Denmark Vesey: The Michael Fisher Theory

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The Michael Fisher Theory

Makaveli in this... Killuminati, all through your body
The blow's like a twelve gauge shotty
Uhh, feel me!
And God said he should send his one begotten son
to lead the wild into the ways of the man
Follow me; eat my flesh, flesh and my flesh

I ain't a killer but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin pussy
Picture paragraphs unloaded, wise words bein quoted
Peeped the weakness int he rap game and sewed it
Bow down, pray to God hoping that he's listenin
Seein niggaz comin for me, to my diamonds, when they glistenin
Now pay attention, rest in peace father
I'm a ghost in these killin fields
Hail Mary catch me if I go, let's go deep inside
the solitary mind of a madman who screams in the dark
Evil lurks, enemies, see me flee
Activate my hate, let it break, to the flame
Set trip, empty out my clip, never stop to aim
Some say the game is all corrupted, fucked in this shit
Stuck, niggaz is lucky if we bust out this shit, plus
mama told me never stop until I bust a nut
Fuck the world if they can't adjust
It's just as well, Hail Mary

Michael Fisher said...

Oh Lawd.

None of you understand why Tupac was marketed as "TUPAC".

I can't blame ya, but here is the real story.

It is the early nineties. "Conscious", militant Hip Hop still reigns. And while Gangsta in the form of NWA has finally made some major inroads, it has, by far, not yet won the day.

In order to make Gangsta palatable to the legions of Hip Hop fans who grew up on conscious,militant, Hip Hop one the one hand, and party Hip Hop on the other Gangsta had to be packaged as "revolutionary".

The first move that was made in this direction was the recording of Ice Cube's debut album.

PE's bomb squad were engaged as producers and the album was named "Amerikkka's Most Wanted"

The association with "revlutionary" Hip Hop, that is PE, gave "Gangsta" immedediate credibility as "black rebell" music. Which, of course, it was not.

They took the whole thing a step further with Tupac. Given his mom Afeni's Panther background they could erect legend as a kind of black radical James Dean around Tupac and, via he "revolutionary" trimmings introduce the Thug aspect as a "genuine" aspect of black revolutionary culture.

Of course, once again, that was bullshit.

Chuck D wrote Tupac a letter while he was waiting for Pac to join a tour "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" which yours truly conceived, produced and executed.

In the letter he warned Tupac about what they were doing with him and how they were using him. Pac answered the letter but never sent it of. It was published after his death.

Pac knew what they were doing and how they were using him to introduce Gangsta into the mainstream. He made the conscious decison to take the money.

I spoke with Pac at length about the possibility of that happening while he was on trial in NYC on the rape charges.

He knew. But he wanted that paper.

He got a little bit of that and more.

C'est la vie, c'est la morte.

May 22, 2007 5:48:00 PM

16 comments:

Anonymous said...: Tupac, IMO, can't be compared with any other rapper. Not because their talents can't match his (they can't), but because he was "touched," obviously a bright light and a special human being.

"Hail Mary," "White Man's World" and "Me and My Girlfriend" on that album still send chills up my spine.

Now THAT is meaningful lyric (even if violent).

Big J; May 22, 2007, 9:49:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 22, 2007, 9:56:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: DV.

It's not a theory, It's reality. Were you there? I certainly was.

Now, it was because Pac was such an incomparable genius that he made the perfect delivery system for the popularization of Gangsta.

Here's Chuck D:

"Last but not least how would you feel if you wrote a letter 8 years ago, and didn’t get a reply until yesterday? That’s how I felt picking up and then reading TUPAC’S book RESURRECTION 1971-1996. Page 194 has his response to a 7 page letter I wrote him while he was incarcerated in upstate New York. I had decided to write him whereas not long before ICE T and myself were waiting for him to join us as a third component to the EUROPEN AMERICA’S MOST WANTED tour then. He was shot 5 times while in NY handling his court case. He was then jailed and I wrote him a very personal hardcore note on what really was going on inside his head and soul. I really didn’t expect, or receive, a response but I had to say what I had to say regardless. I’m straight and no chaser, and look a cat in the eye. No, I don’t remember exactly what I said and what the letter looks like, (who copies their own letter before sending it?.. snail mail keeps no record) but I know that the next time I saw PAC he was rolling up with SUGE at the HOUSE OF BLUES in LA and we hugged and PAC talked of plans for kids and the hood. The next time I saw him disoriented, angry and lost about a year later at a post MTV Video awards party searching for NAS in a NYC park."; May 22, 2007, 9:59:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: DV, next time you put one of my comments on the front page, PLEASE correct my typos.

