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Here’s Fred Hampton and Che Guevara Speeches in Conversation With Jay-Z’s Billionaire Bars

Malcolm X also has thoughts on being named in Hov songs

Andrew Ricketts
7 min readSep 3, 2022

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Jay-Z

“We not gone stop. Hip-hop is young. We still growing. We not falling for that trick-nology the public puts out there now. Before it was the American Dream. ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You can make it in America’ — all these lies that America told us our whole life. And then when we start getting it, they try to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like ‘capitalist’ and things like that. We’ve been called niggers and monkeys and shit. I don’t care what words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come with stronger words.”

Fred Hampton

We have to understand very clearly that there’s a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he’s black and sometimes he’s white. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a

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Andrew Ricketts

I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.