>PAPOOSE hears "50 Shots" and shoots back, while Nas and C-Webb, grab they’ mack and they’ sack… (Courtesy of RockRap@aol.com)

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“They’ shootin’!
Aw, made you look!
You’ a slave to a page, in my rhyme book,
Getting big money, playboy your time’s up,
Where my gangstas?
Where my dimes at?”

– Nas, “Made You Look”

Nas Lashes Out At NYPD After Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed Man

‘The cops need to be charged the way gangsters are charged,’ rapper says in statement

by Jayson Rodriguez

Queens native Nas has joined upstart rapper Papoose in speaking out against the New York Police Department after their controversial 50-shot barrage that left one man dead and two others wounded early Sunday morning in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York.

The trio of men were leaving a club when the driver, Sean Bell, 23, struck an unmarked police vehicle and then backed into a storefront before charging forward again “almost striking an undercover cop” and crashing into the vehicle once more, according to reports.

NYPD officials proceeded to fire 50 rounds of bullets into the car, a late-model Nissan Altima. The unarmed Bell, who was to be married later that day, was killed instantly, and his two passengers were both injured, one critically. Authorities claimed a fourth passenger was present at the time and in possession of a firearm. At press time, however, police were still investigating the matter and so far have questioned two men about their whereabouts that night.

Nas called the 50-shot act cowardly and was dismayed by the controversial incident, which he likened to a display of gangster behavior.

“The one who reloaded should go before the judge and plead guilty,” the rapper said in a statement released to MTV News referring to the detective who took 31 of the shots and reloaded his weapon during the incident. “If he was a man, he would be brave enough to face the charges as a man. … This brutality bullsh– is played out with that slave sh–. It has to end now. The cops need to be charged the way gangsters are charged.”

Nas, along with NBA player Chris Webber, stepped forward to contribute to Bell’s funeral costs, but according to Webber’s publicist, Tiaka Hurst, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has already made arrangements to cover the wake. Hurst told the New York Post that instead, Nas and Webber would both provide financial assistance to Bell’s fiancee and the couple’s two children. No amount was disclosed.

Earlier this week, Papoose debuted “50 Shots” on DJ Kay Slay’s satellite radio show. The mixtape-style track addresses police brutality and what he sees as the unjustified murders committed by the NYPD in the black community. In the song, the rapper compared Bell’s death to that of Amadou Diallo, the immigrant Bronx resident who was gunned down in 1999 by 41 shots after police mistook Diallo’s wallet for a gun.

’50 Shots’ triggered by Bell slaying

by Michael White

New York Daily News – Dec 2, 2006

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/…0790c.html

Less than a week after cops killed an unarmed groom on
his wedding day, a rap song condemning the
controversial shooting – and the NYPD – has hit the
airwaves.

The rage-fueled rap “50 Shots” by an up-and-coming
emcee, Papoose, has found airplay on satellite radio
and is being circulated on the Internet.

The song, a collaboration between mixtape master
Papoose and Hot 97 radio show host DJ Kayslay, blasts
the cops involved in last Saturday’s shooting, along
with police union boss Patrick Lynch and a New York
Post columnist who criticized Mayor Bloomberg for
saying the shooting was “excessive.”

The song also singles out Detective Mike Oliver, who
fired 31 of the 50 police bullets into the car of 23-
year-old Sean Bell and his pals, who were all unarmed.

Oliver has said that he reloaded his gun because he
believed it had jammed. But police sources say the gun
stopped firing because he had emptied the first ammo
clip.

“Think we dumb? If your clips was loaded to the top /
And your gun jammed, how you fire 31 shots?” raps
Papoose, 27, a Bedford-Stuyvesant native.

The rapper, who landed on Rolling Stone magazine’s “10
Artists to Watch” list last March, also references NYPD
guidelines that prohibit cops from shooting at cars,
though he wrongly calls the rules the “law.”

“The law states that a cop is not permitted to shoot at
a moving car. / It don’t matter if it’s coming straight
at him / Cuz if they shoot the driver, a 4,000-pound
car could cause more drama.”

Michael White

Originally published on December 2, 2006

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http://www.razorapple.com/2006/11/30/papoose-50-shots/

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Peace by piece…
BK

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>"…the point is that proper context means the truth will win every time…"

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yo [redacted],

sorry i forgot to answer you in time, i’d suggest checking my prisonterview with connor from PASAN on my soundclick site, and if you have it the transcript i made from his talk. i’d tie-in our acceptance on a tacit level through TV shows and our knowledge of gitmo, etc., and how it’s being normalised in schools, airports, the NY subway, etc.

it’s the real “no look – i just said some shit!” ballsification that us lefties don’t go for often enough, especially since many of our leaders are pussies and the establishment tone set for discussing this stuff is very careful and watered down… basically, ineffective. on the right, many of their leaders are assholes, and assholes beat pussies every time.

