They include the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and the white and purple beads made from the quahog, or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Wikipedia says that "Wampum are traditional, sacred shell beads of Eastern Woodlands tribes. "I divide square emcees like math / bend you in half and drink a genuine draft / I stomp 'em then skied out with all the wampum / " - J-Ro "Your history is too complex and rigid / for some Western critics / they want the whole subjective minutes / / The slave ship captured, our diaspora is the final chapter / the ancestral lineage built pyramids / America's first immigrants, the kings and daughters from our waters / the first architect, the first philosohers / astronomers, the first prophets and the doctors were us, us / " - NasĪfrocentric historian Ivan Van Sertima (among others with different agendas who argue for early Chinese or prior European connections with the "New World," etc., et al., in addition to Leif Eriksson and the early, but short-lived, Viking settlement of North America) has argued for Pre-Columbian contact between the indigenous people of the Americas and the rest of the world, which is what the above cited lyrics most likely pertain to. Nas & Damian Marley (Distant Relatives) Feat. "We're all fam / we're all distant relatives / " - Nasir Jones DJ Jazzy Jeff ft Peedi Peedi - Brand New Funk Remixģ5. ![]() Mobb Deep ft Rapper Big Noyd - Give Up The Good Just Fastģ2. Ruff Ryders - World War III ft Jadakissġ8. Ghostface Killah ft Raekwon - Motherless Childġ5.
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