement as an answer and we still going strong on the independent route today. It’s a war, I feel WE are winning, there are hundreds maybe thousands of independent outlets like TRUE SKOOL RADIO taking what they got from hip hop and using it as a tool for positive change and spreading the knowledge the way they got it. Although I feel we are winning, it’s a slow process and we still have a lot of work to do because the enemy is ALWAYS working overtime and NEVER sleeps.

With all that being said, can you imagine if Will Smith ever played the role of Superman (who is based on the black gods of ancient Kemet) or Beyonce played Wonder Woman like once rumored? I think this country would have been more upset with that than Obama becoming president. And for the record, I am not an Obama supporter, I voted for McKinney in 08, know dat!

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