Freestyle the Art of Rhyme (Screenshot 6)
Medusa is not the only one that can bring effects of the blowout comb! Boots of The Coup at left is representing the unbreakable, masculine comb effects—no cheap imitations in Freestyle—The Art of Rhyme. The sideburns are real. This last screenshot finds me trying to end this thang on positive polarity—the positive tip. Let me let Boots represent for Mos Def and the other rappers/freestylers in this documentary film that posses my respect. Boots is the kind of brother that puts that actor that from A Huey P. Newton Story in his rap videos, so he’s more than ready to represent. Here is Boots free-styling about gangsta rap as a political movement:
Political Raps aren’t popular today because rap groups have a short life span… Rappers have to be in touch with their communities no matter what type of raps you do otherwise people won’t relate…Political Rap groups…..offered solutions only through listening….They weren’t part of a movement… So they died out when people saw that their life’s were not changing…
On the other hand, gangsta groups and rappers who talk about selling drugs are a part of a movement. The drug game has been around for years and has directly impacted lives and for some many it’s been positive in the sense that it earned people some money. Hence, gangsta rap has a home…
What is more is that gangsta rap is a compelling argument for exploitative capitalism (is that redundant?). The final, social realization of Gangstarap is an African dictatorship—a cleptocracy. And this Alexandrian/Orewellian/Ike-Turner-ian future is what awaits all my people who are keeping Rex real. My people perish for lack of knowledge.
When I question my own egocentrism and develop to minimize its validity, I am free to collectivize and see what Boots, Mos Def and others (Chuck D of course) are bringing as a voice on the mic’ for the masses—see that they are representing for me what I would do had I “blew up” back in the day… Actually, they are doing more than what ‘I’ could have imagined back in the day. Much respect to y’all. J’ah Jireh…