{"id":3523,"date":"2014-04-24T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2020-05-25T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:12:15","slug":"tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">An outgrowth, both musically and ideologically, of the San Francisco-based avant-garde industrial jazz collective the Beatnigs, <strong>the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy<\/strong> formed in 1990. Comprised of former Beatnigs <strong>Michael Franti<\/strong> and <strong>Rono Tse<\/strong>, the duo quickly established themselves among rap&#8217;s foremost proponents of multiculturalism and liberalism; pointedly attacking hip-hop tenets like homophobia, misogyny, and racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQnBlnMYPyY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>One Nation under God<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>has turned into One Nation\u00a0<\/strong><strong>under the influence of one drug<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Television, the drug of the nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV, it satallite links<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Our United States of Unconsciousness<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Apathetic, therapeutic and extremely addictive<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The methadone metronome pumping out\u00a0<\/strong><strong>150 channels 24 hours a day<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You can flip through all of them\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and still there&#8217;s nothing worth watching<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV is the reason why less than ten percent of our\u00a0<\/strong><strong>nation reads books daily<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Why most people think Central America\u00a0<\/strong><strong>means Kansas<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Socialism means unamerican\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and Apartheid is a new headache remedy<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Absorbed in it&#8217;s world it&#8217;s so hard to find us<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>it shapes our minds the most<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Maybe the mother of our nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>should remind us\u00a0<\/strong><strong>that we&#8217;re sitting too close<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>to the&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Television, the drug of the nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>is the stomping ground for political candidates<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where bears in the woods\u00a0<\/strong><strong>are chased by Grecian Formula&#8217;d bald eagles<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV&#8230;is mechanized politics<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>remote control over the masses<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Watch for the PBS special<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>It&#8217;s the perpetuation of the two party system<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>where image takes precedence over wisdom<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where sound bite politics are served\u00a0<\/strong><strong>to the fast food culture<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where straight teeth in your mouth<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>are more important than the words\u00a0<\/strong><strong>that come out of it<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Race baiting is the way to get selected<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Willie Horton or\u00a0<\/strong><strong>will he not get elected on&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Television, the drug of the nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV, Is it the reflector or the director?<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Does it imitate us or do we imitate it?<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Because a child watches 1500 murders\u00a0<\/strong><strong>before he&#8217;s 12 years old<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>And we wonder how we&#8217;ve created a Jason generation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>that learns to laugh rather than abhor the horror<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV is the place where armchair\u00a0<\/strong><strong>generals and quarterbacks<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>can experience first hand\u00a0<\/strong><strong>the excitement of video warfare<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>as the theme song is sung in the background<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Sugar sweet sitcoms\u00a0<\/strong><strong>that leave us with a bad actor taste<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>while pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You saw the video &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>You heard the soundtrack<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Now go but the soft drink<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Well, the only cola that I support<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>On<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Television, the drug of the nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Back again, new and improved<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>we return to our irregularly programmed schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>hidden cleverly between heavily breasted<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>beer and car commercials<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S.<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where oxymoronic language like<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u00abvirtually spotless\u00bb, \u00abfresh frozen\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u00ablight yet filling\u00bb and \u00abmilitary intelligence\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>have become standard<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV is the place where phrases are redefined<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>like \u00abrecession\u00bb to \u00abnecessary downturn\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u00abcrude oil\u00bb on a beach to \u00abmousse\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u00abCivilian death\u00bb to \u00abcollateral damages\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>and being killed by your own army<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>is now called \u00abfriendly fire\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV is the place where the pursuit of happiness<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>has become the pursuit of trivia<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where imagination is sucked out of children<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>by a cathode ray nipple<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>TV is the only wet nurse<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>that would create a cripple<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Television, the drug of the nation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TV.jpeg\" alt=\"TV\" width=\"191\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TV.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TV-123x150.jpeg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u25ca \u00a0<a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/the-disposable-heroes-of-hiphoprisy\/satanic-reverses-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Satanic Reverses&#8217;<\/a> \u00a0\u2193<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wS0f9Gh8gLQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0 <a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2YDXkZV6b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Language Of Violence&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d3<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5J_qadIwM60\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The first day of school was always the hardest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The first day of school the hallways the darkest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Like a gauntlet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">the voices haunted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Walking in with his thin skin lowered chin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">He knew the names that they would taunt him with<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Faggot sissy punk queen queer<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Although he&#8217;d never had sex in his 15 years<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">And