Thursday, April 10, 2008

Master Teacher???

"What if there was no niggas only master teachers? I stay woke"- Erykah Badu



Since Ms. Badu's debut in 1997, she has been producing music that makes her listeners think. Yeah, we can sit back and groove to her music but there is always a much appreciated conscious undertone. Since I was elementary school I have been listening to Erykah trying to decypher her lyrics. Her first single off of her first album, On & On, has a sense of ambuigity. It wasn't until I got older that understood what she meant by "If we were made in his image, then call us by our names." and "I was born underwater with 3 dollars and 6 dimes."



I'd expand on my interpretation of those lyrics, however this post is about her song Master Teacher on her latest LP New Amerykah. In this song she asks the question "What if there was no niggas only master teacher?" Everyone I know who has this album loves this song. And is intrigued by this question.



But what is a Master Teacher? I truly believe nothing is titled on accident so therefore it is meaningful that the opponents of niggas are Master Teachers. Why you ask. Erykah is into Kemetic Spirituality and an important aspect of this spirituality is numerology.

In numerology a person born under the life path of 22 is called a master teacher. According to numerology the life path 22 is the most powerful as those who are born under the path have a special talent of manifesting their ideas into reality. Master Teachers are said to be master builders in society. They also achieve higher levels of spiritual enlightenment.

I say once again its no accident that the opponent of a nigga is a Master Teacher!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

ah, lovely breakdown, rae!

*off to go pump that track now*

Anonymous said...

Ms. Badu is a sister of the NGE (Gods and Earths otherwise known as 5 percenter. ) Most of her messages are in reference to what they believe. All her number references are related to the Supreme Mathematics (Her sons name is 7. 7=God)

Free McK. said...

Some say she's in the Ancient Egiptian Order also. Some of the songs start off with someone speaking Nuwabic. I personally think she pulls theology from Rastafarians, 5%ers, A.E.O, and Muslim beliefs. Hmm... what IF they were no niggas only Master Teachers???? I stay woke.

Anonymous said...

LOOK ALOT OF PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD IS WRONG IT REALLY TO THE POINT WERE RELIGION DOSENT MATTER...DON YOU GET IT?? MAN CREATED RELIGION NOT GOD OR GODS...AND PEOPLE YOU ALREADY KNO THAT JESUS WAS NOT A CHRISTAIN..HE WAS A JEW OR ISREALITE..OR ISHMALITE OR WHATEVER...DON BELIVE ME?? LOOK IT UP...AND COMMON SENSE..IF YOU KNEW THAT BLACK NUBAIN PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE SUN...SO TECHANCLLY WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WAS HERE ON THIS PLANET FIRST...AND YOU KNEW THAT EVERYTHING REVOLVED AROUND AFRICA..AND THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN STAY IN AFRICA IS IF YOU HAD DRAK SKINNED AND NAPPY HAIR...AND YOUR ANCERSTORS PRAISED MORE THAN ONE GOD...BUT BLACKS IN AMERICA THE WHITE MAN HAS YOU PRASIN THERE GOD...STRIPPED YOU FROM YA CULTURE AND MAKING YOU BELIVE THAT PEOPLE IN AFRICA ARE WRONG....SO IN THAT CASE ALL BLACKS OVER HERE ARE REALLY WHITE DEVILS...AND YOU ARE REALLY SAYIN AND THEY MAKIN YOU BELIVE THAT YOUR ANCESTORS ARE WRONG...THE ORIGNAL PEOPLE ARE NEVER WRONG..IF YOU WERE HERE FIRST YOU KNEW WAT IS GOIN TO HAPPEN FIRST...SO REALLY BLACK IN AMERICA ARE DENYING THERE ANCESTORY SO THERE CALLIN THEMSELVES DUMB..FOR BELIVE WAT WHITE PEOPLE TELL YOU...THEY TOOK THE INDIANS AND GAVE EM DISEASES AND WAT NOT....EVERYWHERE THEY GO THEY TAKE OVER AND CONTROL

Anonymous said...

