By Todd Williams
On album December 1994

…dressing for the ultra-Whiteman's magazine, Details?
Was it the austere black and white video (“Rebirth”) shot in a smoky beatnik…
…the writer rambles on about slackers, “Izzy and Ahmad,” and a search for Black identity?
The many allusions to insect cosmogony…
…on “Rebirth,” she's streamlined her leftist posturing with ‘70s styled Black nationalism: I raise every day for the mass/ pump my fist…

…(?)
Or somewhere on the west side
Where the best born, best die, Bedstuy
Brooklyn, Canada back to the USA
Black hats like NWA
Black gats…
…the bay
Still the most dangerous group coming outta CA
It's the strong arm steady
Battle Axe Records y'all, y'all not ready, let's…
…at any moment and I won't hate 'er
I'm warm though, and I won't scorn those
I know she's coming back like '70s pornos
So I tag…

…(?)
Or somewhere on the west side
Where the best born, best die, Bedstuy
Brooklyn, Canada back to the USA
Black hats like NWA
Black gats…
…the bay
Still the most dangerous group coming outta CA
It's the strong arm steady
Battle Axe Records y'all, y'all not ready, let's…
…at any moment and I won't hate 'er
I'm warm though, and I won't scorn those
I know she's coming back like '70s pornos
So I tag…

…to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge…
Detroit Techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and Another box set from the '70s…
…everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice…
By Armand Hammer & The Alchemist (2021)
On album Haram (2021)

…the reverse not workin'
Sometimes we collide, the black sky full of supernovas
And stars that died, no lie, I'm still rootin' for us
Two foots…
…are unraveling
Before you without your intervention
[Verse 3: E L U C I D]
Walkin' four corners of God's country
Group calisthenics…
…in direction of discovery
Idle time wonderin'
Thumbin' 70s Ebony mags, drippin' red ICEE on the pages
Learned to swim in a pool where a boy drowned last…

…to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge…
Detroit Techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and Another box set from the '70s…
…everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice…

…on a track , some n*ggas talk , born snitch , hermaphrodites , the born b*tch I'm in the Gutter my group got the full clips…
Stamp official to the compton gutter
Compton Gutter Compton Gutter
3rd (Verse Mc Eiht)
I was born in the 70s ,raise your black…

…can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978
I'm losing my edge, I'm losing my edge…
…- 1985, '86, '87
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s
I hear you're…
…seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry…

…on a track , some niggas talk , born snitch , hermaphrodites , the born bitch I'm in the Gutter my group got the full clips…
Stamp official to the compton gutter
Compton Gutter Compton Gutter
3rd (Verse Mc Eiht)
I was born in the 70s ,raise your black…

…[Verse 1: Joyner Lucas]
With all due respect
I don't have pity for you black n*ggas, that's the way I feel
Screamin' "Black Lives…
…history produces/
U f*ckin stupid, or think i am
Hold on lil n*gga, lemme ink my pen/
Black men & women get worse time…
…?/
There was more black money than 4 or 5 Hovas
Then jealous white men decided we were closed up/
Nobody got charged, nobody went…

…[Verse 1: Joyner Lucas]
With all due respect
I don't have pity for you black n*ggas, that's the way I feel
Screamin' "Black Lives…
…history produces/
U f*ckin stupid, or think i am
Hold on lil n*gga, lemme ink my pen/
Black men & women get worse time…
…?/
There was more black money than 4 or 5 Hovas
Then jealous white men decided we were closed up/
Nobody got charged, nobody went…

The economic royalists denounced and derided
The irony of victory was heavily a price
The war ended, 3 million men was in strike
There's…
…if it causes any problems for the soul
[Verse 3: Vinnie Paz]
The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise
It shouldn't have after we…
…call it dissension
Gave him 5 years when all he wanted was protection
There was other black men that made the same connection…

The economic royalists denounced and derided
The irony of victory was heavily a price
The war ended, 3 million men was in strike
There's…
…if it causes any problems for the soul
[Verse 3: Vinnie Paz]
The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise
It shouldn't have after we…
…call it dissension
Gave him 5 years when all he wanted was protection
There was other black men that made the same connection…

…and derided
The irony of victory was heavily a price
The war ended, 3 million men was in strike
There's…
…for the soul
[Verse 3]
The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise
It shouldn't have after we took so many of their lives
You can't…
…all he wanted was protection
There was other black men that made the same connection
Benjamin Davis defended Herndon…

The '70s were a wild era. And while all this was going on… Bill Cosby raped 54 people. Holy shit. That's a lot of rapes, man…
…to know… that I know. I need you to know. Seriously, there's a lot of men in this room that identify themselves as feminists. I…
…these women do well and not be held back by their gender. There's a lot of men like that in this room. There's a lot of men like…