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Masamune:
Here is a song from RZA featuring Tekitha called Build Strong. Bobby Digital is the aspect of RZA's self which likes drugs, sex, and money and Prince Rakeem is his higher nature.

*Explicit Lyrics*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9GKaYI3vI


--- Quote ---I feel a little f'd up right now and ish like, mad pain, mad pain inside a nigga's heart, all this drugs, money, sex it ain't fulfilling me, I lost a lot of things, I lost the closest thing to me, and that kinda broke me down a lot, and I'm trying to hold on, i don't really know which way to really go, right left up down back forward, I feel like a motherless child, I know I got a lot of weight on my head, I know I got the weight of the world on my shoulder, and I just want to rise, but I don't know what the f man, I'm trying to add things up, trying to do things right, trying to build, the gods is teaching me they trying to tell me yo Bobby you gotta study god, I don't know what to study I don't know what to be, I don't know what to do

yo yo confused but yet wise my problem surrounds me
A lot of things upset me as my soul rejects me
enemy of my self physical.....listen, let me tell you about..
yo yo confused but yet wise my problem surrounds me
A lot of things upset me as my soul rejects me
enemy of self
physically enslaved by the luxuries of this world
so I behave like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold
but can't afford the cost
or could I?
I know the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and illusions to myself I have lied
burning inside wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
lusting for girls
therefore I imagine a genie and a wish
and searching for things that just does not exist
but in my midst there's the answer for which i have searched
cause from me springs divine Prince Rakeem
and that is me the master of equality
with the ability
to set myself free
from B.o.b.b.y
he don't want to die,
he don't want to die he don't want to try
so I'm forced to cry
and get trapped up for living my life inside a lie
these problems surround me
a lot of things upset me
as my soul rejects me
enemy of my self physically enslaved
by the luxuries of this world so I behave
like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold but I can't afford the cost
or could I, I heard of the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and illusions to myself I have lied
burning inside and wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
I'm lusting for girls
therefore I imagined a genie and a wish
and I'm searching for things that does not exist
but in my midst there's the answer
for which i have searched
cause from me springs the divine Prince Rakeem
and that is me the master of equality
give myself the opportunity
and set free and be all I can be
be all I can be
not a nigga just trapped up in luxury

yo Bobby Digitial got to get knowledge of his self right now,
as we go through the struggle of life we got to go from boy to man
we start off as sperm to baby baby to man from man to dead man
and from dead man back to sand
all praises due to allah the most high word up
I got to be free I got to be free I got to break free
I got to break free I got to break free I got to break.....
--- End quote ---

Hesper:
I never heard of this guy before.  Really good timing too, I was pretty bummed with the Roots selling out and playing Jimmy Fallon, and was wondering if there was any deeper hip hop out there.  Thanks!

Masamune:

--- Quote from: Hesper on April 11, 2011, 06:43:40 AM ---I never heard of this guy before.  Really good timing too, I was pretty bummed with the Roots selling out and playing Jimmy Fallon, and was wondering if there was any deeper hip hop out there.  Thanks!

--- End quote ---

Just FYI he is a member of the Nation of Gods and Earths and that ideology runs through most of his lyrics.  I have learned a lot from him but a lot of his stuff is off.  I liked the song above that he did though.

I have been also looking for some knowledgeable, conscious hip hop artists but most of the ones I have found are all associated with this organization such as Canibus, Killah Priest, and Ill Bill.  Tupac was one of the few that I liked who wasn't a five percenter.  If anyone knows of any I would be interested in hearing about them.

Heimdallr:
Some conscious hip hop artists: De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Reflection Eternal, Queen Latifah, Black Sheep, Leaders of the New School, Prince Paul, Slum Village, The Beatnuts, Nas (his first album primarily), and The Jungle Brothers.  I would also recommend artists like Blackalicious, Atmosphere, or Jedi Mind Tricks.

Stones:
Yeah RZA! Good ol' Wu Tang Clan.
I liked him in Funny People too. Apparently Seth Rogen was really nervous to act with him being a big Wu Tang fan.

But seriously, many of the groups and individuals listed above are the glimmers of hope in an otherwise dark dark industry.

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