Rass Kass' 'Nature Of The Threat'... A Discussion

rip.dilla
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https://youtu.be/SS0VR4bfhY0
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, blonde hair and white skin
Albinism apparently was a sin to the original man, Africans
So the mutants traveled North of the equator
Called Europeans later, the first race haters
So here's the Devil's alpha to the beta
Cause 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 man 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 B.C. Southern Russians migrate in small units
Those who travel 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 - defeat; untrustable, untouchables
They wrote the holy Vedas in Sanskrit
That's the language that created Greek, German, Latin and English
Now the Minoans around 2000 B.C
Starts on the island of Crete, in the Agean Sea
The Greek culture begins Western Civilization
But "Western Civilization" means "white ? "
Mycenaeans learned from Kemet, called Egypt in Greek
It existed since at least 3000 B.C
Creatin' geometry and astronomy
This knowledge influenced Plato, Socrates and Hippocrates
Cause Imhotep, the real father of medicine
Was worshiped 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 first man, Greek power expands
The first Greek fraternities band
The word gymnasium is Greek for "naked"
This was the place where adolescent boys were educated, and molested
This was accepted because Greek culture was homosexual
For example, Sappho trained girls on the island of ? ;
Hence, the word Lesbian. [Ey, let these dumb ? know!]
December 25th, the birth of Saturn
A homosexual ? , now check the historical pattern
December 25th, now thought the birth of Christ
Was Saturnalia, when men got ?
? each other then beat their wife
Fact is, it was still practiced, 'til they called it Christmas
So put a gerbil on your Christmas list
The Hellenistic Era, Alexander the Great
Conquers all the way to India leavin' four successor states
By the Fifth century B.C., R.O.M.E
Succeeds to be the conqueror of Egypt and Greece
But had the threat of the Black Phoenicians in Sicily
The Punic Wars begin, 264 B.C
The Black general Hannibal and Carthaginian Peace
In 146 B.C. Carthage fell after a six-month siege
Rome sold every citizen to slavery
The first genocide of history
And more bisexuality in sight; Julius Caesar was known as
"every woman's husband and every man's wife"
Spartacus Revolt, a slave rebellion that lost
Where 6,000 slaves was nailed on a cross
Cross, aw, ? , Jesus Christ, Time for some act-right
Christians get your facts right
Cause Christ was not his name, that's Greek for "One who is anointed"
Yeshua 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 Josephus
"Short, dark, with an underdeveloped beard was Jesus"
He had the Romans fearin' revolution
The solution was to take him to court and falsely accuse him
After being murdered by Pilate how can it be
These same white Romans established Christianity
Constantine would later see the cross in a dream
In his vision, it read *In hoc signo vinces*
"In this sign we conquer" - Manifest Destiny
In 325 he convened the Nicene Creed
And separated ? into three
Decided Jesus was born on December 25th
And raised then on the third day is a myth
Plus to deceive us
Commissioned Michelangelo to paint white pictures of Jesus
He used his aunt, uncle, and nephew
Subconsciously that affects you
It makes you put white people closer to ?
(*No! Man got game like a ? *)
True indeed, ? it, Jihad
In the eight century Muslims conquered
Spain, Portugal and France and controlled it for 700 years
They never mention this in history class
Cause 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, Granada
King Ferdinand gave thanks to ? for victory
And the Pope of Rome and declared this date to forever be
A day of "Thanksgiving" for all European Christians

Now listen, when you celebrate "Thanksgiving"
What you are actually celebrating
Is the proclamation of the Pope of Rome
Who later, in league with Queen Isabella
Sent 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 Turkeys
Who were the forefathers of your mothers and fathers
Now fight the power, you ? -ass ?

Comments

  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2017
    Now around this time, Whites started callin' us Negroes
    That's Spanish for "black object" meaning we're not really people
    But property, and the triangle trade begins - they seize us
    Queen Elizabeth sends the first slaves on a ship named Jesus
    Stealin' land from the indigenous natives
    Gave them alcohol to keep the Red Man intoxicated
    Whites claim they had to civilize these pagan animals
    But up until 1848 there's documented cases
    Of whites being the savage cannibals, eating Indians
    In 1992, it's Jeffery Dahmer
    They slaughtered a whole race with guns
    Drugs, priests and nuns
    1763, the first demonic tactic of biological warfare
    As tokens of peace, Sir Jeffery Amherst
    Passed out clothing and blankets to the Indian community
    Infested with small pox, knowing they had no immunity
    Today it's AIDS, you best believe it's man made
    Cause ain't a damn thing changed, let me explain
    Now since people of color are genetically dominant
    And Caucasoids are genetically recessive
    And Whites expect to be predominant, meaning survive as a race then
    They simply must, take precautions
    That's why they're worried about their future now
    Cause by 2050, almost all the Earth's population
    Will be brown
    Then black, so understandin' that, whites counter-react
    *(Man I'm saying, the fools ain't nothing but a teaspoon of milk in a world coloured with joy)*
    So they created a system
    To force blacks into an unnatural position
    That re-enforces the position of natural inferiority
    In addition, created guns and developed the ethnocentric view
    That ? justifies every ? ' thing they do
    Condition people to perceive whites' culture as civilized
    And every other culture considered primitive - not true
    Racism is the system of racial subjugation against non-whites
    In every areas of human relation
    Entertainment, education, labor, politics
    Law, religion, sex, war and economics
    See blacks were 3/5ths of a man with tax purposes intended
    You think you're Afro-American? You're a 14th amendment and a good ?
    Jews don't salute the ? ' ?
    But ? pledge allegiance to the flag that accosted ya
    They never teach about the break of islands like Jamaica
    But before slaves came here Whites would take a
    Pregnant woman, hang her from a tree by her toes
    Slice her stomach with a knife and let the unborn baby fall to the flo'
    And stomp an unborn child in front of all the slaves
    To inbreed fear, so they'd be scared and behave
    And not rebel more
    Understand all Whites must be perceived as potential predators
    I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango
    "Understand that regardless of the lofty ideas engraved on paper
    In such documents as the Constitution or Declaration
    The basic nature of the European American white man
    Remains virtually unchanged"
    So, check
    This is the nature of the threat




