Bruce Amos

Any racist comments will be deleted! Please note dates on items in video, this is history to be thought about and perhaps discussed sanely, not personal commentary on what's right and wrong with things that have already happened. Obviously we have come along way. ****************************** Blackface images set to Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's "Famous and Dandy" - Fred Astaire tribute to Bojangles ********************* Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury is the debut album by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, released in '92 found some critical acclaim, although the album leaned away from the then-rising G Funk that came to be the dominant sub-genre within west coast hip hop. Television, the Drug of the Nation was released as a single. It was recorded previously by Michael Franti's first band, the Beatnigs. The Disposable Heroes' solitary album represents much more than Franti's fiercely intelligent narratives. Where hyperbole, bombast and finger-pointing had been the order of the day in hip-hop, Franti includes his own inadequacies in his diagnosis of the problem. The Disposable Heroes recall Public Enemy both in their aural assault and in the rhetorical dexterity of rapper Michael Franti...A blistering, state-of-the-art album about the state of the soul of contemporary American society. Franti's soft-spoken condemnations are pitted against a series of deceptively seductive tunes. Franti's smooth poetry sounds more like that of Lawrence Ferlinghetti than the hip <b>...</b>