Eminem provides a teachable moment on his song Fall off his surprise album Kamikaze

Before I get into this, a recent reflection (at least I think it’s recent) of Eminem rocking a Paris/The Devil Made Me Do It shirt surfaced which caught many who don’t really care for Em or listen to his music off guard.

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I explained to them Em is a true student of hip hop music. His love for artists like LL, Treach of Naughty by Nature, Redman and Rakim is well documented. He is not one of those weirdos that think hip hop began with Biggie and 2pac. I remember well reading an article in which he mentioned how he used to listen to X Clan and thought they were racist which made me chuckle.

Anyways on his song Fall, Em goes at hip hop legend, let me repeat that, hip hop LEGEND Lord Jamar with the following lyrics…

“And far as Lord Jamar, you better leave me the hell alone
Or I’ll show you an Elvis clone
Walk up in this house you own, thrust my pelvic bone
Use your telephone and go fetch me the remote
Put my feet up and just make myself at home
I belong here, clown, don’t tell me ’bout the culture
I inspire the Hopsins, the Logics, the Coles, the
Seans, the K-Dots, the 5’9″s, and oh
Brought the world 50 Cent, you did squat, piss and moaned
But I’m not gonna fall… bitch!”

Now….while I can appreciate the reference to Brand Nubian’s classic Love Me or Leave Me Alone, he can chill with the white hip hop savior shit and did he really say Lord Jamar did squat!? Em is smarter than that. Em may have inspired many of those artists he mentioned but he is also the father of the pill poppin’ mc and this newer drug culture in hip hop, much of which he seems not to care too much for in various verses off his new album. Lord Jamar, an affiliate of the heavily influential Native Toungues crew which included other influential acts like A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers and De La Soul to name a few, brought dead prez, a much more important hip hop act than 50 Cent, D12 and Obie Trice to Loud records who as Lord Jamar mentioned on my show created some of the most revolutionary music in hip hop to date, the type of music that adds on to the culture of hip hop and instills a sense of racial pride, brings credibility to the music d’void of all the disrespecting of women and genocide on wax, just as Brand Nubian did before them. What exactly does Em with a lot of his shock rap and 50 Cent with his tired gangsta, bitch, ho, I get money, nigga nigga nigga rap inspire or inspired? Most of these new wack rappers every body can’t stand (especially the ones with winy wack ass irritating voices like Em) guess what? They grew up listening to and were inspired by Eminem and 50 Cent! Artists that listened to and studied Brand Nubian and dead prez nowhere near as wack, in fact they tend not to be wack period! Chew on that shit. Reminds me of a KRS line, “People that buy KRS-One goin places. People that buy your shit, they catchin cases!”

Take Eminem and 50 Cent out of the equation when it comes to hip hop like they never existed, guess what? Hip hop is ok, maybe better. Take Brand Nubian, Native Tongues, dead prez and other contributions Lord Jamar made to hip hop like his 5% Album and hip hop is missing something very special along the same lines as other great black artists in music like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Prince, 2pac, Public Enemy, Bob Marley etc etc etc. I can’t put a 50 Cent or Eminem in that tradition of great artists.  Seriously, what makes Eminem and 50 Cent special? Is Eminem a great mc? YES! But there are many great mcs, what makes him special? Because he white!? Gotta come with more than that. So you brought the type of music rapping about killing ya moms and in a video burying her to hip hop culture (wtf!?) But that’s not how we get down in the environments hip hop was birthed out of. Keep that trailer park trash shit to ya self. Even though we may have beef with our mothers we don’t air it out on song like that. A great example of how we get down is Pac’s Dear Mama in which he says, “even as a crack fieeeend mama, you always was a black queeeeeen mama!” Just one of many examples as to why Em will never be as great or important to hip hop as an artist like 2pac. We love our mothers, I fast and pray no brother in hip hop in front of a sellout crowd asks them ,”if you got beef with your parents put your hands in the air.” Something Em has done, we don’t need that in hip hop. Keep that energy.

