Thursday, April 1, 2010

Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order (1996)






Poor Righteous Teachers is one of those groups that you couldn't ignore back in the early nineties. From the moment they dropped Rock Dis Funky Joint The whole world knew that they were indeed, a force to be reckoned with.
Poor Righteous Teachers, PRT for short, consisted of Wise Intelligent (as the front man) Culture Freedom (Backup vocals and Producer) and Father Shaheed was the DJ and Co-Producer.

PRT is a Pro-Black Conscious Hip Hop group hailing from Trenton, New Jersey. They brought with them the Supreme Mathematics of The Nation Of Gods And Earths (The NGE) with nonstop intensity and today, I am pleased to bring you the review on - what is to me- One of their dopest and most influential Albums; The New World Order.

The Album was released in 1996 and contained 18 spiritually potent tracks.

Who Shot the President? (Intro)
This is a speech made by George H. Bush(The W's Father) when he announced the need for the New World Order, the moment he says New World Order, Gun shots break out. BEAUTIFUL!

Miss Ghetto
This song follows with Wise Intelligent relating to the listener how he once was a savage who sold drugs and fucked the minds of young black men and women until one day he received the lessons handed down by the 5%ers. Don't know what a 5%er is? 5% of the world know the truth and pass it on to the rest, 10% of the world know the truth but don't pass it on (High ranking politicians and presidents) and then there is the 85% who are dumb deaf and blind but can be made 5%ers or 10%ers.
Miss Ghetto is a metaphor of being married to the fast street life. Living in uncertainty.

Word Iz Life
A very nice jazzy beat with a heavy shuffled drum pattern provides the backdrop and Wise Intelligent's smooth vocals flow over it with ease as he divulges The Supreme Mathematics in the form of highly conscious stanzas. Word Is Bond/ Word Iz Life is a NGE/5% term that means your word is your life and you make a bond with your word to speak the truth and NOTHING but the truth. This is a personal favorite cut of mines.

Allies ft. The Fugees
This is a very nice collaboration of The Fugees and Poor Righteous Teachers. The beat is one of those odd nineties beats that could easily be rapped on without compromise to the MCs style.
Wyclef kicks it off with his usual flow and is followed by a hard verse from Culture about fakes who try to run with them without even having The Knowledge of Self. Third Verse is handled by Pras with a pretty laidback style. kind of boring. Fourth Verse is handled by Wise Intelligent with a nice reggae Hip Hop stylee, Wise proves he is one of the better MCs on this joint. Lauryn Hill Kills the whole song with the fifth verse.
You just got to LOVE Lauryn's no bullshit style! She spits a hella sharp knife at you 16 times!

New World News (Interlude)
A funny but could be true interlude about Martial Law being issued, this is one you would have to just hear to understand.

Gods Earths and 85ers
This Father Shaheed produced track is right off the bat IN YOUR FACE! This beat is so nice and smooth you just want to hear it again and again and again!
Wise Intelligent handles all three verses with a Chorus from Nine. This isn't a typical nineties joint, it's way ahead of it's time! I havent heard rhyming like this since. This song contains many different meanings, you can listen and decide your own meaning to it, IT IS THAT DEEP.
but do check out this line dropped by Wise:
The duty of the civilized/ is to civilize
The uncivilized/ and make the world recognize
Wise is by far the most talented brothers that will ever come out of your speakers!

My Three Wives
Hey, just because you're a Soldier at war don't mean you can't love! BUT, Wise Intelligent does it, well, intelligently! I wont spoil this one because I personally love this joint and think today's artists could learn A LOT from this joint alone. The beat is jazzy and makes you want to call up your lady and tell her how much you Love her.

Wicked Everytime
Wise Intelligent is not your average MC, he often flips that reggae stylee, if you know anything about GOOD Hip Hop, you would know KRS-ONE and tons of others do it from time to time.
This song basically just exploits the fact that Wise Intelligent comes wicked everytime, anytime, anyway, any place.

N.A.T.O. (Global Cops)
The last track is chopped into this track to bridge them together then you hear a doomsday siren and marching.

Conscious Style ft. KRS-ONE
This song is so HYPE!!!!!!! The beat, the vocals the MCs, it is so uplifting.
this song came about when KRS-ONE did a panel discussion and somebody called KRS a sell out and some how some way PRT got put into it and it was supposedly a beef between KRS and PRT, so they did this joint to prove there was no beef and what resulted is this phenomenal track that sounds like they're cutting the head off the devil. The main point of this song is how Conscious rap was beginning to die down and be replaced by Media enforced "Gangsta" music. There are a ton of memorable lines in here, GO FIND THIS JOINT!!

Culture Freestyles (interlude)
Wise intelligent speaks about how they aint made a record in three years and it sounds like tons of MCs aint doing nothing but getting high and saying the first thing that comes to mind. So, Culture Freedom does the same, but, he is making fun at those who do it and shows how it's nothing to do that shit.

They Turned Gangsta
The title tells you the whole story. PRT must've been highly pissed off when they made this Album, cuz every track serves Supreme purpose!

