Jedi Mind Tricks bring jihad to America

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If you visit Jedi Mind Tricks’ MySpace page, you’ll find essays such as “30 Facts about Islam” and “Jedi Mind Tricks vs. Christianity,” the latter a response to negative comments such as this Pitchfork review. “When the average person thinks of conservative Christians, they automatically think of Jesus,” writes rapper Vinnie Paz, who shares the group with Stoupe. “When I attack their ideas and politics, I use Jesus (Isa) as a metaphor for modern Christianity and it’s stronghold on Amerikkkan culture. I apologize if I’ve offended or confused anyone along the way.”

Certainly a pair of white hip-hoppers who post chapters from the late Elijah Muhammad’s virulently anti-white Message to the Blackman in America embrace contradiction. Over five albums, they’ve mixed cosmology and religion with violent and weed-blurred battle rhymes promoting conspiracies, drug use and hardcore sex. Mainstream pubs dismissed the group for years, but they were forced to pay attention when Jedi Mind Tricks’ Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell topped the Billboard Heatseekers chart last September.

Jedi Mind Tricks are currently touring in Europe, but they’re coming back to America for a series of concerts in March. The dates are below.

  • 3/29: Middle East, Boston, MA
  • 3/30: Pearl Street, Northampton, MA
  • 3/31: Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
  • 4/03: Mr. Smalls, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 4/04: Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
  • 4/05: Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, MI
  • 4/06: Subterranean, Chicago, IL
  • 4/09: Gothic Theater, Englewood, CO
  • 4/10: Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO
  • 4/11: 8150, Vail, CO
  • 4/12: Suede, Park City, UT
  • 4/13: University Theatre, Las Vegas, NV
  • 4/14: Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
  • 4/15: Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA
  • 4/20: Sonar, Baltimore, MD
  • 4/21: Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA
  • 4/22: Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY

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