I can go in more about what you can expect to hear in hip hop music vs what is not welcome but I already went over that when I wrote a review on the shows we had Lord Jamar as a guest here. You say Get Rich or Die Trying was a hip hop classic? Whatever, you know what was better by a group Lord Jamar introduced to the world? How about Get FREE or Die Tryin’?

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Em’s new album Kamikaze is dope as well, but you know what album which had the same title I enjoyed more that flips that speed rap much better? Check it…

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Lastly, I already built on the importance of stic man’s (again, an artist that Lord Jamar introduced to the masses) Workout album on a previous show here. But what I wanted to build on next is the advancement of hip hop culture. At first I felt God Hop was the next wave but it was just too many heads co opting the term that don’t necessarily live out it’s principles as with hip hop. So now we have something much more concrete and defined with what stic is bringing with Fit Hop which is defined as….

“FitXHop is a rising new sub-genre of hip hop with themes of health fitness and well being founded by dead prez ‘s Stic.man with the release of his critically acclaimed full length album THE WORKOUT. FitXHop is a vision for a refreshing alternative to counter balance the current negative, drug promoting hyper consumerism wave of mainstream contemporary music, providing street certified affirmation, and inspiration for healthy transformations.”

So pretty much if an artist is not coming with any of that above they cannot lay claim to Fit Hop. This is some truly next level shit, this is what an artist Lord Jamar introduced is bringing to the culture. So 50 Cent made the 50th Law which reads like it borrowed much from Supreme Understanding’s How to Hustle and Win. Well you know what’s better than the 50th Law? Check it……

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In closing, in a culture that birthed the likes of LL, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS One, Lauryn Hill, Kane, Outkast, Black Thought, Common, Paris, Wise Intelligent, Brand Nubian, 2pac, Nas, Wu Tang, Guru, etc etc etc, an artist like Em will NEVER be the greatest. I don’t care how good of an mc he is, AN ARTIST LIKE HIM with his content will NEVER be the greatest, that is all.

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“They are easily lead in the wrong direction, hard to be lead in the right”

……and they get upset when you aren’t easily lead in the wrong after they try to convince you over and over again but just don’t understand that you stand firm in what is the truth and cannot be swayed into some bs. This is why I love the ones I call comrades these days. They may not all be gods N earths, muslims or other so called “conscious” folk but they “get it” and care nothing about some meaningless labels. I been studying this freedom thing for quite a while and pretty much get what needs to be done and have gotten it since I started studying at 13. At one point being disillusioned in my experience of thinking a revolutionary hip hop group I started could change the world (which was far from revolutionary as all the members wanted to do was bang groupies and the all important “shine”) I ignored my duty or calling and just thought settling down and trying to be comfortable in this age of facism and tyranny I would be content in that complacency. The impossible happened though, I actually met someone who “gets it” a couple of years ago and we have done more in the lil amount of time together vs ALLLL the years previously with those who just like to hear themselves talk and put none of their theory in to practice. I understand this, that’s why I strive not to get so worked up when individuals try (key word try) to critique what needs to be done that I involve myself in when it comes to this freedom thing and in turn pump some ish that changes absolutely nothing and in fact just adds on to the problem.

Something many of my comrades and I discuss often is how intelligent some folk seem yet just………don’t………..get……it, and at their age I feel probably never will. I used to think because some individuals were so called conscious they would be down to do this work but for the most part they just like to bitch, call those that are down crazy and tell them what they are doing can’t be done. I’ve learned that this freedom thing definitely is not for everyone as people do not want to do what it takes to make it a reality, they do not want to get their hands dirty, they rather partake in consumeristic practices like holiday celebrations or stay intoxicated and high all day like there’s no work to be done. Like my comrade says in the song, Haiti Can’t Wait “Maybe it’s impossible to wake up folks that’s comfortable.”

