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    BOOKS?(WE TALKIN BOUT BOOKS!!!)

    Manchild in the Promised Land(Claude Brown)
    Hour glass broke
    Spilled my sand
    Depression
    Depressed my diaphram
    So how can I be a better man?

    The Souls of Black Folk(W.E.B. DuBois)
    Crossing the Jordan
    The bridge broke
    Failed 2 isolate the isotope
    2 ease the pressure of the yoke

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X(Malcolm X, Alex Haley)
    My pride was strong
    My mind flexed
    Then the library started pushin black sex
    Constricting my cerebral cortex

    And the Walls Came Tumbling Down(Ralph Abernathy)
    I didn't even hear the sound
    Was seduced by Surround
    Madden 10
    LCD
    Touchdown!!

    Their Eyes Were Watching God(Zora Neale Hurston)
    Their ears attuned 2 I-Pods
    Chillin in the Quad
    Commenting on Sista's Bods

    Roots?(Alex Haley)
    Naaahhh
    I bought a pair of Timberland boots
    So the point is really moot
    Didn't Kunta wear a zoot suit?

    Poems on Various Subjects(Phyllis Wheatley)
    Year 1773 of this Republic
    Yo, isn't that a chick flick?
    Brutha U make me sick!

    Up From Slavery(Booker T. Washington)
    Tuskegee and Booker T.
    But what I really went 2 see
    Was the marching Band
    Steppin 1-2-3

    The Weary Blues(Langston Hughes)
    The Renaissance
    And Langston Hughes
    This tome I perused
    4 pick up lines 2 use

    Native Son(Richard Wright)
    Wasn't fun
    I had only just begun
    But shots rang out
    So I had 2 run

    The Fire Next Time(James Baldwin)
    2 busy workin on rap rhymes
    Placed it where I could find
    And left it way behind

    Things Fall Apart(Chinua Achebe)
    Not at the start
    But somehow we depart
    From the African-American heart

    The Wretched of the Earth(Franz Fanon)
    Should've been my rebirth
    But me, Tone, Monster and Murph
    Was 2 busy protectin turf

    DAMN!!!!

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    • 31 December 2010
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