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Ozone Mag Chin Check June 08
We now take a small break from being positive and uplifting our community to criticize this culture that we love called Hip Hop. Why? In the immortal words of TIP off the T.I. vs. T.I.P. album, Act Three, Track 16, Verse Three (song Tell Em' I Said That), bar 11, "Cause the Game Feels Like The Real NI**AS on Strike!" There is just a lot of bullshit going on in the industry that is rubbing Cthagod the wrong way. For a giant, these are just small things that are bothering me almost like that small pea the princess felt through those 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds. (Step your fairy tale game up).
1) Nas changing his album title - Nas is my second favorite MC of all time. Number one is Ghostface Killah, two is Rakim Allah, four is Andre 3000 and five is TIP if you're wondering. It pisses me off that he changed the title of his album because we know the reason he did it is because he buckled under the pressure of Corporate America. Nas is more concerned about his bottom line, the almighty dollar and not the impact that title would have had on the world. There was a sense of urgency to go out and grab that album because Nas was rebelling against the system and going against the grain. People who where not even fans of Nas where going to grab that album just off the title alone because they wanted to know what could this guy possibly be talking about. Now that sense of urgency has dissipated. Diehard fans like me will support him but I'm still disgusted. People get a Revelation of Truth and they're scared to stand on that truth because of the persecution that comes with that truth. People who really believe in the message they're delivering have a spirit that knows no matter what persecution they encounter on account of those words will only make them stronger.
I guess Nas isn't willing to fight for his truth. That is why the scripture reads "Many are called but only a few or chosen." Nas had a Revelation to call his album Nigger but he obviously doesn't have the strength to stand up for it under the persecution of his record label and whoever else pressured him to change the title of his CD. What's funny is he would not have been the first to do it. ODB had Nigga Please, 2 Pac Had Strictly for My Nigga, Richard Pryor, Bicentinnial Nigga and That Nigga's Crazy. Hell, NWA stands for Niggas With Attitude! What's even more funny is the conversation probably went like this from the higher ups at Universal, "Hey, call that Nigga LA Reid and tell him to tell that Nigga Nas to change his album title or we're firing both them Niggas." End quote.
2) Lil Punk Ass Wayne - How many passes are we going give this clown Lil Wayne? It's to the point that we're all are going to have to start taking the blame for his bullshit. The media, the consumers, radio stations and video channels. We are the enablers of this guy's ignorance. He said he's going to kill newborn babies. He said he stopped sniffing cocaine because it gives him acne? That is the best reason he could find to stop using cocaine? Now he says he created the whole genre of mix tapes, he says fuck mix tape DJ's and you guys let him slide with a half ass apology to DJ Drama? Please, I totally cosign my brother DJ Chuck T and his movement to download Lil Wayne's CD to death. I hear yall, "Naw that's fucked up." "You are taking money out Wayne's pockets!" Negro please the only check Lil Wayne needs right now is a reality check. No need to get into a whole bunch of rhetoric over Lil Lame, check the archives of Ozone and read my Fuck Lil Wayne editorial. I heard the Carter 3. It's good, nothing amazing, just like the writer of the album. I keep telling yall Lil Wayne is overrated, over hyped, he has over extended his welcome and he'll probably die of and overdose.
3) Dj Drama - Drama is my man but damn he was soft on Wayne. I distinctly remember MTV asking Lil Wayne about Dj Drama's situation after the federal raid and Wayne said, "Smarten up." "It's a bad thing, but you gotta play the game fair." "If you don't play fair, all kind of things can happen." "You gotta watch people like DJ Clue; watch people like DJ Khaled, they do it right." "You gotta do it right." Wayne said, "It's gonna be a message, the authorities, ain't playing." "They gonna make an example." "They gonna straighten the game out." "A lot of companies take a fall with those mix tapes." "Niggas (Dj Drama) be caking up off them mix tapes." The artists can drop his album and everybody knows that hip-hop album sales are in decline; nobody ain't gonna buy the album and everybody gets the mix tapes off of the Internet or whatever way they get it." "The artists ain't caking, but the nigga you made the mix tape with is caking up." "Thank God I ain't got that problem, but I know a lot of people who do!"
He threw Drama under the bus and Drama should have returned the favor when he called in with that I apologize but I meant every word I said, fuck yall, I'll chew your face off apology. What really bothered me about this interview is when Drama let Wayne diss every DJ that uses Serato or Final Scratch. Wayne talked about how Djs be in the club with the computer on top of the turntables. Duh! Drama, how you let this cornball diss damn near every DJ in the game? Name a Dj who is not using Serato or Final Scratch? Fred Flintstone ass Djs still using turntables probably can't afford to upgrade. Wayne called Drama and basically said I apologize but fuck yall anyway. So he basically said fuck mix tape Djs twice and Drama let him.
Not only did Drama let him but asked him to do a Dedication Three. Last time I checked, Drama was one of the kings of the mix tape game, so when Wayne says fuck mix tape Djs, I would think this means you too Drama. For Wayne to say fuck mix tape Djs, apologize, then say fuck mix tape Djs again and Drama still ask him to do a Dedication is the equivalent of a man slapping the shit out of a female, apologizing, slapping the shit out of her again and then that female ask that man for sex. Drama you my man but the same way you carried the cross for mix tape Djs when you got busted is the same way you should have carried the cross when that drug addict called into your show.
4) Voice coder Epidemic – What is wrong with you dudes? Since when is it okay to just take a bite out of another man's swagger? T Pain came with the voice coder thing for this generation. (Salute to Roger Troutman) and now every rapper and their weed carrier wants to use the voice coder! Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent. Even local rappers in any Hood USA are using this shit. I want to speak for T Pain because he is too much of a gentleman to say it, "Get off my dick!" "Can I live?" "Can I at least get a third album out before yall start chewing on my shit?" I saw this happen with Das Efx, that bumstiggidy style was dope but before they could get a second album out, other MC's bit off their style and played it out so bad that by the time the originators of the style came back around, nobody wanted to hear that shit! Imitation is not always the best form of flattery.
