The Brooklyn-based rap duo made their stance plain on a 2002 track called “Know Your Enemy'
Photo-Illustration: by Intelligencer; Photo by Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images The year after the Twin Towers fell, P. Diddy stood in front of Madison Square Garden wearing a Yankees cap and matching letterman jacket. “We still here!” he barked defiantly. “And we building four more new towers!” The Harlem rap mogul was appearing in the music video for Jermaine Dupri’s “Welcome to Atlanta” remix, which featured Diddy on a verse celebrating his hometown.
Like M-1 and stic.man, hip-hop culture was born during the death throes of the Black Power movement in the 1970s. Emcees spoke candidly about life in New York’s postindustrial ghettos, but if the opportunity arose, it was easier to get out and get paid than dismantle those ghettos.
This was plainly the music of the young — struck through with the kind of unyielding moral certainty that softens with age. But the group’s refusal to identify with the vision of America that the Bush administration urged people to unite behind hasn’t lost its salience. “Suicide planes falling like bombs from out the sky,” raps stic on “Know Your Enemy.
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