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.
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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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AFRIKAN INSURRECTION MUSIC and T.V. / United Front... and more

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About United Front

BROOKLYN & HARLEM, New York
Hip Hop / Rap

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT UNITED FRONT IS NOT CALLING FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS BUT, WE ARE DEMANDING AN IMMEDIATE CEASE TO THE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE BY RACIST POLICE WHO ARE AIDED BY INFORMANTS, SNITCHES & SAMBO TRAITORS.....THE BLACK COMMUNITY WILL PUT AN END TO IT BY " ANY MEANS NECESSARY ...."TAKE THIS AS A WARNING!...BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT GONNA JUST SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING WHILE YOU PIGS SHOOT US DOWN IN THE STREET LIKE OUR LIVES ARE WORTHLESS. REALIZE YOU'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE. A POWDER KEG " THAT COULD EXPLODE ANY DAY NOW....." AS BROTHER MALCOLM SAID. IT DIDN'T HAPPEN WITH DIALLO.... IT DIDN'T HAPPEN WITH LOUIMA....BUT NOW THE CONTRADICTIONS ARE BEING EXPOSED. WE KNOW YOU ONLY SHOOT TO KILL BLACK & BROWN PEOPLE.... WE KNOW YOU'VE BEEN EXPLOITING US AND OUR COMMUNITIES....WE KNOW WE GET SUB PAR HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION FACILITIES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS....AND, WE KNOW WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE LAW DOESN'T PROTECT US, THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT US (ex. HURRICANE FEMA), AND THE HO-LICE BRUTALIZE US. WE HAVE THE GOD GIVEN, HUE-MAN (HUMAN) AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITIES AND WILL DO SO SINCE WE CAN'T GET JUSTICE.....NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!.....BLACK POWER!

AT LEAST 201 PEOPLE IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:

September 20, 2001 - Gwendulina Brodie

October 6, 2001 - Malik Mustafa

October 8, 2001 - Shannon Vinson

October 8, 2001 - Donna Towe

October 9, 2001 - Richard Hatcher

October 15, 2001 - Unidentified Man

October 23, 2001 - Mohammed Rafiq Butt

November 11, 2001 - William Phifer

November 23, 2001 - Steven Michalacos

December 22, 2001 - Unidentified Man

December 31, 2001 - William O. Davis

January 16, 2002 - Georgy Louisgene

January 23, 2002 - Juan Mendez

March 11, 2002 - Jason Remillard

March 19, 2002 - Unidentified Man

March 30, 2002 - Cesar Mercado

April 10, 2002 - Dominick J. Galliano, Jr., Gail Galliano, Christopher Galliano, Gary Williams, Tina Williams

April 15, 2002 - Unidentified Man

April 16, 2002 - Santiago "Chago" Villanueva

April 19, 2002 - Jose Colon

April 21, 2002 - Ricardo Carlon

May 1, 2002 - Egbert Dewgard

Source of data: http://www.myspace.com/mayasa1

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Background of a Cultural Concept
“whose time has come”

This New Afrikan holiday is called ‘Gye Nyame.’ Pronounced ‘Gee-Nah-May’ or ‘Geen-Yah-May,’ it means in the beautiful Akan language spoken throughout Ghana “None is greater than God the Creator.” It is a central symbol among the rich, treasured Adinkra symbols of the regal Akan people.
‘Gye Nyame’ is not an Akan holiday, however. It is a New Afrikan holiday that synthesizes rich principles of faith found in several traditional Afrikan spiritual traditions, most especially the Akan and Yoruba traditions, and of course, Ma’at. Resplendid in its colors of black and gold being pure water sweet, this New Afrikan cultural holiday alternative was given to us by the immortal Khallid Abdul Muhammad.
            Bro. Khallid developed Gye Nyame in November 1995. It was first celebrated on November 27, 1997 in Cleveland, Ohio by some 500 Pan-Afrikanists of a study circle called Egbe Nyame. Bro. Khallid’s youngest son, Farrakhan lit the candle in the first Gye Nyame ceremony.
       Gye Nyame is New Afrikan in that it was forged to help Afrikans captive here in amerikkka return to the Afrikan philosophy and the original Afrikan way of thinking and doing. It is also New Afrikan in that it consciously seeks to ‘separate’ us from participating in the violently hypocritical holocaust holiday unique to the amerikkkan nation state known as ‘Thanksgiving.’ It is Pan-Afrikan in that it invites every man, woman and child of Afrikan descent to participate.
       As a ceremony, Gye Nyame was designed to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and to give Afrikan people captive here in the united states a conscious and cultural choice instead of being confined to Thanksgiving....Read More

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