...THEY CAME..THEY SAW..THE CONQURED THATS HOW THE DEVIL MOVE...THATS WHY CHIRSTAIN SAY COVER YOUR HEART AND BOW YOUR HEAD IN CHURCH..CUASES THEY KNOW THAT BLACKS ARE PEOPLE OF THE SUN AND THE MAKE YOU BOW YOUR HEAD AND CLOSE YOUR HANDS SO YOU WONT HAVE ANY CONNECTIONS WIT SPIRIT AND GOD HIMSELF..THEY WANT TO MAKE YOU LOOSE A CONNECTION SO YOU CAN HAVE NO SENSE AND DO STUPID STUFF LIKE BLACKS DO IN AMERICA NOW...AND A MATTER OF FACT I HAVE A FEELIN THAT CHIRSTIANITY IS A DEVIL WORSHIP....MAN CANT BE GOD..AND GOD CANT BE MAN...MAN AND GOD SHOULDNT EVEN BE PUT IN THE SAME CATORGORIES..CHRISTAIN CAME FROM THE WORD KRISHNA...WICH WAS HINDUISM WICH THEY WORSHIP THE DEVIL....

Anonymous said...

BLACK IS POWERFUL WE ARE THE SONS OF THE SUN WE ALSO HAVE A SON IN OUR CHEST...WICH IN MORE HEAT THAN WHITE PEOPLE/////WICH MEANS WE HAVE MORE KENTIC AND POTENTIAL ENERGY THAN ANYBODY IN THE WORLD..AND THEY MAKE YOU BOW YOUR HEAD TO BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES BUT BACK IN OUT ANCESTOR TIME THERE WAS NO BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES TILL MICHEANGELO..GET IT??? MICHEAL ANGELO (ANGEL) MICHEAL THE ARCHANGEL?? EVERYTIME HE DREW A PIC OF JESUS HE DREW LIGHT AROUND HIS CHEST SYMBOLIZING THE SOLARPLEX THATS IN OUR BODY...WANNA HOW WE ARE GODS PEOPLE AND THIS WAS POSE TO BE OUR PLANET??? CHECK THIS OUT!!

Anonymous said...

PEOPLE IN THIS PLANET LIVE BY VIBRATIONS AND ETHER..WHITE HAS 6 ETHER (DEVIL) OTHER RACES ETC HAVE 7 AND 8 AND BLACKS HAVE 9...MEANIN WE HAVE NINE TO THE NINTH POWER OF EXITSTANCE.
SO YOU GET THE WORD (ETHER) WICH MEANS TRUE LIGHT..
AND THEN YOU GET (TOPIA) MEANIN PERFECT PLACE...SO YOU PUT BOTH WORDS TOGETHER AND YOU GET ETHOPIANS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF AFRICA..PEOPLE WIT KINGLT HAIR AND DARK SKINNED!! IF YOU DON BELIVE ME THEN GO CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF ITS A PROVEN FACT!!...OUR HAIRS IS LIKE AN ANTENNA TO THE UNIVERSE...REMEBER THE NAME OF IN HEBREW IS SHAMSON...AND IN THE TORAH ITS CALLED SHYAMSON..OVER THOUSANDS OF YEAR AND DIFFRENT SCHOLARS HAD DIFFERENT MEANINGS THAT MESSED THNING UP YOU GET THE WORD (SAMSON)..THE BIBLICLE CHARACTER IN THE BIBLE RIGHT??? YOU WAS KNOW FOR HAVIN POWER IN HIS HAIR?? RIGHT?? SO THATS WHY YOU GO TO JAIL THEY CUT YA HAIR....YOU GO TO THE ARMY THEY CUT THIER HAIR...CANT GET A DECENT JOB TIL YOU CUT YA HAIR CUASE THE WHITES KNOW THE TRUTH BOUT OUR HAIR...........................BACK TO ERICA BADU....LOL PEOPLE ARE SO DUMD WHEN SHE SAY..." I was born under water
With three dollars & six dimes
Yeah, you may laugh
'Cuz you did not do yo math
Like one, two, three
Damn, Ya'll feel that?"

Anonymous said...

