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“Timothy Stansbury, Jr. was an unarmed 19-year-old New York City man shot and killed by a New York Police Department Officer on January 24, 2004. Neri testified to a Brooklyn grand jury that he fired his standard Glock 17 pistol unintentionally when he was startled as Stansbury pushed open the rooftop door. Stansbury, a resident of an adjoining building, died from one shot in the chest. The grand jury found the shooting to be accidental.”

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“Amadou Diallo was a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant in New York City who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999 by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers. The four officers fired a total of 41 shots. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting.”

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“The Sean Bell shooting incident took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States on November 25, 2006, when three men were shot a total of fifty times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers, killing one of the men, Sean Bell, on the morning before his wedding, and severely wounding two of his friends.”

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Calibus is alluding to K-Solo’s song, “Tales From The Crack Side” which tells the story of a young man on crack who stabs his sister and rapes a girl but hallucinates that the “rhyme” committed the crimes. The young man insists he was wrongfully accused. K Solo was saying that no matter how much you try to blame your crimes on the influence of rap or drugs, you and your victims will pay the price.

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The Federation of American Scientists estimates there were more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in the world around the time this song was written.
The threat of nuclear war is a looming possibility and a reality that we might have to deal with in the near future.

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To introduce the subject of the matter behind this song, take a look at the chronology behind the Khemetic origin of the Black Madonna and Child that evolved into what is now considered the “modern” virgin mother and child represented by Mary and Jesus in Christianity:

Danita Redd wrote a piece of the “diffusion of the African Isis” and how the image transformed over time into something more Eurocentric.

Isis (Auset) was an African goddess of the Nile Valley civilizations whose worship eventually diffused to most of the ancient western world. In early Ethiopia Isis (Auset) was one of the four most widely venerated deities, and was regarded, according to Diodorus Siculus, as the reason “that the queen should have greater power and honour than the king."

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The Black Madonnas of Europe have a tradition which goes back hundreds of years, before the advent of Christianity. The African Isis was prototype for the Black Madonnas of Europe. As the worship of Isis was suppressed, the Virgin Mary was elevated into the European Christendom. The African Isis was worshipped under the name of the Virgin Mary. But the images most venerated and held in highest esteem, are those most similar in depiction of the African Isis. Isis is best remembered through the images of the Black Madonna.

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Shows such as Secrets of Isis confirm Technique’s statement where it transformed Isis from the black and beautiful Matriarchal Mother Goddess of Egypt into this form of brainwashing corruption.

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This song is on Excessive Ephemera, by DJ Shadow, which is a bonus CD for his classic album, Entroducing.

The main theme of this song dwells on humanity’s last few moments before the clock strikes midnight. Gift of Gab, who is chosen to recite these poetic verses, delivers a clear and concise message. He never directly states what will happen at midnight, so that will leave the listener pondering…

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He’s referring to his numerous appearances on mixtapes and freestyles hosted by DJ Clue, DJ Kay Slay and others. Many of his features notably display his lyrically ability which is why he was considered to be a rising Hip Hop artist.

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In each of the three stories told, Canibus assumes the role of a fictional character that ends up losing his life. There are extended metaphors explaining his trials and tribulations in the music industry.

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