You Must Read This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SMOKE CLEARZ

And it goes like this…

Sometimes,

Sometimes I believe that some of these emcees sit down and consciously try to figure out how to get more young black men shot.

Like they figured out a correlation between making money and delivering more young black souls into the hands of the cops.

I mean, for them, its all about moving CDs out of one-stops and record shops, even if that means convincing them young brothers to do whatever they have to do in order to get the things that them emcees videos say they got.

But, yo... they ain't got.

So, how many more need to be caught shoplifting inside the Versace shop before we realize that they are not that successful.

And when Gil Scott Heron dropped Message to the Messenger, I really hoped that they would listen, but I'll tell you something

when the smoke clears them emcees gonna be all ears

when the smoke clears them emcees gonna be all ears

when the smoke clears them emcees gonna want to hear why BET don’t seem to be able to see as well as Univision.

Ninety-nine percent of the time pimping the worst parts of capitalism through record company ho's, platinum coated egos, putting out bullshit lyrics hyper marketed to supercede those revolutionary mantras of yesteryear.

Together we will win.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, emcees been going from record sales to prison cells.

From standing outside of strip bars to stripping behind bars: being stripped of their clothes, jewelry and cars.

Ass out, holding their jaws...

Ass out, holding their scars...

Ass out, holding their drawers...

while record execs continue to puff on fifty dollar cigars looking at pop charts trying to figure out how they are going to make the next self-deprecating black star

and, because there is so much apathy in the ghetto, they ain't gotta look far

and, since talent is no longer necessary, no matter where they look, there they are.

Thinking that hip-hop is ever going to return to the high lyrical content of the late eighties is absurd.

Cats no longer want to follow the leader, now they want to follow nigga' killers and black woman beaters and since no one forces us to watch BET and since no one forces us to buy them garbage-ass CDs and since no one forces us to support them no-talent-having-petty-thieves, I guess we simply get what we deserve.

Because if we really wanted to elevate ourselves through lyrical content in this new millennium, we would just listen to spoken word.

Lyrics by: Taalam Acey

dam

that was hot

where's this shit from?

is it a poem? or a verse? or what?

Check out www.guerrillanews.com - it has heaps of dope shit.

is it from guerrillanews.com then?

Taalam Acey is the poet and "When The Smoke Clearz" is one of his works featured on guerrillanews.com

THere's a video in guerrillanews.com of this poem/track. If you go to the video section of the website you'll see it there. THere's also some pretty cool hip hop links and CIA/crack conspiracy theories.

QUOTE: "the-juice"
dam

that was hot

where's this shit from?

is it a poem? or a verse? or what? 1 day ago

"micello"
Check out www.guerrillanews.com - it has heaps of dope shit.

21 hours ago

"the-juice"
is it from guerrillanews.com then?




Junglist says: Come on people. *shrug*




:/

look

all micello said was to check out guerrillanews.com

it might hav' been cos' they saw a similarity between this and something else they had seen on the aforementioned website.

there's no way of knowin that micello actually knew where this was from cos four started this thread.

no need to be mean.







meanie

YEAH YA BIG MEANIE!

stupido putana

??????

wtf?

ANYWAAAAAY ... didja check out the website? Pretty cool huh!

i've seen the website before and watched some clips but i haven't seen any hip-hop section. i'll check it laterz

i peeped the video for SMOKE CLEARZ

it was a lot more thought provoking then just the lyrics.

That was on the mo-show the other week ... very impressive. They did an interview with the guys who do guerrillanews.com - really interesting.

WO dammit missed that one

oh it was ,I dont have a tv so I did not know that

topic like this come up all the time and everyone stands up and says they feel it, but then nxt week they all go out and buy the latest iced out gangster rap. Isnt that kinda hypocrtical?

true maximuss, when I saw this on mo show I thought the guy had a point. But then I realised I happen to like some of the stuff he was complaining about.

I reckon hip hop would become boring very quickly if everybody was doing the same thing (ie all gangsta, all bling or all concious raps).

Wot the fuck! I think iced out gangsta shit sux. I thought it last week, and I'll think it next week. Snoop Dog, Tupac, Ice Cube all suck along with other gangsta shit. Yes I must admit I listen to a li'l bit of hip hop by "gangstas" but there's a difference between gangsta rap and gangstas doing hip hop!

four: i think you're makin a bit of a mistake by groupin 2pac wit cube & snoop. 2pac often dropped conscious shit. i dunno whether or not you've heard it or not, but maybe you should check it out.