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December 19, 2003
When we hate each other, we're taking valuable time away from hating white people, and we don't wanna do that
Which is a totally inappropriate title for an entry about Minister Farrakhan interviewing Ja Rule, which is why I'm using it.
No one -- yes, I'm looking at you, Jason --explain to the tourists. Watching them go ballistic would provide some much-needed comedy around here.
On the eve of the release of Ja Rule's latest album, Blood in My Eye, the rapper sat down for a unique and revealing conversation with Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan is a trusted figure in the hip-hop community for his interventions in beefs and his championing of black civil rights, but he's also made headlines for his candid, anti-Semitic remarks.This interview was not produced by MTV News. While we do not normally present interviews or news reports that we did not create, we felt that this conversation was important for our audience to be able to read and consider for itself.
[One, two, skip a few. . .page four] Farrakhan: Ja, there's several lessons in what I'm hearing. Either we follow the public or we lead and teach the public. The public has an appetite for the beef. They love it. Now, we have to get them to have an appetite for something better than the destruction of one another. Hip-hop says we are thugs, we come up out of the street and now we've learned to rap, which is a tremendous art form. But now the enemy of all of us is watching. A war is about to come down on the rap community. When you and 50 throw down, it goes all the way down into the streets. Now what I see is, somebody intended to kill 50. You don't shoot somebody nine times for them to come up. So, if he's wiped out with all his popularity, and they can even subtly suggest that you or your people did it, then those that love 50 turn their guns on Ja. This has to end at some point and we need to educate the public. Don't call for Ja to clap back at 50, and 50 to clap back at Ja, when we've lost Biggie and Tupac, or we lose Ja and 50.
If you let the public dictate and you continue to follow that, the end result will be death and destruction. 50, you and me, we gotta sit down at a common table and work out the way hip-hop will go to the next level. The grave is where we are right now, mentally, and we gotta come up out of that. The power to come up out of that is the wisdom you gain as a result of increasing your knowledge and understanding. Then you feed that gently into your lyrics so the public says, "I'm glad Ja taught me better, because I was about to throw down and kill my brother." Like you said, Ja don't like 50 and 50 don't like Ja. There's a battle, but it's going from words to the gun. And we have to stop that.
The funny thing is, the people who hate really don't like Minister Farrakhan the most, have probably never read even that long of a quote from him.
He's a Villain, you know. You can boo and insult him and shit. In fact, you're encouraged to do so.
Which ain't to say I'm thrilled with the guy, but there's lots of people I'm less thrilled with.
Some of whom hold fairly high office, depite being completely and totally unelectable.
Posted by Aaron at December 19, 2003 04:34 PM
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