5) Shawty Lo vs. TI - We all know TI in a rap battle against Shawty Lo is about as competitive as a John Deere lawn mower against grass but what bothered me is that Shawty Lo was calling out TI for not being from Bankhead when in reality he should be an equal opportunity hater (like myself) and call out every person repping the "A" who wasn't even born in Georgia! Wikipedia some of these people: Usher - Chattanooga, Tennessee, Ludacris – Champaign, Illinois, Young Jeezy – Columbia, SC (wish you would have stayed Jeezy), Ciara - Austin, Texas and Jermaine Dupri – Ashville, North Carolina. I mean these are just the ones I can name off the top of my head. I'm sure there are a bunch of cats in the "A" reading this ready to send a list of performers from the "A" who where not born there. Actually JB, I think this should be a future feature in Ozone entitled, "It Ain't where you from, it's where you at, but where exactly are you from again?"
6) The saying "It Ain't where you from, it's where you at" - People that use this phrase bother me because they never want to be where they're from to begin with. People tell me that all the time in New York. "It ain't where you from it's where you at." That statement makes a lot of since physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and spiritually. Physically if you are an obese, fat fuck like Star Jones and you lost weight like she did, then physically it's not where you're from it where you're at. Mentally if your brain wasn't filled with what it needed to be filled with and you where just a dumb jackass but over time you educated yourself, then it's not where you're from it's where your at. Emotionally if you where disturbed, distraught, unhappy but you grew to cope with your emotions and now your loving and have self-esteem and you are more secure then it's not where your from it's where you're at. Financially if you where broker than Chingy's road manager (cause no one is booking the "Corniest of All Time" for shows) and you came up and got rich like say Plies' road manager then it's not where your from it's where your at. Spiritually if you where caught in a triple state of unawareness and ignorance commonly called dumb, deaf and blindness and then you acquired a knowledge of self and where awakened then it's not where your from it's where your at. Geographically it's all about where your from! The things you learned where you are from dictate how you survive where you are at. So the saying should be fuck where your at, it's where your from!
Now I'm done venting I got real shit to go write about. I just want you suckers to remember that the Cultural Critic Charlamagne Tha God is always watching. Salute to Bianca Barnes over at BET for coining me the Cultural Critic, thank you. I can't stop calling myself that now! P.S. South Carolina aka South Crack The Album in stores August 19th!
10 Reasons JD Must be a Leprechaun....
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10 Reasons Jermaine Dupri must be a Leprechaun a.k.a. The Luckiest Little Man in Hip Hop
10) Money Ain't a Thing Video - This video was all the Luck of the Leprechaun. Using his Leprechaun luck, a phone book, and pedal extensions, he was lucky enough to be able to reach the pedals of those hot ass cars he was driving in this video. This video did a lot for the Leprechauns image and had him mentioned in the same breath as Sean Combs, but only when people said damn JD trying to be like Puffy.
9) Kris Kross - This was one of the Leprechauns first pots of gold. He was lucky enough to discover two childhood friends, Chris Kelly and Chris Smith in 1991 at an Atlanta shopping mall. Dupri thought the two "looked like a rap group" and proceeded to gas these twelve-year olds to wear their clothes backwards. There debut album “Totally Krossed Out” went 4 xs platinum in the US and to this day nobody really knows why? I also always wondered if he encouraged them to wear there boxers backwards? If he did, with the hole in the back instead of the front, their album should have been called "Totally Assed Out".
8) Whoever introduced him to Bow Wow - In 1998 at the age of eleven, Bow Wow was introduced to JD who sprinkled a little Leprechaun luck on Bow Wow's young career. Now I don't know who introduced Bow Wow to the Leprechaun but half of this pot of gold should have gone to them. Nobody gave a damn about Slow Slow Death in 1998. I mean nobody cares now, but they where damn near dead then. It was rumored that Bow Wow was a Leprechaun, but nobody would really knew until he got older. Those rumors have been shot down now that he's older because he's too tall to be a Leprechaun and has established himself pretty well in the music and film industry (without the Leprechaun's assistance).
7) His Braids - JD was lucky enough to wear cornrows years after going bald. This combined with his natural Leprechaun height kept up his youthful appearance so he didn't look like Bow Wow's vertically challenged father in Bow Wow's videos.
6) Da Brat - Now this is when rumors of JD being a lucky little Leprechaun really started. He swagger jacked Snoop and reincarnated his style in the form of a female MC and Da Brat was born. Even though much better MCs like Queen Latifah and MC Lyte came before her and had commercial and critical success none of them ever went platinum, but Da Brat did. She was the first female solo artist to ever go platinum. The Leprechaun strikes again.
5) The Street Single - This is what Greg Street was talking about when he said the Leprechaun was a BDS A&R. He goes and grabs pots of gold that are already out there and claims them as his own for example: Bone Crusher (Neva Scared), J-Kwon (Tipsy), Youngbloodz (Damn), Franchise Boys (I think They Like Me) and Rocko (Umma Do Me). A deaf man could hear these where going to be hits, but JD was lucky enough to sign these artists at key periods in Slow Slow Deaths existence. These records have served as life support for a label that should have been dead years ago.
4) Michael Mauldin - The Leprechauns father and former President of Columbia Records. What, you thought JD worked his way into the game? No! He was lucky enough to get handed his position in the game. This explains why he doesn't really have an ear for talent most of his artist where introduced to him by someone else (see # 8) or they where more gimmick than talent i.e., Kris Kross, Da Brat and Bow Wow, or they already had a single buzzing (see # 5) and JD just stamped So So Def on it and called it his own. Who needs an ear for talent when your father was a president for a major record label? Lucky bastard!