I swear man, it’s crazy, recently a “brother” quoted a bunch of BULLSHIT in my face and said, “Now isn’t that beautiful? What’s greater than that?” Seriously!? This man really loves hearing himself talk, it’s pretty pathetic. How about GETTING FREE? And people really look up to this guy, not a lot but some and even an observer voiced how those cats are needed to a certain extent. Personally I feel we have too many lip professors who are comfortable in knowing or quoting a bunch of theoretical ish, meanwhile no observers could say they see this man in the community doing anything I do, and I have wasted a lot of time being around people like this a lil bit more than the last decade of my life ( for the intellectuals that like to correct peoples spelling, when I misspell words like saying lil instead of little……….I do it on purpose) There is a man who walked with the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths who when he gave me my flag which he based on my character and not quoting a bunch of ish said, “I’ve magnetized you True, and you are going to have a lot of people jealous of you and hating on you for no good reason” I been kind of seeing him as a prophet lately, lol. One thing’s for sure, people who claim to be at peace in this reality (because everyone loves to go to work, pay taxes etc etc etc) there is no hope for imo. They “love the devil because the devil gives them nothing.” They rather put band aids on their wounds vs removing what is creating the wounds. It’s pretty simple, unless what you are talking or implementing is about eradicating what is creating the wounds, you are not doing or saying anything…….PERIOD!

In closing, while it is nothing new to those who actually pay attention whether it be those who have listened to some of my music or my partners in Treble Army, heard me speak on panels at events or gatherings, have listened to TRUE SKOOL RADIO or been a part of anything my comrade and I have put together from Feed the People block parties to revolutionary study groups, read any of my works over the years from when I started with PUB to currently writing for Hip Hop U……….anyone who has paid attention or been a part of any of that knows what I do is rooted in being revolutionary. Of course it is hard to call anything revolutionary that doesn’t spark one but that doesn’t mean to say what individuals like Malcolm, Garvey, Huey or Fred Hampton and other organizations put into practice is not revolutionary because others didn’t pick up the ball, follow suit and make it do what it should of.

Things are about to pick up ( could of sworn the previous paragraph started with in closing, lol) and my team is in transition of moving on to a new course of study as we are closing up on the one we are doing now, so it would be a good time for those who have voiced interest in adding on to do so because pretty soon I am going to be off the grid (hopefully, it’s real idealistic right now as I would be doing a disservice to some people I do business with in which not being online could make those things much harder BUT they still can be done as they were done before the advent of the internet) What once was going to be TRUE SKOOL RADIO showcases has turned into something else which is great as it involves more like minded individuals I have been wanting to connect with for a minute, so look forward to seeing that in the near future. My hip hop project, True World Order is done and you can always do the knowledge and apply what things like the Treble Army projects have put out into the universe. I love music, I love hip hop but the whole world having a Treble Army cd and hearing us “rap to you” in any form or fashion from that to our TSR shows is truly just some feel good ish for others that doesn’t really change anything as it takes up time in which you can be doing something much more pertinent like ohhhhh, I don’t know, fighting imperialism.

That’s all for now. I’ll leave a revised video of Pay to Live as I know how much we all love visual distractions and didn’t mean to interrupt the flow of reflections and vids of my children (that’s a fb reference for my subscribers that don’t follow my postings on it). Just had to throw this up in the matrix for those who forgot or may have thought I’m not “still on that revolutionary ish” that people always refer to when it comes to me. It’s kind of like when people say, “why you always on that black shit?”, I mean what else is a BLACK REVOLUTIONARY supposed to be on? Smh, people are hilarious. There’s no need to tute my own horn when it comes to anything I do as the work should speak for itself and if anyone thinks I am something other than what I am, you’ve never built with me, are lieing to yourself, but most likely are people who do nothing and try to feel good about yourself by knocking someone doing what you KNOW you should be doing because being critical of those who expect you to get up off your ass and do something other than the feel good ish you drench yourself in is your job and what you do best, you make our ancestors proud.

