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This is the interview with NYOIL and the debate about the Gospel of Hip Hop that took place in Aug 2009. Playback is automatic. Press pause button to stop audio

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As you read these posts overstand that quotes from The GHH are for the benefit of your own introspection. They are written here to provide you with affirmations of inner sight that you may have but seemingly stand alone with. The everyday world is filled with jealousy, envy and discontent toward those who seek enlightenment. These overstandings are... Read More not quoted to prop up KRS ONE as a messiah. They are quoted to serve as an example of someone who has proved how Hiphop consciousness can provide prosperity in Health, Love, Awareness and Wealth. Western religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam profess belief in a messiah. Eastern spirituality, Kemetic philosophy, the 5% ideology, and metaphysics profess that YOU are your own messiah! That's our belief in the Temple of Hip Hop. It is YOU who will release YOUR SELF from the binds of the ignorant ways of this society. We acknowledge all those who have helped to push the movement forward and honor peace, love, unity and safely having fun!

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Amie Essence Uhuru

well said brother do for self! seek knowledge and wisdom and be your own MESSiAH! thats me ;-) to the fullest love your messages keep them flowing much love & light stay inspired stay motivated stay focus amie peace

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Edward Sunez Rodriguez

A correction: Islam is not a western religion.
Peace brother, Sunez

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Kurtiss Jackson

If Judaism and Christianity are western then how is Islam not? I guess you mean it is practiced in the middle-east. However middle-east is not accurate. There is no continent called the middle-east. That portion of Africa where Jerusalem, Iraq and the middle of the world map is, is the middle. Eastern philosophies extend from India to the rest of ... Asia and have a similar philosophy. Characteristics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam share similar qualities on the other hand which is why I classified them together. Islam and Christianity both descend from Judaism or Abraham's bloodline.

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Edward Sunez Rodriguez

My brother, In listening to the show, much of the premise comes from the Nation of God and Earth as we are the ones who teach that we are the makers of our own reality. While I think KRS more than anyone deserves to offer his ideological solutions like this Gospel of Hip Hop book that WILL bring insights. However, the idea that there should ... really be a Hip Hop nation because a Black nation is illogical misses something else the Gods and Earths teach. We teach that we are the creators of the universe itself and our reality is that all the Black, Brown and Yellow people are Black. The term Black is proven as a unifying term as we are scientifically proving our biochemical and metaphysical reality. If there is a Hip Hop nation or culture (more than just contemporary expressions unified), it will have to prove itself without denouncing the scientific reality of Blackness.
Peace, Sunez
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Edward Sunez Rodriguez

@Kurtiss..Refer to Wesley Muhammad's detailed work to begin with filled with references and notes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xja-NXFBIXQ&feature=channel_page). Also, the Quran to the many varied texts of Islam from the Moorish civlizations in Spain to Muhammad Iqbal's work has a strong tone, philosophy and ideology that is very Eastern as how you defined Eastern. The middle East and where orthodox Islam is first rooted is in Africa.
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Kurtiss Jackson

I don't know of any Moors who call themselves Black in reality. Black is an adjective, not a country or population of people. It is a description of a brown people by those less endowed with melanin. Moor is the last legal name of those brown people. When you talk about African or Kemetic philosophy your talking about the center or the middle. ... Read MoreReligion itself is deviation from philosophy and true spirituality. So that is not center to me. Metaphysics like the seven principles of the Kybalion are the center and route of all else. Everything else is to the left or to the right. Western or Eastern.
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Edward Sunez Rodriguez

Kurtiss, By the Moors I'm not speaking about the brothers today saying "Black" is not a term and all that. I'm referring to the actual Moors of the 700's to the 1400's. (i.e. The Story of the Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole) There is proof (J.A. Rogers work) that the Moors, black muslims of that time, dealt with the concept and unity of ... Read Moreblackness in their sciences. The Moors of this modern era, from the Moorish Science Temple to today, are reembracing the term in their own way and linking it loosely through time. 
As far as how you see religion, I see you 100. It is a deviation. Again, by Black, I teach and have taught, as one of the teachers of the Nation of God and Earth, that our unity is based on Black, Black as a scientific term shown and proven.
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Rob Sage

Black, yellow, brown, white, red, east, west, middle east, north, south, dirty south. All divisions of ONE thing. Us all ! As Malcolm X finally realised, all these divisions are divisions that do not exist in reality, but are made in our mind and our consciousness by society and the overseers. Take a map - who decided to make the American nations ... Read Morethe west and the oriental/asian nations the east by placing one on the left and one on the right ? Remember that this world is round, not flat, so really there is no east and west. We don't own this planet, no one does. That is as foolish an argument as the fleas on a dog arguing over who owns the dog. The dog owns itself. We have to remember that WE ARE ALL ONE ! The overseers are happy for us to divide and fight within. We should be focusing our gaze on the overseers and the dictators who run this show. Power to the people, no matter what color, race, country or nation you may be from. Divided we fall, united we stand. Peace to you all !
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Rob Sage

Back to the original post - KRS lyrics :

Instead of reading the word of Christ, BE the word of Christ. 
Instead of following God's word, BE God's word. 
That's the conciousness of hip-hop. ... Read More
You are not just doing hip-hop, you ARE hip-hop. 
You are not just reading the word of God, you ARE the word of God !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLpA74kFsw

KRS is not my teacher, he is my peer. I am my own teacher. We are all god and all part of god. I envision a day where there will be no such thing as teachers, leaders, messiahs, religions or groups that are worshipped by devotees & followers. We will ALL be teachers ! We will ALL be messiahs. This is true equality. First we must exhaust the material world and shed our ego. It is within us all. History has shown that this game of Leader-->Follower is an illusion, a perceptual trap. Free your mind and the others will follow !