THE TERRORISTS: Full Scale Attack

The Terrorists

Full Scale Attack

© 1995 7303 Records (700595494122)

This is the group that led to the formation of Houston, Texas' legendary South Park Coalition (S.P.C.)

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The Terrorists' main rapper is Dope-E and its primary music mixer is Egypt-E (aka Aftamath). Dope E has produced for Ganksta NIP, K-Rino, and Point Blank.

On Side 1 of their 1991 album, The Terrorists threaten whites repeatedly, calling for their murder and calling for revolution. Several times, Dope E says that blacks do not have "freedom" in the system. The rappers call themselves "The Terrorists," "microphone terrorists," "the terror set," "black elevated," "educated [and] black innovated," "South Park Black Panther," "black," "black man," and "the holocauster." Ganksta NIP and Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys join in on tracks. The "Rap-A-Lot [record label] posse" is promoted, and it is also called "South Park coalition." Artists are promoted, such as 5th Ward Boyz and H.B.U., aka Hard Black Untouchables.

Dope-E says that he "hope[s]" freedom will "ring" and that he writes his music "for the black." He calls himself the "South Park Black Panther," South Park being an area of Houston. He says that he and other rappers from there are "politically related, complicated, educated, [and] black innovated." A phrase which was popularized by Public Enemy on a 1987 album is used by Ganksta NIP here when he says that the South Park coalition has thousands of men who cannot be stopped in the "bum rush" of the system. Dope E says that he needs black men who will "roll over the government." Because blacks kill blacks, Dope-E says that he attempts to "reach and teach" in order to get blacks to "leach the bleach." "Black, is how we live," he says. They say that they will rap from '92 right up to year 2000. He explains the meaning of the title of the second track saying that "to cloud" means to "overshadow the other man [and] mess up his game plan." ("Cloud on Suckas.")

Dope-E asks listeners if they remember when, "a long time ago," that "a nigga couldn't even look at a white who[re]," and so he tells "redneck[s]" that they had better respect him. Dope-E threatens any whites who he views as "prejudiced bastards." He describes himself as a "black" who clubs "honkies." Conversation is over, he says, and that now whites must face the fists of a "black nation." The entire government must be "demolished," he cries out, because it is "white." The reason that blacks rob whites, he says, is because whites "claim authority" and are "ruling the majority." Whites are about to be murdered "real slow over evil sounds" of his music. Dope-E complains about "Oreo blacks," saying that they do not know their "color," and saying that they should learn "to hang with [their] sisters and brothers." Such blacks should stay away from "white trash," he says. He says that he had heard that the white rockers from Guns 'N Roses had said the word "nigger" in a song, and Dope-E threatens them with brutal deaths. After the rapping ends, Dope-E talks about his view that blacks do not have "freedom," and he describes it as follows: "there is no other way until justice is blind to color; until education is unaware of race; until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of a man's skin." Until then, he says, "emancipation will always be proclamation." ("Blow Dem Hoes Up.")

The fourth track begins with an excerpted voice saying the following: "we are from a place where they first started people: Africa." Dope-E says that his life is a struggle everyday, and that "it's time for the black smoke to cover the white fog." He says that the "white man" conspires against "the brother man," but that blacks do not realize it because they are "brainwashed." He imagines himself with a shotgun blowing whites' heads into pieces. Whites are responsible for the deaths of black leaders who "are falling like hail stones." In particular, there was a conspiracy behind the death of Mickey Leland, says Dope-E, announcing to listeners that the flight crew was killed when the plane was in flight. (Mickey Leland was a black who was a civil rights activist during the 1960's while in college, and who later served Houston as a US Representative, speaking out against hunger in the world. He died on a plane flight in Ethiopia during an effort to alleviate a famine.) Half of his friends, he says, are dead, and the other half are jobless because they wear their hair in dreadlocks, employers refusing to hire them. Dope-E says that he was born in the 1960's and that opportunities for blacks have not improved since then. He complains that "society got black cops messing with" him. He accuses the "government" of enforcing "terror." He condemns the system, saying that it "is set-up to destroy the potentially productive black man." He calls for peace among black men at the track's end. ("I Ain't Givin Up.")

Dope-E imagines himself and his friends as crack cocaine dealers, and he makes it seems as if black drug dealers could not help but become such when he says the following about them: "just making a life out of living." He gives advice to listeners. For example, he tells listeners that no one can be trusted because even dealers snitch on dealers. He expresses the hope that no blacks die overseas in war, and he ends the track saying that he is "pro-black" and is on the "attack." ("Makin a Life Outta Livin.")

The Terrorists send messages out to whites, addressing them as "you." "You're surrounded by bombs planted by The Terrorists," the rappers warn. "Let my people go," the rappers call out. They warn "whites" to tell the facts about crack cocaine, about "how it suppresses blacks." It's too late for negotiating, Dope E says, for whites tried to mold blacks and to hold them back, and so bombs will be detonated in the beds of politicians. Among the exaggerated terms used to rally up listeners, is the use of the term "freedom." Dope-E raps the following: "I miss my freedom, and my freedom misses me." He says that blacks are "the victims," and he threatens to slit whites' throats. Typical of violently racist rappers, Dope-E not only condemns all whites who lived during historical slavery as one type of person, as whites who committed atrocities against blacks during slavery, but he additionally lumps in present day whites with the latter type of individuals. The following quote shows how: "remember way back when that is how you did us, motherfucker; just hanging us niggas from tree branches, burning our naked bodies, and teasing our African dances." Dope-E says that the "Rap-A-Lot family" will never be stopped. He names many artists as part of a team, some of them being as follows: Geto Boys, Convicts, DJ Silk, Ganksta NIP, DJ Triple-6, Raheem, "the hard-ass Mexican," Point Blank, K-Rino, DJ Domination, Big Chief, Freddy Rodriguez, and Hard Black Untouchables, aka H.B.U. He also names off some Oakland rappers. ("Bomb Threat.")

On Side 2, called "Black Side," the rappers boast about their musical affiliation with South Park Coalition, Ganksta NIP, Rap-A-Lot Records, and JAS Management, and they threaten other rappers who would attempt to diminish their popularity, emphasizing that they, The Terrorists, are "pro-black."

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