3) The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey's comeback record went 6 xs platinum, fueled by the singles “It's Like That”, “We Belong Together” and “Shake it Off”, all co produced and co written by JD. This had to be the luck of the Leprechaun (see # 2).
2) Janet Jackson - This is the moment when people realized JD was not human, but was an actual real live Leprechaun living among us. How did he bag Janet Jackson? The Luck of the Leprechaun!! This is how we know the Emancipation of Mimi was pure leprechaun luck because he had two chances to bring Janet back with 20 Y.O. and Discipline and couldn't do it. He used all his pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers to bag Janet in the first place. He had no more luck left as far as she was concerned to make pots of gold appear at the end of the rainbows of her last two albums.
1) DJs playing Slow Slow Death Records - If it wasn't for the DJ, not one record JD produced or wrote would have ever been played! If it wasn't for the DJ, Da Brat and Bow Wow would be nobodies! If it wasn't for the DJ, he would have never established the So So Def DJs even though we know he did this just to have a coalition of people to force his latest batch of hot garbage down the world's throats! Now since his, “The DJ is dead” comments, the Leprechaun’s luck has run out. The DJ has no reason to support a mediocre talent, with a mediocre roster of artist and a very mediocre label. R.I.P. to the Leprechaun’s career, sadly it was already dying a Slow Slow Death.
Ozone Mag Chin Check June 2008
Jesus would have been a radio personality/DJ. I want you to understand exactly what I just said so I will repeat it again. Jesus would have been a radio personality/DJ. How did I come to this conclusion? Well, Jesus was a public servant. He is an example of a man who truly came to serve. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says we should not want public office or positions of power so that we can become big shots. We should want public office and positions of power so that we can serve.
Jesus himself said, “He who would be great among you, let him be your servant." What Would Jesus Do If He Was A Jock? He would be a public servant. He would serve the needs of the people. If you’re a radio personality/DJ and you don't feel that you are a public servant then you need to do us all a favor and dress like Bin Laden and go running up to the White House with a backpack on screaming JIHAD! The people have needs, so those of us in service are only good if we can use our power to satisfy the needs of those whom we serve.
Let's be clear, we all know the radio personality/DJ game is a thankless business. The hours are long and the money is short. Most of us probably wouldn’t be doing it if we didn't have a genuine love for what we do. Think about the headaches you go through when dealing with program directors who don't even live the lifestyle. Think about having to compete with other radio personalities and DJs who are so far outside the demographic you are targeting that they think Day 26 is a four week weight loss program guaranteed to have you 20 pounds lighter on the 26th day. Even worse, they think Shawty Lo is an artificial sweetener for young kids with diabetes.
I ask Mass Communication majors all the time “Are you getting involved with radio because you have a genuine love for the game?” “Do you want to be involved because you have a genuine need or desire to make the lives of others better?” If not, then I would strongly suggest another profession; something that does not have you directly affecting the lives of the people that hear you on a daily basis. I know there are some radio personality/DJs out there right now saying, “Man Charlamagne sit your ass down somewhere, I'm just here to collect my little piece of a paycheck and keep it moving.” Well my friend that is why your ratings suck. That is why you still don't have that shift you wanted at the station. That is why no one is returning your calls about that air check you sent out. That is why you can't get any more than $200 to spin at a party and that is why the streets of the city you are in don't f**k with you. The reason is because you have not embraced the divine position that God has put you in, the position of public servant.
A lot of times we get caught up in our own hype and we stop serving the needs of the people. We start thinking it's all about us. DJs play what they want to hear or what their feeling instead of really checking the pulse of the city and seeing what the people want to hear. I know DJs that won't play local records that are smash hits on the radio just because the artist hasn't personally come to holla at them and rub there balls. Message to those DJs…your purpose in life will only be found in service to others and in being connected to something far greater than your punk ass ego. And you wonder why local artist want to fight your ass now. It's called Karma from not doing your divine duty as a public servant.
I also have an issue with DJs who don't play records because they are directly affiliated with certain crews. DJ Khaled shouldn't stop playing G-Unit music just because they have issues with Fat Joe. Now they have thrown Khaled into the so called beef, but that is only because Khaled chose sides and stopped playing G Unit music. It’s the same thing with Whoo Kid. He shouldn't stop playing Fat Joe's records because Joe has a so called beef with 50. When you start getting caught up like that, you as a DJ are totally abandoning the needs of the people. You mean to tell me no one has called Khaled's show and requested a G Unit record? No one has called Whoo Kid and requested a Fat Joe record? I'm sure they have and when these DJs don't play the records because they can't swallow their false sense of pride to serve the needs of the people what does that listener do? They switch stations. That listener goes somewhere where their needs can be served.
Law 20 in the 48 Laws of Power says “Do not commit to anyone, it is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.” If you are a truly a public servant committing to yourself or your cause is not a problem because your cause is to serve the needs of the public and not the needs of the crew you wear on a chain around your neck. Whenever you DJs and radio personalities get put in a situation where you have to make a decision between your ego and the needs of the people simply ask yourself, “What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock?” If Jesus was in New York spinning in a club or on the radio and he knew that the people where demanding Southern Music, he wouldn't purposely play hours of everything else and only do a 15 minute Southern set; especially when those 15 minutes where the only time the club got live.
Jesus would serve the needs of the people because a true public servant comes to serve! When it comes to being a radio personality/DJ there are forces greater than your ego that are always at work. Do you think Jesus would get caught up in radio station beef? Jocks not talking to other jocks in the streets because they work at rival stations. I hate to see jocks throwing shots at each other because anything can and will happen in this business and that jock you are dissing could be your co worker one day or better yet your boss!
