Rap Music

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.

N.B. June 3, 2007: From this point forward all post in the article /group blog section without thumbnails will be delete by the editor/RBG Street Scholar. This is because such posts compromise the formating of the zine. Furthermore, we refuse to get side tracked with eurocentric rap/pop culture. So, if posts don't jell with the RBG Movement / Rap Genre and the academic nature of the zine,again, they will be deleted. This is not a democracy, but an educational research project; and as such we intend to stay on point regarding our edutainment mission, goals and objectives. Please don't allow the title to make you get it twisted, the full title is RBG Hip Hop/Conscious Rap Music Wikizine.
Anyone who has a problem with this please start your own zine, it's free.
Asante(Thank You) for your contributions.

This Zine is a Hip Hop / Rap Music guide with photos,audio, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Special focus on Hip Hop History, Underground /Indie and the Positive and Socio-politically Conscious Rap Genre / Artists, RBG Style; along with links and extensions to each of the integral aspects of hip hop culture. Including Knowledge, DJing, MCing, Break Dancing and Graffiti.
Please take some time to browse.Your contributions are welcome and encouraged if you're looking for a scholarly, and at the same time entertaining, place to expose your work and help build a comprehensive multi-media resource for others to learn from. It's what we make it--a project in evolution and always under construction.The more of us that have something to share on the subject contribute, the better this resource will be for those wanting to do research.

"Of All The Disciplines Of Study, History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research". Thus, let's commence the discourse with a brief historical overview.

The Political Origins of Hip-hop:

> Historically poetry/ rap/ spoken word, literature and music have been combine to play a pivotal role in black progress and power, rebellion, revolt and revolution.

Political Rap Started With the Afrikan Talking Drum.

> Because of the perceived potential of talking drums to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave masters / traders and thus to incite rebellion, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by Africans in the United States.

> H “Rap” Brown, known to many of the 1960's/70's Civil Rights and Black Power Movements as the original master rapper. Rap, a given nickname, comes from his being such an eloquent speaker he would be rappin. For more see Dr. Errol Henderson on Black Nationalism and Rap Music and our Hip Hop Audio History.

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Who Are You and What's Really Really Happin ?: "Tha People Speak Out"

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Re: The back2black314 mentality has got to go!!

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8 Things We Need to
STOP Doing Today!

1. STOP believing that marching, protesting, demonstrating, boycotting, and picketing alone will free us...

These are only tactics to bring attention to an injustice or to affect a business economically. We must eventually face the fact that we must pool our money, time, and resources in order for us to begin the process of freeing ourselves economically. Otherwise we're gonna march all over this country and still be in the same dependent condition we were in prior to our marching. March with a purpose and a clear goal. That goal must expand from social freedoms to ECONOMIC FREEDOM. We must not be dependent slaves to any man for our food, clothing, shelter, and employment.

2. STOP thinking that white people will change and all of a sudden wake up one day and accept us as equals...

NOT GONNA HAPPEN PEOPLE!...We've been here over 400 years and we are still regarded by the so-called powers-that-be as NIGGERS!.....Don't believe me? Remember KATRINA?...Remember the Rodney King case and the rebellion/riots that followed? Remember Sean Bell? Abner Louima? Amadou Diallo? Mychal Bell and the JENA 6? The young brother in Florida that was beaten and killed at the boot camp? Genarlow Wilson just now being freed after 2 years in prison. Mumia Abu-Jamal still languishing on death row for crimes he didn't committ? Leonard Peltier? Assata Shakur? Imam Jamil Al-Amin? Megan Williams?...I CAN GO ON FOR DAYS, BELIEVE ME! They, as a whole, don't have any real love for us. They TOLERATE us and they are finding us less and less useful to them and therefore more and more intolerable. WE MUST LEARN TO LOVE OURSELVES!

3. STOP thinking that we can't unite!

The negative thinking is killing us in droves. We don't come together because we've been made distrustful of one another. OUR unity in opposition to white supremacy is the greatest fear of our oppressor! Nothing is beyond our reach and it is only our belief in lies taught to us by our enemies that makes us impotent as a people. When we come together, the world stops and takes notice. BELIEVE THAT!

4. STOP degrading ourselves.

We are more than 'niggers, niggas, bitches, hoes, tricks, dogs, mf's' and any other degrading word we use to refer to each as other as. If we are what we think, then if we think we are niggas and bitches, then we'll act like niggas and bitches! So if we can change the way we think, then we are on the road to changing the way we act. We are gods and goddesses, king and queens, brothers and sisters. The Scriptures teach that "Ye are all gods, children of the Most High God."(Psalms 82:6) And there ain't nuthin' a god can't do in the Name of the Almighty God!

5. STOP waiting on God or Jesus or Muhammad or whoever to come down and change our condition!

Stop thinkin' that Hilary or Obama is gonna ride in some damn white horse and save the day! If you believe that, you are surely LOST! Stop listening to some of these Negro preachers who are telling you to put it in God's hands. God helps those who help themselves. We can't be a lazy people and expect God to do it all. He don't like laziness. He gave us the wherewithal to do whatever we wanna do to raise ourselves up out of this condition and has given us all we need to do it. We must DEMONSTRATE this faith in God that we sing and dance and shout and pray about in the church or mosque we attend. We are holding ourselves back through ignorance, faithlessness, and fear! If we are gods as I pointed out earlier, then we need to stand up and show the world where God is!

6. STOP teaching our children to get good grades so they can grow up and get a good job.

Teach them to make good grades so they can grow up and MAKE GOOD JOBS for themselves and their people! Give yourself and your children the dual education necessary to help make present slaves future free men and women. Teach them principles like dignity and respect and to be willing to die for what they believe in. If we fail to use the gifts we've been blessed with as a people to advance our struggle for freedom, justice, and equality, then WHAT GOOD ARE OUR GIFTS??? We would be disgracing the gifts and the Giver of the gifts! It would all be just vanity!

7. STOP being islands unto ourselves!

We must work to recapture our sense of community.
We must see ourselves as family again. We must get out of this Eurocentric mindset of 'every man for himself' and bring back 'it takes a village.' Seeing the world thru Afrikan eyes is key! We must read books by our own authors that are stressing self-reliance and self-determination. Stop believing everything you hear on mainstream news and from mainstream text' and media. So read Dr. Na'im Akbar, Anthony T. Browder, Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, Kenneth Clark, J.A. Rogers, Chancellor Williams, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Josef ben-Jochanon, Ivam van Sertima, and so many others who are teaching black consciousness. Knowledge of self is the way out of mental incarceration! When we can think free and enlightened thoughts, we can maximize free actions!

8. STOP the killing! Stop shooting down your future! Stop robbing, stealing, lying, and trespassing on one another.

Stop hating one another and being jealous and envious and covetous!..All of these things are in opposition to unity efforts. We have to discover our own gifts instead of envying somebody else for theirs. All of this leads to a crab-in-the-barrel mentality that impedes our progress. Congratulate one another for our success whatever they may be and learn to always HELP ONE ANOTHER to reach greater heights. If you wanna be a leader, understnad that you are a SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE, NOT GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE! We must know ourselves in order to truly love and respect ourselves. So we can stop the killing and all the things that lead to killing by stopping it where it begins, in our minds!

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