Am I the only one who thought that Alicia Keys hit it right on the money? I mean, is it really such a far-fetched idea that the people who control this country (and keep it within their order) fear the uprising of the people? I’ve always felt that the way in which powerful countries are set up is that the people in charge (who want to retain their control) seek to keep the lower classes “in check” by denying access to education, proper healthcare and relative safety, while funneling in weapons and drugs to stir them up and distract them with their own self-destruction. Not to mention, they dumb us all down with the constant bombardment of mindless “entertainment” and skewed news.
Meanwhile, conscientious people who raise questions and doubt get labeled as “crazy liberals”, “conspiracy theorists”, “terrorists”, “anti-Semites”, “self-hating Jews”, “Commies” and so on. Tupac was speaking the truth on lots of his songs, such as ‘Words of Wisdom’ in which he said: “I don't get it, so many questions run through my mind/ I get sweated, they act like asking questions is a crime/.” Preach!
Is it really too much of a stretch to believe that his assassination was orchestrated with intent by people in power? Chris Rock has asked this before, and I’ll ask it again: why is it that all the rappers’ deaths are never investigated? These are important questions to ask. And I’m put off by the idiots who would equate this questioning with being paranoid or a conspiracy theorist. If I were to tell you that AIDS was invented in a laboratory to kill people, would you believe me? Probably not! You’ve bought the whole “it came from a monkey” story. I refuse to settle for that BS. If you refuse to be a skeptic in this regard, I implore you to do a little research project of your own. Google the following: “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”. See what you find! Your eyes have been opened! Personally, I believe that chemically-induced crack cocaine was put into the poor communities to create chaos and destruction (not to mention to fund illegal wars as Nahshon pointed out in the comments section). It’s not too different from what the Tuskegee study was all about. Likewise, I’ve always felt that gangsta rap was verbal crack: not only do they intertwine in culture and in practice, but they even produce the same effects.
Tupac made it a point to say that he was not a gangster and that his music was not gangsta rap. This is why he was such a threat. Tupac was a threat to these peoples’ order of control. Martin Luther King Jr. was a threat. And now in the ‘08, Barack Obama is giving them quite a reason to fear. He’s been attacked by both the right and the fake-left.
He must be on to something.
And Alicia Keys was on to something as well. I’m glad she said what she said.
Meanwhile, conscientious people who raise questions and doubt get labeled as “crazy liberals”, “conspiracy theorists”, “terrorists”, “anti-Semites”, “self-hating Jews”, “Commies” and so on. Tupac was speaking the truth on lots of his songs, such as ‘Words of Wisdom’ in which he said: “I don't get it, so many questions run through my mind/ I get sweated, they act like asking questions is a crime/.” Preach!
Is it really too much of a stretch to believe that his assassination was orchestrated with intent by people in power? Chris Rock has asked this before, and I’ll ask it again: why is it that all the rappers’ deaths are never investigated? These are important questions to ask. And I’m put off by the idiots who would equate this questioning with being paranoid or a conspiracy theorist. If I were to tell you that AIDS was invented in a laboratory to kill people, would you believe me? Probably not! You’ve bought the whole “it came from a monkey” story. I refuse to settle for that BS. If you refuse to be a skeptic in this regard, I implore you to do a little research project of your own. Google the following: “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”. See what you find! Your eyes have been opened! Personally, I believe that chemically-induced crack cocaine was put into the poor communities to create chaos and destruction (not to mention to fund illegal wars as Nahshon pointed out in the comments section). It’s not too different from what the Tuskegee study was all about. Likewise, I’ve always felt that gangsta rap was verbal crack: not only do they intertwine in culture and in practice, but they even produce the same effects.
Tupac made it a point to say that he was not a gangster and that his music was not gangsta rap. This is why he was such a threat. Tupac was a threat to these peoples’ order of control. Martin Luther King Jr. was a threat. And now in the ‘08, Barack Obama is giving them quite a reason to fear. He’s been attacked by both the right and the fake-left.
He must be on to something.
And Alicia Keys was on to something as well. I’m glad she said what she said.
P.S. Shouts to JSmooth for his like-minded coverage on the topic.