Malcolm X was a public servant and so was Martin Luther King Jr. You never saw them dissing each other even though they didn't agree with each other’s approaches. Do you know why? Because even with different approaches they where fighting for the same cause. That cause was the betterment of those who needed it, a cause we are still fighting for today. Instead of throwing shots at each other and fighting for positions in the ratings, radio stations should be coming together and devising ways to make the city you are in the best city it can possibly be.
What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock? That is the question; Jesus would use his platform to teach. He would give the people food for thought to digest. I know everyday I approach the mic as Co-host of the Wendy Williams Experience I make it my duty to give the people a jewel. I make it my duty to plant a seed in someone’s brain. P.E.A.C.E. can be a acronym for Please Educate Allah's Children's Everyday! That is why you come on the radio six days a week damn near everyday because God is giving you a chance to teach and that is the duty of a public servant! I encourage all radio personalities/DJs to get on your job. The people in the city you are in need you. Stop going to the station just to collect a check. God put you in the position you are in for a reason. You have the power to change lives. There is a reason they call it radio programming. You are psychologically programming people’s mental states through the radio.
DJs, those BDS spins mean the world to an artist! You can single handily change someone's life by simply playing a record enough times! Don't abuse your power people! If you have any doubts about your position, simply ask, “What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock?” The answer to that question lies in service to the public.
Don't Believe The Hype!
North Carolina and Indiana as each of your primaries approach, please don't be fooled. Barack Obama is still the right candidate to vote for at the end of the day no matter how much the media tries to spin this Rev. Jeremiah Wright situation out of control. The media has a way of demonizing any issue or any person it chooses to. The same people in the media who are spinning this out of control and taking the Rev. Jeremiah Wrights words all out of context are the same people who don't want to see Barack Obama in the White House. As a matter of fact what do Rev. Jeremiah Wright's opinions and views have to do with Barack Obama? So what if he was Barack's pastor for 20 years. So what if he baptized Barack's daughters. So what if he officiated Barack's wedding. Does that make his views the views of Mr. Obama? If you believe the answer to be yes, then you believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an unpatriotic racist and you must believe Barack is as well because Rev. Wright is his pastor. You must also believe that everyone who listened to the words of the various Catholic Priests that were involved sexually with young boys to be congregations filled with homosexual pedophiles.
How do I feel about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments? I think he speaks truth to power. There is so much truth in the things he says that I'm shocked they are even giving him the media coverage they are! Of course their just doing that because there real agenda is to hang Barack Obama, but i'm hard pressed to find one untruth in Jeremiah Wrights statements. Did the government create HIV and Aids to destroy the black community? Rev Wright says based on the Tuskegee experiments and what has happened to Africans in this country, he believes this government is capable of anything and guess what people, he is right!
The Tuskegee experiments for those who don't know, was a forty year ordeal between 1932 and 1972. During this time, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for "bad blood, their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. For good measure Rev. Jeremiah Wright should have threw in the alleged use of smallpox blankets as a means of Indian genocide by the Unites States Army and the Government.
The headline in the NY Post quoted Rev. Wright saying, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.” Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles. He used the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II as an example of US Terrorism, and guess what? Once again the Rev is Right (pun intended)! Let's be real, a nuclear bomb was not necessary at the end of World War II. President Truman's theory in doing so was the bombing would bring the war to an end in a timely fashion, but over 100,000 innocent Japanese men, women and children were killed. That was an act of terrorism just as the planes that were hijacked and forced to collide with the World Trade Center and innocent men and women where killed!
The US doesn't look at Hiroshima as an act of terrorism and the people that planned 9-11 don't look at their actions as acts of terrorism. Someone said to me you might be right but how can Jeremiah Wright say that is a biblical principal? Galatians Chapter Six Verse Seven reads, “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Karma muthafuckers! You can't escape it! I continue to hear people say Jeremiah Wright shouldn't be talking right now, he's hurting Barack. Hurting Barack in the eyes of whom? He's a man of God not the government. He is a pastor not a politician. He's doing his divine ordained duty by preaching and he's speaking truth to power! Rev. Jeremiah Wright said it best, “I'm running for Jesus not political office.” Let's not forget they chose to put the cameras on him! So he is supposed to stop doing what God wants him to do because the media is making and issue out of something that shouldn't be an issue at all?
What Rev. Jeremiah Wright says shouldn't even be linked to Barack Obama. Barack shouldn't have to hold press conferences denouncing another man because of that other man's views. I don't see anyone telling Republicans to denounce the endorsement of Pat Buchanan who has been a senior advisor to Nixon, Ford, and Regan. He sought the republican presidential nomination in 92 and 96 and endorsed President George W. Bush and is no doubt backing John Mccain. Pat Buchanan should be demonized in the media just as much as Rev. Wright referring to AIDS in 1983. Buchanan wrote in his column that Gays have "declared war upon nature and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.” In later years he urged New York City Mayor Ed Koch and New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo to cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague." In a 1990 interview, he stated he was "the first national columnist to demand why the government wasn't dealing with this national epidemic" and stood by his view that AIDS is a consequence of immoral sex. In 1993, Buchanan called homosexuality unhealthy and said most people will describe sex between two men as, "not only immoral, but filthy." Further, Buchanan said public acceptance of homosexuality inevitably leads to societal decay and the collapse of the family. In his autobiography he wrote,"Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man's right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?" Now you all know if Rev. Jeremiah Wright had said anything remotely like that they would be calling for Barack Obama to drop out the race. No one says anything to the Republicans when they have someone like this amongst them. In a 1983 syndicated column, Buchanan wrote, women are "simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.”
