FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!
BROTHA D'EE IS ON THE MIC, STAND CLEAR
ALL PLANES LAND NOW
I'M GONNA LIGHT UP THE STRATOSPHERE!!!
So
In-too-it
Eye
submit
when I'm through
put vodka in a flask-ka
go to Alaska
melt some Igloos
Wednesday nights
I BLAZE THE MIC
my soul
controlled
fiya in the hole
my hype
take flight
I scorch
4 sport
big dog game
brotha, stay on the porch
D'ee leave you missin'
mission
abort
roll up
in court
torque
my torts
go back home
an write a full report
It's like this
you have the right remain silent
placid
flaccid
rhymes make me feel violent
Hangin' with Rain
my aim
insane
got smoke pourin' from
my mem-brain
my brother Bond
back 2 back
like a stack
of napalm
I go
2 the Alamo
never late
4 a show
drop rhymes
behind
the line
like I'm Reggie Miller
say what up 2 fam
on STRAIGHT SPITTIN' NO FILLER
blast
4 the cast
on Saturday nights
POETICALLY SPOKEN
know brotha D'ee
from Philly
gonna destroy the Mic
Carefully inject
my rhymes with passion
no ration
just spyt
when the M.C. call my name people say
"this is it"
hide the wives and babies
while ya at it
my electricity is static
rhymes flow down from my attic
I'm an addict
Fellas, please hide all the ladies
Brotha D'ee
is hot like Hades
when I finish this rhyme
I might wanna make a baby
legit
intimately
if it's all the same
I refrain
from game
don't vary
only one child from the femme
I once married
Sister Poco
know
when I go
Loco
I possess verbs like voodoo
my recite
so tight
it flow
right
through
you
D'ee Original
no imitation
quite literate
with my alliterations
people always ask
where I find the inspiration
It's no secret
I confess to y'all
peep my lving room wall
respect the ROLL CALL
Why
do I
have so much poise?
it's simple
W.E.B. DUBOIS
I own my words
no lease, no rent
the TALENTED TENTH
I represent
Scholarship, propaganda, intergration
self-respect, self-determination
human rights
take the fight
to the United Black Nation
I'm a separatist
from
the Ray-Cysts
like W.E.B. my intersts vary
Reparation
Expatriation
Third World Solidarity
SMOKIN' THIS RHYME
LIKE A PACK OF PALL-MALL'S
REFLECT
RESPECT
WHEN I PEEP MY ROLL CALL
"X"
marks the spot
with this lyrical Lamaze
all respect due to
EL HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ
I'm not a minister like Malcolm
but I take MEN-AND-STIR
get the black conscience up
tell 'em only pussy cats purr
When Malcolm
would enumerate
wasn't no debate
black folks can't be the hate
that hate creates
Malcolm said human rights was the real struggle
if the right is civil
we remain in a white bubble
He wasn't immune
from stirring up some trouble
If America is a White House
deconstruct
reconstruct
a new house from the rubble
Do I idolize Brother Macolm
oh yes, very
'cuz I made myself a man
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
I RHYME SO SICK
HATER GET SEIZURES
GRAND MAL
PEEP MY WALL
REFLECT ON MY ROLL CALL
Burnin' and Lootin'
YO!!! THEY SHOOTIN!!
yeah Nas, I made 'em look
COULD YOU BE LOVED
was the Tuff Gong hook
I'm chillin'
sippin' imported barley
paying respect to the Buffalo soldier
ROBERT NESTA MARLEY
A son
of the Caribbean
just like me
He led me on an EXODUS
so I could see
THE MOVEMENT OF JAH PEOPLE
I, Brotha D'ee
Rasta-fy
Identify
Testify
for I and I
NO WOMAN, NO CRY
Pry
when I'm high
the Gem-n-eye
I say bye-bye
sing REDEMPTION SONGS
on the day I die
I believe in ONE LOVE
so please excuse me
I SHOT THE SHERIFF
not the deputy
LIKE A FOREST FIRE
I CAN'T BE FORESTALLED
WHEN I PEEP MY WALL
AND RESPECT THE ROLL CALL
From Akebulan
this is
THE MAN
I fast during Ramadan
Sunni Islam
ALL PRAISE TO HIS NAME
PEACE BE UPON IT
live from Mecca
THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
"Keep up prayer from the declining sun,
to the darkness of the night.
And the morning recitation."
"Be firm in the knowledge among them."
but don't sin
"As a believer believe in what is revealed."
Don't court Satan
no appeal
sword and shield
"Evil generation suffer your fate."
"All believers pay the poor rate."
Yeah, Brother D'ee
mind like a CEE-DEE ROM
one fist in the air
one hand on the KORAN
NEVER CAN I FALL
WHEN I PAY RESPECT TO ALL
PEEP MY WALL
PAY RESPECT TO THE ROLL CALL
Last but not least,
not the least bereft,
YESHUA BAR YA-HO-SEF
Joshua, GOD'S SON
THE ANOINTED ONE
His real name in life
perhaps y'all know Him
as JESUS THE CHRIST
The Christian symbol
the fish
not a dish
representing the end of time
gonna go
real slow
so you can catch this rhyme
The stars are the map
Pisces, last sign of the Zodiac
from a black, sinful earth
to the Light
the Birth of the Christ
The Christain Symbol is the fish
in Hebrew it's spelled NUN
the symbol for the NUN is 50
which represents SPIRITUAL FULFILLMENT
and RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Yeah!
I raise up
praise up
never do I graze up
when I gaze up
to the sky
my spirit do fly
my flow
stop the show
I bestow
to the Anglo
my Black glow
Hell Below
is for the black crow
infiltrating
perpetrating
running to and fro
Sister Midnite Love
hello
one of your favorite phrases
I rememeber it well.
"What the Hell!"
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT THEY FITTIN'
TO GETTIN'
BLACK BLOOD LETTIN
BLACK BLOOD SPILL
KILL
FOR THE THRILL
no plateau
Brotha D'ee just grows
never an ameteur
always been a pro
Hold up
raise my cup
What's up
Momma O!
Brotha D'ee
always be proud and prim
equal measure brown sugar
vinegar and sin-a-men
I willl defend
until the end
with the words
adjectives, nouns and verbs
that I entomb
been bad since the womb
haters scattered around
I sweep 'em like a broom
all dark meat no gristle
exercise my mind
blast off
cast offs
with my Exocet Missile
YOU WANNA KNOW THE REASON
BROTHA D'EE DON'T CRAWL
STAND TALL
WHEN I PEEP MY LIVING ROOM WALL
I RESPECT THE ROLL CALL
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