One last thing, if you are connected with anyone who seems hellbent on dirtying my name with lies I would just pay them no mind or really just disassociate with them or disconnect from the ONLY communication you have with them (lol) as I really don’t care for you to relay anything they have said or more specific posted about me online because it tends to come from a scorned, spiteful, vindictive or jealous source of one I probably rubbed the wrong way by speaking to them a way they are not comfortable with which is something human beings really have to learn to do in taking criticism or tough love without feeling it’s coming from a place other than love. Those that hold you accountable are the type of people you want in your circle, not cheerleaders who play follow the leader and agree with everything you do. A certain scene in Boondocks with Thugnificent comes to mind but I don’t feel like looking for it, however I have a TON of haters like the many Jesus types before me (ha haaa) because if you don’t, you aint doing nothing but I just want any haters that may be lurking to understand, again, I have a ton so don’t flatter yourself and think it’s all about you or feel I should make the extra effort in singling you out like it is, I got way bigger fish to fry and none of my haters are down to help do it so they are not that important.

Anyways, as usual, peace to all the real brothers and sisters that think positive and do positive things and in the words of Big Rube, “Right on to the real, death to the fakers.” PEACE

Pay to Live (revised)

Past Treble Army vids, https://trueskoolradio.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/7-reasons-why-you-may-want-to-get-treble-armys-album-amierdaca-and-listen-to-our-show-reviewing-it-tonight/

Footnote-this piece was inspired by something I freestyled off my dome in a forum called Sai Sumtin that I wanted to elaborate more on in written form as the venue was only open for so long and I could of freestyled all night about the topic.

Review of TRUE SKOOL RADIO with Thaahum discussing the AZ 2014 Inspiration on Fire Cipher….

That would be the bring your child to work edition. This was a great show. I was very pleased to find out that after another one of our frequent hiatuses (is that a word?) that with over 1,000 listens this particular edition of TSR was our most listened to one yet, and with the many great shows we have had under our belt which have included various hip hop legends like Chuck D, Paris and Lord Jamar as well as topics other shows do not discuss like domestic violence, fatherhood and the disconnect many descendants of Africans have with the muthaland, that is saying a whoooole lot.

Why was this show so special to me? Well as I have frequently said when it comes to hip hop, when we don’t keep the youth in mind is when we start messing up, and this show and the project put together that was the topic of the show was all about the youth. Not only that, but the feedback I got from the playlist on the show from those that listened and how much they liked the presence of female mcs throughout the listening was pleasing. I must say though, my favorite part of the show is when the guest Thaahum mentioned my late brother Dominant Born when reflecting on some past events. Dominant would have loved TRUE SKOOL RADIO and most likely would have been my cohost. Anyways check out the video for the 2014 AZ Inspiration on Fire Cipher as well as share it and make it go viral with yall lazy asses. Peep the rest of the playlist of songs as well and keep tuning in and checking for us, things about to pick up in a major way………MAJOR!

Playlist for the show below……………

-Bigger Than Hip Hop- Arstic Reason AZ ( Vprolific, Kite 93, The Brain​, ​Shining Soul​, ​Progreso​,​ True MC & Born Justice​,​ Loki​, ​Bob​-​Domestic​, ​Verbo Autonomo​, ​RaeRae)
http://artisticreasonaz.bandcamp.com/track/its-bigger-than-hip-hop

-We Live the Music-Thaahum, Mystic Blue, Huni)

-Dice Game-Noah Little

-Mad-Roqy Tyraid
http://roqytyraid.bandcamp.com/track/mad-prod-fons-infinite

-Haiti Can’t Wait-Treble Army

-2013 IOF Cipher Trademarc RMX featuring Smooth, Camille Sledge, Thaahum, MysticBlu, Random, Apollo Poetry, Intro by HB of HomeBase Poetry

-2014 Inspiration on Fire Cipher featuring King Arik/Huni, Nekaybaw/Thaahum, Young Pretty/Cee Alpha, Born Justice/True Father Allah & Savyour/M.P.R.E.S.S.