We Dat Nice
This one is for the world, says Wise Intelligent right before he dishes out a flow that i still have yet to hear duplicated even today! as I am listening to this album, I am wondering WTF happened to Hip Hop Today?!?!?!? This track is the Gem on the album so I will just post the lyrics instead of reviewing this one! (CREDIT: lyricsdownload.com)





Verse 1
{Wise Intelligent}
Some of dem Cave dwellers
bomb mailers and gun sellers
the lie tellers cinderellas and Goodfellas.
The gun packers crack backers and loot stackers
? crackers new world order ?? actors.
The globe holders the population controllers
disease makers a.k.a. AIDS creators
The cremators doctors nurses and nigga haters.
That's out to get us after making us bullshitters
The sister hitters who knock um and don't stay wit em.
The human litter that whiteys about to get rid of.
The same niggas supplanted the very planet
with mathematics pure knowledge and understanding.
Global famine pursuit of the hidden manner star spangled banner
Slave traders and kidnappers.
We ain't just rappers
We changing some blacks situation
teaching this Nation the way to conquer damnation.
My occupation, to stimulate your elevation,
to motivate and navigate the revelation.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.

Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)

{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but damn I'm good! (2x)

Verse 2
{Wise Intelligent}
Well life is what you make it holler to the almighty
frighty Whitey never will learn to like me.
My state of being as the all eye seeing,seeing human beings
on the brink of extinct.
Mind vocalize though only prove to incline
one time in time I turn the water to wine.
Combine X and Y created physical Gods
no lie because I heard that if I did I would die?
????????????full of ????? politricks and 10%ers
who know the truth but hold it back from the youth.
There's proof that Jesus Christ was a so called spook.
Revelations Chapter One 13 and 16 "wool hair" "bronze skin"
Jesus was blacker than me.
I'll prove and I claim that the truth has been changed
for the lies and the white supremacy to remain.
That chain on your brain makes it hard to maintain.
Colin Ferguson burst on them, hollow points spurtin' dem.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.

Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights...
We dat nice. (2x)

{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x)

Verse 3
{Wise Intelligent}
Perfection!
forever living giving tongues to the dumb G is for God.
Where the gangsta come from?
Wisdom words in action making knowledge for real.
Witness the days when brothers have to kill or be killed.
Gods will will be done the kingdom will come
the Gods seed keep perfecting the Sun.
The Wise one aint done.
Six sextillion tons Earth
I levitate hold the universe and press weight.
I hear debate come look God in the face.
Place your empty thoughts with the limited waste.
Erase your earthly ass at the speed
1-1-2-0 per second but still you act slow.
There go some negro
confiscatin' my flow. Ditto.
This information take it home and make a plus lesson.
I shine the light that knowledge ignites
excite Blacks and Whites through the things that I write.
See, I could extend your days in a spectrum of rays
in a westerly direction God is worthy of praise.
Or I could capsize the planet deprive you of life, take flight,
make ice of any emcees you like.... I'm dat nice.

Chorus: (all sing)
Precise
Could turn the days into nights,
this Mic like my life we elevate to great heights......
We dat nice. (2x)

{DJ Father Shah scratches:}
Take each verse home and think it through..
yo yo I hate to brag but Damn I'm good! (2x


Hear Me Out
this is basically another interlude but over a very chill beat. Wise intelligent speaks thru a Hi Pitched computerized voice warning brothers to stop dick riding.

Fo Da Love Of Dis
as the title suggests, this song is about doing music for the Love first and The Money last.
The beat is very electronic yet DOPE!

Dreadful Day ft. Junior Reid
Junior Reid sings: It was a dreadful day/ Babylon take me away
this song is educational to a high degree. This song is about what goes on everyday in the inner cities of america where youth are trained from early ages to kill each other mercilessly and how it, along with drugs and the revocation of freedom is supported by the Government. Babylon is otherwise known as America AKA Amerikkka.

Sistuh
This song is a message to The Black Queens and Princesses (The Earths, Achowths) to pick up their self respect and to stop trying to follow Americas evil standards of beauty. Wise then flips it over to the Brothers (The Suns, Achs) and how the sistuhs view them and how we are also responsible for their downfall. As well as our own.
This entire Album is DEEP and touches your soul on every track.

Outro
Wise intelligent speaks DIRECTLY on the executive orders set in place to suspend The Constitutional Bill of Rights and how we are living in dangerous times. TIME TO BEAT THE SYSTEM.

GO COP THIS ALBUM AND STUDY IT FRONT TO BACK!
MAKE THIS ALBUM YOUR SURVIVAL MANUAL!!!!

CONCLUSION:
Lyrics= A+
Production= A+
Replayability Level= 10
Overall= 10

This album is 110% SOLID. I dare anyone to disagree, if you haven't ever heard of Poor Righteous Teachers or Wise Intelligent, then you, My friend, NEED TO WAKE UP AND STOP DREAMING BECAUSE YOU ARE WASTING TIME!!!! BUY THIS RIGHT NOW. It is still in print and available thru online merchants such as Amazon and the such.
WORD IS LIFE.






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