Rass Kass: Nature of the threat

Studio718

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I've always liked this song by Rass Kass, but now I wonder how much is actually factual and could anyone provide me with some reading material?

I'm all of a sudden interested in real black history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUrQMYMv04

Let freedom ring with a buckshot, but not just yet
First we need to truly understand the nature of the threat
And a pale man walks in the threshold of darkness
Roughly 20,000 years ago the first humans evolved
with the phenotypical trait, genetic recessive
Blue eyes, blonde hair and white skin
Albinism apparently was a sin to the original man, Africans
So the mutants traveled North of the equator
Called Europeans later, the first race haters
So here's the Devil's alpha to the beta
Cause history's best qualified to teach one
Quoting German philosopher Schopenhauer
"Every white man is a faded or a bleached one"
Migration created further mutation
Genetic drifts, evolution through recombination
Adaptation to the climate
As the Caucus Mountain man reverted to that of a primate
Savage Neanderthals, until the late Paleolithic age
That's when the Black Grimaldi man came
With the symbol of the dragon, fire and art
Check cave paintings in France and Spain to the Venus of Willendorf
Around 2000 B.C. Southern Russians migrate in small units
Those who travel West populated Europe
Those who went East settled in Iran, known as Aryans
1500 B.C. some crossed the Khyber Pass into India and
created Hinduism, the first caste system, the origins of racism
A white dot on the forehead meant elite
The black dot - defeat; untrustable, untouchables
They wrote the holy Vedas in Sanskrit
That's the language that created Greek, German, Latin and English
Now the Minoans around 2000 B.C.
Starts on the island of Crete, in the Agean Sea
The Greek culture begins Western Civilization
But "Western Civilization" means "White Domination"
Myceneans learned from Kemet, called Egypt in Greek
It existed since at least 3000 B.C.
Creatin geometry and astronomy
This knowledge influenced Plato, Socrates and Hippocrates
Cause Imhotep, the real real father of medicine
Was worshiped in Greece and Rome in the form of a Black African
The word Africa comes from the Greek "Aphrike"
meaning "without cold"; the word philosophy means "love of knowledge"
Stole from first man, Greek power expands
The first Greek fraternities band
The word gymnasium is Greek for "naked"
This was the place where adolescent boys were educated, and molested
This was accepted because Greek culture was homosexual
For example, Sappho trained girls on the island of Lesbos
Hence, the word lesbian (Ay let these dumb motherfuckers know)
December 25th, the birth of Saturn
A homosexual god, now check the historical pattern
December 25, now thought the birth of Christ
Was Saturnalia, when men got drunk,
fucked each other then beat their wife
Fact is, it was still practiced, til they called it Christmas
So put a gerbil on your Christmas list
The Hellenistic Era, Alexander the Great
Conquers all the way to India leavin four successor states
By the Fifth century B.C., R.O.M.E.
succeeds to be the conqueror of Egypt and Greece
But had the threat of the Black Phoenicians in Sicily
The Punic Wars began 264 B.C.
The Black general Hannibal and Carthaginian Peace
In 146 B.C. Carthage fell after a six-month siege
Rome sold every citizen to slavery
The first genocide of history
And more bisexuality in sight; Julius Caesar was known as
"every woman's husband and every man's wife" (BEOTCH!)
Spartacus Revolt, a slave rebellion that lost
Where 6,000 slaves was nailed on a cross
Cross? Aw, shit! Jesus Christ! Time for some-act-right
Christians get your facts right
Cause Christ was not his name
That's Greek for "One who is anointed"
Yahshua Ben Yosef was his name, do Christians know this?
So who do you praise, do you know his name?
Or do you do this in vain?
Accepting the religion they gave slaves to behave
Peep the description of historian Josephus
"Short, dark, with an underdeveloped beard was Jesus"
He had the Romans fearing revolution
The solution was to take him to court and falsely accuse him
After being murdered by Pilate how can it be
these same white Romans established Christianity
Constantine would later see the cross in a dream
In his vision, it read "En Hawk Signo Wonka":
"In this sign we conquer" - Manifest Destiny
In 325 he convened the Nicean Creed
And separated god into three
Decided Jesus was born on December 25th
and raised then on the third day is a myth
Plus to deceive us
Commissioned Michelangelo to paint white pictures of Jesus
He used his aunt, uncle, and nephew
Subconsciously that affects you
It makes you put white people closer to God
(Yo, 'The Man' got game like a motherfucker!)
True indeed, fuck it, Jihad
In the eight century Muslims conquered
Spain, Portugal and France and controlled it for 700 years
They never mention this in history class
cause o'fays are threatened when you get the real lesson
Moors from Baghdad, Turkey threatened European Christians
Meaning, the white way of life; hence the Crusades for Christ
On November 25th, 1491
Santiago defeats the last Muslim stronghold, Grenada
King Ferdinand gave thanks to God for victory
And the Pope of Rome and declared this date to forever be
A day of "Thanksgiving" for all European Christians

