THE self-esteem of blacks who listened to the informative and empowering lyrics of the Wu-Tang Clan began to grow notably and this was coupled with revolutionary and anti-white sentiments.
This rap movement, and Russell Jones in particular, ended up being targeted by US authorities for elimination in much the same way previous black movements and individuals like Tupac Amaru Shakur had been targeted.
Jones had always been suspicious of US authorities and during one interview, he questioned the interviewers on what they were going to do with the content they disliked.
Jones was certain that they would publish what they approved of and hand over what they disliked to the authorities.
In that interview, alongside Wu-Tang co-member Clifford Smith (Method Man), Jones said: “Fake hip-hop is backed by the government.
“The most non-conscious (unenlightening) music gets the most airplay.
“The government brainwashed our people with the mind control theory.
“That’s what they do and so in order to make our people like it they keep playing the same songs and when the same songs keep playing you start to get programmed and get cloned with it.”
Such was Jones’ state of mind.
His friends and family say a conversation with him was mind-blowing and so deep it permanently changed peoples’ perspectives on many issues.
For this reason, Jones was placed on the US’s list of black extremists and targeted for elimination through imprisonment and/or assassination.
For this reason Jones named himself ‘Ol’ Dirty Bastard’ because as he would often say: “I don’t hold nothing back!”
In 1998, Russell received a cellphone from his mother as a Christmas present.
The police were secretly spying on Jones and mistook this cellphone to be a gun. In January they tried to make a move on him while he was driving back home with his cousin.
The police stopped their vehicle and began to approach Jones with pointed guns. Jones sped off and the cops opened fire.
It became a car chase and Jones used the cellphone to call his mother.
They rushed home with bullets hitting their car rear and parked.
His mother came to their rescue and because of her, Jones and his cousin were not brutalised or killed.
The police were infuriated and claimed Jones had shot at them and charged him with attempted murder.
What they had assumed to be a gun was actually a cellphone and their continued firing at Jones was done to force him to fire back in self-defence.
If this had worked, police would have used unlawful gun possession as an excuse to assassinate this black rap activist.
On February 4 1999, Jones won the case and with the advice of his lawyer, one Franklin, decided to sue the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Franklin had suggested suing them for US$10 million and Russell’s mother set the suit at US$100 million so that they would work their way down to US$10 million. Jones acquired a bulletproof vest for his own safety because he was certain US authorities were trying to kill him.
The NYPD continued spying on him and about a month after he beat the case, he was stopped by the police while driving and was found wearing the bullet proof vest.
He was charged with unlawful possession of body armour and the charges would not stop there.
Traffic violations, child support and drug charges, among many more, would be emulsified into one case that would eventually lead to his conviction for two to four years on a variety of charges.
These are petty charges that most people do not go to jail or prison for, but Jones was incarcerated because the authorities wanted to shut him up.
Once in prison, Jones went through some physical and psychological operations that he exposed to his peers and family after his release.
He was released on parole in May 2003.
He said US authorities had placed a chip inside his body to track and monitor him. They had threatened him and warned him he would be killed if he continued on his path of so-called black extremism.
He was not acting the same anymore and was obsessed with women, probably because of the deprivation experienced during his four years of incarceration. He got signed to Roca Fella records which was under Damon Dash and continued working with the Wu-Tang Clan.
While mapping out a comeback and touring to reboot his career, Jones’ life was tragically cut short in 2004.
According to his mum and bodyguard Jerome Baldwin, Jones had fallen off the stage while performing and injured his knee.
He asked for a pain killer and once he took the pain killer, he never woke up again. He was found on the floor and when the paramedics arrived, they simply placed a blanket over him and announced him dead once he arrived at the hospital.
Jones used to often say the police and FBI in particular were after him and used to rap about it in his music.
Jones exposed a lot of information that inspired a proudly black lifestyle that is still followed in the US today, to the disappointment of the government.
It is therefore believed by many that the authorities who were spying on Jones were alarmed that he was injured and in need of a pain killer.
At which point Jones was opportunistically set up with a deadly substance that would result in his death.
Robert Diggs (RZA) once said: “Dirty wanted real freedom and he expressed real freedom.
“So I do not doubt that in his case, someone was trying to hurt him and was watching him.”
Jones, who was affectionately known as ‘Baby Jesus’ by the black community, died at the age of 35.
He exposed the destructive hand of federal authorities in the revolutionary rap culture.
These are now nicknamed Hip-hop police and they even listen to rap in order to identify artists preaching black liberation and other anti-white sentiments.
Another victim of the Hip-hop police was rapper L. Coleman, aka ‘Big L’, who spoke against the police and claimed they had his phone and his house was tapped.
He was one of the most talented and promising rappers to ever come out of Harlem and exposed the government plot to replace informative and revolutionary rap with commercial bubble gum music which dwells on materialism.
For this, Coleman was shot 15 times, with eight shots hitting his head before his much anticipated rise to superstardom in the closing of the 1990s.
No arrests were made to date.
Living rap artistes like Earl Simmons (DMX) who stay true to performing informative rap music, are continually incarcerated for petty reasons.
They are given negative publicity and little to no airplay in order to similarly shut them up.