Heh. Yeah, and "Malcolm X" was a movie about some Muslim guy.
What the hell? Let's look at something more than the surface, shall we?
"Give A Man A Fish" is about African Americans making their way in this country. The first verse is about AD making their living on their music... and having worked very, very hard to do so.
The second verse is looking outward... African Americans getting out of the ghetto, they need to do it the same way... working VERY hard, and taking a stand for what's right. Because the government isn't going to help them, it's only going to throw them a bone once in a while. Nothing very helpful.
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish, he'll eat forever." It's an old saying, and it is correctly applied in this song.
Speech is always VERY clear on where he stands with gangstaz. In "Ease My Mind" from 1994's Zingalamaduni, he refers to ganstaz as "step 'n fetch 'n." Those are some hard words, but his point is well made. Africans shooting each other in the streets is not going to help anybody, least of all Africans.
"Save those rounds for a revolution," he says.
It's a shame AD didn't make a bigger mark in the hip-hop culture. But they're still making music, if you can find their albums.
Heh. Yeah, and "Malcolm X" was a movie about some Muslim guy.
What the hell? Let's look at something more than the surface, shall we?
"Give A Man A Fish" is about African Americans making their way in this country. The first verse is about AD making their living on their music... and having worked very, very hard to do so.
The second verse is looking outward... African Americans getting out of the ghetto, they need to do it the same way... working VERY hard, and taking a stand for what's right. Because the government isn't going to help them, it's only going to throw them a bone once in a while. Nothing very helpful.
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish, he'll eat forever." It's an old saying, and it is correctly applied in this song.
Speech is always VERY clear on where he stands with gangstaz. In "Ease My Mind" from 1994's Zingalamaduni, he refers to ganstaz as "step 'n fetch 'n." Those are some hard words, but his point is well made. Africans shooting each other in the streets is not going to help anybody, least of all Africans.
"Save those rounds for a revolution," he says.
It's a shame AD didn't make a bigger mark in the hip-hop culture. But they're still making music, if you can find their albums.