Pure Land Hip Hop

By Chris Chrappa

When I still a lad and hip hop was still

burgeoning and hadn't degenerated into this horrible horseshit that it is

now (you know, sort of like the Sex Pistols people felt when Punk got

imbibed by the system.... We could call it "Pure Land Punk" or, in my case,

"Pure Land Hip Hop"), way back in 96 or 97 when things were getting really

interesting with the advent of electronic music, this cd came out by a guy

named Ras Kass, called "Soul On Ice." Now, the CD pretty much faded and

died without controversy, partly for the fact that it was never really

accepted by "real" hip hop people nor by the mainstream. However, to this

day it remains one of my personal all time favorites and in my opinion the

most underrated hip hop LP of all time. There is a song on the cd entitled

"The Nature of the Threat," and it's basically an 8 minute long Foucauldian

genealogy of world history told from a black man's perspective in LA '96.

I've played it for many of my friends over the years and all of them by the

end of the song were both blushing and flat out furious. A handful were

even calling the guy a "stupid nigger," if you can believe that. Now, I

don't know if you would have any interest in the song, so what I'll do is

write the lyrics down here, and at least you can get an idea of what I'm

talking about. Here it goes.

The Nature of the Threat, Ras Kass.

Let freedom ring with a buckshot but not just yet

first we need to truly understand the nature of the threat

and a pale man walks in the threshold of darkness

roughly 20,000 years ago the first humans evolved with the phenotypical

trait, genetic recessive,

blue eyes, blond hair and white skin.

Albinism was apparently a sin to the original man,

Africans, so the mutants travelled north to the equator called Europeans

later, the first race haters, so the here's the devil's Alpha to the Beta,

Cuz "history's best qualified to teach one" quoting German philosopher

Schopenhauer, every white man is a faded or a bleached one.

Migration created further mutation,

genetic drifts, evolution through recombination,

adaptation to the climate, as the Caucus mountain reverted to that of a

primate.

Savage Neanderthals until the late Paleolithic Age, that's when the black

Grimaldi man came, with the symbol of the dragon, fire and art,

check cave paintings in France and Spain to the Venus of Willendorf.

Around 2000 BC Southern Russians migrate in small in units, those who

traveled west populated Europe.

Those who went east settled in Iran, known as Aryans,

1500 B.C. some crossed the Khyber Pass into India and created Hinduism,

the first Caste system, the origins of racism.

A white dot on the forehead meant elite, the black dot the

feet--untrustable, untouchable.

They wrote the holy Vedas in Sanskrit, that's the language that created

Greek, German, Latin and English.

Now the Minoans also around 2000 B.C. start from the island of Crete in the

Aegian Sea.

The Greek culture begins Western civilization, but Western civilization

means white domination.

Myceneans learned from Kemet, called "Egypt" in Greek, it had existed since

at least 3000 B.C.,

creating Geometry and Astronomy, this knowledge influenced Plato, Socrates

and Hippocrates.

Cuz' Imohotep the real father of medicine was worshipped in Greece and Rome

in the form of a black African.

The word Africa comes from the Greek "Aphrike" meaning "without cold;" the

word "philosophy" means "love of knowledge," stole from the first man, Greek

power expands, the first Greek fraternities band.

The word "Gymnasium" is Greek for "naked," this is where adolescent boys

were educated, and molested.

This was accepted because Greek culture was homosexual, for example: Sappho

trained girls on the island of Lesbos, hence the word "lesbian"--(man let

these dumb motherfuckers know).

December 25th the birth of Saturn, a homosexual God now check the historical

pattern. December 25th now thought the birth of Christ was

Saturnalia...when men got drunk, fucked each other then beat their wives.

Fact is it was still practised until they called it Christmas, so put a

gerbal on your Christmas list.

The Hellenistic era: Alexander the Great conquers all the way to India

leaving four successor states. By the fifth century B.C., R-O-M-E succeeds

to be the conquerer of Egypt and Greece but had the threat of the black

Phoenicians in Sicily, the Punic Wars began 264 B.C.

The black general Hannibal and Cartheginian peace, in 146 B.C. Carthage fell

after a six month siege...Rome sold every citizen into slavery, the first

genocide of history. And more bi-sexuality in sight, Julius Caesar was

known as every woman's husband and every man's wife;

Spartacus revolt--a slave rebellion that lost, where six thousand slaves got

nailed on a cross...Cross? Aw shit, Jesus Christ...time for some act right,

Christians get your facts right. Cuz Christ was not his name, that's Greek

for "one who is annointed;" Yoshua ben Yosef was his name, do Christians

know this? So who do you praise, do you know his name? Or do you do this

in vain accepting the religion they gave slaves to behave?

Peep the description--of historian Joseph "short, dark, with an

underdeveloped beard" was Jesus. He had the Romans fearing revolution, the

solution was to take him to court and falsely accuse him. After being

murdered by Pilate HOW CAN IT BE that these same white Romans established

Christianity? Constantine would later see the cross in a dream, in his

vision it read "En Hawk Signo Wonka"--"in this sign we conquer"...

Manifest destiny, in 325 convened the Nicean Creed and separated God into

three, decided Jesus was born on December 25th and raising on the third day

is a myth... Plus to deceive us, commission Michaelangelo to paint white

pictures of Jesus. He used his aunt, uncle and nephew; subconsciously this

affects you, it makes you put white people closer to God (the Man got

game...), true indeed fuck it, Jihaad!

In the 8th century Muslims conquered Spain, Portugal and France and

controlled it for seven hundred years; they never mention this in His-tory

class 'cuz O'fays are threatened when you get the real lesson, Moors from

Baghdad, Turkey threatened European Christians, meaning: the white way of

life hence the crusades for Christ. On November 25th 1491 Santiago defeats

the last Muslim stronghold--Grenada King Ferdinand gave thanks to God and

the Pope of Rome declared this day to forever be...a day of Thanksgiving for

all European Christians, now listen:

When you celebrate Thanksgiving, what you are really celebrating is the

proclamation of the Pope of Rome, who later in League with Queen Isabella,

sent the Cardinal Ximenos to Spain, to murder any blacks that resisted

Christianity! These Moors, these black men and women were from Baghdad,

Turkey; and today you eat the Turkey for your Thanksgiving day as the

European powers destroyed the "Turkies" who were the forefathers of your

mothers and fathers...now fight the power.

Now around this time whites started calling us "negroes," that's Spanish for

"black object" meaning we're not really people but property. And the

traingle trade begins they seize us, Queen Elizabeth sent the first slaves

on a ship named Jesus.

Stealing land from the indigenous natives, gave them alcohol to keep the

redman intoxicated. White's claimed they had to civilize these pagan

animals but until 1848 there's documented cases of white's being the savage

cannibals, eating Indians in 1992 it's Jeffrey Dahmer...they slaughtered a

whole race with guns--, drugs, priests, and nuns; 1763 the first demonic

tactic of bilogical warfare, As tokens of peace Sir Jeffrey Amherst passed

out clothing to the Indian community, infested with Smallpox knowin' they

had no immunity...

Today it's AIDS you best believe it's man made, cuz aint a damn thing

changed...let me explain: Now since people of color are genetically dominant

and Caucusoids are genetically recessive, if whites expect to be predominant

meaning survive as a race, then they simply must...take precuations. That's

why they're worried about the future now,

cuz' by 2050 almost all the earth's population will be brown, then black, so

understand that whites counterreact(the world white minortiy is a teaspoon

of milk in a world colored majority).

So they created a system to force blacks into an unnatural position of

natural inferiority, in addition, creating guns and the Ethnocentric

view...that God justifies every fuckin' thing they do. Conditioned people

to perceive white culture as civilized and every other culture considered

primitive, not true.

Racism is the system of racial subjugation against non-whites in every area

of human relation: education, entertainment, labor, politics...law,

religion, sex, war and economics. See blacks were 3/5ths of a person with

tax purposes intended...you think you're afro-american you're a 14th

amendment and a good nigga. Jews don't salute the fuckin' swastika but

niggas pledge allegiance to the flag that accosted ya'. They never teach

about the "Breaker Islands" like Jamaica where, before whites came here,

they would take a pregnant woman hang her from a tree by her toes slice her

stomach with a knife and watch the unborn baby fall to the floor. Then

stomp and unborn child in front of all the slaves to inbreed fear so they'd

be scared and behave and rebel more, understand all whites must be perceived

as potential predators.

I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango: understand that regardless of

the lofty ideals engraved on paper in such documents as the consitution or

Declaration, the basic nature of European-American white man remains

fundamentally unchanged...so check it...

This is the nature of the threat.

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Now, apparently the song was based on a book entitled "Nature of the

Threat," but I've never been able to find it, even when I look on Amazon or

other places. I have no idea. But it's amazing how deep a song like that

stabs at (white) people, and even some black friends of mine think the song

is too damn radical--all in all I think I'm the only person who listens to

it. Ras Kass made a second album a few years later considerably toned down

and more mainstream-ish, without most of his previous bite. I know when I

first heard Nature of the Threat, I felt like someone was stabbing me with

the knife of myself. I think, perhaps, it might relate to the whole idea

that we can feel guilty about our history so long as no one "on the other

side" reproaches us for it or tries to make us feel guilty. My interest

isn't in the historical validity of the song, nor do I think Ras Kass'

interest was either---though if it was it still wouldn't change my opinion

of the song. Anyhow--I thought you might enjoy that. One of the first

things I always wanted to do if I became a professor would be to play that

song for my class and see how they reacted. Cuz damn--as I said, the

reactions to the song almost confim exactly what Ras Kass is saying! How

'bout them apples. Right as he says, "the nature of the european-american

white man remains basically unchanged," the listener sits there going

"stupid..fuckin'...blah blah blah"--you know what I'm saying? It like

brings out the devil in you or something, kind of like Foucault's works did

for a while, and like a lot of pomo stuff tends to for more benign

intellectuals.