I heard a wise man once speak
Of a grecian mythology
that was burned into my ideologies
and in turned grazed my philosophy
He spoke of this guy Sisyphus
Who gave Hades, the God of Grecian death a straight up fit
Because he refused to bow down to him and go on and die
But eventually he was there and so in his punishment lie
He had to push this rock up and up this hill
and when he almost reached the top
It pushed him back where he started
And this mythology is metophorically
Also speaking of the African American decendency
Because you see its we that is pushing this rock
To explain, I'm not going to start from the bottom I'm going to start from the top
In the histories past our ancestors before, worked and strived and died to be free from segregation forever more like that Raven Edgar Allen Poe had wrote something for
And....
as we got younger and they got older
that boulder
of equal opportunity began to crack and blunder and as we went from the top
We transcribed to go right back where we started
Now stay with me as I tell you how, because I know someone's thinking "my sista....how?"
Take a look at what we stand
We don't have blacks...or African-Americans
We have video hoes and pimps and the only thing black is the television and the Stacy Adams that you think you stole
But instead you stole your way to black iron prison bars where the majority of our black brothers are
and our sons and daughters think everything is great but have no idea because they can't be taught...their inquiries fall on deaf ears
So here's this bolder, the one that Sisyphus taught
Has now become ethnic and we have become distraught
Just like Sisyphus we're almost to the top
But that boulder's starting to slip
So....what are we going to do about it.
Of a grecian mythology
that was burned into my ideologies
and in turned grazed my philosophy
He spoke of this guy Sisyphus
Who gave Hades, the God of Grecian death a straight up fit
Because he refused to bow down to him and go on and die
But eventually he was there and so in his punishment lie
He had to push this rock up and up this hill
and when he almost reached the top
It pushed him back where he started
And this mythology is metophorically
Also speaking of the African American decendency
Because you see its we that is pushing this rock
To explain, I'm not going to start from the bottom I'm going to start from the top
In the histories past our ancestors before, worked and strived and died to be free from segregation forever more like that Raven Edgar Allen Poe had wrote something for
And....
as we got younger and they got older
that boulder
of equal opportunity began to crack and blunder and as we went from the top
We transcribed to go right back where we started
Now stay with me as I tell you how, because I know someone's thinking "my sista....how?"
Take a look at what we stand
We don't have blacks...or African-Americans
We have video hoes and pimps and the only thing black is the television and the Stacy Adams that you think you stole
But instead you stole your way to black iron prison bars where the majority of our black brothers are
and our sons and daughters think everything is great but have no idea because they can't be taught...their inquiries fall on deaf ears
So here's this bolder, the one that Sisyphus taught
Has now become ethnic and we have become distraught
Just like Sisyphus we're almost to the top
But that boulder's starting to slip
So....what are we going to do about it.
