One of our local alt-weeklies did an astonishing piece about John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban.
The author tracked down all of Lindh’s Usenet posts from the mid ’90s. In his posts to alt.rap, Lindh claimed to be black, and he excoriated hip hop artists who’d sold out to whitey. At alt.religion.Islam, Lindh posted under the name Mr. Mujahid the holy warrior, and debated which rappers who claimed to be Muslim actually lived up to the tenets of Islam. He was using his Mom’s email account.
But most amazingly, Lindh posted rhymes, including the epic “JOHN DOE’s Almighty Bicoastal Armegaddon Starchild Flow, With Extra Sprinkles On Top & Sides”. Here’s an excerpt:
Word to brother Malcolm
Dre shirts and hat’s when will we see his cereal?
Words of ignorance screaming claiming he’s imperial
Those wack metaphors aint even demo tape material
When NWA broke up I rejoiced
It must be all the Ide’s 6-packs sacks and joints
Cause in all his years of rhyming I’ve still never heard a point
All he know’s how to do is act the fool and exploit
Black people, he’s see-through
Glorifying evil, filthly like swine’s fecal
Matter my rhymes make ego’s splatter
Bladders burst when I wreck shop like Patty Hearst
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Atomic Dog can only be sampled so many times
He does it no justice with those Grade Z petty rhymes
You got your money on like Ray Love now go the fuck away
He “got no love for girls” but I wont blast him cause he’s gay
I bust up his ego strictly due to his display
And his association with the white owned label called Death Row
Make a buck and making 10 for Bubba Jimmy Jethrow
Exploitation that’s been spread from the plantation
To the so called “black radio stations” test my patients
Spreading stereotypes to give a chuckle to caucasians
So many follow that path it’s just amazing
That you see their thuggish Bone asses on a Panther soundtrack
Bippity zibbety shit’s fast but their beats and voices sound wack
Kids got the nuts that a Mounds packs; none
Talking like they’re gangsters but they don’t pack guns
Glorifying gangbanging; making it look fun
Once again giving the white man a chuckle
When they learn to stop the suckle under pressure they’ll just buckle
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