Black Poetry : Going way Back

blakverb

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Gotta go back back back
way back to find the days
where brothers were pugilists
throwing blows instead of bullets
preachers were real instead of
conmen in pulpits Gotta go back back back
way back when Malcolm was talking about
the ballot or the bullet and the Panthers
wasn't taking no bullshyt what is this?
Current days of watered down wishes
and issues about red kool aid
(what flavor is it) and ***** terms
passed around like sun rays on cloudless
days Gotta go back back back way back
when Rappers Delight was the joint and
no brothers were found dead between
the verses when Showdown meant
Grandmaster Flash and the furious...1...
2...3...4...5 and the Sugar Hill Gang.......
not 9 millis that go bang........bang the drum
gotta go back back back way back when the
slums had no crack just smack which was
just as wack but not as many brothers were
killing each other/trade offs undercover
different drugs but fewer deaths meaning
more potential warriors were left for promise
Gotta go back back back when we valued school
so much that we'd walk 3 miles in the blazn heat
to get an education now we dealin' with
kids that will cause a fuss to take a bus to
get some mental stimulation but hang out in the streets
in a second to see reflections in concrete
Gotta go back back back way back when
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Earl and Mr. Brown and Ms.
Mamie and Ms. Williams and the reverend would
beat yo' *** before you got home when you did something
wrong and yo' parents were cool with it cause
they knew "the village loved their child" now
child abuse is the lastest escape to find rules
to break at the home...911 can be a joke...
Gotta go back back back when Public Enemy
had a message that stirred the masses now we
got Project Pat Chicken Heads shakin' *****
over misogynistic breakbeats that incomplete
an image for blak girls...gotta go back back back
way back when the 8 track played real
music, by real singers, with real soul, now we got
vocal transformers and Nstync that help complete
this soulful whole (or so they say)...Gotta go back
back back way back when dancing was an artform
not a way to exhibit how you *****..whatever happened
to the biz markie dance, the wop, the humpty,
the smurf, or the roger rabbit? whatever happened
to that song "I got a habit"....Gotta go back
back back way back when the blak fist was raised
and people were screaming power to the
people and cutting the pro-blak rug way before
kids were singin' "....baby 'cause I'm a thug"
all day and all night I wonder on whatever
happened to just happenin' to be brave to
be free cause too many are now sissies
and scared of mental emancipation gotta go back
back back and read books about how we
were way back which is only yesterday in the
spirit and how close we are to holding
greatness as a whole. Whatever happened
to going way back?

(c)2001 blakverb
 
yo BLAKVERB Y(0)U der? huh

all due respect heart to heart
now where do i start?


it can't go back
to trey sacks
and 8 tracks
just facts

the future pre destined
no question
when you don't follow the lessons
it's leave you wondering guessing
confessing
you don't get the message

the future moves at an accelerate pace
and we move in haste
towards the last the dayz
but we still GIVE PRAISE

you know what
i did the math and it don't add up
**** out of luck
over runneth the cup
and who gonna really be able to give a ***
when society goes amok
make sure them belts are tucked


DSSNY
 

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