Poor Righteous Teachers
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Nov 2, 2026
KilHOST
He talks about, of course, the whole shooting incident and everything like that but definitely a dope documentary on all black too so uh check that out vague what you got up next bro
VaguePANELIST
uh poor righteous teachers I feel like for how dope they were from the beats.
VaguePANELIST
Yeah, I got to take two.
VaguePANELIST
What's it called? From the beats to the rhymes, like conscious rappers that could spit.
Larry "Nuface" ComptonGUEST
But it was also about balance.
Larry "Nuface" ComptonGUEST
While I was listening to Live Crew and Too Short, I was also listening to Poor Righteous Teachers.
Larry "Nuface" ComptonGUEST
Brian Newby and X-Clan, Boogie Down Production, hearing stories of Frederick Douglass and those type of, Malcolm X. I didn't realize what that album cover would, by all means necessary, with KRS-One on the blinds.
Larry "Nuface" ComptonGUEST
He was mimicking Malcolm X looking through the blinds of the house.
Nuri MuhammadGUEST
But conscious music was popular back...
Nuri MuhammadGUEST
It was Public Enemy, it was, it was, uh, Brand Nubian, it was Poor Righteous Teachers, it was X-Clan, it was Ice Cube from, uh, Death Certificate.
Nuri MuhammadGUEST
It, I mean, we, we had, we had some, some, some, some brothers and sisters, Queen Latifah, they was representing the idea that the honorable Elijah Muhammad had taught.
Nuri MuhammadGUEST
So how did, uh, Muhammad Ali join the Nation? Guess what? He heard a song by Minister Louis Farrakhan, A White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell.
Black DotHOST
You know what I'm saying? Which the microphone was used for to express would fight the power.
Black DotHOST
Public, you know, Karis One, X-Clan, Brand Nubians, Poor Righteous Teachers, Native Tongues, Queen Latifah, and the Ladies First.
Black DotHOST
All of that emerged Even NWA was straight out of Compton.
Black DotHOST
You know what I mean? So all of this gave a platform to the pain, the suffering, the struggle.
N.O.R.E.HOST
Uh-huh.
DJ EFNHOST
Brand Nubian or Poor Righteous Teachers?
TreachGUEST
Damn it.
TreachGUEST
Damn it.
TreachGUEST
Come...
N.O.R.E.HOST
'Cause Poor Righteous Teachers is from Trenton.
TreachGUEST
Jersey.
N.O.R.E.HOST
Trenton.
L1HOST
Yeah.
Last ManHOST
Definitely, definitely Poor Righteous Teachers was an influence-
L1HOST
Okay
Last ManHOST
... on all these guys, but I don't think even so much, I mean, yeah, obviously the, these things influenced them and the, and the culture, but I think Phife was just Jamaican, and he grew up in a Jamaican household listening to Jamaican music.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Like, you know, they do this little tease of a...
Charlie TaylorHOST
You know, instead of like a typical just... you know, we're just, we just do hip-hop kind of thing, they try to add another wrinkle to their style, if you, if you're guessing by the album artwork, is that they kind of go down like a, they try and go down like a five percenter route, but they don't really lean into it that hard, there's a couple moments throughout some tracks where, you know, they, you know, they, they, you know, they have a You know, lyrical moments of 5% of talk, right? Think Poor Righteous Teachers, for example.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Think X-Clan, which we haven't done, actually.
Charlie TaylorHOST
We haven't done X-Clan, I should put it on the list.
Mark RaeGUEST
Um, the link started with a guy called Anthony Depula, who's no longer with us, so RIP to Tony Dee.
Mark RaeGUEST
He produced Poor Righteous Teachers, and he was a good rapper himself, but an incredible master of the SP-1200 drum machine.
Mark RaeGUEST
I, um, licensed a, an album, uh, from him to start my record label, Grand Central.
Alex ChristouHOST
Who- US-based.
MC EihtHOST
We had dudes like Public Enemy.
MC EihtHOST
We had Poor Righteous Teachers.
MC EihtHOST
We had people like X-Clan.
MC EihtHOST
So I don't want to say that it was a plot to destroy them.
Chris ManakGUEST
...
Chris ManakGUEST
Poor Righteous Teachers, A Tribe Called Quest, so on and so on.
Chris ManakGUEST
So we were...
Chris ManakGUEST
Yeah, from that, every rapper from San Jose that was into the latter of what I was just explaining would hit me up and be like, "Oh, you know, I got...