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Professor GriffProfessor Griff was a member of the music group Public Enemy and head of the S1W. Solo career His first solo album appeared on Luke Records. Musically, it is partly an interesting mix of PE's' hardcore hip hop and Bass music, courtesy of "Pawns in the Game"'s co producer Beatmaster Clay D. Griff's love for the spoken word la Gil Scott Heron and The Last Poets is obvious on "Real African People", a track that samples Scott Heron's greatest hit, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. There are even more spoken words on the following albums: "Kao's II Wiz*7*Dome" (1991, Luke Records), "Disturb N Tha Peace" (1992, Luke Records) and "Blood of the Profit" (1998, Lethal Records). Controversy Griff was accused of anti-Semitism around 1990. According to Rap Attack 2, he "suggested that Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world" (p. 177). Afrocentrism Although himself partly Native American, Griff has embraced a radical kind of Afrocentrism. "Muslim, Christian, Jew - here's a little somethin' I thought you knew/ there is only one God and God is one - the Rich praises none". Together with PE frontman Chuck D, Griff - who left PE in the early 1990s and later on re-joined the crew - is part of the Rapcore outfit Confrontation Camp. Griff, Professor Griff, Professor
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