Hillary supporters should hate that one and hate Pat Buchanan for saying it! Why are they not forcing John Mccain to explain the words of Pat Buchanan? Why has no other president that Buchanan has advised been forced to explain Pat's views? For some reason, when it comes to them the media is smart enough to know that Pat Buchanan's views don't reflect who he's advising or endorsing! And just for good measure on March 21, 2008, after Barack's race speech, Pat Buchanan had this to say, “First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. .Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.Governments. Businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants, churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new "ladders of opportunity" for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for "deserving" white kids. Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims three percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse and black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard at nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena and all turned out to be hoaxes, but about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. Now this is racist even though there is a lot of truth in what Pat is saying I would say that the system here in America created a lot of the conditions that caused Black people to need so much government aid to begin with, but that's not the point. The point is why is no one making John Mccain denounce Pat Buchanan? Because there is a double standard commonly called some bullshit people!
It's the same double standard (bullshit) that allows Hillary Clinton to blatantly lie about being under fire in Bosnia and no one puts pressure on her to explain it. It’s the same double standard (bullshit) that allows John Mccain to simply apologize for opposing a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Yes ladies and gentleman he was against honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday.
McCain said he was "slow to give greatness its due" before eventually supporting a state MLK holiday in Arizona. Why exactly where you slow Mr. Mccain? Let Barack have been in that situation, the media would have eaten him alive! Even with the Sean Bell case, why is Barack being asked how he feels about the verdict but not the other candidates? Oh cause Barack's black, but what about the fact Hillary was the Senator of New York City and New York is allegedly her territory. Not one reporter wants to know how she feels about the verdict or how she feels about police brutality in NYC.
Don't fall for the media's bullshit people especially in Indiana and North Carolina. The media is trying to mentally program you to have a view of Barack Obama that doesn't even exist. They really don't want him to win trust that. North Carolina especially, vote Barack next week in the primaries if you don't, you will be doing yourself an your country a grave injustice by falling for the media's tricknology.
No Justice No Peace
I was starting to have the feeling that things where changing here in Amerikkka. I was starting to think that the American creed of Freedom, Justice, and Equality was starting to be applied to all races and was just not exclusively for the rich, high class, white people. I was starting to think with the rise of Barack Obama that maybe, just maybe we where starting to be treated equally in all facets of American society. I mean even though Barack Obama is of mixed race he is in every aspect looked upon as a black man. When I saw people like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and the likes of them embracing Obama I started to feel like, wow MLK's dream is being realized! A black man is not being judged by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.
My fairy tale came to a screeching halt on Friday when the Sean Bell verdict came down. I was reminded quickly and swiftly that a black man’s life has never had any value here in Amerikkka. Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora, and Marc Cooper, the three New York City police officers accused of shooting 50 times and murdering Sean Bell, were found not guilty on all counts. Oliver fired 31 times and claims to not remember shooting the first time that's why he reloaded and started shooting again? How could Judge Arthur Cooperman not find that utterly insane? Is that not the epitome of incompetence? When I hear a man speak like that I have to question his mental state and have to wonder is he even psychologically fit to be a cop. Isnora, who fired 11 times, had been charged with manslaughter, felony assault, and reckless endangerment. Cooper, who fired four times, faced up to a year in jail if convicted of reckless endangerment. They faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all charges, yet they where all found not guilty.
Another black man murdered two others shot the fuck up and the old ass white judge Arthur Cooperman's reasoning was the demeanor of the witnesses made him question their character and the past police records of the victims played a role in his decision. Wow, so Malcolm X had a police record, he was a former felon; Martin Luther King Jr. had a police record also. He had been to jail several times. Does Judge Arthur Cooperman believe those great brother’s murders where justified because of their past records? Since Judge Arthur Cooperman wants to talk about character and demeanor I have to question the character of every NYPD police officer I run into now because of the murderous demeanor of these cops who got off, not to mention the murderous demeanor of the cops who killed Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Stewart, and Amadou Diallo. The same way they can't tell a good black man from a black man who might actually be causing them a threat, I can't tell the difference between a good cop who might really being trying to protect and to serve and a bad cop who can't wait to use his brand new government issued pistol on me.
Situations like this are why the hood says fuck the police. This is why the stop snitching campaign is in effect because even when it's justified for me to cooperate and help, why should I cooperate and help a system that will never cooperate and help my black ass? When Barack Obama speaks of people being bitter and having no faith in government this is why. Verdicts like this are the reason we cling to our respective religions, why we cling to our guns and why we have resentment towards a so called justice system that delivers us an injustice every chance they get. I must say Amerikka stayed true to tradition with that verdict. They reminded everyone that a black man's life has absolutely no value here in Amerikkka.
Have you ever read 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg? Pick that up and read how a black man in Louisiana was lynched by an orderly mob on March 17th, 1908 because he was suspected of stealing a mule. Read how on July 14th, 1914 in Mississippi a black man was hung because he was suspected of stealing cows. Read how on December 5, 1914 in Spartanburg, SC they hung a black man because he was suspected of stealing a chicken. History continues to repeat itself. In 2007 Michael Vick was sent to prison because he fought and killed dogs, and in 2008 three cops who kill a black man got off? Animal life has more value than a black man here in Amerikkka.
It's a damn shame in 2006 Sean Bell was killed because he was suspected of having a gun, the same way a black man was killed because he was suspected of stealing a cow. Well, these public killings, lynching, if you will, still go on today because on November 25th 2006 Sean Bell was shot and the public hanging and burning of Sean Bell's body happened on April 27, 2008 when that abortion of justice was handed down as a verdict. How am I supposed to feel empowered as a young black man in Amerikkka? When situations like this happen a feeling of fear comes over the black community. If I'm educated they can still shoot me down if they want to, if I'm rich they can still shoot me down if they want to, if I'm a highly religious spiritual leader they can still shoot me down if they want to.