NOW WHEN PEOPLE PUT LYRICS THERE ALWAYZ A PARABLE AND FLIPSIDE TO WAT YOU WANT TO BELIVE AND HEAR...LIKE A SUBLIMNAL MESSAGE...SHE WAS BORN UNDER WATER...MEANIN THAT SHE HAD TO THROUGH PREGNACY TO GET HAIR..NOW REMEBER WHEN WE ARE IN THE WOMB...WE ONLY BREATHE IN LIQUID NO AIR WATSOEVER...THAT WHY WOMEN SAY "MY WATER BROKE" AND THE FLIPSIDE THAT THE COMMON EAR CATCH IS HEARIN THAT SHE WAS BAPTIZED IF THAT WAS THE CASE SHE WOULDNT HAVE THAT IN THE VIDEO....AND SHE SAYS THAT SHE BORN WIT 3 DOLLARS AND 6 DIMES...SO ITS REALLY THREE SIDES..ONE MEAING THAT SHE HAD THREE DOLLAS AND 6 DIMES OF WEED CUASE IN THE LAST VERSE SHE TALK BOUT HER HIGH GETTIN DOWN..BUT THE HIDDEN MESSAGE IS THAT..DAMN ERICA BADU IS GOOD!!.SHE TELLS YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING BORN...WHEN YOUR BORN YOUR PURE UNTILL YOU GET CORRUPTED BY THE WORLD SO WHEN YOUR BORN YOU ARE 360 DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE OF PASSIN INTO TWO DIFFRENT WORLD OR PHASES OF LIFE AND CREATION 360 MEANS THE COMPLETE A CYCLE THE CYCLE FROM BEING A TADPOLE LIKE A REPTILE ....THEN BEING A FETUS THE LOOK LIKE AND ACTUALLY SKIN FELL LIKE AND ALEINS WIT BIG HEADS AND BIG EYES AND SMALL BODY..THEN THE LAST PHASE OF BEIN HUMAN AND WHEN YOUR PURE YOUR PERFECT ITS COMMON SINCE...AND THE THIRD LOL DMAN PEOPL DO NOT DO THERE MATH!!! SHE IS LAUGHIN AT YALL CUASE PEOPLE CANT COUNT...3+6=9 WICH BEING THAT SHE WAS BORN WIT NINE ETHER AND THE ONLT PEOPLE THAT HAS NINE ETHER IS BLACK PEOPLE..SO SHE IS SAYIN THAT SHE WAS BORN BEING BLACK AND PURE...THAT WHY SHE SAID DO YOUR MATH...AND WHEN PEOPLE FINALLY REALIZE WAT SHE IS SAYIN SHE SAYS DAMN YA FEEL THAT??? SHE IS TALKIN BOUT SOME DEEP SHYT...AND THIS IS REALLY OLD AND PEOPLE TILL THIS DAY DON KNO BOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE...AND IF YOU DON BELIVE NUTTIN I SAY??? GO CHECK IT OUT

Anonymous said...

FOR YOURSELF I DID AND GOT THE SAME RESULTS...AND BOUT THE MOTHERSHIP YEAH SHES NOT ITS REALLY ABOUT THE 144,00 AND ONLY THE 144,000 ARE THE CHOSEN ONES ...THE ANGELS OR EXTRA BEINGS FROM THE HEAVENS ARE GOIN TO COME BACK AND TAKE THIER CHILDREN WHO ARE THE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH AND WHOEVER IS A SON AND NOT GET TAKIN UP YOU HAVE TO STAY AND PROVE YA SELF WORTHY TO THE ANGELS AND SURVIVE WAT IS BOUT TO HAPPEN TO THIS EARTH.....AND YOU NOTICE CHIRSTAINS DON PUT NOT A OUNCE OF EXTRATERIALS BEING IN THIER DOCTRINCE CUASE THEY TRYIN TO HIDE THE TRUTH THAT HISTORY HAD NOT HAND IN BY EXTRA BEINGS AND IN FACT THEY DID!! GOOD ""ASHTAR COMMAND"" AND YOUTUBE "REPTILINAS" THATS WWAT OUR WHOLE GOVERMENT IS CONTROLLED BY THEM...YOU JUST WOULDNT KNO

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Unknown said...

Wow wow wow, Thank you

Unknown said...

Wow wow wow, Thank you

Unknown said...

I have a question. I'm looking into studying all about ancient Egypt and getting to know thyself. I was just wondering where did you start to learn? Are there any free books online?