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

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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 God justifies every fuckin' 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 nigga

Jews don't salute the fuckin' swastika

But niggas 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?
 
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Rass Kass always come with the real.. check out his song “ How to Kill god” reminds me of “Nature of the Threat”.
 
The Lonious Monk;c-10110987 said:
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?
 
rip.dilla;c-10110989 said:
The Lonious Monk;c-10110987 said:
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 Lesbos;

Hence, the word Lesbian. [Ey, let these dumb motherfuckers 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 god 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.
 
Soul On Ice is an incredible album. "Nature of the Threat" is classic but its crazy...majority of the people who play this shit around me is white guys
 
@"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
 
bkkbully;c-10111161 said:
Soul On Ice is an incredible album. "Nature of the Threat" is classic but its crazy...majority of the people who play this shit around me is white guys

My first dead prez concert... filled up with White people
 
rip.dilla;c-10111795 said:
@"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.
 

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