Supremely Stupid Alphabet
Of all the great things the Afrocentric era in rap taught us – namely that it sounds great when rappers talk bollocks, how much rappers will believe any old bollocks about black scientists creating the white race in a lab several thousand years ago, how ruinously expensive it is to try and get an X-Clan style carved staff custom-made in Leeds, and how even the fittest rap bint will look daft if you plonk a leather hat on her head adorned with the Ankh cross – the supreme alphabet isn’t one of them.
To be honest, we were a bit slow on the uptake with it. We didn’t have a clue what all this ‘arm-leg-leg-arm-head’ stuff was. Allah, since you ask. We just thought it was some black version of that primary school classic ‘heads, fingers, knees and toes, knees and toes’. We have subsequently learned at the School of Hard Knocks and Higher Edumacation that there’s a whole alphabet of this stuff developed by Clarence X for use by the Nation of Gods and Earth.
Clarence the Cross-Eyed 13X, earlier today.
Let’s be frank, however. It’s a right load of old shit. As a code, it’s about as complex as CB radio, and that’s coming from someone burning 37 candles. We already have a highly developed slang for police, choice epithets including the beast, po-po, one time and Jake. What do the supreme alphabeticians give us? Cee-Cipher-Power. We know that Cipher is ‘O’, but it begins with C, so to us that’s CCP, or the Chinese Communist Party. You can see our confusion. And how does the use of the supreme alphabet affect other aspects of everyday life? Do Nation of Islam dudes playing Scrabble simply put down the letter ‘Z’ before claiming that represents ‘Zig-Zag-Zig’ for 99 points with triple-word score? And what about alphabetti spaghetti? Won’t someone think of the children?
To be honest, we weren’t always entirely down on the idea of the Supreme Alphabet. At one point, before we launched Fat Lace as a print magazine (your grandad can tell you about those, Moonboy) we toyed with the idea of launching a Nation of Gods and Earths porn mag, using our knowledge of (top) s(h)elf. We even approached Queen Latifah about being our very first cover girl, but she objected to our cover story: Do Afrocentric chicks take it in the Born Universe Truth Truth?
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12 Responses to "Supremely Stupid Alphabet"
hahahah best post ever.
DAMN DIVINE EVILS!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head = Allah
Who’dve thunk?
PEACE TO THE GODS!!!!!
i did make the arm leg connection but didn’t realise they had a whole language
code to go with it….
i thought they meant i’ll shoot you in the order of arm, leg, leg, arm head ( round your body in a clockwise circle) and this will coincidentally result in you going to meet Allah.
I’M TELLIN’ KING SUN AND WISE INTELLIGENT!!!!! THE GODS ARE TAKING HEADS!!!!!!
Why duz blk ppl prey 2 Admiral Ackbar?
you lot are racist, why do you disrespect other cultures you have no true understanding of ??? Shame on you.
It’s not racist to poke fun at a fringe religious extremist splinter group who in no way represent more than a tiny minority of black people in the same way we’d mock the KKK, who don’t represent most white people. it’s fun, you big dumbo.
DREW! did you not realize that KNOWLEDGE is GOD BODY!!!! LMAO!!!!!!
haha wow…oooof just when conscious hip hop is starting to make a comeback, it’s nice to make preemptive post to stop some ridiculous 5%’er-ness now.
i’m starting to see those leather africa zulu medallions again…and the new black panther party got paris to produce some racist ass tracks. they’re not even doing the subtle professor griff thing now, they’re putting out songs like “kill whitey” and “zionist money”. no, i’m serious. good beats, but racist as all get out.
brand nubian aside, i don’t remember the conscious rap of ol’ being so prejudice. it was just a ridiculous pose for the most part. hell, krs one goes to a baptist church.
X-Clan and Kam weren’t exactly so fond of cracka-ass-crackas either.
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