Rappin Black in a White World

Watts Prophets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 1997)
• Label: Full Frequency / Pgd
• ASIN: B000003R72
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787,253 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sell Your Soul

2. Take It

3. Instruction

4. Amerikkka

5. Dem N*gg*rs Ain't Playing

6. Pain

7. What Is A Man

8. Pimp

9. Tenements

10. The Master

11. Hello N*gg*rs

12. There's A Difference Between A Black Man And A N*gg*r

13. What It Is, Sisters

14. Everybody Watches

15. Watch Out Black Folks

16. The Prostitute

17. F*cked

18. Black In A White World

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3.0 out of 5 stars Watts Prophets Never Got The Credit Due Them, April 26, 2010

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Timothy N. Stelly Sr. "Stellbread" (Pittsburg, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rappin Black in a White World (Audio CD)

This is early rap, and though most of it doesn't have even the most generic musical accompaniment, it is not hard to get into their message, especially of you understand the time and context in which this poetic, political mosaic was released.
When I ordered it, my 31-year-old nephew was listening, and he asked, "They were saying stuff like that back then?"
I can't help but hear the WPs influence in the work of Def Poetry Jam contestants and even such biting social satirists like Paul Mooney and Richard Pryor...only as one poem title suggests, "Dem n-----s ain't playin'."