This public lynching of Sean Bell rekindles the fear they want us to have for the system. It's the same fear slave masters like Willie Lynch instilled in his slaves while he spoke on the banks of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. He demanded those devils to instill fear in black people because it was a cardinal rule to make a Negro submissive. The Sean Bell verdict is the equivalent of taking the meanest and most restless negro, stripping him of his clothes in front of the other male negroes as well as the female and the kids, tying each leg to a horse faced in opposite directions, setting the brother on fire, and beating both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining negroes. This puts the fear of this evil system into black people. Not only will they be submissive, but they won't get out of line.
Well I'm telling you black people all I fear is Allah. I submit to no one but the creator. I'm telling you it's time to get out of line, No Justice, No Peace. All you leaders calling for peace, I understand you but it's against the laws of nature. It's against the laws of Karma. What's about to happen is Cause and Effect. Good Deeds create good consequences, injustice creates war. You must destroy in order to build, that's a Universal Principal that existed before us and it's going to be here after we are gone. You gang bangers want to bang, well now is the time and that energy should not be directed at each other anymore. I can show you who the real enemy is. You brothers are going to have to start being the frontline of defense in the communities.
It's not a black versus white thing either. I know white people who are just as pissed about this situation as we are. Racism is a learned behavior. Whites where not born to hate blacks and blacks where not born to hate whites. The law of karma, the law of cause and effect, and the law of polarity have created these racist conditions. We must unlearn what we have learned and see each other in each other and fight together because the truth is, with all these black men falling in love with white women and having babies that look like Barack Obama, whose to say your child might not be getting murdered by this evil system in the future? As Martin Luther King Jr. said an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and we will get justice in the words of Malcolm X, “By Any Means Necessary.”
5 Ways to Make a Chingy CD Useful.....
I would like to thank Chingy for throwing a shot at me in the "Do it for my Haters" record featuring Ludacris and 4 Ize. To show my appreciation I made this video for him 5 Ways to Make a Chingy CD Useful (A Tribute to the C.O.A.T.)
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Expand Your Reality - Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer The Power of Intention
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal. A DREAM that his four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He had a DREAM that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. He hoped for a freedom that would allow blacks and whites to work together as well as pray together. He had a dream that one day we all would be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Well, do you feel free? Do you feel as if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream has become a bonafied Reality? Well I'm here to tell you that YES IT HAS. Let's look at a few of the things Brother Martin wanted for his people. He wanted America to live by its creed that all men are created equal. You tell me brothers and sisters, what job in America can you not obtain? What position is there in America that a black person is not over qualified for?
We live in a society where any race can dominate any field they choose to be involved in, don't believe me? Then why is the second richest man in the world a Mexican? He is Telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú with an estimated net worth of $60 billion. Why is the greatest golfer in the world a mixed race black by the name of Tiger Woods? Why has the biggest hip hop star of the past decade been a white male by the name of Eminem? Equality is alive and well in America. Any door that we as a people feel is closed to us is simply shut because we are too afraid of failure to open it. Some of those doors might even be locked, but we know where the keys are. We have access to those keys if we choose to use them. MLK said he wanted to see a nation where people will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. I know a brother who is leading the Democratic Presidential Nomination in delegates, who is leading in the popular vote and a brother who is bringing together black and white people, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, Christians and Muslims. He brings together the young and old, rock and roll fans, Hip Hop heads, jazz enthusiasts, and country music lovers. He does this not because of the color of his skin, but because of the content of his character and this individual is none other than Mr. Barack Obama.
MLK said he wanted to see a time when the sons of slaves could sit down at a table of brotherhood with sons of former slave masters. Not only are we sitting down at a table of brotherhood, we are sitting down in corporate board rooms. We have the most influential woman in the world with a net worth of over 2.5 billion dollars. She came in and took over a field dominated by white males. She just doesn't sit down at the table of brotherhood, she owns it and this phenomenal woman is none other than Sister Oprah Winfrey. No matter how you may feel about the Bush Administration, there have been two blacks who have sat down at the table of brotherhood with the president both holding the position of Secretary of State, Mr. Colin Powell and Mrs. Condoleeza Rice.
This ladies and gentleman is the Dream of freedom that Brother Martin talked about that has become a Reality. A Reality which allows Blacks and Whites to work together in some of the highest positions in the world! Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream has expanded into Dr. Martin Luther King's Reality. I challenge black people to expand their individual realities, past the projects, the blocks, the slums, the gutters, the dirt roads, and the traps within the state you live in. I challenge you all to expand your Reality, to feel like we can have the first black president of the United States of America and to know Barack won't be the last.
Expand your Reality to know that you can be one of the richest people in the world and not only be on the Forbes list, but be on top of it if you expand your Reality far enough. Instead of wanting to be rappers let's expand our Reality to be the owners of the distribution companies. That way we can balance the product that comes out. Instead of always having music that reflects the problems and harsh realities of our society we can release and equally promote and market the music of more positive artists who come with solutions to the ills our children are facing on a daily basis.
Instead of running to be a player let's expand our Reality to think about owning the team! Does it make since that 67% of players in the NFL are black but there are no black owners? Roughly 80 percent of the NBA is white but there is only one black majority owner of an NBA team, Mr. Bob Johnson. It's not that we can't it's just that we haven't expanded our realities past being players! Instead of buying the gas guzzling Hummer or Escalade expand your Reality to be the brain that designs a vehicle that runs off a cheaper more plentiful energy source. Let's stop being the damn consumers and expand our realities to be the creators!
I cannot for the life of me understand why we as a people have put ourselves in this box, why have we limited what we feel like we can do? I remember an older family member of mine in Moncks Corner, SC telling me when I was like 15 or 16 not to think so big because when you don't reach your goals you are going to be disappointed. Why would anyone try to instill that in a young man's brain? Why does an older person have such a limited vision on the reality of life? You don't teach kids to be but so much, you teach kids to be all that they can be. We have to shatter that glass ceiling that we've created for ourselves and expand our Reality. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM. That DREAM has become a reality. To not expand on that REALITY shows a major weakness in your character. And as a wise man once told me, the weaknesses of your character must be manifested before the strengths of your character can be perfected. Expand your Reality people; the future pursuit of perfection in our society depends on it.
