BROTHER D'EE, I DON'T THINK THEY LISTENIN DAWG!
TELL 'EM HOW YOU REALLY FEEL!
I MANIFEST
my DESTINY
to be among the best
no bronze, no silver
only gold
on my chest
take words and
wrest
what I digest
recite
with the speed of light
when I depress
my diaphragm
I AM A BLACK MAN
I ain't here to laugh
ain't here to please ya
like a stone cutter at Giza
my words are pyramids
my metaphors freeze ya
a trend setter
none better
when my diction
pays homage to the fruit
of the African Nation
everybody gather around
and take dictation
by the time I complete
my summation
you'll know why I'm literate
quite considerate
with my alliterations
From behind a black rock
a flock
of blackbrids
emerged
gave a black boy
a block
of black words
a black list
a black fist
for my black glove
black to the bone
no one above
but the Creator
the Telestrator
of my Lyrical fader
a light emerged from my black saber
blacken
those slackin'
'cuz I'm Dark Vader
When push comes to shove
won't let ya sub me
don't hate me 'cuz I'm black and beautiful
ya might as well love me
from Timbuktu and Mali
shot with a volley
of Black History
Imhotep
much respect
I'm hip to ancestry
Black toppin
no stoppin
when I hit the blacktop
hold up
STOP
DROP
ya better roll over
the flame
in my game
comes from Jehovah
Shaka Zulu
you with my voodoo
Original African religion
so prescient
when I present
my black precision
my brain
inflames
creating nuclear fission
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER
is my mission
the words of Malcolm
"X" marks the spot
his words I trust
WE DIDN'T LAND ON PLYMOUTH ROCK
IT LANDED ON US
I bust a black cap
when I shoot my black rap
adverbs and adlibs with a subtle poise
synthesize
the Black Prize
like Dr. DuBois
Momma always said I was a fire starter
Love Booker T.
and George Washington Carver
flap a wrap
around a word
make it black, not sullen
I'm a Harlem Renaissance
like Countee Cullen
so
IF WE MUST DIE
it won't be today
Brother D'ee spyttin this rip
like I'm Claude McKay
Now ya listenin'
I got ya shook
lemme smooth into a segue
like Gwendolyn Brooks
then, when I bend
a phrase, make it sick with the flu
STILL I RISE
like Mya Angelou
patrol the waters
all you see is my black fin
stackin' mo' blackness
'cuz my back don't bend
to not realize your potential is a sin
never wanted to play the game
my aim
is to win
the History of Black America
I will defend
let my black soul
fly back to where I begin
Come here
lemme whisper to you Mamma San
let me tell you about a land
named Akebulan
the Cross and the Crescent
both Omnipresent
that's why Brother D'ee
is so effervescent
from pestilence
to PRESIDENT
we represent
the devil's scent
we circumvent
take leftovers and sweeten them to black taste
white hands
can't blackmail
if we believe in the black race
BLACK SNAKES, WHITE SNAKES
THEY BOTH BITE
Thurgood Marshall
was sho nuff right
but
my antonyms
work like anti-venom
antiquate
any snake
with my referendum
kill 'em
send 'em
back to the Garden
excuse me Satan
I beg your pardon
you best believe
this is the Dawning of Blackness
not the Eve
I get my one-two's
from Langston Hughes
when I cruise the Causeway
use a black map
of black facts
to find my way
My black body
like a Rotty
yo Scotty
beam me up
lemme show Uranus
which way is up
extrapolate your black head
from your butt
my mellow
stiletto
I sharpen to cut
through the absurdity
and all the myths
Rambunctious with my riff
this is MY gift
sift
through the grams
of my Carribean sand
trace my history
to a strong black man
from the Sudan
for him I shout from my diaphragm
HATERS, DEBATERS
YOU ALL SCRAM
to deny my crown
is a sham
Tell me,
WHY DOES THE CAGED BIRD SING
because
I HAVE A DREAM
like Dr.King
completing the verse
a 360 cycle
rep Huey P.
and Stokley Carmichael
Say "what up" to Bobby
when I Seale
guilty as charged America
no appeal
the sweeter the juice
the blacker the berry
WE RESERVE OUR RIGHT TO BE A MAN
what you say Malcolm?
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
can you hear me now?
It's like this Fam
I have a blackjack
and I will rap
the black head
of any black cat
wearing black face
I REFUSE TO BE A DISGRACE
TO MY BLACK RACE
so
head these words that erupted from my chest
because
I, BROTHER D'EE
MANIFEST
MY
DESTINY

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