.. Now listen, when you celebrate "Thanksgiving"
What you are actually celebratin
is the proclamation of the Pope of Rome
Who later, in league with Queen Isabella
sent Cardinal Ximenos to Spain
to murder any blacks that resisted Christianity
These Moors, these black men and women
were from Baghdad, Turkey
And today, you eat the turkey, for your "Thanksgiving" day
as the European Powers destroyed the Turkeys
Who were the forefathers of your mothers and fathers
Now fight the power, you bitch-ass niggaz!

Now around this time, Whites started callings us Negroes
That's Spanish for black object meaning we're not really people
but property, and the triangle trade begins - they seize us
Queen Elizabeth sends the first slaves on a ship named Jesus
Stealin land from the indigenous natives
Gave them alcohol to keep the Red Man intoxicated
Whites claim they had to civilize these pagan animals
But up until 1848 there's documented cases
of whites bein the savage cannibals, eatin Indians
In 1992, it's Jeffery Dahmer
They slaughtered a whole race with guns
Drugs, priests and nuns
1763, the first demonic tactic of biological warfare
As tokens of peace, Sir Jeffery Amherst
passed out clothin and blankets to the Indian community
Infested with small pox, knowin they had no immunity
Today it's AIDS, you best believe it's man made
Cause ain't a damn thing changed.. let me explain
Now since people of color are genetically dominant
and Caucasoids are genetically recessive
and Whites expect to be predominant, meaning survive as a race then
they simply must, take precautions
That's why they're worried about their future now
Cuz by 2050, almost all the Earth's population
will be brown, then black, so understandin that, whites counterreact
(I'm sayin.. man.. them fools
ain't nothin but a teaspoon of milk in the world color majority)
So they created a system
to force blacks into an unnatural position
That re-enforces the position of natural inferiority
In addition, created guns and developed the ethnocentric view
that God justifies every fuckin thing they do
Condition people to perceive whites' culture as civilized
and every other culture considered primitive - not true!
Racism is the system of racial subjugation against nonwhites
in every areas of human relation
Entertainment, education, labor, politics
Law, religion, sex, war and economics
See blacks were 3/5ths of a man with tax purposes intended
You think you're Afro-American?
You're a 14th amendment and a good nigga
Jews don't salute the fuckin swastika
but niggaz pledge allegiance to the flag that accosted ya
They never teach about the break of islands like Jamaica
But before slaves came here whites would take a
pregnant women, hang her from a tree by her toes
Slice her stomach with a knife
and let the unborn baby fall to the flo'
And stop an unborn child in front of all the slaves
to inbreed fear, so they'd be scared and behave
and not rebel more
Understand all whites must be perceived as potential predators
I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango
"Understand that regardless of the lofty ideas ingraved on paper
in such documents as the Constitution or Declaration
the basic nature.. of the European American white man
remains virtually unchanged".. so check
This is the nature of the threat
 
Niggas sleep on Ras. Its a damn shame songs like this could never be heard by the messes. I can remember the first time I heard this joint. Ras' lyricism is the reason I fell in love with hip hop :yes:
 
NinjaspiT said:
Go to school,or your nearest library.Laziness is not good.

hmmm

Go to school: tell me of one school where they teach you this?
Go to my nearest library: dont you see me asking for reading material, where do you think I'll pick up/study the reading material...k fucking mart?

