Posted by Min. Paul Scott Min. Paul Scott My favorite scene from the 70s flick, Scarface was For those who are not down with the latest news and Jadakiss is not the first Black person to come under Although, the topic of controversy on the surface is I am sure the Conservatives are sitting around in This society is used to putting the Black community in I am sure that when the first Right Winger was surfing In an excellent article by Fayemi Shakur, it was We should seize the time and bombard all the On the the hook of Why, crooner Anthony Hamilton, I know that this whole controversy has shattered the
on 9/3/2004, 10:17 am
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Jadakiss: Make Way for the New Bad Guy
when a drunk Tony Montana stumbles out the door of a
restaurant dissin a group of rich folks (probably
right wing ultra conservatives) exposing them as
hypocrites. (You! Youre not so good..You just know
how to hide..) In 2004, make way for the new bad guy,
Hip Hop artist Jadakiss.
grooves from the world of Hip Hop, Jadakiss is under
fire from Bill Oreilly and the crew for his song
'Why' which commits to CD some of the top 20 questions
that Black folks discuss every day at the barbershop,
beauty supply store or in line at the local 7-11. But
what has the Conservatives up in arms is one line in
the song where he metaphorically questions the
presidential role that set the political climate for
the events of 9/11. (Heaven forbid!)
fire during a political season, as every election
needs a token big, black boogeyman to scare white
folks into voting. From Willie Horton in the 80s to
Sister Souljah (who was dissed by the Democrats) in
the 90s, politicians need a black scapegoat to lay
the sins of society upon. This years poster child
just happens to be Jadakiss.
being played out as outrage over a rap lyric, a far
deeper issue is the outrage by white America over the
audacity of a loud, young, black gangsta rapper to
have a political thought in his head and the courage
to articulate that thought to a beat so funky that it
makes Grandma get up and jam.
their political war rooms right now asking Who told
that nigger to think ?
a small box and has reduced predicting our behavior
down to a perfect science. Put crack in the community
and theyll sell it to each other, drop a couple of
truck loads of semi automatic rifles in tha hood and
theyll kill each other, give them two turntables and
a microphone and theyll rap about selling crack and
killing each other. So any deviation from the norm
throws white America into a tizzy.
channels between Fox News and the Country Music
Network and stumbled upon the Why video with all
those Black folks marching down the street holding up
the Black Power fist he must have been quite
disturbed. (BUFFY, GET ME AN ASPIRIN!) Although, many
of them say that they are concerned that a mob of gun
totin thug gangsta rappers will ride into their
suburban communities pillaging their quiet
neighborhoods, the real fear is that these so called
thugs will develop a political ideology/agenda and
question why so many Black folks live in poverty and
then demand an answer..
suggested that the Hip Hop community should stand up
and support Jadakiss right to FREE speech. This same
call should be magnified and echoed throughout the
Black Nationalist/Afrocentric community, as many of us
have spent years begging and pleading for our Brothers
and Sisters in Hip Hop to become more politically
conscious. So when a Brother steps forward and says
something that brings down the wrath of white America
, we cant run in the house, lock our doors and do the
aint nobody here but us chickens routine.
Conservatives on TV, radio and in newspapers with
emails and phone calls exposing the hypocrisy of the
Right wing. Have they forgotten that history lesson
that we were forced to learn in 8th grade about not
agreeing with what someone says but defending their
right to say it? Maybe they skipped class that day.
We should remind them of the previous attacks on
rappers who have had the courage to speak TRUTH to
power, Chuck D, Professor Griff, etc and make the
proper connection since so many of them suffer from
historical amnesia.
rhetorically asks the burning question Why they wanna
do me like that ? Its funny how sometimes when you
throw a question out to the universe, the universe
answers back.
dreams of Hip Hop enthusiasts who dreamt of the day
that the Lone Rap Ranger and his posse of conscious
rappers from the Ole School Corral would ride in to
Hip Hop Valley to usher in a new age of Conscious rap.
But until the X-Clan reunion, Ill settle for the
image of Jadakiss bum rushin the stage at the
Republican Convention and kickin an uncensored
version of Why'.
Minister Paul Scott represents the Messianic Afrikan
Nation in Durham NC.
He can be reached at (919) 949-4352
email: messianicafrikannation@yahoo.com
Web site members.blackplanet.com/THE-MYD
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