Prison yards are full of the usual divided pockets of subcultural groups, the burple dudes, the table gamers, the dialoguers, and then there's the prison tribes, and street tribal cats, the racial thing is also noticable. And then there's Me and Joker and the rest of the rappers and a few singers, beatboxers, tables DJ's, yall know, Prison HipHop Society, separated, together.
(The Tone)
Deathrow's Rhyme slingers and ink spillers will pop a verse at eachother, on site, in passing, it's just what we do, so for this NGR series issue vol, 2, I caught young joker at yard recall, walking past the cell I'm in, and shot at him with one of our 30 second spit fire freestyle ciphers, because yard recall is a quick step around here, and, the officers be tripp'n about stopp'n at the homies cells. The following is titled:
(The Book of Micah)
Date: August 28, 2016 Time: 11:15am, yard recall Location: cell front, unit eastblock, California Death Row Format: Cell front freestyle, Hand documented by: Xzyzst Page count: 6 pages Contributors: 2 Xzyzst (exist) and Joker Any and all additional written works contained in this segment, are soley written, produced, arranged, composed and performed by: Joker
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@Golgatha w/Joker an interview by: Xzyzst (exist)
XZ: Society fak'n like they don't comprehend a lil nigga'z passion so now where do we begin at the constitution, or where the star spangled banner iz lack'n?
JK: When politicians sat down on the floor they called it a major civil action when a black football player sat down because that song aint about lil niggaz next door, they called him a major distraction.
XZ: For every action theres a reaction all of a sudden those wordz don't apply to Micah in Dallas that went Kenneth Cole on they asses and got unlisted reaction crack'n.
JK: Anglosaxin'z killin Latin'z and Blackz and gett'n paid leave, maxin and relaxin don't appear to me, to be an equal transaction
XZ: Kill'n nigga'z da chase iz on, dogz track'n squeez'n trigga'z at my blackness, 99% police corruption practices.
JK: Pulse on some Bolt shit bullets in my back police body camera broken, shit, nobody captured that runnin to my sista'z house where everybody iz black we're almost where dem nigga'z fire back gotta go, here dey come....
(small crowd broken up with oooh'z & aaah'z) 2016 Walter Scott
Shawn, Thank you so much for taking the time to share this story. I know I'm not alone in the sheer disbelief that this process could have been so long, so drawn out, so expensive, and still not have yielded the surgery and response you clearly deserved. My heart aches to have such a deeply flawed system as part of the nation I call home.
I'm also incredibly heartened to see your persistence, commitment to justice, remarkable ability to save and refusal to give up. To respectfully disagree with your mom, I'd say you were too SMART to give up!
Thank you for sharing and we'll be rooting for you. Don't ever back down, Lilienna
An eye-opening remark from a farmer aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States war on drugs.
John Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison for his central role in the Watergate scandal, was Nixon's chief domestic advisor when the president announcend the "WAR On Drugs" in 1971. The administration cited a high death toll and the negative social impacts of drugs to justify expanding federal drug control agencies. Doing so set the scene for decades of socially and economically disastrous policies.
Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story of Harper's about how he interviewed Ehrlichman in 1994 while working on a book about drug prohibition. Ehrlichman provided some shockingly honest insight into the motives behind the drug war. From Harper's.
"You want to know what this was really about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "The Nixson campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, rais their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about drugs? Of course we did."
In other words, the intense racial targeting that's become synonymous with the drug war wasn't an unintended side effect - it was the whole point.
Quote from Baum's "Legalize It All", Harper's April 2016 issue.
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Prison yards are full of the usual divided pockets of subcultural groups, the burple dudes, the
table gamers, the dialoguers, and then there's the prison tribes, and street tribal cats, the racial
thing is also noticable. And then there's Me and Joker and the rest of the rappers and a few
singers, beatboxers, tables DJ's, yall know, Prison HipHop Society, separated, together.
(The Tone)
Deathrow's Rhyme slingers and ink spillers will pop a verse at eachother, on site, in passing,
it's just what we do, so for this NGR series issue vol, 2, I caught young joker at yard recall,
walking past the cell I'm in, and shot at him with one of our 30 second spit fire freestyle
ciphers, because yard recall is a quick step around here, and, the officers be tripp'n about
stopp'n at the homies cells. The following is titled:
(The Book of Micah)
Date: August 28, 2016
Time: 11:15am, yard recall
Location: cell front, unit eastblock, California Death Row
Format: Cell front freestyle, Hand documented by: Xzyzst
Page count: 6 pages
Contributors: 2 Xzyzst (exist) and Joker
Any and all additional written works
contained in this segment, are soley
written, produced, arranged, composed
and performed by: Joker
1 of 6 Anthony Hill
@Golgatha w/Joker
an interview by: Xzyzst (exist)
XZ:
Society fak'n like they don't comprehend
a lil nigga'z passion
so now where do we begin
at the constitution, or where
the star spangled banner iz lack'n?
JK:
When politicians sat down on the floor
they called it a major civil action
when a black football player sat down
because that song aint about lil
niggaz next door, they called him a
major distraction.
XZ:
For every action theres a reaction
all of a sudden those wordz don't
apply to Micah in Dallas that went
Kenneth Cole on they asses
and got unlisted reaction crack'n.
JK:
Anglosaxin'z killin Latin'z and Blackz and
gett'n paid leave, maxin and relaxin
don't appear to me, to be an equal transaction
XZ:
Kill'n nigga'z da chase iz on, dogz track'n
squeez'n trigga'z at my blackness,
99% police corruption practices.
JK:
Pulse on some Bolt shit
bullets in my back
police body camera broken, shit,
nobody captured that
runnin to my sista'z house
where everybody iz black
we're almost where dem nigga'z fire back
gotta go, here dey come....
(small crowd broken up with oooh'z & aaah'z) 2016 Walter Scott
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this story. I know I'm not alone in the sheer disbelief that this process could have been so long, so drawn out, so expensive, and still not have yielded the surgery and response you clearly deserved. My heart aches to have such a deeply flawed system as part of the nation I call home.
I'm also incredibly heartened to see your persistence, commitment to justice, remarkable ability to save and refusal to give up. To respectfully disagree with your mom, I'd say you were too SMART to give up!
Thank you for sharing and we'll be rooting for you.
Don't ever back down,
Lilienna
An eye-opening remark from a farmer aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain
on the true motivation of the United States war on drugs.
John Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison for his central role in the Watergate scandal,
was Nixon's chief domestic advisor when the president announcend the "WAR On Drugs" in 1971.
The administration cited a high death toll and the negative social impacts of drugs to justify
expanding federal drug control agencies. Doing so set the scene for decades of socially and
economically disastrous policies.
Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story of Harper's about how he interviewed
Ehrlichman in 1994 while working on a book about drug prohibition. Ehrlichman provided some
shockingly honest insight into the motives behind the drug war. From Harper's.
"You want to know what this was really about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after
public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "The Nixson
campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and
black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either
against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana
and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
We could arrest their leaders, rais their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night
after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about drugs? Of course we did."
In other words, the intense racial targeting that's become synonymous with the drug war wasn't an
unintended side effect - it was the whole point.
Quote from Baum's "Legalize It All", Harper's April 2016 issue.