for instance, i think every single fucking convo criticising the iraq war should involve “depleted uranium”, i don’t give a fuck, you can even randomly sing the shit like you work at Lick’s or something, whatever. it is a bigger lie or “crime” than “the downing street memo”, which we should also mention, and shows the criminal intent of the evil suits at the top who cannot be given “support the troops” as one of their acolytes arguments: they don’t, and the people who think they do have to either stop acting like idiots or be called idiots, once they know that’s their choice.

the point is that proper context means the truth will win every time, and what the news does best is give us “answers” without showing us the “math”, or how they got their conclusions by selectively using and ignoring information. i think the “sectarian violence” thing is b.s. too, for while there might be inevitable internal power-struggles, without at least as much discussion of the trillion-dollar u.s. military’s role in the “violence” – and they’re the only ones dropping tons of “carpet-bombs”, it’s ridiculous to dwell on it instead, and makes the iraqi’s look like mindless savages who will kill each other if we leave.

this gives even the “left” a retardedly racist excuse to say we should stay as opposed to saying “just stop shooting, chill the fuck out, and see what happens when the iraqi’s realize they don’t have to keep fighting: i bet they won’t, and will let us leave, especially since we have nukes to use if they fuck with us while we finna bounce!”

our focus should be on giving them a ton of dope shit for fucking up their country, and helping them put their guns into ploughshares and rebuilding it. anything else is utter garbage, and the military’s monopoly on “solutions” needs to end: they fucked up, they were lied to and manipulated, and they are still being lied to and manipulated and in turn doing that to us with their stupid “PSYOP’s” all over TV making us fear being “beheaded” when the 10 million muslims living in america have never even thought about giving whitey a haircut unless he pays $10.

it’s like the random homeless guy who kidnaps and kills a kid – which i’ve only heard about every few years. yet, if that’s all you ever say about them then the thousands on the street are fucked for no reason by a public that hates ’em, like now. we’ve got tons of bullshit logic that we use thanks in part to reality TV stressing conflict between two stupid people with stupid opinions, and we reflect that by being stubborn. it’s a brilliantly stupid strategy of forcing us to “respect” stupidity instead of “correct” it, and keeps us locked in different realities that get us to ignore the criminals increasingly treating us all like criminals.

as for the “prison” system, my favourite stat and one like D.U. that i think should be mentioned in every convo about canada’s prison system, government or objective status as simply another brutal apartheid state, is the fact that 2% of the population is native, and 28% of the prison population is. in case one doesn’t know how to make sense of that, if you are a native canadian you are 14x more likely to be in jail than on the street in canada, a tough stat for any “demographic”. imagine if that was italians? jews? norwegians? ukrainians? it would be crazy, and this place would be scary as hell and as famous as south africa was. i’m sure similar ignored anomalies are available across the board, and if properly applied can be pathways to solutions – the only thing any of us “save the world souljahs” should really care about anyway. i swear, i was just rhetorically asked “hey, you’re a big fan of solutions, right?” today by one of us in the game, and while i simply acknowledged it with some enthusiasm, i also reflected: “what – am i in the minority on this being the priority?”

this is nuts.

anyway, the corporate-info is dope, and i strongly recommend checking the flick “america: freedom to fascism” for the economics of it all, and a priceless quote by catherine fitts, fmr. asst. secretary of housing, who basically said “a decision was made to send the jobs overseas and dumb-down america, eliminating the middle-class.” now she’s a professional politico and has been and worked “there”, and as a “whistleblower” vs. the “assholes” in washington she’ll probably get invited to fewer shitty parties while helping to save the country, and in turn the world.

after all, if we’re all broke idiots we can’t use “the constitution” to keep the politicians from forming the NAU, turning us all into good little nazi’s and instituting a draft, and using the prison-industrial system as a massive weapons-engineering facility to suppy the world war effort. then we’ll attack everyone being too dumb to know the world has absolutely no conflict with us, and in fact really wants to take their picture at the foot of the statue of liberty and ride the ferris wheel at coney island. damn hollywood movies.

anyway, that’s why it’s so important to nail the problems and “situation” of the prison-industrial complex so clearly, including their rapid planned growth: it’s really an attack on all of us that’s happening piecemeal to our peeps with our support and rapidly increasing with “the military commissions act”, a must-mention for our future security against uber-stalinist-tyranny, the fake “war on drugs we bring in to make money and justify enforcing a police state”, and everything else they do to compromise our faith as individuals in our ability to improve our environments.

there you go homie, hollatchaboy… 🙂

peace,
bk

Peace by pissing on the powers pimpin’ prison showers…
BK

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Black Krishna Brand

MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/blackkrishnaverse

Philosophy – http://blackkrishna.blogspot.com/

Music – http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/blackkrishna.htm

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P.S. Stewart and Colbert show us they’re lying and trying to dumb us down, to find out why and help Save The World, please Google for “TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism”, “America: Freedom to Fascism” and “SaveTheInternet.com”. Also, check the daily newswires at “Infowars.com” and “PrisonPlanet.com” — and pass this info on to everybody — NOW!!!