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
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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 capitalist.
Jay-Z
There [are] two parts of protesting. You go outside and you protest, and then the company or the individual says, ‘I hear you. What do we do next? I think we’ve moved past kneeling. I think it’s time for action.
Malcolm X
These leaders that they call leaders—this included Lena Horne, this included Dick Gregory, this included comedians, comics, trumpet players, baseball players—show me in the White community where a comedian is a leader. Show me in the White community where a singer is a White leader. Or a dancer or a trumpet player is a White leader. These aren’t leaders. These are puppets…or clowns…that have been set up over Black community by the White community and have been made celebrities. And they usually say what they know that the White man wants to hear.