I hate clowns who come in a thread and type just to type.
 
Studio718 said:
ha, all my years in college and highschool I've never heard anything close to what ras is talking about.

You should damn well know that they dont teach the truth in school.



word, I didn't start hearing about this shit until I start searching deeper for knowledge. Don't know how much of it is truth but its good entertainment for the mind thats for sure.
 
Alonzo Peitro - black captain on the nina who sailed with columbus in 1492

whoa!!!!

I learn something new everyday
 
A shame what happened to this nigga's career, part of his undoing was on his own, the other part Capitol Records fucking him over. I was listening to "Music of Business"(Top 5 Ras song) and thinking damn, its like Ras lived out that entire song to prove what he wrote was true.
 
I cannot lie nice drop, even though I am not a rass kass fan. he is definitely dropping the science on that muthafucka :yes:
 
Studio718 said:
hmmm

Go to school: tell me of one school where they teach you this?
Go to my nearest library: dont you see me asking for reading material, where do you think I'll pick up/study the reading material...k fucking mart?

I hate clowns who come in a thread and type just to type.
Im saying dont rely on a porno board for all of your answers.
 
jemstar said:
A shame what happened to this nigga's career, part of his undoing was on his own, the other part Capitol Records fucking him over. I was listening to "Music of Business"(Top 5 Ras song) and thinking damn, its like Ras lived out that entire song to prove what he wrote was true.


Co-sign. I thought I was the only cat that knew about this cut, I was just listening to it last week. That was back when Razzy was a monster. Now look @ him... :smh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZFTE53TJc
 
jemstar said:
A shame what happened to this nigga's career, part of his undoing was on his own, the other part Capitol Records fucking him over. I was listening to "Music of Business"(Top 5 Ras song) and thinking damn, its like Ras lived out that entire song to prove what he wrote was true.
can someone up that "Music of Business" track?
 
I first heard Nature of the threat, back in "99" at FAMU. I was a freshman then.
I was in my dorm room smoking a phat blunt. I was high as shit, when my friend pulled out his CD collection and played this. The rest is history..... :yes:
 
Rass Kass has always been in my top 5 MC category. I heard this song early in my high school career around 2001. When I made it to Jr college and took African American history I learned about African coming to the Americas before Columbus (a book called Before Columbus). Rass mentioned shit that I read in this book and it wowed me.
 
This is on my top 10 of greatest songs I've ever heard. Very well put together. I was always a fan of Ras Kass. He said and did one important thing. When he asked how did he come up with subject matter he said read anything he could get his hands on. Not just read, but read that in-depth knowledge and expand your vocabulary.
That's the best advice for any emcee...to bad that is bypassed if you sound "hot."
He was on point with presentation although I'd follow the advice from the other cats and do the research yourself.

. Might have been some important points left out but for 10:54 this cat broke it down. I actually had white kids listening to this song in awe but giving props.

Excellent Post.
 
Pussy Krook said:
Ya'll late as fuck but this track was hot like dude above said peep interview with a vampire too Ras was a monster

Niggas is just reminiscing man, thinking back to when Ras was that dude. I'm pretty sure cats didn't just stumble onto this track.
 
i read somewhere that when Ras dropped 'Soul on Ice' The Source was going to change their rating system because at the time, Nas was the only cat to receive 5 mics. but Nature of the Threat BY ITSELF was worth giving him 6 mics. then when Rasassination came out w/ Interview...., he was clearly an mc to drop a classic w/ each & every project. you know he graduated high school at 15 years old?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Kass
 
DJB10 said:
i read somewhere that when Ras dropped 'Soul on Ice' The Source was going to change their rating system because at the time, Nas was the only cat to receive 5 mics. but Nature of the Threat BY ITSELF was worth giving him 6 mics. then when Rasassination came out w/ Interview...., he was clearly an mc to drop a classic w/ each & every project. you know he graduated high school at 15 years old?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Kass

damn. 15?? Its crazy. Ya boy was droppin bombs left and right on this joint.
I study the Yogas ; Kemetic Philosophies; History; Original Christiansity; etc. . When I put people on to this shit, them muuufukkas get confused as fuck. THey cant even say shit. Like I made em read a novel or something.