I look like an idiot. (I know what you wanna say...Don't go there... 'Cause of the typos only)

'preciate it; May 22, 2007, 11:35:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Wow, "post of the week"? I'm honored. Michael IMO, Pac was a constantly evolving intellectual who publicly fought the battle of good vs. evil that we all fight within. I'm really not concerned with the marketing scheme of whoever was in charge of marketing him (MF - "None of you understand why Tupac was marketed as "TUPAC"). Are you judging "TUPAC" by his response to some letter Chuck D wrote him? To quote Pac, "Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end."

Michael, said, "He made the conscious decision to take the money." Are you not familiar with The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory album which were the last songs he recorded before his assassination? Even the title was deep: Kill Illuminati (which is the New World Oder). After, "All Eyes on Me" (which he stated he did for Suge) was released, he had little interest in it (even though the album was #1). His last interest and passion was on his last recorded album which he specifically made for the streets. He thought the album was going to be "underground." He was obsessed with that album which is evident by the fact that it was done in 3 days (20 songs were recorded). "While All Eyez on Me was considered by Shakur "A celebration of life", The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory is a much darker album considered one of the timeless classics not only in Shakur's discography, but also in hip-hop as it had a profound impact on the social and cultural aspects of hip-hop."

To quote Pac again, "Staring at walls of Silence
Inside this cage
Where they captured all my rage and violence
In time I learned a few lessons
Never fall for riches
Apologizies to my TRUE sisters
Far from bitches
Help me raise my black nation
Reparations are due
Its true
Caught up in this world
I took advantage of you
So tell the babies how I love them
Precious boys and girls
Born black in this white mans world"

Give credit where credit is due.; May 23, 2007, 1:13:00 AM
Michael Fisher said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 23, 2007, 3:04:00 AM
Michael Fisher said...: Paul.

Tupac wasn't assassinated. Malcom was assassinated. MLK was assassinated.

Tupac got shot right after he had joined a gang of Bloods in kicking the shit out of a Crib.

That type of shit tends to get you killed on the left coast and environs. Joining in with a mob like that also makes you a punk.

Now if Pac was some kind of ignorant kid who didn't know any better, then ok.

But Pac was surrounded by folks who taught him better, like Watani Tyehimba.

Nonetheless, he chose to sell out.

Who knows? Maybe he would've returned to the fold? But not on that evening.

In any case, that's irrelevant. What IS relevant is how Pac was used by Interscope to "legitimize" Gangsta. That's my point. It is even irrelavant whether Pac was aware of it or not.

The Bomb Squad and PE certainly weren't initially aware of it when they were used to legitimize Ice Cube's gangsterism.; May 23, 2007, 3:09:00 AM
Anonymous said...: "Joining in with a mob like that also makes you a punk." I agree it wasn't the smartest move. It was simple retaliation for someone robbing one of his friends. The same thing the US gov't did by going to war with Iraq, which I consider more a punk move considering Pac "bombed" on the person that actually committed the offense unlike the the US gov't.

The death of Tupac is unsolved with no leads, no suspects and no arrests. I say "assassinated" because that word, in its most common use, means the killing of an important person. IMO, the complex man known as Pac was on the verge of greatness.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. I still bump AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted today. I would much rather Interscope "use" them to make music like that instead of the current day gangsta rap.

Cube:
Peace - don't make me laugh!
All I hear is motherfuckers rappin sucotash
Livin large, tellin me to get out the gang
I'm a nigga, gotta live by the trigger
How the fuck do you figure?
that I can say peace and the gunshots will cease?!
Every cop killer goes ignored
They just send another nigga to the morgue
A point scored- they could give a fuck about us
They rather catch us with guns and white powder
If I was old, they'd probably be a friend of me
Since I'm young, they consider me the enemy
They kill ten of me to get the job correct
To serve, protect, and break a niggas neck
Cuz I'm the one with the trunk of funk
And 'Fuck tha Police' in the tape deck
You should listen to me cuz there's more to see
Call my neighborhood a ghetto cuz it houses minorities
The other color don't know you can run but not hide
These are tales from the darkside...

Now that's gangsta!; May 23, 2007, 11:14:00 AM
Michael Fisher said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 23, 2007, 12:22:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: "Now that's gangsta!"

Yeah, in song, ... but in reality?

Let me give you a little bit of background on Cube. That particular tour was the prefect example of who controlled that puppet.

The tour was originally conceived as a three artist tour: PE, Cube (thus the tour title), and Ice T.

Cube had agreed to both Chuck and Ice to do it.