-Where Did Hip Hop Go?- Huni, Wisdom Soul and Mpress

True Mastery-Sa Roc

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

PEACE

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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7 reasons why you may want to get Treble Army’s album Amierdaca

Reason no. 1-Consumer Rhythm
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v41038018cAwnDeyX?h1=Treble+Army+-+ConsumeRhythm

Reason no. 2-Serve the People

Reason no. 3-Party over Here

Reason no. 4-Lulla Bomb

Reason no. 5-Pay to Live

Reason no. 6-Discobama

Reason no. 7-Monsantoe Jam

The above vids speak for themselves, now treat ya self to the album

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Final thoughts on our two part interview with Brand Nubian’s Lord Jamar

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“Stand up for the truth!” Those were the final words said by one Saladin Allah to close a two part interview that we had with Lord Jamar on TRUE SKOOL RADIO. The issue of emasculating black men in hip hop culture is one the God was/is not going for and stands firm on his square not budging an inch when speaking his mind about it. A very important thing to understand about Lord Jamar is that he is a part of the 5% Nation of Gods and Earths. It’s simple mathematics, the culture of the 5% teaches and advocates as it is above, the universe is not complete without the sun moon and stars, below either is the black family without the man woman and child. Emasculating the black man, feminizing him or whatever you want to call it does not fly, for if men are grafted into being made weak and other than their true selves loving on other men, no babies will be produced and in the culture of the 5% we teach that the babies are the greatest! Anyone who did the knowledge to our show dealing with the Influence of the 5% in Hip Hop would understand how hip hop is to the 5% what reggae is to Rasta culture as like RZA said in his Wu Tang Manual and Jamar said in the interview hip hop in a lot of ways is the 5% or at least a child of the culture that the Gods have been supervising over since it’s inception. Sissifying the culture won’t be tolerated on the watch of hip hoppers like Lord Jamar. When you do the research to hip hop history you will find that the Gods was there in the beginning and Bambaataa himself borrowed many elements of the 5% lessons for the Infinity Lessons of the Zulu Nation. For more examples of how hip hop borrowed from the Gods, again, you can check the show we did discussing the influence of the 5% or just do the knowledge to Lord Jamar’s epk. So while the ignorant will try to write off Lift Up Ya Skirt as some old bitter mc “hating” on a younger cat in the limelight, understand that there is a nation that stands behind and up for what Jamar is speaking on that includes many individuals in their knowledge ciphers (teens) and wisdom ciphers (twenties) that feel the exact same way

Lift Up Ya Skirt is what we call tough love or as mentioned in the interview, pulling your coat. This used to make heads step their game up and improve on their craft. I gave the example of what LL dealt with earlier in his career with his feuds with hip hop legends Kool Moe Dee and Ice T. just to name a few ( because there were subliminals  thrown back and forth with other legends I don’t care to make others realize if they don’t have a clue, lol) unfortunately these days you have a lot of crybabies that will say you are “hating” or being a bully and run back to their “handlers” that introduced them to cake boy characteristics like rocking pussy pink clothing and who have the power to blacklist a so called hip hop bully or hater because as Kasim Allah said on the show, these “handlers”, culture bandits and bloodsuckers who DID NOT create this culture are writing all the checks. They hire their peoples so they won’t have to deal with the Lord Jamar/Dave Chapelle types that are not going to put on some sissified fag ish like the stylist Jamar mentioned on the set of the tv show Person of Interest. Did I use the word fag? Yes, because these handlers have no problem with artists on their labels using the word nigga and perpetuating the disrespect of our women and genocide on wax. The industry can’t deal with strong black men. The type like Rakim who when on Dre’s Aftermath label stood firm on his square and said he was not going to have some sellout content on his project, went independent and continued doing what he does best. The industry can’t handle the Immortal Technique types that tell major labels to take the deals they are offering and shove it, for these labels only wish to compromise and water down their art. Just ask Jay Electronica who has turned in two albums since signing with Roc Nation that Jay Z blocked because “there wasn’t a single” on either of them. Meanwhile Bun B, a hip hop artist who reflects the type of individuals Jay E is trying to reach said the finished Jay E album he heard was a classic…………..that was over two years ago. So yeah, the industry can’t handle the dead prez types that will turn down a Roc Nation deal. Say what you want about Information Age, that’s the album dead prez wanted to put out last year and you are only lying to yourself if you think Roc Nation would have put that out.There is nothing wrong with checking your fellow brother from time to time. In our interview I appreciated when my a alike Saladin CHECKED me when I used a word in a question I posed that I should have known better to use as far as how he would “react” to something. It made me remember to be sharper and on point when building with my a alikes and select my words more carefully ya know? However I do see that we have a lot of boys running around in what is being called hip hop culture (when in actuality it’s more so rap culture and when you listen to pt. 2 of our interview with Lord Jamar he breaks that down), much in part to the sissifying of it, so I am not mad at seeing a man doing what men in our neighborhoods have always done. To all the lil boys crying, MAN UP! Yall really need to take them skirts off and get that soy out your diet, too much estrogen. You see, this is why in Byron Hurt’s Beats and Rhymes documentary Busta Rhymes could not even entertain the question of could he ever see homosexual mcs being accepted in hip hop ( yes I am aware of the positive comments he had to say about Frank Ocean coming out the closet, however as we said in the interview like MJ and Prince are a different genre, so is Frank Ocean) Now an area of improvement while viewing that scene in the documentary or something we can ask ourselves is how come we don’t defend and instead tolerate how our women are disrespected in hip hop songs? I mean damn a bitch IS a female dog and we refer to our women as that in hip hop!? Elijah Muhammad said a nation can rise no higher than it’s women and with the way our women have been treated in hip hop, it’s no wonder we are where we’re at, shoot, the female mc is practically non existent when you compare the time we are in to eras when the likes of Yo Yo, Nikki D, Monie Luv, Latifah, MC Lyte, Rage, Lil Kim, Foxxy Brown, Lauryn Hill and Salt N Pepa reigned supreme. Now this is the part where someone mentions how some of those sistas are lesbians. I don’t know that to be true, I really don’t care like I don’t care about anyone’s sexuality. What I do know is their music is heterosexual and they are not spreading no gay type of lifestyle in their music and they made songs showing their affinity and admiration for black men when it came to romance, not women. Like Lord Jamar said hip hop is heterosexual. It is very masculine as well, that’s why many female mcs early on were rough and rugged in their dress and rap style (see Lin Que, Deadly Venoms, Rage, 5 Footaz and even an early Lauryn Hill)

Now, a few more issues to cover regarding the interview, I’m not scared of no fake wannabe nazi skinheads I’ve ran across in this racist state of AZ I live in and I have never backed down to any pig (cop) trying to be intimidating, please believe I fear no DEVIL in complete violation trying to assassinate my brother Lord Jamar’s character. Like I said in I’m G-O-D “I fear no man, no woman, don’t give a damn, we all bleed red blood kid, even crips” I just wanted to reiterate I did not care to give one mmk (if you don’t know who that is that’s fine, he’s nobody) any type of pub on MY show, I am not going to acknowledge or use my breath to say someone’s name I do not respect and then have people researching him. Like I said you might research something like Black Wallstreet, or people like Assata Shakur and James Baldwin by listening to TSR but not that DEVIL. And like I said on the show if you going to be gay, be James Baldwin gay because at least he stood for something real. As far as the word devil, I am not going to say too much on that but this is hip hop, created by brown and black people in the inner cities of the hells of North Amerikkka. It’s a culture where you will hear us from time to time refer to whites as devils, there’s a reason for that. This is not a culture where individuals like those that make up White Girl Mobb (their career is over, I can mention them) can use the word nigga and nobody says nothing. Even Eminem apologized when Benzino tried to pull his coat with some old tape of him using that word because he KNOWS. Damn, now that I think about it, Em has a lot of so called homophobic raps, how many grammies does he have again? Oh yeah, back to the word devil, everyone who saw James Cameron’s movie Avatar, when the Navi called the humans demons, even in the company of humans who were down with them, the humans that were on their team in the movie “got it” and everyone watching the movie “got it.” If you don’t “get it” when you hear blacks using the word devil in hip hop like probably any mc in your top 10 has said on wax before if your top 10 is worth a damn than uhhh……..sounds like a personal problem, deal with it or you can do the knowledge to Jamar’s epk again in which he defines clearly what a real live devil is. This is OUR culture, you don’t have to understand it but you WILL respect it if you are an outsider or you can just leave it alone, that would be nice for a change. But yeah, I don’t play, when I seen what mmk said in his wack ass article and the photo shopped pic of Lord Jamar I just removed him from my page on fb, I implore all of you to do the same. If no one pays him any attention it will be all that much more sweeter when his justice is served because he will have never seen it coming. Bad boys move in silence.