If people were conscious or at least were purposeful, Ras Kass could have probably started a new fad of conscious hip hop paraphernalia. But most people couldn't relate to the lyrics i assume.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/ras-kass-rasassination-interview-with-a-vampire-feat-mp3-rzy.html




Ras Kass:
You want to talk to God? God never sleeps.

Chorus
Ras Kass: Now what came first, the chicken or the egg?
God: Armageddon.
Ras Kass: A arm a leg a leg a arm a head.
Headin in your direction.
The riddle was the answer to the question.
Born of the flesh, what is perfection

Ras Kass:
Inside my mother's womb,doomed to return to the tomb.
Or was it from the dead I was raised?
All too soon to pay, on judgement day,
Is this beginning or the ending,
Died sinning, still winning, still grinning.
This ending, verdict still pending, born pretending,
Three-hundred billion men, women, and children.
Deja vu, could be I'm dreaming,
But we all ask for divine reason,
While still breathing, and until leaving.
Who?, What?, When? Where?, How?
But most of all why?

God:
Why what?

Ras Kass:
Do we live just to die?

God:
The Book was written.
Way before the apple got bitten.
There's no God but me, mathematically, in division.
My decision was all inventions.
I need not mention infinite dementions.
But the human mind's flaw was limited comprehension.
So while you try to travel to Mars and the stars,
The God manifests through the entire universe.
>From the Sun, Moon, the Earth.
I created man in my image and the black man was first.
The scientific explanation, yea I made man out of dirt.

Ras Kass:
But how can a man be first, when its the woman that's giving birth?

God:
Listen, single-celled organisms.
The homosapien, the albanein

Ras Kass:
What's that?

God:
White people.

Ras Kass:
They keep the world seperate and unequal.

God:
The teach you, right is wrong, wrong is right.
Up is down.
<?>Teaches King Arthur's throne, is the planets that are round<?> (wtf?)

Ras Kass:
Can we really time travel, and is there life in outer space?

God:
Wait, you knew all this in the first place.
You tryin to get to God.

Ras Kass:
But, I've fallen from your grace.
A billion paths to take, but which one is truly straight?

Chorus

Ras Kass:
Can you walk across water or rise from the dead?
I heard he said he lived, in the son of man's legs.

God:
Its a process, shit dont just happen, I create it.
Everything you see, and shit you dont, son I made it, and weighed it.
I'm the big bang theory and evolution.
Been there, done that, from revolution to prostitution.
The first and final solution.
The quaran, bible, and vedas, is only tools,
dont be confused when the medula oblagada do

Ras Kass:
Oh, so revelations is Genesis.

God:
Three-sixty degrees are limitless.

Satan:
Shit, my motherfuckin nemesis.

Ras Kass:
Who is you?

Satan:
Son, I thought you knew.
Who else? Lucifer, the lie bearer stupid, the devil himself.
He the creator, we all the creations, guess i'm eternal damnation.
Got you bitches seaking your own salvation.
Who taught you how to pray?
You read it in the book, look, your bear witness to Amen Ray.
Every day when you say Amen, and then turn around and preach worshipin false
Gods,
Is an unforgettable sin.
Yea the good book is like comic books,
You take 'em too literal,
I tricked you in to believin' the power to reason,
Makes you able to live infinitely, in the physical.
Guess I'm the pawn com lyrical.
Basically I tell true lies in general, the yin and the yang
The player with a trillion years of game.

God:
He got you sellin your spiritual, for power, monery, and fame,
I came out of triple stage darkness, gave mortals my attributes.
But even you may be a mystery God like the Lockness,
And use science to prove or disprove my existence.
Tryin to unlock this, artificial intelligence, cloned in a space station,
Tryin to build the tower of babylon.
But you sadly mistaken, when I start erasin homosapiens.
You lookin for an angel with wings,
I'm 'a bring young niggas with a ak, fuck a alien.