Then Cube's white Jewish agent at William Morris Agency called me. "Michael" she said, "me and David Levi [an agent at a partner agency in the UK]are going to be the agents on this tour, otherwise we're taking Cube off the bill".

Mind you, this was a tour that already had been set up and was about to go on sale. Neither of these two vultures had done a lick of work on the tour.

I told her and her British batty boy both of whom were on the phone to go fuck themselves.

We placed some calls to Cube who suddenly didn't come to the phone anymore.

He did exactly what his white Mistress and Massa required him to do, dissed Ice T and PE, pulled out of the tour and went on tour in the same timeframe in the same territories by himself. For less money, mind you.

He did hardly any business by himself, by the way.

So, it just shows. This Negro talks shit, but he ain't shit. And that's characteristic of the majority of not only Gangsta, but also of the rest of the black entertainers.

The music business is a plantation. And it ain't our plantation.; May 23, 2007, 12:25:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: "The other color don't know you can run but not hide
These are tales from the darkside..."

Now that's gangsta!

Well ... It was gangster 15 years ago.

Times change man. Cube aint even rappin' that race shit anymore. It's played out. Not because he is rich, but because most thinking people know that race argument doesn't lead anywhere.

Fiddy, and Jay et al are winning now because they understand that racial iconography always loses, and have substituted the most American of common denominators - "money" as an icon.

That's what Jews have done. That's what WASP's have done. That's what every successful group in this Balkanized country has done - except Plantation Negros.

Bling, really has nothing to do with Diamonds.

Digest.; May 23, 2007, 3:46:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: "Fiddy, and Jay et al are winning now because they understand that racial iconography always loses, and have substituted the most American of common denominators - "money" as an icon."

DV.

That's bullshit.

Fitty and Jay-Z ain't rapping about money. They're rapping about how to get it. The process.

And paint an unrealistic and damaging picture of how this process looks.; May 23, 2007, 3:53:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: Oh, and they're using plenty and almost exclusively racial iconography to do it. Only their's is distorted and negative.; May 23, 2007, 3:55:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 23, 2007, 4:30:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: "because most thinking people know that race argument doesn't lead anywhere."

DV.

Now this I will give you. You've got it ALMOST right.

The reason why Gangsta was able to kick "conscious" ass is very simple.

PE et al opererated in accordance with the DuBois paradigm:

"In the history of nearly all other races and peoples the doctrine preached at such crises has been that manly self-respect is worth more than lands and houses, and that a people who voluntarily surrender such respect, or cease striving for it, are not worth civilizing."

In other words, "honor before food".

Look, the whole Black Liberation Movement/White Communist/socialist/liberal Alliance rested upon a big, to put it mildly, misunderstanding.

White folks were into revolution to "spread equality". That is, make everybody equally poor.

Black folks were into revolution to get a BIG piece of the pie, if not all of it. That is to get rich.

All we wanted is to get the hell out of slavery and to the good life. And we were gonna use any means necessary. ifit had to be being a Commie, then so be it.

The problem PE and the other "conscious" Hip Hop acts had was that they were rebells, but, for what?

What they failed to show kids was that at the end of THEIR process lay sweet mansions, fine cars, cool husbands, fine sistahs, blue waters , sandy beaches, and autonomy.

So Gangsta was able to steal the show.

This is why I initially materially supported via our organization Puff's move into the international arena (against the apathy and outright opposition of BMG and Arista, btw - the whole effort solely became a thing between our company, Puff's agent - who was Irish which, I think made the difference - and Puff). Because if we could tie PE's "It takes a Nation" to Puff's "Benjamins" we'de be half-way where we needed to be.

So, you do have a point, but, only almost, See?; May 23, 2007, 4:31:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike
The problem PE and the other "conscious" Hip Hop acts had was that they were rebells, but, for what?

What they failed to show kids was that at the end of THEIR process lay sweet mansions, fine cars, cool husbands, fine sistahs, blue waters , sandy beaches, and autonomy.

Exactly, thats why when your anywhere else in the world they wish to know why American's are so materialistic. Capitalism has offered us the chance to sell our fresh air and water in return for riches. Got to have it now. Fuck school ... Takes to long. Rapping, Ballin or Sliggin. When that game is over no real skillz cuz when the White Machine is done with you it's a rap. Unless your wise like Magic. Your an average shmoe again. And so now black folk want the empire to fall yesterday. We have bought into the concept of forget my greatgrand children. I am going for mine no matter legal or not. And based on statistics we know how that ends.; May 23, 2007, 4:58:00 PM