BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " INTELLIGENT HOODLUM " ALL HIS WORK AND SONGS RADIATE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, ANGER, INDIGNATION AND FRUSTRATION : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                      BLACK                SOCIAL               HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           New York rapper Intelligent Hoodlum (born Percy Chapman) served 20 months at Elmira Correctional Facility in Bing Hampton, NY for robbery in 1988, using the experience to immerse himself in works on African-American culture and the theology of the Nation of Islam. That combination underscores all of his work and makes his songs radiate with righteousness, anger, indignation, and frustration. It doesn't hurt that ace producer Marley Marl supplies the under girding as well.