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The last chapter of the Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X is titled 1965, it deals with the brief, tortured year and final year of Malcolm’s life and his conversion to orthodox Islam.

The American white man has so thoroughly brainwashed the black man to see himself as only a domestic “civil rights” problem that it will probably take longer than I live before the Negro sees that the struggle of the American black man is international.
And I had known, too, that Negroes would not rush to follow me into the orthodox Islam which had given me the insight and perspective to see that the black men and white men truly could be brothers.

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Breakfast Club interviewer, Charlamagne Tha God has more Twitter followers (677,000) than your average rapper

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Please respect the Juelz Santana bandana tilt

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The gap between Trinidad James the meme (popped a molly I’m sweatin'!) and Trinidad James the person is widening. His public appearances can help bridge that gap, though this speech might have been a misstep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETSOdi3zScM

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Pusha T recorded four different verses for Runaway, because Kanye wanted him to better portray the douchebags

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I’m using the word “training” to shoehorn in why we haven’t heard a proper Wu-Tang album in a long time. According to RZA, it has do with that balance between superstardom and trained foot soldier.

Here’s RZA’s take on it:

I’m not so egotistically conceited whereas I’m not gonna fall in line if someone else came with a great plan. And that’s where I feel a little remorse as this day is approaching. It’s like, wow, I kept trying to pull people together. I spent a lot of money and a lot of time this year… I came back to the East Coast to reopen the Wu Mansion [RZA’s old house in New Jersey, where a bulk of post–36 Chambers material was recorded]…to rebuild it so that we can have a place to record a new album. And when I scheduled that to happen, only a few good brothers showed up.

And one of the guys who showed up the most was Method Man… He’s already recorded eight or nine songs… You know, I give Cappadonna credit, he’s been really on it…Inspectah Deck has been somewhat present. Ghost has been, you know, 20 percent present. And Raekwon hasn’t shown up at all. When you look at somebody like Masta Killa and U-God, they seem to have that original hunger to complete the legacy. I respect that everybody [is] busy with they own lives. I started with a plan that I thought would work. Now maybe my plan not working.

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RZA’s directorial debut, The Man With The Iron Fists is presented by Tarantino. They share a respect for ‘60s-'70s Martial Arts films

Breaking Bad is pretty similar in tone with 36 Chambers. They both swing between depressing and hilarious. Wu-Tang members take on a character to inhabit another side of themselves–GZA the Genius and Walter White as Heisenberg are not too far off.

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The age when you stop discussing your sex life with your mother is known to some as the “age of reason”

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Take it from a three time “Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta” attendee, helium balloons will get you high but they’re dangerous in stormy weather.

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