Ras Kass:
So what you sayin then, you the one that created sin.

God:
What you call mother nature, was the nature of me.
What you call evil, ultimately, was the force inside of me.
Matter cant be created or destroyed it just changes shape.
One God, many people, and many faiths.
And this is how I wanted it done.

Ras Kass:
Wait, wait, hold up.
Father tell me, who is God's son?

Chorus<X2>

God:
I be the Jesus to your Buddah, the Chrishna at your Junah,
The big kahauna, Jehova Witnesses, suede pumas.
Zues, Pharoah, Eloheim, Saturn, Yaweh, Jah,
Rastafari, Allah, the most high.
A being, only that I'm not. <<< ?? (But damn, only Atom and I)?>>
I'm the oceans, the trees, a bumble bee, and a glock.
Earthquakes, how much money you ever take.
The reason behind every mistake mankind continually makes.

Ras Kass:
Did God create man, or did man need to create God?

Satan:
The answer is both, cause how mortals look at God is odd.

God:
You try to customize me to be comfortable.
For what you want to do, and how you choose to act.
The Pope and Christians will tell you God aint black.
But to get something from nothing is physically impossible, thats a fact.

Satan:
Black is the combination of all colors

Ras Kass:
White is the lack thereof.


God:
Darkness is beneath the ground, and in the skies up above.
The clue, is that the true illumination is me, not illuminati.
Cause I alone discriminate, and eliminate
Any who be believing they can rationalize our out reason he.
Who created your creature, the student can never be greater than the teacher.
Whether its Adam and Eve, or atomic chemistry.
I'm the one true source of all energy.
Who will eventually destroy every enemy when I see fit.
I cant blaspheme my own name so when Goddamnit, so be it.

Satan:
Thats called the wrath of God, but we gotta deal, I can chill
Fuck up the whole world, and in the end,
He'll still fulfill his plan, to return man to his original position.
Nigga gave me some hooks, and said I gets to go fishin.

God:
I gave man doiminion over the Earth, to master the wealth.
But most of my children dont have dominion over theyself.

Satan:
Thats where I come in.
Call it original sin.
Well, who really gives a flying fuck?
I taught you how to blood suck, and ultimately self destruct.

God:
Know the ledge, wise the dome, do the data.
I'm the alpha.

Satan:
I'm the beta.

Ras Kass:
And I'm omega.
To be or not to be was man's question since conception.
I think therefore I am, was man's preception.
But the birth is the ressurection.
The son of God, or God's son, that lights our entire spectrum.
You got everlasting life, long as you got day and night.
Illumination, not education, to bring the blind sight.
And what you need to know is that you'll never know it all.
I'm a lowercase g, son of the ever-living God.
 
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DJB10 said:
i read somewhere that when Ras dropped 'Soul on Ice' The Source was going to change their rating system because at the time, Nas was the only cat to receive 5 mics. but Nature of the Threat BY ITSELF was worth giving him 6 mics. then when Rasassination came out w/ Interview...., he was clearly an mc to drop a classic w/ each & every project. you know he graduated high school at 15 years old?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Kass

Rasassination wasn't no classic, that was the start of Ras' downfall because he tried to get commercial success(which I don't blame him for because Soul on Ice sold nothing), but Ras was better off staying true to the type of hip-hop he did best. There was still some strong material on that album but it was still disappointing, especially given the fact that the 12'' with "Understandable Smooth" and "Music of Business" was better than 90% of what was on that album. Unfortunately neither of those tracks made the album because of sample issues and obviously Priority wasn't going to let "Music of Business" fly.

Understandable Smooth link:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/01-understandable-smooth-mp3.html
 
I don't see how so many could sleep on the Water Proof MC. So much talent...what a waste...
 
a dope song, beleived all of it when i first heard it

then i did my own research and read the lyrics, and alot of the shit he's saying isnt valid

for instance constatine commissions michael angelo to paint pictures of a white jesus. Both of them happened to live a thousand years apart from each other.

but props to a song of 7 mins of straight flowin
 
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