As we remember the lives of those who were lost some 7 years agon on the fatefu day of 9/11. Let their memory live though song, while it is a tough time for many and the country as a whole I chose a few Hip-Hop songs for us to listn to and journey through the joy and the pain of such an atrocity.
These allegations have been hovering around Senator John Edwards for quite some time. I’ll admit, he had me fooled. When I heard the rumors I thought to myself, no way would this man have an extra-marital affair on his wife while she is in such a fragile state. John Edward’s wife Elizabeth has been battling cancer for some time now. His reputation is ruined but that’s not the important issue, he lied to the American Public but that’s the norm for politicians so that’s not the important issue.
The problem here is his wife has to stand by his side, standing up for someone who has embarrassed her in front of the whole world. John Edwards issued a statement saying “You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help,”. I mean even after the man has been caught red handed, he tries to moralize on the public as if he is not the ione who lied, cheated and created this trouble.
Once again I just feel sorry for the wife, she is the victim here. And the story gets even weirder. The woman with whom he cheated has a child who is said to be fathered by another married man who was a former aide to Edwards as well. These women who have these affairs with these married men, who somehow decide to have a conscience like to be the victims as well. Their not, this woman was sleeping with two married men, and having unprotected sex with both of them at that. Once again my prayers are with Elizabeth because she is the one who loses in all this. John Edwards political career was never going anywhere anyway so he’s not losing much.
Seems Nas brought a suprise to his audience last night at the Rock the Bells Tour. It’s good to see two Iconic figures in Hip-Hop on stage ripping it.
Here’s another clip:
I had to get these lyrics man, the dude David Banner spit real hard and I definitely appreciated his words. Check em out!
“I’m grippin’ the nina, visions of 9-11
Visions of three sixes, no sevens
This is Bushanomics
George is a modern day Ronald Reagan
I pray to God in the mist of pagans
Niggas is just sayin’:
When do we stop playing? When do we stop pimpin’ and start sprayin’?
50 shots for every cop that popped Sean Bell his body layin’
But they aquit, because they know that our generation won’t do shit
Nothing, nada
But every rapper is a shotta or a don dada, or a killer
But you ain’t killin’ nothing in this piece unless it’s another nigga
Trying to raise boys to Supermen
And while I’m at it, FUCK Arthur J. Cooperman
It’s never justice for Blacks but they send justice to Iraq
With poor Whites and Latinos
I pray to God that you hear the single
This is Banner’s middle finger!”
- David Banner
It’s is absolutely silly and unproductive to have a funeral for the word nigger when the actions continue. We need to have a movement to resurrect brothers and sister. Not a funeral for NIGGERS, because NIGGERS DON’T DIE! - The Last Poets
NIGGERS ARE LIKE ROACHES; THEY’RE NEVER GONNA GO AWAY. LEARN FROM THEM WHAT WE SHOULD NOT BECOME CUS NIGGERS DON’T DIE! - The Last Poets
With the album releasing this upcoming tuesday the album is leaking everywhere. Here is a bonus track for the UK version of the Album…………. Nas …. Untitled…. Nigger….. Like Me
So what does Nas have to say?
“I think Jesse Jackson, he’s the biggest player hater. His time is up. All you old n****s, time is up. We heard your voice, we saw your marching, we heard your sermons. We don’t wanna hear that s**t no more.
“It’s a new day. It’s a new voice. I’m here now. We don’t need Jesse; I’m here. I got this. We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys.
“We’re the voice now. It’s no more Jesse. Sorry. Goodbye. You ain’t helping nobody in the ‘hood. That’s the bottom line. Goodbye, Jesse. Bye!”
Now let me wrap my head around this statement. Did Nas just say ““It’s a new day. It’s a new voice. I’m here now. We don’t need Jesse; I’m here. I got this. We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys.” Like does that even make sense. This ego of yours has got to stop my brother, Nas you must have forgotten that your credibility waned when you pulled your recent “NIGGER” stunt. You remember don’t you, naming your album Nigger knowing it would create heavy backlash and then changing it at the last minute because of fear of record stores not carrying it. Wasn’t that obvious!
So goodbye Cornel West, and Kevin Powell, we have Nas, Jeezy and David Banner. What we have to realize is that all of our voices count for something. We can not look to rappers to be the voice of the people because far too often they are the voice of their own pocket. But we do have to acknowledge their presence, their thoughts. Their minds click just like the rest of ours do, in order to reach true equality to promote true change we must combine all of our voices and put action to OUR agenda.
But I mean do we really have to throw Jesse Jackson under the bus. Do we reallly have to play the ignorant younger generation role and discredit the great things Jesse has done in the black community. Let’s be serious!
And why is it when we have a problem we run to the media, is this a ploy to sell albums. This is the pot calling the kettle black; the older generation discredits the younger and the younger discredit the older. Is this not the same system that was created to destroy black communities in the first place that you so eloquently rap on your new album.
Tell me what’s better; white supremacy or black supremacy. Neither, they both look to do the same thing, they just change the beneficiary. So Our generation versus the Civil Rights Generation is no different and the countless bickering takes away form the bigger picture at hand. It is clear that the slave/ master mentality is still in place; althought we are slaves to money and attention, not just hegemony and institutionalized racism.
