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Holocaust is a very unique individual he used to play loud rock music like Sound Garden and watch black and white cowboy movies, smoked a ton of weed, exotic beers and he loved to eat canned smoked oysters.

Thus, it’s highly likely he got the title from the film, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, rather than the book.

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Seriously, don’t. Everything they put their name on gets pushed back, besides their Play Cloths mixtape

With a lot of issues ranging from getting dropped by Koch records to the indictment of a crew member, it seemed Clipse’s albums would never see the light of day.

In fact, Clipse’s first album, Exclusive Audio Footage, had not been released by their former label Elektra Records, when Virginia dropped. To date, the album has yet to be released, though bootlegs do exist

Many rappers have taken shots at Clipse, citing their screwed up contract situation earlier in the groups career over the years.

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The Neptunes were one of the hottest production duos out there at this time and their beats could command high prices of at least $100,000 per track. There was even a rumor floating around that Nas paid $2 million for one Neptunes beat. Malice probably doesn’t want people asking him if he can help get a discount on Neptunes beats since he directly works with them.

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“Black Knights” is a reference to the Wu-affiliated West Coast rap group of which he is a member; “Holocaust” and “Skeleton Low” are two of Warcloud’s numerous aliases.

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Warcloud is part of the long list on Wu-Tang Affiliates

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It is true that Michelangelo used his family members as models for the Holy Family, but the practice of depicting Christ as white goes back to the earliest Christian art in Europe. Most communities have tended in their art to depict Christ as one of their own.

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“Christ” means, literally, “Anointed” and is a title applied to Jesus. The reason the proper name is now pronounced ‘Jesus’ is because of a mistranslation into Greek which was then mistranslated in Latin

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While people uneducated in both the Bible and the history of the Church believe that Christ was born on the 25th, no Church authorities actually believe this. In fact, the Church originally designated this day as ‘the birth of Christ’ to help in assimilating Pagans into Christianity because this is around the same time that the Winter Solstice is celebrated

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“Nature of the Threat” is the fifth—and most popular— track on Ras Kass' debut album, Soul on Ice. Despite not being released as a single, the song gained attention for it’s extreme Afrocentric take on world history.

When Rap Genius sat down with Ras Kass, we asked him how this track came together and why he felt compelled to create such an unorthodox song. Find out about the story and motivation behind “Nature of The Threat” here.

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Black Star reunites on Mos Def’s Ecstatic to give us another quality track over a beautiful J Dilla beat

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