[re_nortex]

Then again, there's also his racist rant: Say Say it Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud!

But I say we won't quit moving until we get what we deserve
We have been bucked and we have been scorned
We have been treated bad, talked about as just bones
But just as it takes two eyes to make a pair, ha
Brother we can't quit until we get our share

[Boogieman]

What’s racist about it? The “get what we deserve” part? I don’t think he’s talking about welfare, since he says later in the song:

“Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We tired of beating our heads against the wall
And working for someone else”

Sounds like he just wanted equal opportunity to me.

[a fool in paradise]

His full message was hard work and dedication and starting your own businesses from within the black community. He was decidedly capitalist.

It was an affirmation message, if you actually got up offa that thing and went to work, you could make it. Not a hand out.