when they harassed him it was for a reason<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">And when they provoked him it became open season<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">for the fox and the hunter, the sparks and the thunder<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">that pushed the boy under, then pillage and plunder<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">It kind of makes you wonder<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">how one can hurt another<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">But dehumanizing the victim makes things simpler<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">It&#8217;s like breathing with a respirator<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">It eases the conscience of even the most conscious<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">and calculating violator<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Words can reduce a person to an object,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">something more easy to hate<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">An inanimate entity, completely disposable,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">no problem to obliterate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this language of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong> Death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong> But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this cycle of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong> death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">It&#8217;s tough to be young, the young long to be tougher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">When we pick on someone else it might make us feel rougher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Abused by their fathers but was at home though<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">so to prove to each other that they were not homos<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The exclamation of the phobic fury<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">executioner, a judge and jury<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The mob mentality, individuality was nowhere<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Dignity forgotten at the bottom of a dumb old dare<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">and a numb cold stare<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">On the way home it was back to name calling<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Ten against one they had his back up against the wall and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">they reveled in their laughter as they surrounded him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">But it wasn&#8217;t a game when they up jumped and grounded him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They picked up their bats with their muscles straining<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">and they decided they were gonna beat this fella&#8217;s brain in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">with an awful, powerful, showerful, an hour full of violence<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Inflict the strictest brutality and dominance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They didn&#8217;t hear him screaming, they didn&#8217;t hear him pleading<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They ran like cowards and left the boy bleeding<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">in a pool of red &#8216;til all tears were shed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">and his eyes quietly slid into the back of his head<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">dead&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this language of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this cycle of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The boy&#8217;s parents were gone and his grandmother had raised him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">She was mad she had no form of retaliation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The pack didn&#8217;t have to worry about being on a hitlist<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">But the thing they never thought about was that there was a witness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">to this senseless crime, right place wrong time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Tried as an adult one of them was gonna do hard time<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The first day of prison was always the hardest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The first day of prison, the hallways the darkest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Like a gauntlet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">the voices haunted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Faggot, sissy, punk, queen, queer<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Words he used before had a new meaning in here<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">As a group of men in front of him laughed and came near<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">for the first time in his life the young bully felt fear<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">He&#8217;d never been on this side of the name calling<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Five against one they had his back up against the wall and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">he had never questioned his own sexuality<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">but this group of men didn&#8217;t hesitate in their reality<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">with an awful, powerful, showerful, an hour full of violence<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Inflict the strictest brutality and dominance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They didn&#8217;t hear him screaming<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They didn&#8217;t hear him pleading<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">They took what they wanted and then left him bleeding in the corner<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The giant reduced to jack horner<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">But dehumanizing the victim makes things simpler<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">It&#8217;s like breathing with a respirator<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">It eases the conscience of even the most conscious<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">and calculating violator<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">The power of words, don&#8217;t take it for granted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">when you hear a man ranting<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Don&#8217;t just read the lips, be more sublime than this<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Put everything in context, is this a tale of rough justice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">in a land where there&#8217;s no justice at all ?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Who is really the victim ? Or are we all the cause, and victim of it\u00a0all ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this language of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But death is the silence\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in this cycle of violence<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>death is the silence<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">You won&#8217;t see the face &#8216;til the eyelids drop<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">You won&#8217;t hear the screaming until it stops<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy &quot;Music And Politics&quot; (Montage)\">\u25ca\u2192 \u00a0<a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/Disposable-heroes-of-hiphoprisy-music-and-politics-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abMusic And Politics\u00bb<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2193<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pq8wCxAfuRk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8230;If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics<\/span><br style=\"color: #cccccc;\" \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\">I would tell you that <strong>music<\/strong> is the expression of emotion<\/span><br style=\"color: #cccccc;\" \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\">And that <strong>politics<\/strong> is merely the decoy of perception<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An outgrowth, both musically and ideologically, of the San Francisco-based avant-garde industrial jazz collective the Beatnigs, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy formed in 1990. 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