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"Wargasm" Poet/Activist www.33third.com/monte The Art of Killing Children by Monte Smith (Audio recording as aired on KRUX 91.5 fm) Page 1 | 2 | 3 Lee: Do you feel supremacy exist in mediums such as music? Monte Smith: Before I answer I would like to give credit where credit is due. Cherryl Aldave (Afro-Filipina Writer, Hip Hop Historian and Activist) has played a big part in educating me about this topic. Look out for her book, 'FEAR OF A BLACK PUSSY,' due out this year! YES, white supremacy to be exact! Just look at 'His Story' - Jazz, Blues, Doo Wop, Rock n Roll, were all created by black people, but who really profits off these forms of music, white people. If I don't teach my children who the real creator's of American music were and are, they'll grow up thinking The Beetles created Rock n Roll, fuck Robert Johnson. Plus, let us not forget, if it wasn't for our fore-Butchering-fathers, 'we' (I'm as pale as they come from the caucus mountain) white people would still be listening to Mozart. Cherryl Aldave also told me about the Asian American Hip Hop Summit that took place in Nov of 2004. I think present talk from Asians and other non black and brown groups about their role in 'creating' Hip Hop is fuckin Jerry Springer. I'll be the first to tell you, you didn't help create shit. (PS - I don't know what books 'Yellow Rage' are ignorantly quoting from, but instead of speaking on non needed panels and pointing the finger at black people for speaking the truth. What you need to be doing is finding some talent!) L: On "Welcome to America" the intro to Wargasm, you speak on white supremacy on the outside, and the supremacy (majority) that exist on the inside (prison). Could you break down your interpretation of supremacy both inside of these "federal housings" and on the outside? ? M: To make a long story short, In most state and federal prisons the majority of inmates are Black and Brown. The numbers are so high and unbalanced it's Genocide. White people are use to seeing themselves as the majority but all that changes when you become an inmate. On the inside, you now start to see what life is like to be the minority in hostile territory. Welcome to America. L: In a conversation a while back, I remember you talking about the imprisonment that you've witnessed in some communities. In what ways, if any, do you feel this sort of community incarceration is similar to that of prison? M: Nothing compares to prison. Yet, there's definitely a locked down mentality among most non wealthy community's. It's the people who have the power but we've traded knowledge for TV and resistance for Block Buster Video. It's all conditioning. L: I love the sound that accompanies the track titled Promised Land produced by DJ Soundmachine. Could you give us some input or share some thoughts on the sound that DJ Soundmachine created behind your words. M: DJ Soundmachine is an incredible producer and Rap legend. 'Promised Land' was a collaboration between his technical knowledge and me trying to describe what 'sounds' best reflecting the noise that was in my head when I wrote 'Promised Land.' The ending beat with the Jeru cuts, was something he produced for a local M.C. that didn't happen, so Soundmachine mixed it in as a response to the beginning of the track. L: "Once again I'm screaming at my notebook, through a ball-point pen." Some people have told me that their best writing stems from anger. Where does your writing stem from? M: Years of struggle and disappointment, like many people, past and present, I started writing to make sense of the daily beatings. L: How much emotional control do you feel you possess in your writing? M: I don't hold back, "I'd rather strangle my young than place teeth upon tongue!" So control is not an issue with me, I believe with control comes suffocation, When I write, I'm trying to rip off my chest and knock your fucking teeth out with my breast bone! L: "I'm an addict - straight to the point. No needles though." I like that line, it makes me think about an addiction to writing. Could you share some thoughts on the power of words? M: The power of words can kill. The same power can also bring peace and understanding. (note* - read Carlos Andres Gomez's 'What Are Words Worth'?) L: Recently on DaveyD.com, a piece titled "The Media Manages Us" by Mumia Abu-Jamal was posted. In it he states, "The media manages us with words; like 'coalition forces', like 'terrorist', and finally, and perhaps most fatally, like 'democracy.'" What are your thoughts on that statement? M: He hit it on the head. The Government has been doing it for years. Their doing it right now in prime time commercials. Turn on your tell - lie - vision, words like Revolution are selling trucks on NBC. It's just another way to mentally water down any and all attempts to keep people from thinking about the reality of changing this machine/baby raping/religion is the true cancer/white racist/capitalistic mind fuck of a system! (excuse my French).
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