Lastly, is fashion a part of hip hop? Indeed! STREET fashion is. Street cats don’t rock skirts or clothes made by Italian fags who’s names they can’t pronounce, these are just clothes you see on them in the media being put on them and introduced to them by those who partake in a deathstyle (not lifestyle) that doesn’t reproduce and want to impose their sense of fashion on us. If this comes off harsh, I don’t apologize because trying to make the black man something other than he is or as said in the interview, make the natural unnatural, that is harsh and really unacceptable in my eyes. Like Kasim Allah said these “artsy queers” are going to have to start respecting hip hop and it starts with Lift Up Ya Skirt, it’s time to put things all back into perspective. Nobody is scared of nothing, phobia? Homophobia!? LOL That’s hilarious, like the God said that is very extreme using that word. I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan and I never ever ran from a gay man as well. One of the most important parts of the interview I would say is when Saladin responded to the question about comparing the gay struggle to the black struggle, it is NOT the same. I advise whoever’s reading this that has not listened to the interviews to do so and really take heed to the knowledge that was being dropped. ANYONE can be gay, I could have been discriminated by a gay person who was a boss at my job, a cop who harassed me or ANYONE. When you see us you see that we are black and you act accordingly on how you wish to with the the way you discriminate against us if that’s what you choose to do. How can I answer what has a gay person ever did to me? I don’t know the sexual preference of everyone who gives me a hard time.

Before I end this it is very important to understand when it comes to building a new industry or independent media we HAVE to start somewhere. There’s going to have to be a point when we stop messing with these well known mediums and go to our own. You got a youtube channel? That’s cool, use it to advertise but we have rbgtube. Later for Netflix, mess with blackflix you know what I’m saying? Check out nbtv. Turn off the radio and BET and MTV, tune into TRUE SKOOL and to my peers, a alikes, whoever…………….WHENEVER you have something to share that addresses the wants and needs of our communities or feel it’s something beneficial or just want to promote your project or anything you got going that’s positive, THAT is what TSR is for, this is YOUR platform. Let’s be more vocal, supportive and proactive about things like TRUE SKOOL RADIO because yall know this type of interview is what yall fiend for and you don’t be getting it anywhere else so why not support? We all know what hip hop was like when the gods was heavily present and we see what it’s like without their presence, best believe on TSR you’ll be hearing some of the hip hop gods on building from time to time. With that being said, I’m going to leave yall with this video of Kanye to see what’s going on. Look at the people he is surrounded by, are these the people who surrounded him in the streets of Southside Chicago when he was trying to make a name for himself getting his beat tapes in the hands of anyone that would listen? Yet and still they get mad at the Allen Iverson types that have their entourages around them d’void of the cakeboy types like ol boy in the video talm bout “it look reeeal good, mmm hmmmm” smh

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-True Father Allah