Professor Griff 1998

Professor Griff's 1998 Album

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"It's time to send the devil to the essence. . . . ready to annihilate Yakub's creation; this is a must because there ain't no reform or trust; you got a Glock and you see a devil, bust. . . . we mobbing because we starving. . . . let's get it on; you raped my moms and my pops; somebody is gonna pay me; you claim you didn't do it; but it's you, the bastard's baby; what if I had the field niggas coming at you--would you dispense your mule and 40 acres to the maker. . . . peace, As-Salamu 'alai-kum. . . . they'll be calling us the trigger men, the nappy-knotty red-beard devil-assassin; Lord make a law; at midnight I'll be bashing. . . . I want 40,000 acres plus, pronto. . . . [Marcus] Garvey on my side. . . . El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. . . . the 85 Percent really don't know how to survive; the 10 Percent can't hide. . . . field niggas [are] locked in until 2005";
"Field N#gguhz in a Huddle"; Professor Griff, Blood of the Prophet; 1998, Lethal Records, Mercury Records, PolyGram, The Seagram Company.

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      On the opening track of Professor Griff's most recent solo album, Blood of the Profit, which came out in 1998, a voice declares that the "Communist Party" will have victory in America by "inflaming the Negro minority against the whites," by instilling "a guilt complex" in the whites, and by aiding "the Negro to rise in prominence" which should promote intermarriage "with the whites." ("Red Reign.") Professor Griff seemed to have a problem with the plan spelled out on the opening track, because on the beginning of the very next track he tells listeners to "behold the pale trick" and claims to have "proof of the conspiracy theories." ("The Ole B#tch-U-Worryz.") However, on later tracks he seems to be in favor of the idea, speaking of "beautiful people of color [who] gave color to other people with no color," and imagining a nation in which whites and blacks do breed with each other. ("Black Beauty & The Bitch" and "Imaginenation.")

      On track 2, he goes on to say that he "sees [the] the schemes of things" and that he brings "death" with his beats. Blacks must wake up and get their minds and bodies "focused" because "Triple 6 [is] 'evidenting' them tricks." "Rich crackers in blue suits," he says, lead "'melan[in]ated' daughter[s] to the slaughter." Listeners will hear him nightly "in 1999 or 2000," they are told. He says that Geronimo Pratt must be freed. He says that he makes "government thugs" duck slugs because there is "mad dirt on the drugs." ("The Ole B#tch-U-Worryz.")

      Referring to blacks as "god" and whites as "devil," he says that "god and the devil just don't see eye to eye," because "these devils, they always lie to the son of man." He indicates that blacks are oppressed in America in two phrases, one relaying that blacks are "sickened from hard times," and the other relaying that the words "'my-country-'tis-of-thee' ain't nothing misery." He gives affiliation to black Jews as follows: "the 5 Percent bleeds; black Jews is what a fool needs." He says that he comes with "hardcore facts [on] hardcore tracks." The whites "distort facts . . . [about] historical blacks." "The 85 Percent" will be elevated, he says. He says that he deprograms listeners so that they will not glorify guns and so that they will "civilize these seeds of Yacub." The following statements are made which shows him referring to whites as being "grafted" and to blacks as devine: "no grafted threads; 'least we be the ones born again and never saved; the devil banded the Ten Commandments with the sword; vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord; shout through the vicious cycle of the ghetto dwellers." Blacks must "never believe in that ghost lie." He refers to himself as the illuminati. ("Common Thread," featuring Society and Lord Mecca.)

      "Barrels sing out," say guest rappers, for any blacks who act like "a nigger named Tom who defected." The rappers refer to themselves as ex-slaves, making it sound as if they suffered through historical slavery themselves. The following show how the rappers put, into connected phrases, the threat that blacks have a devine right to murder whites: "it's time to send the devil to the essence. . . . ready to annihilate Yakub's creation; this is a must because there ain't no reform or trust; you got a Glock and you see a devil, bust"; and "they'll be calling us the trigger men, the nappy-knotty red-beard devil-assassin; Lord make a law; at midnight I'll be bashing." "We mobbing because we starving," the rappers reason. They say that they follow "Jesse" and that they are pumping up blacks in the same way that Onyx riles them up. In the following phrases which threaten whites, the rappers hold today's whites responsible for slavery and reparations: "let's get it on; you raped my moms and my pops; somebody is gonna pay me; you claim you didn't do it; but it's you, the bastard's baby; what if I had the field niggas coming at you--would you dispense your mule and 40 acres to the maker." The guest rappers says that he greets Professor Griff with the saying "peace, Al-Salamu 'alai-kum." Because whites "lie," 40 acres must be expanded to 40,000 acres, they say. The rappers say that they want to do to whites what whites did to "Tonto." Whites are referred to "devils in cave." They say that Marcus Garvey is on their side and that they will see Malcolm X on the other side, referring to him by a name he attained and used after visiting Arabia and Africa in 1964, namely El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Alluding to historical slavery, the following shows how the rappers make it seem as if whites are still enslaving blacks: "through the underground railroad is how we gonna ride." "The 85 Percent really don't know how to survive," the rappers say, and the "10 Percent can't hide." It is interesting that during the later half of the 1990's, rappers have begun to refer to the date of racial Armageddon by not only 1999 and 2000, but also by extended dates. The rappers on the present track say that "field niggas [are] locked in until 2005." ("Field N#gguhz in a Huddle.")

      He calls his lyrics ciphers. ("Where U At" and "The X-Y Chromozone Theory.") He says that he builds "with the skill of Malcolm X," that he is "original Asiatic," that he is "programmed to slam," that he practices "the automatic," and that he is "the black messiah [who is] like [a] spark before the fire." Blacks were promised 40 acres but only got 40 ounce beers. Blacks must stand up straight "before this horny devil pounces." Perhaps Professor Griff is not in favor of white men dating black women. ("Where U At.") There is a problem when blacks look to the Pope for salvation and when they fight for a country that fights against the black "nation" within it. His whole generation is dying off, the rapper fears. "Crispus Attucks got caught in some pale static," and he died for it. Blacks must stop killing blacks. ("Rosez n Thornz.") The Watts Prophets, the Last Poets, and Gil Scott Heron are artists that should be looked up to. "AIDS is a manmade disease [designed] for the purpose of" killing off the blacks. ("Imaginenation.")

      Chuck D rapped and produced for the album. Praises and thanks are given to the following: "Allah the most high, the most Honorable Elijah Muhammad," Minister Farrakhan, Mustafa Farrakhan, The Nation of Islam, Allah-U-Akbar, Public Enemy, Flava Flav, Terminator X, S1W's, Khallid Muhammad, Rakim, and Goodie Mob. Some of those thanked have "X's" in their names, indicating that they are members of Nation of Islam. He writes to a man by name telling him that they should "hook up in the Armageddon project."

References
Blood of the Profit, Professor Griff, 1998, Profit Motive Entertainment, Mercury Records, PolyGram Group Distribution, Philips' Electronics. Philips' Electronics sold PolyGram to The Seagram Company in 1998, and PolyGram merged under Universal Music Group.

Posted at http://home.att.net/~phosphor on June 30, 1999.

Update: 8-10-99: link to Onyx.

Last editing was posted October 1, 1999.

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