Criminals In Action
Back in 1998 a compilation Hip Hop album Lyricist Lounge Volume one was released. The album consisted of mostly underground emcees. For the Hip-Hop challenged Underground Emcees are referred to the emcees (rappers) who are not mainstream and that ranges from everything of not having a record deal with one of the major labels, minimal or no mainstream radio play and definitely no videos on VH-1, MTV and BET unless it is a special day set aside for the underground, conscious or old school emcees. This also means that their will no feuds with Oprah and here, Bill O’ Reily and Bill Cosby or any other undereducated person on Hip Hop who wants to blame Rap Music for the ills of society.
In saying that the Lyricist Lounge Vol 1 album was release to very little fanfare not even cracking the Billboard’s Top 20 rap albums it peak at 52. Regardless of that the album feature some of the best and brightest in Hip Hop and is defiantly worth a pick up if you want to what real Hip Hop and therefore rap music is about.
These were the days when emcees (rappers) had something to talk about they still do but in this time it was in higher percentage no Laffy Taffy, Lil insert any name there crap that has flood the market today. One of the best songs on the album was C.I.A. (Criminals In Action) track 10 disc 2 FYI.
C.I.A. featured Last Emperor, Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine and KRS-ONE by far the greatest Emcee of all time alive or not. The song was about how the CIA was becoming irrelevant since the Cold War was over and that Communism had fallen. Each emcee predicted how with nothing to do the CIA would lose what integrity it had and would eventually commit all types of heinous crimes.
Last Emperor
As free market capitalism and technology expands
The third world's fertile soil becomes a desert wasteland
So it takes bands to, demand the, government provide answers
when Lady Liberty has me Bewitched like Samantha
And poverty is one of the most malignant forms of cancer
Krs One
Need I say the C.I.A. be Criminals In Action
Cocaine crack unpackin, high surveillance trackin
Prominent blacks and whites givin orders for mass slaughters
I want all my daughters to be like Maxine Waters
When they flooded the streets with crack cocaine…
We should beat em, President Clinton should delete em
it's not hard; the C.I.A. simply has no more job….
It’s crazy B, yet it's plain to see, who the enemy
Who's left the NRA? The ATF, the AMA?
Okay, it's all irrelevant, cause in the new millennium
there'll be no Central Intelligence…
Write it off as lyrical bravado if you want but on February 16th 2k7 a judge in Italy indicted 26 Americans most of them CIA officers. This sets the stage for the first trial of the American program of secretly whisking away terror suspects.
No need to panic for it is very unlikely that any of the Americans will face trial. All of this centers around a radical Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr bka Abu Omar who disappeared near his mosque in Milan February 17th, 2003. Omar claims that he was kidnapped.
The indictment marks a turning point in Europe where anger is high concerning America’s aggressive policy of seizing suspected terrorists on foreign soil and interrogating them at secret locations.
While Italy is the first where a case was ordered to trial other countries including Switzerland and Germany are running investigations concerning CIA tactics.
Last month Germany issued a warrant for 13 people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping in Macedonia of German citizen of Lebanese descent. Stories also emerging from Spain and Portugal.
All across the globe allegations about CIA practices are emerging for America’s allies, maybe there was something to that song.
In saying that the Lyricist Lounge Vol 1 album was release to very little fanfare not even cracking the Billboard’s Top 20 rap albums it peak at 52. Regardless of that the album feature some of the best and brightest in Hip Hop and is defiantly worth a pick up if you want to what real Hip Hop and therefore rap music is about.
These were the days when emcees (rappers) had something to talk about they still do but in this time it was in higher percentage no Laffy Taffy, Lil insert any name there crap that has flood the market today. One of the best songs on the album was C.I.A. (Criminals In Action) track 10 disc 2 FYI.
C.I.A. featured Last Emperor, Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine and KRS-ONE by far the greatest Emcee of all time alive or not. The song was about how the CIA was becoming irrelevant since the Cold War was over and that Communism had fallen. Each emcee predicted how with nothing to do the CIA would lose what integrity it had and would eventually commit all types of heinous crimes.
Last Emperor
As free market capitalism and technology expands
The third world's fertile soil becomes a desert wasteland
So it takes bands to, demand the, government provide answers
when Lady Liberty has me Bewitched like Samantha
And poverty is one of the most malignant forms of cancer
Krs One
Need I say the C.I.A. be Criminals In Action
Cocaine crack unpackin, high surveillance trackin
Prominent blacks and whites givin orders for mass slaughters
I want all my daughters to be like Maxine Waters
When they flooded the streets with crack cocaine…
We should beat em, President Clinton should delete em
it's not hard; the C.I.A. simply has no more job….
It’s crazy B, yet it's plain to see, who the enemy
Who's left the NRA? The ATF, the AMA?
Okay, it's all irrelevant, cause in the new millennium
there'll be no Central Intelligence…
Write it off as lyrical bravado if you want but on February 16th 2k7 a judge in Italy indicted 26 Americans most of them CIA officers. This sets the stage for the first trial of the American program of secretly whisking away terror suspects.
No need to panic for it is very unlikely that any of the Americans will face trial. All of this centers around a radical Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr bka Abu Omar who disappeared near his mosque in Milan February 17th, 2003. Omar claims that he was kidnapped.
The indictment marks a turning point in Europe where anger is high concerning America’s aggressive policy of seizing suspected terrorists on foreign soil and interrogating them at secret locations.
While Italy is the first where a case was ordered to trial other countries including Switzerland and Germany are running investigations concerning CIA tactics.
Last month Germany issued a warrant for 13 people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping in Macedonia of German citizen of Lebanese descent. Stories also emerging from Spain and Portugal.
All across the globe allegations about CIA practices are emerging for America’s allies, maybe there was something to that song.
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