A.   To lengthen the song to collect more royalties

B.   To connect the present to a time in the future where equality reigns.

C.   To tie the realities that GZA is referring to in the song to an imaginary world of honour.

D.   It was a mistake but they though it sounded cool so they left in on

A.   Loose arrangements.

B.   Wobbly, lo-fi samples

C.   Roughly cut edits

D.   All of the above

A.   The Bomb Squad used hyper-dense textures but here RZA is using a simple and bare production.

B.   The Bomb Squad wanted to keep people dancing for hours but this is a short song

C.   The Bomb Squad pioneered party raps and here we hear something very different

D.   The Bomb Squad used very sparse production but RZA favoured the super dense.

A.   The agent who discovered Rakim

B.   The first rapper who espoused religious ideas

C.   The founder of the Nations of Gods and Earths

D.   The 1st DJ who espoused religious ideas

A.   They funded their international outreach programs with Hip Hop records.

B.   They were present on street corners in low-income largely Black neighbourhoods encouraging a kind of literacy that revolves around rhyming and the mystical meanings of words.

C.   They held Hip Hop parties at a time when other groups could not due to fear of gang conflict

D.   They used His Hop instead of Gospel music at their church services

A.   Hello, God

B.   Hello, Gangsta

C.   Hello Gun

D.   Hello George

A.   It would encourage the use of languages other than English

B.   It wouldn't - as early as "The Breaks" both were prominent

C.   It would broaden the subject matter of Hip Hop beyond both party and "reality" raps.

D.   It would de-emphasize issues relating to African Americans

A.   Be Allah, God

B.   The oppressed races according to the 5%rs

C.   Blood, African-Americans, and the money to be made in rapping

D.   The Pan - African Flag

A.   Learning how to copy it to sell.

B.   Imagining it in a European museum

C.   Making it with a DJ instead of a live band

D.   Imagining it from a cultural perspective that excludes European influence and oppression.

A.   One that seems more like a setting from a Kung Fu movie

B.   A positive and communitarian one.

C.   A hyper realistic one

D.   A dark and violent one

A.   Because jazz represented an idealized version of African American achievement.

B.   Because old jazz records could be retuned easily to be in any key.

C.   Because they wouldn't have to pay royalties

D.   Because the samplers came-pre-loaded with jazz samples

A.   Death Row Records

B.   Wu Tang Clan

C.   The Universal Zulu Nation

D.   The Bloods