RBX's 1995 Album

Quotes
"As-Salamu 'alai-kum, brothers, sisters; brothers, sisters, walk with me; I was approached by this Caucasian man and he told me this: these little young black gangbangers are causing so much problems; it's a total negative situation; [the narrator continues his part of the dialogue by laughing], ha, ha, ha, ha, ha; and being a positive brother, I replied this: devil, to gangbanging there's a positive side and the positive side is this--sooner than later the brothers will come to Islam, and they will be the soldiers for the war; what war, you ask; Armageddon; ha, ha, ha, ha, ha; it's upon us; peace";
"Armageddon"; RBX, The RBX Files, 1995, Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner.

"Wondering: will this war come before I am ready. . . . niggas finally became a team. . . . we start shots for the wicked warlocks. . . . black men are marching, 50 mill[ion] or more ride. . . . my half-brother Moses. . . . was just about to go, to the highest, coldest, crooked mountains to talk with the whites. . . . failed to realize the wicked mental can't comprehend, then; whites, black, blend; now in '95 we are living in sin. . . . I am ready for the combat. . . . on a rooftop with my shotgun, ready-aim position. . . . I'm surrounded by Aryan troops. . . . black Moses, and Malcolm X, and the most honorable Elijah; what my mental smash; they go right to crash, the Aryans were ash. . . . for blacks this is the day for music. . . . a pilgrimage, back to Akebulan";
"Akebulan"; RBX, The RBX Files, 1995, Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner.

"A nine millimeter is mandatory; a devil cannot tell the story; let him step because he's gonna get gory. . . . a house full of lies. . . . I chill [relax] and watch the beast sizzle; now the lighter breed claims to be dominant; actual fact you need to be black. . . . everyday I fight a devil. . . . I grab a shovel to bury a devil. . . . the battle with the beast, Mr. 666. . . . my mind rolled to a 7th level; grab my bazooka and nuke a devil. . . . with black, I build; for black, I kill";
"Fightin the Devil"; RBX, The RBX Files, 1995, Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner.

"Devil, no time to criticize you; use it to hypnotize you. . . . my brothers and . . . my sisters, we are in the Final Days; indeed, and we must have black unity now, or else. . . . let's add and divide to get the ones that lied. . . . I pledge allegiance to only the black; take me to war for that; remember it's God you'll be fighting. . . . I am black man, the first man; and sooner than later I shall be the last; I will survive your blast; my mental will walk when your physical is ash. . . . the blood on the moon; flash; the First Seal came soon. . . . I am greeted by a hand; it is Malcolm X. . . . black, you had best prepare for the coming of war. . . . look at you devil; now you're sweating; I'm telling you: you can't run from the hand of Armageddon. . . . he eats his pig-steak rare so he can taste the blood; like a beast trying to feast on a black; get ready to attack; no sweating as we march to Armageddon; march on the black top, two-three-four. . . . sooner than later the devil shall bow. . . . our time is now, Armageddon";
"No Time"; RBX, The RBX Files, 1995, Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner.

Article
      RBX's album recruits for Nation of Islam and promotes the extremist group's doctrines. It is the Final Days of Revelations, we are told on track 15. RBX puts forth black identity constantly on the album, and track 15 is no exception: "Copper tones [are] not white, they brown; black is not color; it's the absence of. . . . in any situation I am always black." He gives his view of a racial first when he stresses that the first "formed town" was not in Europe but was in Africa. He speaks of oppression by whites as follows: "for years and years they trotted down the black. . . . what can you do to redeem 400 years of oppression." He makes historical slavery seem like yesterday: "I can still hear the screams, the screams so loud it make me shiver." He calls himself "truly omnipotent," and offers a greeting as follows: "peace to the mighty-mighty Nation of Islam." He relays basic doctrine by telling blacks that "rapture is coming" so they had "best repent." The following quote shows how RBX considers the theory of evolution to be a fraud pushed by whites when actually blacks were created supreme by God: "the other won't stop perpetrating the fraud of a whole evolutionary process; but I was born supreme. . . . from an organism that you can't see; black is the dominant man to the identity, and meant to be." ("Sounds of Reality.")

