OWED TO RAP

rap music is the deep resonating bass drum
vibrating with the frequency of change
sent to galvinize the masses.
recognize the endurance of this rebellious
artform. thirty plus years and counting;
as infinitely diverse and ubiquitous as it is controversial. from the last poets to
lil wayne, from mellie mel to master p..accross foreign lands, and infiltrating
the pulse of the global intellectual discourse. Rap music
is the most potent art-form beside kung fu. Irrefutably the voice of
the oppressed majority, a readily accessable tool of pure self expression.
a completely organic mode of mass communication...a soliloquy,
an uninteruppted train of thought sometimes guided by the structure of the written form,
sometimes spiritually inspired and improvised...recited to the pulsating, and
often hypnotic thump of the modern drum. recognize that the
poetry of rap reaches a complexity that only those who are
forged in the most sincere jihad can hope to master. nuff respect due
to the one six ooh.

rap is about maintanance of one's integrity despite the
overwhelming institutionally
reinforced
odds against your
survival.


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