by Elijah “Rage” Green

You rappers have failed us! Understand that when you elect yourself to speak publicly on behalf of or “representing” us you bare the responsibility of leader. To attempt escape of this title, and responsibility is a cop out, and furthermore grounds for an accusation of treason on your part. Understand that when you make the decision to step in front of that mic, and project your voice on to any medium of recording or broadcast device you influence the thought and moral of your intended recipient. You therefore are subject to criticism concerning your report of or influence on the condition of your audience.

In Rap’s formative years the music served as a report on the condition of our people, and the world at large. Through their analysis of our state early rappers offered opinionated testimony on what they saw and experienced, thereby presenting a forum for social thought and improvement. This trend by all means did not begin with rap music (though the genre does seem to be destroying it) but it is absolutely imperative to know that from the beginning of recorded history music was a vehicle for the articulation of a peoples triumphs and failures. This form of expression served as a reminder of good and bad things past, as well as motivation for the pursuit of a secure and prosperous future .

You have deviated from the path layed by your predecessors, and have spent the greater part of the last decade saturating our collective conscious with your Euro imposed, capitalistic mentality, and simplistic grandiose boastings. Your relentless praise, and advocating of substance abuse, deviant sex and self inflicted violence, has nurtured a generation of youth that is completely unproductive, degenerate, and self consuming. Rendering us ripe for the picking , while delivering our souless bodies to the feet of our enemies who harvest through our calamity.

Your vocal and visual tribute portrays the black woman as the whore of the earth existing solely to be objectified, ravished, and discarded by anyone at will. You have assisted in an on going campaign to strip the black woman of her womanhood. Furthermore you have waged a war on her sanctity. Your actions are validating the common opinion of the American black male, and you are performing this buffoonery in witness of the global community, and justifying the system that enslaved your foreparents and opress you today.

You have been so preoccupied with purchasing platinum from “Jacob” and fitting you rides with “dubs” and mindless organs for felatio that the government has fortified it’s existing system, and created an apparatus for neo slavery right under our noses, and you being in position of speaker have said nothing. Instead you have only concerned yourselves with keeping us spending in a hostyle economy, and relentlessly, boogying, and partying our black ass into another 400 years of cruel exploitation. You should know that every generation that ever existed is an extension of a past legacy. We leave records on our time and era for future study, and your contribution has been duley noted. OUR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!!!!

— from a http://www.publicenemy.com post