Was it like that before?
No. It wasn’t like that. It’s from California. That’s where this @#%$ started out. It’s some dick riding @#%$. You know where it came from? It came from these music videos. It came from movies. Over here in New York, when I was growing up I didn’t know who the Crips and the Bloods were. I heard about them. The first time we heard about that @#%$ over here was because of the movie "Colors." That movie enlightened New York people to what Bloods and Crips were. We didn’t know about that. Now, it’s wack. We watched these videos and you see muthafuckas wearing all blue. You got other muthafuckas who only wear red.
That’s what making it spread over to here. If you can spread that negativity, why can’t you spread something positive like that. What if the Black Panthers were out right now and these muthafuckas were rapping . It would have set a positive role. But they don’t let that happen. As soon as people start talking about Malcolm X, they just bury Malcolm X again. You start talking about Huey P. Newton, they will write something bad about him and it’s over.
Right. "Oh, he’s a fraud…yada yada yada," and nobody’s going to take you serious. No one has time to sit and read Huey P. Newton’s book To Die For the People.
Exactly. Nobody knows about that. Nobody knows about Soledad Brother, George Jackson’s prison letters, or his brother Jonathon Jackson.
Kids nowadays don’t even know who George Jackson was. I’m like, "What the @#%$? How you don’t know about George Jackson and you know about John Gotti?" They’ll tell you who Al Capone was, but if you ask them who was Herman Bell or who was Huey P. Newton? Huey P. Newton did his @#%$ when he was only 21. He was a baby doing all this @#%$. He was a kid.
What gets promoted in the negative towards our neighborhoods.
That’s so @#%$ up! That’s @#%$ up @#%$. And nobody is doing or saying nothing about it. We’re sitting back and acting like we don’t see it because we still got that fear in us. We’re still scared. So everybody’s like, @#%$ it. And everybody taking the money so they’re like, "Yo, I can’t be positive because that don’t sell. So I’m gonna be a negative person ." Like Lloyd Banks. Lloyd Banks ain’t no gangsta. Tony Yayo, he’s a gangsta. Lloyd Banks ain’t gangsta. It’s some funny @#%$. When people say I dis people, I don’t just come back and say "@#%$ this nigga." I be like, come on man, we got to keep it real because this is our Hip Hop. This is our @#%$. Either we’re going to let them muthafuckas take it or we need to take it back and start using it for some good. Because they’re making billions of dollars. They use it to promote every product that they put out from toothpaste, deodorant, to McDonalds, and all these major corporations. If they can use this @#%$ to sell their products, why can’t we use it to fuckin’ clean up our hoods and get fuckin’ crack and drugs out of the ghetto? We can use that @#%$ for that too. We can use it as a weapon. These rappers are powerful. People listen to what they say. I’m gonna mention Malcolm X, I’m gonna mention Huey P. Newton. I don’t care if I got to give my life. I’m gonna @#%$ around and lose my life for what I believe in. I just don’t want to die for nothin’. I don’t want to die and nobody know my whole purpose or why I was here. Like Huey P. Newton. The only people who know about Huey P. Newton are muthafuckas who know and care about our struggle. My mother don’t even know who Huey P. Newton was. All they talk is muthafuckin Black Panthers are some radical Black guys. These muthafuckas stand for something. They cared about the people.