      Brother Minister A. Samad Muhammad of Nation of Islam recruits. He tells "black man" and "black woman" that they must choose between "God" and "the enemy." Blacks who follow "God" will get "life," and blacks who "choose to stay with [their] enemy" will suffer "death." ("Brother Minister A. Samad Muhammad.") He speaks of captains who would teach "black men . . . how to be the original black man," and of "sister" captains who would show black women how to be "the original woman." In Nation of Islam's "program," black women who would join would learn to "produce children that will reflect the mind of God, not children that will be running around the street looking and acting like Satan." Another voice, who finishes the track, interprets Nation of Islam's Armageddon as a race war, and the following shows how: "As-Salamu 'alai-kum, brothers, sisters; brothers, sisters, walk with me; I was approached by this Caucasian man and he told me this: these little young black gangbangers are causing so much problems; it's a total negative situation; [the narrator continues his part of the dialogue by laughing], ha, ha, ha, ha, ha; and being a positive brother, I replied this: devil, to gangbanging there's a positive side and the positive side is this--sooner than later the brothers will come to Islam, and they will be the soldiers for the war; what war, you ask; Armageddon; ha, ha, ha, ha, ha; it's upon us; peace." ("Armageddon.")

      On another track, RBX describes himself fighting proudly in a race war, and he says that whites "can't run from Armageddon." He imagines himself with an "AK" fighting against "devils" in helicopters. He imagines 50 million "black men" marching, and shooting "cops" and "wicked warlocks" with machine-guns. "Blacks will reign supreme" because it has been "only black men ever acting," training themselves in gang warfare. At the race war's climax, RBX imagines himself with a shotgun while surrounded by "Aryan troops" and helicopters, but he uses his visions of "black Moses, and Malcolm X, and the most honorable Elijah" to boost his "mental" in order to turn the Aryans into "ash." "For blacks" it is a victory, and they "gotta get back to Akebulan, a pilgrimage . . . all aboard." RBX says that he can see the "chemical warfare" that has been used as a tool by whites. Whites' "wicked mental can't comprehend," and now in 1995 blacks are living in sin because "whites [and] blacks blend." He refers to United Nation of Islam, and he calls himself "the X" and calls his music "reality born X" or "the power of the X." ("Akebulan.")

      Because blacks live in "purgatory, a nine millimeter is mandatory." RBX mixes black identity with calls for killing whites, and the following shows it thickly: "it's grim for Allah, then I grab a shovel to bury a devil. . . . my diction is a crucifixion; black, black through the skin, black through the blood, black through the chromosome, black to the bone; black is well-known by the Klan. . . . back to the battle with the beast, Mr 666. . . . my mind rolled to a 7th level; grab my bazooka and nuke a devil. . . . black I ill for black is real; I'm black until; for black I will; with black I build; for black I kill." RBX says that he does not eat pork, but "Mr 666" does. He references "Ice Cube" and his AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted album. Examples of black supremacist thought occur on the track, and they are as follows: "now the lighter breed claims to be dominant; actual fact, you need to be black. . . . he's not at my level; everyday I fight a devil. . . . dominant black with a mind and I find that I'm seven with the strength of eleven; Caucasians and Asians to persuasion." It is significant that RBX grouped Asians with whites when speaking of black supremacy over whites. ("Fightin the Devil.")

      Blacks are told to "prepare for the coming of war," and the following message is sent out to whites: "remember it's God you'll be fighting. . . . . I enlighten with words. . . . I spotted your plan; remember I am black man, the first man, and sooner than later I shall be the last; I will survive your blast; my mental will walk when your physical is ash. . . . look at you, devil; now you're sweating; I'm telling you--you can't run from the hand of Armageddon." Blacks will "march to Armageddon. . . . for the time is now, [and] sooner than later the devil shall bow." RBX says that when Armageddon arrives he will no longer need Nation of Islam's "lessons" or "classes," and he imagines himself being greeted by Malcolm X. There must be "black unity now" because "we are in the final days." A reference to numerology is made as follows: "it's time for math; let's add and divide to get the ones that lied; now it's time to subtract; I pledge allegiance to only the black; take me to war for that." Again, RBX says that whites cannot harm him with "chemical warfare." A comment about pork is made as follows: "the beast . . . eats his pig-steak rare so he can taste the blood like a beast trying to feast on a black." ("No Time.") There is "no time" left, and "our time is now, Armageddon." ("Our Time Is Now.")

      RBX criticizes his musical partner Dr Dre, and he makes a positive reference to Ice Cube's "Steady Mobbin" track from the 1991 Death Certificate album. ("AWOL.") He does not limit his affiliations to Nation of Islam, for he tell listeners the following: "let the Black Panthers grab you." He claims that he will hunt down blacks "like a vulture" in order to get them to follow his lead in which "black is the culture." ("Burn.") It has become common usage in rap lyrics to say that one is using a "third eye" when able to see beyond the normal dictates of society. RBX also uses the term. ("Sounds of Reality" and "Fightin the Devil.") Inside the pamphlets inserted into CD's, RBX thanks "All-Mighty Allah."

Reference
The RBX Files, RBX, 1995, Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner.

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