Video: Muja Messiah, “Patriot Act”

July 7, 2008

Our man Jon Jon just hit us up to a new video from Minneapolis rapper Muja Messiah. It is from his forthcoming album “Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy”. Patriot Act features Rhymesayers artist I Self Devine.

Muja is deep within a Minneapolis hip hop scene that has been caustically deemed college-rap, his voice rears songs that are blatantly street-centric, pushing thought and innovation alike with his critical take on Bush’s administration (”Patriot Act”) and his M.I.A. “Paper Planes” mash. – Culture Bully

With his underground hit “Patriot Act” that Muja earned national notoriety. The song’s brazen critique of President Bush and American foreign and domestic policies — “I’m supposed to be threatened by al Qaeda when I was always afraid of America first, the birthplace of some of the worst terrorists on this earth… Should I blame FEMA or blame Halliburton? I’m'a push the envelope like Bush did the votes, like Bush sniffing coke, but hey, nobody’s perfect” — are what landed him a coveted endorsement in December’s VIBE Magazine as one of the “51 Best MySpace Rappers,” a part of their first-annual nationwide survey.

- Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder