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Written by Reverend Manny
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it goes: same shit, different devil,
old song, new words,
traded in Giuliani and got Bloomberg.
Shoot first, answer to no-one later, or get someone to shoot for you — owe ‘em a favor.
new threats on the homeland, prone to danger.
got no time to work, we got our own behavior,
we got
fingers to point, flags to wave, bombs to drop, gas to spray–it’s just the Gangster Way– HEY!!!!!
you don’t know? you better ask someone
but they prolly won’t answer, son
look, we ain’t invent “stop snitching”. we adopted it
got that shit from the cops and the mafia”
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It was a windy evening in October 2006, nearly five years ago, when I first met Silent Knight, the dynamic wordsmith out of New Jersey (in rapspeak, New Jerusalem). At the time I was scraping through Jeff Jarvis‘ New Media Class at the Legendary CUNY J-School.Sunset Park, where Silent Knight had spent a good part of his youth, was the meeting point on this cruel unrelenting evening. We were scheduled to do a video interview for about 20 minutes and then go about on our ways. The thing that struck me upon that meeting 5 years ago is what strikes me now, this is a person who devotes the best part of his energies, intelligence, soul and creativity to developing the art, craft and form of hip hop. Few artists, journalists, musicians, or even political leaders I’ve met in my 10+ years of journalism have exemplified anywhere near a comparable work ethic. |
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