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I Don’t Pop Molly
I Rasta

“NOW MORE THAN EVER”

By Wes Flexner

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Didn’t the Halloween season seem to last
forever this year? How do people come up with
so many costumes ideas for all the different
events? I can never think of anything to wear so
I went out as grown and sexy per usual.
On Thursday, I went to the Atrocity Party at
Sugar Bar 2, which is in a location that’s part of
one of my fondest memories, centered around
Dipset’s residency when Chubbie Baby owned
it. Then it was called the Red Zone.
When I arrived at the downtown nightclub,
former Roc-a-Fella Producer Just Blaze was
playing a block of Dipset songs. It felt like the
good old days of the Red Zone.
Just Blaze ended his Dipset segment with
Cam’ron’s mention of him “I’ll take a couple
bars off/ and let Just live” from the Blaze
produced “I Really Mean It.” Before I could say
“you crazy for that Just,” the New Jerusalem
producer switched up and played a Jay Z song.
After a few more Hov and Ye songs the
evening became awful. Blaze looped up Biggie’s
self-loathing “When I die/I want to Go to Hell/
I’m a piece of shit/It ain’t hard to tell” from
“Suicidal Thoughts” over some sort of electronic
dance music. I thought, well, this explains it all:
dubstep zombies want to go to hell, and so brostep is a facsimile of eternal misery.
After playing Coolio, and a couple rap songs,
the whole thing just committed to Babylonstep. There were no Halloween classics like
“Nightmare of My Street,” “My Mind is Playing
Tricks On Me” or even “Thriller.”
The only two conclusions I could I come up
with why Just decided to play mainly dubstep
are:
A) On an Unholy Holiday like Halloween, The
Vatican and the CIA required him to play music
that promotes the usage of Molly to brainwash,
and create criminals for the Prison Industry. If
that’s the case, I would offer Freekey Zekey
or Dipset was involved with an XTC ring at
some point. In addition, rappers Freeway and
Rick Ross take their names from a man who
sold crack for the CIA, Freeway Ricky Ross.
It’s possible to aid the government’s Satanic
agenda without having to play lowest common
denominator EDM.
B) Just Blaze, Jay Z and Bauer had huge
success with their EDM heavy song “Higher” so
maybe he was catering to one of his audiences.
Blaze did loop Jay Z saying, “I don’t Pop Molly.
I rock Tom Ford.” from Hov’s song “Tom Ford”
at some point so my guess is “B” would be the
correct scenario.
I just like to complain about most forms of
dubstep because it is completely out of a sci-fi
novel on how to placate the masses.
There was another holiday party last weekend.
Jamaican Reggae star Capleton came to the
Al Rosa Villa Saturday to celebrate the 83rd
Anniversary of Haile Selassie’s coronation as
the Emperor of Ethiopia. Al Rosa was in full
bustle, as Roots High Powered Sound System
played conscious reggae classics while the
sizable crowd ate, drank and became merry.
The warm feeling that permeated became
immediately incandescent when Capleton
took the stage backed by the Prophecy Band.
“The King of Fire” jumped up and down while

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Photo by Kristin Kolaczkowski
singing and fast chatting dance hall raps which
had an intensity I had not seen since seeing
Cleveland Hardcore band Ringworm play at
Carabar a while back.
Through the duration of Capleton’s
performance, he would make very short
commentary about healthy living, and also
praise Haile Selassie, Marcus Garvey and High
Priest Emmanuel while the band would continue
the rhythm. The steady beat and momentum
allowed Capleton to jump right back into crowd
favorites such as “Jah Jah City” without any
stoppage.
As exhilarating as Capleton’s exhalations to
Selassie at this coronation show was, they were
also pretty educational in terms of a spiritual
community.
Earlier in the evening, while Roots High
Powered was warming the crowd up,
selecta Pete Funk thanked and gave praise
to Jesus Christ. Apparently, there is a pretty
strong overlap between Christianity and
Rastafarianism.
Haile Selassie was an Orthodox Christian
when he was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in
1930. The coronation was recognized by all
of the world’s powers so the emergence of a
powerful black man resonated with Jamaicans
who were in colonial hell. Around the same
time, Marcus Garvey was promoting the
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