Grand Puba's 1995 Album
Quotes
"Grand Puba got that game. . . . here goes the man with the pecan tan. . . . the one who plays weak MC's out like ham. . . . make sure my getaway is more swifter than O.J.";
"Very Special"; Grand Puba, 2000, 1995, Elektra Entertainment Group, Time Warner, WEA International.
"We gonna move it on for the year 2000";
"A Little of This"; Grand Puba, 2000, 1995, Elektra Entertainment Group, Time Warner, WEA International.
Summary
Track 11: in order to overcome black-on-black crime and crack-cocaine addictions, blacks must gain "knowledge of self." Blacks must unify so that they will get off "each other's back." Grand Puba says that whites do not care about blacks murdering as long as the victims are black. Whites are becoming "sleezier and sleezier," and "a good example" of it is as follows: when a rapper talks "about a devil on a record they put you on the shelf; as long as you talk about: 'yoh, I bust this nigga, and I bust that nigga,' [then] you grow bigger as a rap figure." The chorus chants the following: "change gonna come; it's time to free the dumb; freedom." Black-on-black murders are like ropes around the necks of blacks, and they are "the 2000 'trick-knowledge.'" Blacks must "get wise and civilize" and open "all three eyes."
"Change Gonna Come"; Grand Puba, 2000, 1995, Elektra Entertainment Group, Time Warner, WEA International.
Posted at http://home.att.net/~phosphor on July 5, 1999.
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