Onyx' 1995 Album
Quotes
"I'm America's nightmare, young, black, and just don't give a fuck. . . . whitey trying to save us with minimum wages, slamming my niggas up in cages, changing their behaviors. . . . these the Last Days, get yours. . . . the devil is inside of me; they make me rob from my own nationality. . . . the cops, they only good if they dead. . . . if this fucking rap shit don't pay, I'm gonna start selling drugs around my way, killing my own people in the U.S.G. [United States Ghetto]";
"Last Dayz," Onyx, All We Got Iz Us, 1995, Rush Associated Labels Recordings, PolyGram Group Distribution, Philips' Elecronics.
"It's a conspiracy; I been framed; they call me a nigger so much, starting to think it's my name; light skin ain't ashamed; way back in the day, they raped my grandmothers' mothers when they was enslaved; they hung my grandfather if he misbehaved; well, my ancestors was brave, and most of them real strong, hard, black sweaty slaves working in the fields; 400 years later, I learned about my roots and now they traded in they white sheets; those bastards in blue suits; so we'll take their recruits and start the fucking score right; and start a fight; a fight, a nigger and a white, if the nigger don't win then we all jump in";
"Ghetto Mentalitee"; Onyx, All We Got Iz Us, 1995, Rush Associated Labels Recordings, PolyGram Group Distribution, Philips' Elecronics.
"I roll with purse snatchers, drug dealers, and trespassers . . . and parole violators. . . . partied with murderers. . . . waiting for the crackers; smuggle; his mug is in the gutters. . . . rapers and zipper-rippers. . . . ready to run up the Rockefeller; put the cock in the teller [sound of gun clicking] and tell her: bitch, getting ready to bury you [sound of gunshot]. . . . we'll still be rowdy and rioting and looting and regrouping until we see some more improving. . . . I pledge allegiance to the streets and play God. . . . facing incarceration, isolation, over some color discrimination, so we need your participation in the Caucasian assassination; time is wasting. . . . trying to stop our reproduction to kill off our population; and it's no exaggeration; so who is in association with the nigger retaliation; it needs your total cooperation. . . . a confrontation will be fought by the younger generation; because we got determination; all we need is organization";
"Purse Snatchers"; Onyx, All We Got Iz Us, 1995, Rush Associated Labels Recordings, PolyGram Group Distribution, Philips' Elecronics.
"Fuck peace; I want justice; I'm a nigga with a gun in the right mind to bust this. . . . the real black army is in jail. . . . come on my fellow prisoners, time to go to war. . . . time to get the Tec and go and step to the President. . . . they the ones who put the guns in the ghetto for destruction; this is depression, deception, killing our complexion; what we need to do is point the guns in the right direction, aha. . . . tell you where I'm from: it's a savage redman curse. . . . they gave us guns and drugs and watch us fucking rub each other out, just doing what they love; retaliate. . . . me and my piece came to claim the brown man's cut which really ours since the hour. . . . we got to form our own crop; dominate, infiltrate, infiltrate until it burns down; and when it burns it's going up in flames because we got to go where we should've been since the dark ages. . . . we got to destroy and then rebuild. . . . what we need to be talking about is what we gonna do to them; I'll get revenge if it's the last thing I do; when I start speaking in tongues, the Holy Ghost couldn't save you. . . . they got us brainwashed to be the minority, but when we kill them off we gonna be the majority. . . . if the whites speak up, then I'll lead my people, because two wrongs don't make it right but it damn sure make us equal; I'm inciting riots, so let's start the looting; and whoever enforce the laws, I guess we'll just have to shoot them; because in this revolution I loathe my enemy";
"2 Wrongs"; Onyx, All We Got Iz Us, 1995, Rush Associated Labels Recordings, PolyGram Group Distribution, Philips' Elecronics.
Article
The rappers of Onyx are Fredro Starr, Sonee Seeza, and Sticky Fingaz. In the liner notes of the 1995 album, Onyx sends out "love" to a long list which includes Spike Lee, Soul Train, and the following artists: "Lost Boyz, P.I., Run-DMC, Cash Money, Cutthroats, Death Squad, Ice Tee, Boot Camp, Quiet Noise, Gangreen, Mobb [Deep], Wu [-Tang Clan], Dwellers, Brooklyn Zoo, Mike G, Organize, [A] Tribe [Called Quest], Pete Rock, AZ, Nas, Tupac, Chyskillz, Kid Capri, S&S, Ron G, Flex, Naughty, Bad Boy, Gangstarr [aka Guru], Sunz of Man, Rawbreed, Shyeim, Tyson, Death Row, Last Poets, PE, Bad Influence, Young Gunz, Buckwild Latief & Rockwilder," and "Black Nigguh Armee Soldiers." Sticky Fingaz wrote the following: "Fuck my Pops and da cops, they don't deserve 2 live 2 witness niguz like me change da New World Order 2 no world order. I throw up my gunz n salute 2 us. . . . support the cause dat got more followers than Jesus Christ . . . Hip Hop."
References
All We Got Iz Us, Onyx, 1995, Rush Associated Labels Recordings, PolyGram, Philips' Electronics. PolyGram merged with Universal Group in 1998, the parent being The Seagram Company.
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