http://youtube.com/watch?v=ANzUxL8qknY
It knocks me out. I may not be sure why, but I think its power has something to do with those historic video clip images interpersed with today's HipHop nation.
And the beats of course.
As well as Master P selling 'history.'
Which tends to confirm my suspicion that there's a terrible hunger out there for history, from people who have been denied it for so long -- such as most of us in this country.
Love, C.
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I like the message, but others have done it so much better than Master P. When I was in high school he was rapping about killing people and being a "gangsta"
In my high school (Cando, ND) we were taught history by the football coach. Needless to say, it wasn't very good.
Talib Kweli makes good socially conscious hip hop.
I know Master P.'s rep all too well.
He is NOT a nice person, which is another level to this vid, it seems.
OTOH, I also know all too well the environment out of which comes, and environment designed deliberately, you would think, to produce all these Master P.s, that came into being post the vicious anti-integration wars in New Orleans. And wars they were, and once the white population lost, they did everything they could to destroy to the public school system, and every other public works-institution. You might conclude they succeeded.
This is NOT to excuse him, you understand.
But this is what's been going on all over the country.
Once an institution's exclusivity re whites and poc is breached, that institution no longer is valued by the elite that had it to itself. You saw it happen first in education and social work, then in medicine, and now in law.
Love, C.
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