Posted by Min. Paul Scott on 5/8/2002, 10:36 pm Min. Paul Scott I remember going to one of those hot, summer night As the preacher concluded his two hour sermon he would My sister-in-law recently told me of a dream that she We have not gone that far down the road of destruction Flow with me a moment before you call me crazy; Can you imagine the amount of guilt that some of the The problem is that those of us who consider ourselves It's kind of like the drug dealer or prostitute who We must now correct two wrongs. First, the failure of This Memorial Day will be forever remembered as the One of the excuses that has been used by the What will DJ Silk do when he gets 1000 calls on May So email your emails, fax your faxes, get on the phone While we must appeal to the negative rappers, the To borrow from Nas's One Mic "We need some soul
Ready for a Rap Revival (Remix)
tent revivals, when I was young. The one where the
preacher would transform a crowd of Black folks, who
were quietly complaining about the heat and mosquitos
into a shoutin congregation, so filled with the
spirit
that if the rapture came that night, they would all be
ready to go.
warn the crowd that the end was near and now was the
time to get right because tomorrow might be too
late. I remember Sista Ruth Ann running up to the
alter confessin her sins and Brotha Johnson sinking
down in his seat hoping that she would not remember
that warm August night in 1969 ...
had where ,overnight, the hardest, bling blinginest,
gangsta rappers became born again Black
freedom fighters, dedicating their lives to uplifting
the Black community and repairing the damage that they
had done. I started to give her that look that is
usually reserved for that crazy aunt who is
always seeing the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in her
basement. But hold up; wait a minute; rewind that
back. Why cant it happen??
that we cannot make a u-turn and come back home. We
just need a few brotha's and sista's with the
unshakable FAITH that this will happen and a Black
community willing to make things happen in order to
facilitate this change.
deranged. Suppose the Black community chose one day to
stand up and say NO! to the negativity that has taken
over the Hip Hop culture? What if we had one big Hip
Hop Revival and opened the doors of the Black Nation
and allowed all the gangsta rappers, ballas; thugs,
etc to walk down the aisle and become part of a new
Black Power Movement. I can see it now. As the final
chorus of Bob Marleys Redemption Song begins to
fade, a g drops his gun on the floor and with tears
running down his face, apologizes to the young mother
whose son was killed trying to imitate the life that
he saw in his video.
brotha's and sista's in the rap game are carrying?
Unless, you are totally without a conscience, I am
sure that it is impossible to sleep at night, knowing
that your lyrics and hyped up lifestyle have
contributed to the escalation of Black on Black crime
and the furtherance of the global oppression of
Afrikan people.
conscious have not created the proper atmosphere for
those who have done wrong by the Black community to
repent. In the past, those who have been critical of
Hip Hop were just parroting a conservative Right wing
agenda instead of Black nationalism, so from the stand
point of our young people, an attack on negative rap
became an attack on the Black (ness). At a time when
we should have been pulling the youth closer to us, we
pushed them away. Instead of talking too them, we
talked at them.
comes to church geared up and receives so many dirty
looks from the saved folks that they
walk out of the door before the end of the opening
hymn. We missed an opportunity to reach our youth
and allowed them to go back into the streets instead
of becoming part of the family (Black Nation).
the older generation to see the revolutionary
potentional of Hip Hop and secondly, the failure of
artists to use Hip Hop as a force for the LIBERATION
of Afrikan people.
day that the conscious brotha's and sista's took over.
This May 27th is Hip Hop Reformation Day, a day when
the community activists, conscious rappers, and spoken
word artists across the country will unite together to
bring about a new age in Hip Hop.
entertainment industry is that there are no positive
rappers and if there were, no on would listen to them,
anyway. So the conscious rappers must now start
flooding the radio stations and record companies with
their best material. Then the Black community must
back them up by calling the radio stations demanding
that the positive voices be heard.
27th asking to hear Dead Prez instead of Jay Z. Can
you imagine what the reaction of the owners of Bump
and Grind CDs and More will be when we request CDs
by The Black Consciousness Collective and the CD by
"Killa Kip and the Blunt Brothas" gathers dust on the
99 cent bargain table?
and holla' at ya' folks in Mississippi that you
haven't talked to since the last family reunion; go
wake your grandma up! Do what ever you've gotta do to
make this happen.
bottom line is that it is not really about them; it is
about us; the masses. Memorial Day 2002 will go down
in history as the day the masses of Black people
seized the time and declared a new day for Hip Hop and
the Black Nation.
searching; the time is now."
Minister Paul Scott is founder of the Durham Nc based
New Righteous Movement, which teaches Afrikan
Liberation Theology. For more information contact:
operationmedia@yahoo.com
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