ATLANTA, NOVEMBER 10. THE LIFELESS STATE OF HIP HOP IS SURE TO GET A BLAST IN THE '03 WHEN "ZULU", NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ COMES OUT BLASTING WITH AN INCENDIARY NEW ALBUM AMERIKKKAS MOST HATED. NOT ONLY WILL HEADS BE NODDIN' FROM COAST TO COAST AND OVERSEAS BUT CERTAINLY JOHN ASHCROFT AND THE BOYS AT THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE THEIR HEADSETS ON SCRUTINIZING EVERY LYRIC TO SEE IF BLACK YOUTH HAVE FINALLY RECEIVED THE MESSAGE THEY HAVE LONG FEARED.

ZULU'S FIRST RELEASE WAS AROUND A DECADE AGO WITH THE DEFIANT GIANTS WHO'S SINGLE "RISE BLACK MAN RISE" WAS A REGULAR ON BET' RAP CITY AT A TIME WHEN BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS WAS THE RAGE IN HIP-HOP. WHEN THE LA RIOTS BROKE IN LATE APRIL 1992 THE POWERS THAT BE VAMPED ON REVOLUTIONARY HIP HOP AND SINCE THEN HIP HOP HAS THUGGED INWARD, FLOSSED OVERTLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY POSED NO THREAT TO THE NEW NEW WORLD ORDER.

NOW COMES ZULU- THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND AMERIKKKAS MOST HATED. WITH THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH IN THE BACK DROP, MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ, THE FORMER NATIONAL SPOKESMAN FOR HIP HOP ICON KHALLID ABDUL MUHAMMAD AND CO-ORGANIZER OF THE 1998 HARLEM MILLION YOUTH MARCH AND THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS (THE FASTEST GROWING BLACK ORGANIZATION IN AMERIKKKA) HAVE DRAWN A WAVE OF PRAISE AND DETRACTION AS FIGHTERS AGAINST RACISM AND OPPONENTS OF U.S FOREIGN POLICY. WITH NATIONALLY TELEVISED SCATHING DIGS A GEORGE DUB YA' AND AMERIKKKAS HISTORY OF TERRORISM AGAINST BLACKS, SHABAZZ HAS RUFFLED THE FEATHERS OF THE WHITE RIGHT IN AMERIKKKA ON A NATIONAL LEVEL SINCE SEPTEMBER 11TH. WHEN BLACK YOUTH REBELLED/RIOTED IN CINCINNATI IN '01 AND BILL CLINTON TRIED TO FINESSE HIS WAY INTO HARLEM, "ZULU" AND THE PANTHERS WERE IN THE CENTER OF THE MIX.

A NATIONALLY KNOWN AND FEARED BLACK POWER ACTIVIST RELEASING A POLITICALLY CHARGED, TIGHTLY PRODUCED ALBUM IN THIS ENVIRONMENT IS CERTAIN TO BLOW UP. ON CUTS LIKE THE OVERDRAMATIC, VIOLIN LACED TITLE TRACK, AMERIKKKAS MOST HATED ZULU SPITS, " DENOUNCED BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ADL HARRASIN ME/ I'M LAID BACK LAUGHIN GEE'- WHILE ASHCROFTS ALL ON MY NUTS TAPPIN MY NEXTEL, OH WELL/ SEX SELLS, ASK YOUR LOCAL CATHOLIC PRIEST OR PEDOPHILE/ THE NILE IS MY ORIGIN ILL NEVER BE YO HOE AGAIN.."..DEFINE THE GANGSTA TYPE FLOW OF ZULU THAT'S LACED WITH REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES, NOT PREACHY "CONSCIOUS RAP". AMERIKKKA UNDER ATTACK, JIHAD (HOLY WAR), BLACK LYRICAL TERRORIST & MR. BUSH- ARE THE MOST RADICAL OF THE GROUP FEATURING FEARSOME TRACKS AND LOTS OF DEAD BODIES.

THE ALBUM IS LACED WITH SPEECH EXERPTS FROM DR KHALLID MUHAMMAD, DR MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ, NEWS EXERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 11TH AND ARABIC..

AMERIKKKAS MOST HATED HOWEVER, IS BROADER THAN APPEARS AND ZULU WILL DRAW FIRE FOR ADDRESSING SEXUAL THEMES, FLOSSING, AND CONSISTENT EXPLETIVES THAT WILL NO DOUBT ENDEAR HIM TO THE STREETS, BUT DRAW ATTACKS FROM PURISTS WHO WILL SAY HE HAS CONTRADICTED HIMSELF OR VIOLATED THE SACRED TESTAMENTS OF CONSCIOUS RAP. ON THE DR. DRE LIKE- SEXY-LIVE BASS-SYNTH WHININ' BABY GIRL, ZULU AND THE RAUNCHY 'YOLANDA' TEAM UP TO TRADE VERSES ON SEX, MONEY AND GUNS. ON THE OPENER ZULU, ZULU WRESTLES WITH HIS POLARITIES WHEN HE SAYS "WANTED BY THE LADIES GOT THEY PANIES APLAUDIN/ YO IM WANTED BY MO DEVILS THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN' . OR EVEN, AT THE CLUB OR THE BOOGIE WHERE ZULU AND GUEST ARTISTS SMOKKKE AND JACKIE BLAQ ABANDON THE FRONTLINES COMPLETELY, YET SMOOTHLY FOR THE PARTY SCENE.

FEAR NOT THOUGH BACK PACKERS AND HARD CORE HIP HOPPERS, THIS WELL BALANCED ALBUM BANGS THE ARABIAN DRIVEN PEN AND PAD AND MCEES AT WAR WHERE ZULU, AND ADMITTED STUDENT OF BIG DADDY KANE AND RAKIM CONTENDS WITH THE BEST OF BATTLE RHYMERS AND DISS ARTISTS. GUEST ARTISTS LIKE SMOKKKE AND JACKIE BLAQ RIP MAINSTREAM RADIO FRIENDLY TRACKS HIP HOP CRITICKS, SING IT W' ME, AND WE KEEP IT MOVIN. THE BIG PAYBACK (REPARATIONS) DADDY F/ SMOKKE, NO GOOD BASTARDS AND THE TRIBUTE TO HIS MENTOR, DR KHALLID (DR KHALLID MUHAMMAD) KEEP YOU FIRMLY REMINDED THAT THIS ALBUM IS A PERSONAL LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ WHICH ENCOMPASSES REVOLUTION, DIVERSE SUPERPHAT TRACKS, PARTYING AND ENJOYING LIFE.

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