Where: Album cover, No More Glory (1997)
How: Album cover background, then as a blindfold on the back cover.
But: It’s burning. The blindfold too probably serves as more political statement than outright endorsement.
Where: “Ms. Jackson” video (2000)
How: Confederate belt buckle
Where: “This Tha City” video (2001)
How: Various members of Troy’s Atlanta hometown drape around the Confederate flag in the background.
Where: Put Yo Hood Up album cover (2001)
How: Draped around his shoulder, flanked by the East Side Boyz
But: There are also two flags burning in the background. Is this an endorsement or a brazen dismissal?
Also: Jon and the Boyz continue rocking and displaying the flag in the album single’s video, “Bia Bia”
Where: BET Awards
What: Full-body Confederate flag alphet
But: On the song Field Mob raps, “When you see that Confederate flag you know what it is/your folks picked cotton here, that’s why we call it the field.” And in the actual performance, Luda tears the Confed-fit away to reveal an Afrocentric, black, red and green getup underneath.