Jay-Z vs. Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr. (the son of the late Illinois Black Panther Party chairman, Fred Hampton, Sr)
The son of late African American activist Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Jr., has lashed back at rap mogul Jay-Z for making a reference to his slain father on the new Watch the Throne album.
“I arrived the same day Fred Hampton died.”
The above line is said by Jay-Z on the song “Murder To Excellence” off Watch The Throne. The line pays homage to the fallen leader of the Black Panther Party who was killed on December 4, 1969 when Chicago police and FBI agents stormed into his apartment and opened fire on a sleeping Fred Hampton. Jay-Z was born on the same day, leading Jay to make the statement above on Watch The Throne, alluding to how he was given life on the same day it was taken from Hampton, as the line ends “real n***as just multiply.”
During a film screening of “The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975” and panel at University of Chicago on Saturday, Fred Hampton Jr. shared his feelings on the song lyric and Jay-Z. Speaking to a crowd at the University’s International House, Hampton voiced his displeasure with the lyric, saying that Jay-Z has twisted that truth. “Fred Hampton didn’t die,” Hampton Jr. said. “He was assassinated. Saying Fred Hampton died is like the school teacher telling students that Christopher Columbus discovered America.” He later went on to refer to Jay-Z as Slave-Z, questioning his motives on the record.
Checkout the record yourself. Is Jay Z paying homage or is Fred Hampton Jr. overreacting? Whatever the case may be Jay & Kanye raised awareness about the topic of Fred Hampton Sr.
GWOP MAGAZINE 
Does anyone else think that when J-Zay said, ” Do what I do what I done without cryin’, in the environment in which i did it in with out dyin’ my nigga. Rap like I rap with out ly’in and tie it both together like I am my nigga….” that he called out every rapper working right now?
a Reminder
The late great Malcolm X had assessed, When they cant stop it, they will attempt to co-opt it, water it down, make it out to be something it aint to be. Min. Huey P. Newton stated that the state recognizes the importance of euphemisms. In cases of poetic injustice we can look back at such examples in which on the stage of an Ophrah Winphrey taping. Winphrey said that when Malcolm X said by any means necessary he meant politically, educationaly, or economically. When the man made it perfectly clear when he stated the ballot or the bullet. The ruling class referencing the brutal concentration camps i.e.; Attica, Folsom, Stateville (Deathville), etc. as correctional facilities. Whether it is accompanied with a catchy beat or that of a brutal beating. Whether it rolls off the lips of a negroe talking head or that of a great white hope. An attempt to lynch a legacy or hijack history should be considered a crime within the community. Whether it be via the teachers in the colonial schools telling the countless numbers of colonized children that Columbus discovered America. Or that of Slave-Z stating/singing that Fred Hampton died. Let the record reflect and the community be politically correct, Chairman Fred Hampton and Def. Capt. Mark Clark were assassinated,Dec.4,1969.The day in which two (2) of our twin towers fell Brutal terms for brutal realities. WE RIDE! http://www.chairmanfredjr.blogspot.com/