These Rhymes
Carry with them
Explosive obnoxious notions
And inoculations to erosive emotions
So pay attention with your best ear
Because this world is vicious
With its conspicuous ill-nutritious
& Victim-us mentalities
Dishing us pity me card sicknesses to our realities
Me
I’m just way too wild to be a Sisyphus
Held down by this society
The plot is thus…
I am a BLACK MAN
With the will to be free
Like Galileo
My mind will expand the universe
But I am just a tree from a seed
You see
The beach is but a part of the sea
It’s just harder to see
That using a stereotype to my benefit will only feed the greed
And even though Sun Zu marked that as a definite factor to a wars victory
Making my enemy think I am weak, when I am not
But that’s not the case in this plot
It’s a vasectomy
& I’ve been stripped of my pride
Like, inject the beat
Intravenously
That bullshit would have me stripped of my dignity
Crawling on all fours
Begging with pleas
The MAN
Has been disrespecting me
And however,
Incorrectly put it may be
He has miss-took me for a lesser being
The knife of his oppression- held half in my back
Held, half in your back
And he would have had more,
But the people who identified as Black
Took a stance and pushed him back
The script was flipped
But somehow we’re still off track
And while these “Uncle Tom Rappers”
Continue to profit on the exploitation
Of our modest situation
Doing the MAN’S work for him
Spewing his poisonous dominion
Into the minds of our behavior negative
Perpetuating the hate within our children
So many of us LOVE the rap
The Cadence and the flavor of
The heart of the speech in our people
Clearly there here
Where are you, my people? (repeat until they answer)
Yeah
We’re here
Standing
In defiance to the oppression we hear
Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
They bring our culture back
Better yet they give us a scope of culture to aspire to
Our mentors
Who remind us of what it means to be black
And furthermore what it means to be a people
And why the word nigger
YES
& the word Nigga
Will forever and always
Be whack.