Professor X

As an associate from the fiercely polemical hip-hop collective X-Clan, Teacher X spearheaded rap music’s embrace of Dark Nationalist politics, afterwards continuing his activism with some solo initiatives. The boy of civil privileges pioneer Sonny Carson, Teacher X was created Lumumba Carson in Brooklyn in 1956. As a kid, he fulfilled Malcolm X and frequently accompanied his dad in planing a trip to politics rallies both in the home and overseas. But as a teenager Carson drifted into gang lifestyle, and was shot, stabbed, and imprisoned just before rededicating his lifestyle to politics, vowing to bring in his father’s concepts into hip-hop. Carson initial inserted the music business being a promoter for rappers like Whodini. Some years over the age of the performers he mentored, he ultimately dubbed himself Teacher X honoring the brilliant master leading comic reserve heroes the X-Men. In 1988 Teacher X teamed with Grand Verbalizer Funkin’ Lesson “Sibling J” (delivered Jason Hunter), the Rhythem Service provider “Glucose Shaft” (Anthony Hardin), and Grand Architect “Heaven” (Claude Gray) to discovered the Brooklyn-based X-Clan. Clad in medallions and traditional Dark Nationalist equipment, X-Clan immediately offered observe that their music would serve to teach and uplift listeners of most races and creeds. Teacher X was the group’s sage, spouting his personal lyric “Vainglorious! That is protected with the reddish colored, the black, as well as the green with an integral, sissy!” on many cuts on the acclaimed 1990 debut LP, Towards the East, Blackwards. The recording fell just timid from the R&B TOP, as do its 1992 follow-up, Xodus. Within the interim, Teacher X released his debut single effort, Many years of the 9, Around the Blackhand Part, and after X-Clan dissolved, he resurfaced in 1993 with Puss ‘n Shoes (The Struggle Continues…). Because the rise of gangsta rap solid conscious hip-hop towards the industrial margins, Teacher X channeled his energies into even more traditional activist pursuits, co-founding the Dark Muslim group Blackwatch. Amid gossips of the X-Clan reunion, Teacher X passed away of problems from vertebral meningitis on March 17, 2006.