“Slave-Z?!” Uh oh, someone’s coming at Hov’s neck.
“Slave-Z” is the name Fred Hampton Jr. has decided to call Jay-Z for apparently twisting the truth in his lyrics.
Many people have heard “Murder to Excellence” off Jay-Z & Kanye West’s Watch the Throne album and may or may not have paid attention to the line “I arrived the same day Fred Hampton died, Real ni**as just multiply.”
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For those of you who don’t know, Hov is referring to his recent December 4th birthday, the same date that Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was murdered in 1969 in a police/FBI raid in Chicago.
Fred Hampton Jr. is not down with this reference at all and fired some shots at Jay-Z while speaking at the film screening of The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 on the panel at the University of Chicago.
“Fred Hampton didn’t die,” Hampton Jr. said. “He was assassinated. Saying Fred Hampton died is like the school teacher telling students that Christopher Columbus discovered America.” He later went on to refer to Jay-Z as Slave-Z, questioning his motives on the record.
While Fred Hampton Jr. is looking after the legacy of his father, Jay-Z is still an intelligent and conscious rapper who brought light to those who had never heard of Fred Hampton.
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The song is a compilation of rhymes paying homage to black leaders, including Fred Hampton. That is not the way Fred Hampton Jr. sees it, apparently Jay-Z is still a slave to the man if he thinks Hampton was just killed. What do you think?
SOURCE: Ruby Hornet
