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Challenge: Introduce more African-Americans to the heavy metal music scene.

Here's where I'll start.

In 1990, A young man from Georgia named Lajon Witherspoon buys an album from his favorite rapper, Ice Cube's newest project, Body Count.

He's shocked to find out that it's not a rap album. The lyrics of the album, however, speaks to him. Racism and police brutality are both issues that speak to him deeply. LJ is inspired by the pure anger of the music and decides to start making his own heavy metal music. He asks his dad for a guitar for his birthday. His dad obliges. However, his dad buys him a jazz guitar. At first, LJ was upset, because most of his heavy metal heroes like Randy Rhodes used rock guitars.

But then LJ realized that if he wanted to become a serious musician, he would have to market his sound to his community, which was a majority black community. That's where he combines jazz guitars and heavy metal into his own unique sound. The marketing ploy pays off. Both blacks and whites in his town start coming to his shows in droves.

He then sees a man approach him after one of his shows.

"Hello, young man.". The man who he saw at his show wasn't any ordinary man. It was Vernon Ried of Living Colour. "I see what you did there. You remind me of myself 10 years ago. How about I introduce you to others like 'us' and we see how far your guitar playing goes".

At first, LJ couldn't believe it. The pioneer of African-American heavy metal came to his show. Not only did he come to his show, but he outright recruited him for a new band. He accepts the invitation and starts touring with other black heavy metal performers.

The band's sound combined jazz guitars and heavy metal, with a bit of a funky crunch. The band quickly rose into the stratosphere. They christen themselves "The Bass Fishermen".

After finishing a successful tour, LJ goes back home. He sees a bunch of rats in his house. He picks up a can of Sevindust and pours it over a smudge of peanut butter to kill the rats. The rats eat it and die, but they won't go away. He then smells a stench in his closet where the rats are coming from. It turned out to be the body of his brother, who was killed by a bunch of gangbangers when he was on tour with his band, the Bass Fishermen (Pronounced Base Fishermen). He decides to rename his band "Sevendust", in honor of his brother's memory.

He pens the lyrics to the song "Black". His fellow bandmates love the song. A year later, in 1995, it becomes a surprise top 30 hit. The NuMetal craze in SoCal suddenly whithers on the vine. More and more BlaqueMetal bands hit the scene. Which then inspires more black American youth to abandon New Jack Swing and Rap and start playing the guitar. He's labelled the "Black Kurt Cobain", for how he severely curtailed the interest in rap and nu metal music. Even former NuMetal bands such as Bands such as Korn and Coal Chamber develop a funkier and soul oriented sound. Blaquemetal is unique in regards to other music styles as it both expresses rebellion against conservative white culture's segregationism and conservative black culture's cultural isolationism. It also thumbs its nose against the senseless violence and senseless consumerism of hip hop.

It even inspires a young white man from Detroit, Michigan named Marshall Mathers to start his own Blaquemetal-hip hop band called D12.

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