Ozone Mag Chin Check for May 08
Thou Must Not Celebrate the Drug Culture - Drugs are destroying the black community. There isn't a dope boy in the country who wants to be a dope boy. The Trap is just that, a Trap. You'll either end up in jail or dead. It's like playing Russian roulette with your life. Trap or Die? You might as well die because in the Trap you are killing yourself and your community slowly but surely. - Charlamagne Tha God 10 Commandments of Hip Hop..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
If you have ever studied my Ten Commandments of Hip Hop then you have definitely read the Fifth Commandment, "Thou Must Not Celebrate the Drug Culture". There is nothing on this planet that has done more damage in the black community than drugs. I'm sure there is some trap star, some D Boy out there that read that and said to him self, damage? Does this Escalade I purchased with dope money look like damage? You see my grill shining in my mouth, does that look like damage? You see these diamonds on my neck and diamonds in my wrist; does this look like damage to you? What the fuck Charlamagne mean by damage?
Damage is defined as the occurrence of a change for the worse or causing damage to something or someone. That something being the community and a family torn apart because the heads of the household are strung out. That someone being a father, a mother or a newborn addicted to something he or she never even had the chance to deny. That someone is a cousin you grew up idolizing but now he's just a feen. You can't trust him because he breaks in your daddy's shop and steals a TV, raw whiting, some frying pans, and the cooking oil! Then he tries to go right up the street to one of the local traps and sell my daddy shit and offers to fry fish dinners for a twenty of rock! I wish I had made that up just now but I didn't. It's a true sad story and I'm sure you can think of a few yourselves.
How many people do you know that have been victims of crack cocaine? I can think of athletes who where so talented in my hometown of Moncks Corner, SC. I listen to older members of my family tell me how this person should have been in the NFL or this person should have been in the NBA but then he started smoking rock. When I was young my pops used to point out to me feens walking down the road and say to me, "Boy that used to be one of the finest women in Moncks Corner." "What happened," I replied. "That rock did her bad," he would say. That's why I don't understand how people can glorify being a dope boy!
We live in an era where people really brag about that shit like it's a profession! I need a Criminology major to study this shit because I don't understand. I asked my wifey about that last line while typing this. I asked her whether I should say a Criminology major should study this shit. She said that she didn't know because Criminology is the social-scientific study of crime and she didn't know if being a D Boy is a crime like a murderer. Now I questioned whether or not I really wanted to breed with this young lady after she made such a dumb statement. Then I realized there are so many people celebrating the drug game and commercializing it that it doesn't look criminal anymore but newsflash ladies in gentlemen, it is! I don't care how many rappers talk about selling kilos in there music. I don't care how many bricks were on the table on the last DVD, that shit is not legal.
I proceeded to explain to my lady that A) People do die from drug overdoses which technically make the dealer a murderer; B) People do get robbed and killed for their packages. I had to remind her about Paid in Full when Camron killed Mekhi Phifer in the lobby for those bricks. Not to mention the dudes who wanted the drug money and shot the two innocent women in the bedroom and tried to blow Wood Harris' brains out; all that was directly related to drugs. Sidebar: I'm about to cut all ties with this young lady. Why do I have to explain a real life issue to her and use movies as an example? It is because these statistics may be over heard.
According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 8.6 million Americans ages 12 or older reported trying crack cocaine at least once during their lifetimes, representing 3.5% of the population aged 12 or older. In 2006 NSDUH data indicate that approximately 1.5 million (0.6%) Americans reported past year crack cocaine use and 702,000 (0.3%) reported past month crack cocaine use. The 2006 NSDUH results also indicate that there were 245,000 persons ages 12 or older who used crack cocaine for the first time within the past 12 months. Results of the 2007 Monitoring the Future survey indicate that 2.1% of eighth graders, 2.3% of tenth graders, and 3.2% of twelfth graders reported lifetime use of crack cocaine. In 2006, these percentages were 2.3%, 2.2%, and 3.5%, respectively.
Do you see how many people's lives you dudes are damaging? Do you see what you are doing to the future of our country? This is what you brag about in your records and on your DVD's? Why are niggas walking around glorifying this shit? You walk around wearing t-shirts that say trap star and D Boys, you might as well wear a shirt that says indict me since you are obviously trying to make it easy for the Feds! The funny thing is most of you dudes glorifying it aren't making any real money! The crack business it turns out is a modern, brutalized version of a Nineteenth Century sweatshop.
Despite the popular notion that crack sellers all drive Mercedes-Benzes, wear gold jewelry, and get rich quick, most of the people in the business work around the clock, six to seven days a week, for low wages in an atmosphere of physical threat and control. Their pay is often docked if they arrive late. They may be shot or maimed if they are even perceived as trying to cheat their employers, and many fall into such debt to their bosses that they have to go into hiding. Not to mention the success rate for drug dealers sucks! You end up one or two places, jail or the mortuary.
In 2004, cocaine was the primary drug involved in Federal drug arrests. There were 12,166 Federal drug arrests for cocaine in 2004. The DEA made 7,082 arrests for powder cocaine and 3,921 arrests for crack cocaine during 2004. In 2006, there were 5,623 Federal defendants sentenced for crack cocaine-related charges in U.S. Courts. Approximately 96% of the cases involved crack cocaine trafficking. You are glorifying a game you can't win! You are betting on a fixed fight! The only people winning are the people that have been oppressing us from day one. The people who put crack in the inner city communities after the civil rights movement. The people who benefit from hours of free labor after your ass is doing 30 to life for being a D Boy. The same people who benefit from our people being psychologically enslaved to whatever substance they choose to abuse. This is what yall choose to celebrate? This is what yall choose to glorify? This is what yall are indirectly encouraging our kids to become? Allah, help us all...
