Hailing rap artists as “soldiers of God,” Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan called for a truce Thursday between East and West Coast rappers. An audience at the Salaam restaurant here was filled with the biggest names in rap–Ice Cube, Snoop Doggy Dog, Tha Dogg Pound–as well as civil rights leaders Ben Chavis Mohammed and Kwame Toure (formerly Stokley Carmichael) who listened as Farrakhan talked of forgiveness in the wake of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
“The east and the west have come together,” he said. “As of this day all of the insults that have been heaped on one another have ceased and they will forgive one another.” The assembled rap artists will produce an album.
Absent was East Coast producer Shawn Combs. But Farrakhan said his son had talked to Combs, who said he would support the movement.
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