Who Killed Malcolm X?

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But Public Enemy's revolution rap is above all political—a fact that the repressive apparatus of U.S. capitalism has quite rapidly understood.

Chuck D raps in their second album: "The FBI was tappin' my telephone/ I never live alone, I never walk alone/ ... Your CIA, you see, I ain't kiddin'/ Both King and X, they got ridda' both/ A story untold, true, but unknown/... Tappin' my phone, they never leave me alone/ I'm even lethal when I'm unarmed/ 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb."

If this is so, Nelson and Gonzales comment, than • after this album the (government's) secret file on the group ought to have grown substantially. In particular, after the release of "Fight the PoweI, " which turned out to be the biggest-selling 12-inch in the history of Motown Records.

It was composed for Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," which beamed the name Public Enemy across the entire world.

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de dire," Ed. Loris Talmart, Paris best thing about rap, it's a lastwarning, the final call, like the of Islam paper—a last plea for Chuck D explains.

Several years ago, Chuck D predicted that around 1995 Black people would openly confont the power centers of the United States. He declared that the main goal of the group's artistic activity was the formation of 5000 potential mass leaders. From that came the slogan: Instead of carrying gold chains, we need to have gold brains.

Concerning Chuck D's announcement that a revolution is approaching, Alan Light comments in the January 1992 issue of Rolling Stone: "Coming from any other recording artist, you might dismiss this as sci-fi nonsense or affected angst. But this is the leader of Public Enemy, the most intensely scrutinized and revered Tap group around."

When Chuck D started wearing an L.A. Raiders cap, millions of Black kids-and many of their white contemporaries-put one on, too Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and other militants working for Black liberation during the 1960s were introduced to countless youths by Chuck D's references to them. "So when Chuck D talks of street uprisings and Armageddon," says Light, "it can't be written off."

(Part Il of this series of articles will appear in next month's issue of Socialist Action.) HEAR A PRESENTATION AND KWAME M. A. SOMBURU, TWO EYEWITNESSES TO THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X ON FEB.

21, 1965. LISTEN AS THEY REFUTE THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTENTION THAT MALCOLM WAS KILLED SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS FEUD WITH THE NATION OF ISLAM FIND OUT ABOUT THE COVERUP AND THE REAL ASSASSINS.

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