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Uhuru Hip Hop Movement
MOVEMENT
VOLUME 1.2 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2009/2010
This Cadre will also be in charge of managing the capitol One does not have to be an Artist or Professional of any
interests and war chest of the Company; supplying frequent field to become a part of the Movement. All that’s needed is a
data and transparency of all systems and business transactions desire to see a Righteous Change.
for the Company’s Generals (Executive Officers). This is the
Head or Brain of the Uhuru Entertainment Group. All business
management will be provided as part of UEG Artist’s
UHURU SASA!
Agreement.
U.H.H.M. PROPERTY OF ALLAH
From the beginning, JR has insisted that the charges are bogus Uhuru Hip-Hop Movement: We sitting here with
and politically motivated. “It’s just part of the campaign to “V!RTU”, taking time out of his day to give the Uhuru
lock the Black community up, specifically the political voices Hip-Hop movement an exclusive interview.
in our community,” he said. “The real reason they’re going
after me is that I have written extensively about police V!RTU: yes sir, yes sir. [laughs] Got love for y’all!
terrorism in the Bay Area, such as the cases of Laronte
Studesville and Gary King” (two young Black men shot by the UHHM: Tell us a little bit about your music, and what
Oakland police in 2007). you’re working on right now.
All told, the police arrested about 160 people during the V!RTU: The main project I’m working on right now is this
protests that rocked Oakland after the murder of Oscar Grant, project called “The Shoe-In”; that’s actually the name of the
but nearly all have had their charges dropped. At the Sept. 21 album. The reason why I called it the “Shoe-In” is because I
hearing, Judge Jacobson told one of the other remaining painted about 10 plus pairs of custom shoes for industry
defendants, Andrew Lewis of Oakland, that the DA was recognized artists in exchange for the collaborations. So
prepared to drop drug possession charges against him if he there’s about 10 or so cats out there wearing shoes that I
agrees to pay $3,000 in restitution for damages allegedly painted. And exchange for the shoes they got on some tracks
caused to an Oakland restaurant during the Jan. 7 protest. with me. After about a year of painting shoes and recording, I
finally came up with a stack of photos and a stack of tracks
Even the judges who have presided over the proceedings in the that I put together, and I’m calling it the Shoe-In; like I’m a
case have expressed doubts about the case against JR. After a Shoe-In to the industry thru these shoes that I painted. I got
Sept. 3 hearing, Judge Jacobson said, “I have some concerns dudes from all over the country on there with me; I got people
about the charge – there may be something there or there may from LA, to Florida, to Philadelphia, to Toronto Canada, to all
not.” And after the preliminary hearing in August, Judge the way back here in Portland, Oregon.
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UHHM: The “Shoe-In”, that’s a free download right?
A CALL FOR UNITY
V!RTU: Yes sir, yes sir! Anybody can get it for free.
Absolutely free. I got it up on my MySpace page. THE KING ALFRED PLAN
(www.myspace.com/virtu01) click on the album cover, it’ll
take you right to the download page where you can download
the whole 14 track album for free. Go check it out, and spread The United States Government’s Plan To Exterminate The
it around to your people. Entire Black Population Of America In Time Of National
Crisis/Emergency By The Federal Emergency Management
UHHM: Who influenced you to start making your own Agency (F.E.M.A.)
music?
[KING ALFRED PLAN]: “In the event of wide spread and
V!RTU: I’ve been messing around doin little kid freestyles continuing coordinated ‘Racial Disturbances’ in the United
ever since I used to listen to Doug E. Fresh back in the day; States, THE KING ALFRED PLAN, at the discretion of the
but I guess I started getting kinda serious around high school. president is to be put into action immediately.”
There was other kids that would come to lunch with some raps
that they wrote that morning or the night before. It started PARTICIPATING FEDERAL AGENCIES: The National
getting popular around school. We would get together around Security Council; The Central Intelligence Agency; Federal
lunch time and read our raps; then it kinda got to be a battle Bureau of Investigation; Department of Justice; Department of
thing. But once I started being able to get some recording Defense and the Department of Interior.
equipment, I began to refine my craft.
PARTICIPATING STATE AGENCIES: [Under Federal
UHHM: Thank You for taking the time out of your day to Jurisdiction] National Guard Units; State Police.
speak with the Uhuru hip-hop movement news letter and
give us this exclusive interview. PARTICIPATING LOCAL AGENCIES: [Under Federal
Jurisdiction] City Police and County Police.
V!RTU: I appreciate y’all taking the interest in me and
pursuing me and wanting to hear what I got to say, and letting The following memo’s/information was derived from
me put my 2 cents in, so I appreciate that. unidentified Government sources which felt it would be too
controversial to release it directly to the general public. The
entire document is in the text “THE MAN WHO CRIED I
AM” By JOHN WILLIAMS. The actual documents were
obtained by Intelligence Researchers, including Mrs. May
Britt, who forwarded them to radio station K.F.J.C. in Los
Altos Hills, California, and was read over the air in September
1987. The first copies sent to K.F.J.C. never arrived! The
third set of copies took over a week to arrive from the post
office, instead of the average two (2) days.
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Rights During a Police Encounter
You have the right to end an encounter with a police officer By Paul Scott
unless you are being detained or arrested. Don't waste time
trying to determine your status. Test if you are free to go, and
then go. If you aren't free to go, the officer will make it "All my brothas eatin' chicken and watermelon
perfectly clear. Talk broken English and drug sellin'"
Use the Magic Words My Philosophy- Boogie Down Productions
If you are detained or arrested, use the magic words: Hip Hop is many things to many people depending on which
side of the planet you rest your head. New York is honored for
"I'm going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer." being the birth place of the genre. Cali is known as being the
place that capitalized off of gangsta-ism (for better or worst.)