    It was on the album Soul On Ice released in 1996...



    Now with Thanksgiving around the corner or already here the song highlights it and finds it fraudulent alongside putting up a very scathing introspection on White nationalism and power as related to Black people.


    It's a beast of a record (nearly eight minutes long) and is possibly the most potent Pro-Black HipHop song I've ever heard... a lot of critics have branded some of the stuff spit on the record as incorrect and non factual (possibly White people)




    For those who like and appreciate the song, what are your opinions and thoughts? Positive or negative?
  • 5th Letter
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  • The Arch
    The Arch Members Posts: 381 ✭✭✭✭
    Rass Kass always come with the real.. check out his song “ How to ? ? ” reminds me of “Nature of the Threat”.
  • The Lonious Monk
    The Lonious Monk Members Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The accuracy of a lot of what he said is less than spot on, but it's still a good song.
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The accuracy of a lot of what he said is less than spot on, but it's still a good song.



    Expound please... what faults do you have with any of the lyrics?
  • Nechesh358
    Nechesh358 Members Posts: 276 ✭✭
    This song changed my whole perspective on lyricism.
  • The Lonious Monk
    The Lonious Monk Members Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rip.dilla wrote: »
    The accuracy of a lot of what he said is less than spot on, but it's still a good song.



    Expound please... what faults do you have with any of the lyrics?

    There are some inaccuracies. For example:
    For example, Sappho trained girls on the island of ? ;
    Hence, the word Lesbian. [Ey, let these dumb ? know!]

    Sappho was just a poet that wrote about her love for women, and so homosexual women came up with the term Lesbian to honor Sappho who was from that island. It's hard to know where he got the "training girls" part from without sourcing.
    These same white Romans established Christianity
    Constantine would later see the cross in a dream
    In his vision, it read *In hoc signo vinces*
    "In this sign we conquer" - Manifest Destiny
    In 325 he convened the Nicene Creed
    And separated ? into three
    Decided Jesus was born on December 25th

    Constantine organized the council, but he did no come up with the concept of the Trinity or set the date for Christmas. And the Romans didn't establish Christianity. They just made it a State religion and make their brand of Christianity the accepted on at the time.

    Mostly, it just seems to be filled with oversimplifications and unfounded allegations. I'm not knocking it. It's a rap song, not a history lesson. But people shouldn't be listening to it and believing it's indisputable fact.
  • black caesar
    black caesar Members Posts: 12,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This was one of the songs that changed my life. I was 18 when I bought Ras' album.
  • bkkbully
    bkkbully Members Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Soul On Ice is an incredible album. "Nature of the Threat" is classic but its crazy...majority of the people who play this ? around me is white guys
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @The Lonious Monk good drop... there have been articles from historians and MCs too regarding the authenticity of some of the lyrics on the song



    However the fact that a rapper would take his time to spit 'knowledge' on a song whether it be about historical racism should be applauded. I take everything a rapper with socio political views on a record says or raps about at face value... it makes me do my own research or makes me even prouder if it's stuff I already know
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bkkbully wrote: »
    Soul On Ice is an incredible album. "Nature of the Threat" is classic but its crazy...majority of the people who play this ? around me is white guys



    My first dead prez concert... filled up with White people
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love this song and album
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/Wh6f9Jdx_U8


    He speaks on the making of the song
  • The Lonious Monk
    The Lonious Monk Members Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rip.dilla wrote: »
    @The Lonious Monk good drop... there have been articles from historians and MCs too regarding the authenticity of some of the lyrics on the song



    However the fact that a rapper would take his time to spit 'knowledge' on a song whether it be about historical racism should be applauded. I take everything a rapper with socio political views on a record says or raps about at face value... it makes me do my own research or makes me even prouder if it's stuff I already know

    Yeah, I like the song. It's a dope piece of work even if it's not completely accurate.