Posted May 3, 2011 by Eddie "STATS" 10 comments

Audio: Ras Kass & Raekwon x Osama Bin Laden

As just mentioned in our “Butter Knives” post, Raekwon released a snippet today of something far crazier than reminiscing about knife-fights in the project hallways, a track from an upcoming Scram Jones project called “Footprints of Osama.” And Rae’s obviously not the only one talking about the recently departed. Ras Kass jumped into the fray with his track “Hello Iraq (Bin Laden Post-Mortem)” as well. Neither rap is a straightforward Go! USA-type boast but still they come at it from totally different angles.

Rae’s track starts out like a biography, and not an unsympathetic one (maybe not totally surprising from the “PLO-Style” crew?). It’s impossible to know which direction he’s gonna go of course, since this is just a fragment–the track was recorded two years ago and Rae has hinted he may add lines to the existing verses in light of the news of Bin Laden’s death–but the snippet cuts off the narrative of young Osama with the mind-boggling words “remind me of Farrakhan, Malcolm and King.”

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Ras Kass’ ”Bin Laden Post-Mortem” on the other hand, which just popped up on Nah Right–was obviously whipped up on the spot, complete with soundbites from President Obama’s announcement. The substance of the song is contained in the line “Now that Bin Laden dead / can we get our civil liberties back? / That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?” Which is kind of a valid question, when you think about it. Download, listen, compare, contrast and discuss.

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JEHSYN

Believe half of what you see… And none of what you hear. C.R.E.A.M. Our country is all about the $. That’s what governs the decisions that our political leaders make… trickle down to the streets and you will see people filter their decisions based upon the same premise.
Although we USE money all the time it should not determine weather we make the RIGHT or WRONG decision.
- http://facebook.com/acrylicz RobynIvy
  
  True. Nobody questions shit…
sstretch

This is the hip hop that’s been missing, political. People too afraid to raise questions about what’s really going on out there.

check out the beats at http://www.soundcloud.com/sstretch68323
jermy

the rae track was mad interesting, i dunno bout this ras kass shit
jermy

and what the fuck is that picture at the top?
O

Damn Ras Kass whatever happened to Nature of the Threat?

SMH, I guess you can’t blame him, he warned us about the same shit that ended up having him making songs like THIS.

Ras Kass used to be a rebel i dunno if yall remember this
- BLK/LATIN/SOUL/MAN
  
  Yeah I’m pumping shit the man was way ahead of his time… no wonder is Label try shouting him down… smh label politics.
ryan mccrossin

Did Raekwon compare Osama to Martin Luther King? …. Seriously? … That’s gotta be the most offensive rap lyric ever written …
- 614grind
  
  That was interesting. Looking forward to seeing how he draws that parallel when King was about non violent protest. It kinda seemed like he was comparing the two men coming from families that were well off but fogetting about all that to fight for the rights of the poor and shitted on.
Tungz

Lovin’ the Rae track. Rass is dope, too!

The comparison of Obama to Martin Luther King are even MORE offensive. Obama is NOTHING like MLK. If MLK were around today he would be Jeremiah Wright or Cornel West.