Do not talk to police. Wait to talk to a lawyer representing you. And the South is known for what can best be described as
Even casual small talk can come back to haunt you. Anything "Hee Haw Hip Hop"; that throw back to the era when people
you say can, and will, be used against you. lived in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten.
Cops have numerous tricks to get you to talk. They can and do Welcome to Dixie Land.
use fear, solitude, isolation, lies, advice, playing you against
While many Hip Hop headz will, vehemently, argue against
others, and even kindness to get you to cooperate. Don't be
criticizing any one region for the demise of the genre, it must
fooled. If you need to say anything, repeat the magic words.
be admitted that the worst form of Hip Hop for the last decade
has originated below the Mason Dixon line. While other forms
Keep in mind the credo: If no one talks, everyone walks. of Hip Hop have at least tried to convey some sort of message,
Regardless of what you are told by an investigating officer, Southern Hip Hop is as devoid of style as it is substance, that
you have nothing to gain by talking to the police...and is, unless you consider dudes with gold teeth rappin' like they
everything to lose. have a mouth full of snuff some sort of swagga chic.
Refuse to Consent to Searches The rappers of the South Coast seem to go out of their way to
rep the stereotype of country folks having the intelligence
Officers seeking evidence will often try to get you to allow level of a watermelon to the fullest. Every time, I hear a Gucci
them to search your belongings, your car, or your home. Mayne or Plies song on the radio, I think that my IQ drops a
Refuse to consent to a search, with the phrase: couple of levels.
"I do not consent to a search."
It must be noted that this has not always been the case.
Usually, a search request will come in the form of an
ambiguous statement, such as, "I'm going to ask you to empty The history of southern Hip Hop can be traced back as far as
your pockets." Answer such requests unambiguously. Repeat the early 80's with an artist named Shy D and his Planet
as many times as necessary. Rock type rhythms. He was followed by Luke "Skywalker"
Campbell and the 2 Live Crew who gained world wide fame
You are under no obligation to allow a search. The only reason
for their mixture of Hip Hop and hedonism and their attempts
an officer asks your permission is because he doesn't have
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to push the 1st Amendment to the limit by claiming that they
to push the 1st Amendment to the limit by claiming that they We are asking that those who truly appreciate black culture
could be "as nasty as they wanna be." and want to save Hip Hop not purchase anything that
disgraces our culture from November 27-January 1st (the end
Like NY Hip Hop, the South also had a brief conscious era of Kwanzaa.) Instead of buying music to put us to sleep, we
ushered in by the Dungeon Family (Outkast, Goodie MOB) in must support artists that are trying to wake us up, whether it
the mid 90's. However, just as gangsta rap replaced East Coast be internationally known Hip Hop pioneers like Rakim or up
conscious Hip Hop in the early 90's, "Crunk Music" replaced and coming MC's like Pittsburgh's Jasiri X. With the
the socially conscious rap of the South by the late 90's. educational challenges that our young people face, we must
also start buying more books and less video games. Also,
Much of the credit for this can be attributed to the mastermind instead of paying hundreds of dollars to turn our youth into
Steve Gottlieb, at the time, owner of TVT records, a company walking billboards, advertising everything from Home Depot
that started off selling TV show themes but found out that they
to Mountain Dew, we should seek out designers that have
could make a whole lot more money popularizing retarded rap clothes with positive messages.
(Ying Yang Twins) and making, otherwise, intelligent black
men (Lil Jon, reportedly has a Masters Degree) sound mentally
This makes a whole lot more sense in tough economic times
challenged. than spending what's left of our hard earned cash on
bamboozled bammas who happen to have hot beats.
The question we should ask ourselves is how can an area with
more than its share of black institutions of higher learning Now we are aware that some folks are going to miss the point
(especially the ATL) now be famous for producing music only of this call to action and dismiss this as a case of "hatin' on
suitable to step and fetch to? Hip Hop" as that is what they have been programmed to do.
Some will even argue that we are in control of the images of
Historically, perhaps, it has something to do with the post Civil us that are projected around the world.
War Era as many black folks left the South to go North where
getting an industrial job required a higher level of education Dr. Bobby Wright put it best in his book, "The Psychopathic
than it took to pick tobacco. Racial Personality," where he discussed "behavior
modification" by quoting psychologist Dr. BF Skinner who
Also, according to Dr. Noliwe Rooks in her book, "White wrote "it is possible to delude people into believing that they
Money, Black Power," "southern whites feared that education
have the essence of life-Freedom and dignity-and still control
for blacks would provide African Americans with the means to, them."
eventually, upset white supremacy."
So, as in the days of Harriet Tubman the condition of our
Dr. Claude Anderson in his book "Black Labor, White Wealth" people remains the same.
argues that after slavery, "cultural customs and laws forced the
newly emancipated blacks to conform to the historical image of
Some folks just don't want to be emancipated from mental
blacks as common labors." slavery.
So the plot was clear, keep black folks deaf, dumb and blind to As the great heroine once said.
preserve white socio-economic hegemony. We see the same
method of operation today with "Operation Dumb Down," "I freed a thousand slaves..I could have freed a thousand more
today. This is why most commercially successful southern if only they knew they were slaves. "
rappers sound like they are just two feet off the plantation.
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