How did NY rappers react to 9/11?

[IVS]

kiss called himself al qaida jada

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

The Blueprint came out on 9/11/2001

Also DMX dropped an album called The Great Depression the same day

EDIT: Google is saying that The Great Depression came out on October 23 of that year, but I swear I remember it coming out on 9/11. I was a huge X fan.

 

[TEH]

Don't forget Immortal Technique and Mos Def

 

[010101]

it's the home of 911 the place of the lost towers

we still banging we never lost power

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[DJ Paul's Arm]

I'm pretty sure Ja Rule was on MTV giving a piece of his mind during that madness. Anyone have a clip?

 

[Nemesis]

Ja Rule was the only rapper to make sense of it .......

Ja rule had the answers

 

[Canada Goose]

We building four more new towers! - Diddy on the Welcome to Atlanta remix.

On BP2 Jay mentioned donating proceeds of every ticket sold to 9/11 victims

 

[Noriega]

Dipset made puns and called themselves the taliban

”Young Mohammed Atta, no plane lessons..cocaine lessons to supply the towers, before the crashed and divide the towers” - Juelz Santana

 

[Knicksman20]

Blahzay Blahzay had a song about it too but I don’t remember the name of it

 

[Collateral]

My nikka Fab dropped Ghetto Fabolous on 9/11 If I wasn’t a little kid I would of copped both that and Bp1. Not on 9/11 though

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Jay-Z dropped this free style the night of

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

NaS made several references

 

[Swagnificent]

I was listening to a whole bunch of East Coast rappers from the late 1990s/early 2000s and something just struck me as to how did New York rappers react to the September 11 attacks. Did Nas, Jay-Z, DMX etc. release statements or anything? I was born in 1998, so I was too young to remember the general feeling and reaction. Any oldheads care to say?

Black people knew immediately it was an inside job done by the government.

Ain't no one fall for that shyt.

 

[concise]

Dipset made puns and called themselves the taliban

And everyone now acts like it never happened.

 

[Swagnificent]

“I worship the prophet/The great Mohammed Omar Atta/For his courage behind the wheel of the plane/Reminds me when I was dealin’ the ‘caine.”


They reacted by worshipping the alleged hijackers..

And? What were they supposed to do? Identify with their oppressors?

9/11 was a crakkka pity party. Black people didn't give a fukk. We been under terrorist attacks since we came to this country by cacs. We been used to it.