Charlamagne Tha God
Viva La Cocaine
How can radio play a record that is celebrating the use of a substance that has been killing people for years? Gym Class Heroes' Viva La White Girl featuring Lil Wayne is not a salute to the kind of women Uncle Ruckus lusts after. It is a not so subliminal commercial for the use of cocaine. With lyrics like "As the white stallion bucks and kicks me in my nose until my face bust" and "As I stare in this mirror and powder my face up...". I don't understand how people can think it's anything else. White Stallion is slang for cocaine. Back in the day, people would say you were "riding the white horse" when you where high off the substance. "Kick me in my nose until my face bust" is referencing the common bleeding of the nose that happens when your on cocaine. "Stare in the mirror and powder my face up?" Many people commonly sniff cocaine off of a mirror. "Take your razor, break down my line." "Put your nose to the speaker." "Now breathe in, breathe in." This is blatantly telling people to use your razor to break down a line of cocaine and sniff it up your nostrils. Don't let the "put you nose to the speaker" make you think they are referring to their music. This song is about cocaine people! "Clean up your nose, and face the crowd. Then kiss your mirror cause we're all stars now." "Isn't it fun how music makes your lips numb?" It should be, "Isn't it fun how cocaine makes your lips numb?" Yes, if you ever rub coke on your gums or lips, it will make it numb. This is a common test performed by drug dealers who want to see if their product is worth a damn. "We'll get high and hide." "We all lust to the glamorous white girl so fine." This song disgusts me. It so blatantly promotes the use of cocaine that it might as well be titled, "Just Say Yes." Our youth are being psychologically programmed to think behavior like this is cool. Salute to Bun B who, in light of the death of Pimp C says he will not promote the use of Sizzurp on his new album. That was a wise decision seeing as though an accidental overdose of promethazine and codeine, commonly used in Sizzurp is what killed Pimp C. I would like to leave you with this question. How much longer are we going to promote substances that we know are killing our people?
Breathe in.
Breathe in.
Breathe in.
Breathe in.
Ni**a Appreciation Month!!
I am facing a room full of high school students, ages 15 – 17 and announce, "It's Black History Month!" With no excitement from the class I say once more, "I don't think yall heard me, it's Black History Month!" Still no response, the class gives me a confused blank stare. Thinking quick I yell, "Lil Wayne is Black History!" The class goes ape shit! The Kids start giving each other pounds, young girls say shit like, "Lil Wayne need to put some of that Black History up in here!" I hold my head down in disgust and say to the teacher, "No disrespect to you but I need to have a real talk with your class immediately and hopefully they won't become "America's Next Top Convicts."
I say to the class, "Shut the fuck up, be quiet and pay attention!" I ask these young bucks, "What does black history mean to you?" The class was silent. I wanted to cry ladies and gentleman. I wanted to cry simply because black people in 2008 are so far from making black history. Someone is probably reading this and thinking of all the millionaire rappers out there getting paid and if that isn't black history then what is?
News flash Ladies and Ghettomen, P. Diddy, Jay Z and 50 Cent are not making black history! I'll tell you what they are making. They are making a whole lot of money but their bank accounts are doing nothing to uplift the black race. People that made true black history invoked some sort of change in our people. They encouraged us to do better and fight against the system. They didn't get plugged into it. People that made real black history made it possible for brothers like 50, Diddy, and Jay to amass all the money they've made here in Amerikkka. When Malcolm Little was in prison morphing into Malcolm X, he wasn't doing it with the intention that he would gain some sort of fame or money.
I'm sure he didn't even realize that he was contributing to black history, but it turned out that way because Malcolm was fighting for a cause greater than any rap beef. He was promoting something productive for the hood not destructive to the hood like Ciroc Vodka, or Ace of Spades Champagne. I do get my drink on when I want to but you and I know that if Malcolm was alive he would be on Puffy and Jay's ass for allowing the white man to use their likenesses to promote their devil juice amongst our people.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was being beaten with nightsticks, ravaged by dogs, and sprayed with water hoses, his intentions were not to contribute to black history. He was just giving of himself; sacrificing his well-being for the greater good of our people! Who amongst us is doing that now? Who out here is putting themselves on the line and making their mark in black history? Definitely not these rappers you clowns worship. What have the top three rappers of the moment done for our people lately?
Soljah Boy taught us how to Superman Dat Hoe, Lil Wayne celebrates the gang culture and Jay Z acts like it's better to be selfish than selfless, a trait that no true black leader would ever have. All of this pales in comparison to the legacy left behind by those that came before us. Whatever happen to making a contribution to black history? How can you study the greatness of Elijah Muhammad, W.E.B Dubois and Minister Louis Farrakhan? How can you do the knowledge to people like Denmark Vesey and Carter G. Woodson and not say to yourself, "Damn ,if we don't get it together, this generation won't have any black history of their own to talk about (except of course Mr. Barack Obama)!" That brother is black history in the making. Whether he wins or loses, his presence alone and what he's accomplished thus far have invoked change. That brother goes above and beyond the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. so eloquently described. In reality, he is the embodiment of that dream. A blackman who is being judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin. He restores faith in the belief that America is the land of freedom, justice, and EQUALITY.
Harriet Tubman leading the underground railroads led her to become black history, Bob Johnson starting BET led him to become a rich ass ni**a, there's a difference people. We have to define this thing. I'm proud of what ni**as like Jay, 50, Puff, and Bob have accomplished. I can appreciate those ni**as' efforts, but when it comes to stan