P.S.A. By Danny Hoch ©2002
This is a Public Service Announcement.
Okay... HIP-HOP IS NOT RAP.... motherfucker.
Hip-Hop is not Rap, Hip-Hop is not Rap, Hip-Hop is not Rap.
Hip-Hop is NOT what you see on TV, buy in a store or hear on
the radio. You think Rap is Hip-Hop because you can buy it
and take it home with you. But there is no culture in the
world that you can buy off a shelf at Coconuts.
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop does not wear diamond earrings. Diamond earrings
that were mined by African children of war.
Hip-Hop does not wear clothes sewn by Haitian, Honduran,
Asian and Dominican children of war.
You are not “Hip-Hop” if the clothes on your back cost
more than the monthly salary of the people that MADE your
clothes, motherfucker.
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop does not jump up and down on the fucking stage at a
concert, bouncing and yelling, and barking about drinking
the cheapest French Cognac, that they don’t even DRINK- in
fuckin’ France cause it’s so fuckin’ cheap.
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop is the truth, as told by kidnapped Africans, with
japanese technology, on stolen land, sent out to poor and
rich youth all over the world, disguised as american
products.
..and another thing, you’re not “underground” if your
friends and family know where you live...
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop does not send $25,000 checks to the Republican OR
Democratic parties so you can act like the
Conscious-Big-Willies that you THINK you are.
In Africa there’s young people with no money, no clean
water, no food and their parents are dying from AIDS. But
they’re trying their best to dress up in FAKE Fubu and
FAKE Phat Pharm and FAKE Ecko so they can look nice to go to
McDonalds and watch other people eat fake hamburgers, while
you sending $25,000 checks to motherfuckers that don’t
give a fuck about you. So don’t tell me you’re a fucking
MC, cause you rap, motherfucker.
This is a Public Service Announcement
If Hip-Hop is American Cultural Imperialism all over the
world, then WE-ARE-FUCKED, because Hip-Hop is resistance,
Hip-Hop is revolution. Hip-Hop does not involve BUYING or
OWNING anything.
Hip-Hop is not rap. There are (more than) seven elements of
Hip-Hop and you cannot purchase them in the Source Fashion
Catalog, and if you think I’m gonna say what they are on
TV, you must be out of your fuckin’ mind.
Hip-Hop does not wear Sailing, Skiing or Camping apparel.
Okay let me start over...
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..This is Whitey, and I am telling you: YES, it’s a
conspiracy motherfucker!! You ain’t going sailing with me,
you ain’t going camping with me and you ain’t going
skiing with me, but you gonna buy my shit, and I’m smiling
all the way to the bank motherfucker-
Excuse me.
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop is not Rap. Hip-Hop does not make Kill Osama
records. Hip-Hop does not wave American Flags when we get
bombed. Hip-Hop does not OWN an American flag. Because the
American flag used to own Africans, and still does. Hip-Hop
does not join the Army, the Navy, the Air Force or the
Marines, and Hip-Hop does not shoot poor people in other
countries on behalf of some rich crackers at an oil company,
ya brainwashed motherfuckers--- ..okay, this is Whitey
again... are you a person of color? Are you broke? How much
can I pay you to shoot some other broke people of color in
another country? I’ll pay you, so you can buy all the
diamonds earrings, sailing apparel and cheap french cognac
you want, but you still ain’t coming sailing with me and
my family motherfucker!
excuse me.
This is a Public Service Announcement
Hip-Hop is locked up in prison and Hip-Hop is free. Hip-Hop
is poor, and Hip-Hop is also rich. Hip-Hop is art. Rap costs
money but Hip-Hop does not. Hip-Hop is education. Hip-Hop is
law. Hip-Hop is health care. Hip-Hop is protest. Not just
when some rappers show up at the protest to promote their
new album. Hip-Hop is protest even when rappers don’t show
up, and it’s just heads from the block, standing together
in the rain and the cold.
This is a Public Service Announcement
There is a whole generation of Hip-Hop teachers, lawyers,
doctors, social workers and people in jail. And they’re
all MC’s.
Because the passing down of stories, love, healing and
justice to the people- is a cermony. And they are masters.
Masters of ceremony. MC’s.
The rest of us? Are just a bunch of rappers.
This is a Public Service Announcement
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