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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Two Tangoes Going Along All the Time that Sometimes Coalesce 

Monday on Hot 97, Funkmaster Flex stated the obvious:

When Wu Tang's Protect Ya Neck played in a club in the early 90s, someone was getting robbed, someone was getting knocked out, and a riot was going to ensue. This, however, was not a bad thing.

[Inspector Deck]
I smoke on the mic like smokin Joe Frazier
The hell raiser, raisin hell with the flavor
Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan
Swingin through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman
So uhh, tic toc and keep tickin
While I get ya flippin off the shit I'm kickin
The Lone Ranger, code red, danger!
Deep in the dark with the art to rip charts apart
The vandal, too hot to handle
Ya battle, you're sayin Goodbye like Tevin Campbell
Roughneck, Inspector Deck's on the set
The rebel, I make more noise than heavy metal


When Wu Tang's Ain't Nothing to Fuck was in heavy rotation, Staten Island was serious. Nervous, as the club bouncer in 25th Hour would say.



Protect Ya Neck was from a time before corner stores stayed open 24 hours because owners were too shook.

[Raekwon]
The way I make the crowd go wild, sit back relax won't smile
Rae got it goin on pal, call me the rap assassinator
Rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger
And I'ma get mad deep like a threat, blow up your project
Then take all your assets
Cause I came to shake the frame in half
With the thoughts that bomb, shit like math!
So if ya wanna try to flip go flip on the next man
Cause I grab the clip and
Hit ya with sixteen shots and more I got
Goin to war with the meltin pot hot


The Killer Bees were hungry. Hungry, as in they were mad that they wanted things and they were young and angry and because of this you could get robbed in Staten Island or otherwise. People listening to 36 Chambers song could relate on some level. Either they were under-classed and could relate on a one to one level. Or they were 12 years old like myself and interested in the energy and power of this hunger, displayed on tape cassette.

[Method]
It's the Method Man for short Mr. Meth
Movin on your left, aah!
And set it off, get it off, let it off like a gat
I wanna break full, cock me back
Small change, they puttin shame in the game
I take aim and blow that nigga out the frame
And like Fame!!, my style'll live forever
Niggaz crossin over, but they don't know no better
But I do, true, can I get a "sue"
Nuff respect due to the one-six-ooh
I mean ohh, yo check out the flow
like the Hudson or PCP when I'm dustin
Niggaz off because I'm hot like sauce
The smoke from the lyrical blunt makes me *cough


So without saying so, Flex said so. Music can and does incite violence. I Predict a Riot, by The Kaiser Chiefs, for sure. Movies, video games can alter moods, and cause people to act out. People saw The Program and layed down in the middle of a highway to prove their fortitude. I saw Matrix 1 and jumped off fenders of parked cars. Not because I thought I might be able to defy gravity but because the movie had charged me up so much that I had to release this excitement in some physical way and jump off a car.

[Ol Dirty Bastard]
First things first man you're fuckin with the worst
I'll be stickin pins in your head like a fuckin nurse
I'll attack any nigga who's slack in his mack
Come fully packed with a fat rugged stack
Shame on you when you stepped through to
The Ol Dirty Bastard straight from the Brooklyn Zoo
And I'll be damned if I let any man
Come to my center, you enter, the winter
Straight up and down that shit packed jam
You can't slam, don't let me get fool on him man
The Ol Dirty Bastard is dirty and stinkin
Ason, Unique rollin with the night of the creeps
Niggaz be rollin with a stash


The very point that Hillary Clinton feels compelled to mainstream-ly argue... that Grand Theft Auto causes teenagers to react violently before,



after and during play is comepletely accurate.



With music it is more so. Of course music causes people to react emotionally. If it is good music this is what it was tasked to do. Emo music. If it is hype music, get hyped. If it is a track where eight young NYers are rapping for a meal want to display their virtuoso then of course the music is going to illicit similar responses when played loudly. Even if you are not hungry you are going to empathize with this and react in a similar way.

[Ghostface Killah]
For cryin out loud my style is wild so book me
Not long is how long that this rhyme took me
Ejectin, styles from my lethal weapon
My pen that rocks from here to Oregon
Here's Mordigan, catch it like a psycho flashback
I love gats, if rap was a gun, you wouldn't bust back
I come with shit that's all types of shapes and sounds
And where I lounge is my stompin grounds
I give a order to my peeps across the water
To go and snatch up props all around the border
And get far like a shootin star
Cause who I are, is dim in the light of Pablo Escobar
Point blank as I kick the square biz
There it is you're fuckin with pros and there it goes


Someone do a study of MOP's Ante Up being played in a club. Felonies ensue.



[RZA]

Yo chill with the feedback black we don't need that
It's ten o'clock hoe, where the fuck's your seed at
Feelin mad hostile, ran the apostle
Flowin like Christ when I speaks the gospel
Stroll with the holy roll then attack the globe with the buckus style
the ruckus, ten times ten men committin mad sin
Turn the other cheek and I'll break your fuckin chin
Slayin boom-bangs like African drums (we'll be)
Comin around the mountain when I come
Crazy flamboyant for the rap enjoyment
My clan increase like black unemployment
Yeah, another one dare, G-Gka-Genius
Take us the fuck outta here


It's the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit. Liberal-minded individuals laugh it off as red state ignorance. Developmental Psychologists ante up on either side of the debate. But Funkmaster Flex said it correctly, Can't it Be that it was All So Simple Then? If you listened to that album you knew that it was a menace to law and order. There was no question that it was and that it was good.

[Genius]

The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin labels
Some ain't had hits since I seen Aunt Mabel
Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel
Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table
That's what ya get when ya misuse what I invent
Your empire falls and ya lose every cent
For tryin to blow up a scrub
Now that thought was just as bright as a 20-watt light bulb
Should of pumped it when I rocked it
Niggaz so stingy they got short arms and deep pockets
This goes on in some companies
With majors they're scared to death to pump these
First of all, who's your A&R
A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar
But he don't know the meaning of dope
When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
that's cleaner than a bar of soap
And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight
Matter of fact bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight
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