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turn it up brother.

dee cant still spyt with the best.

check it out

 

no need to shout 

i have no real clout

cant make adam raise a cain

cant operate on addled brains

cant overload a mainframe

with the pusle of my membrane

but i can be detained 

for violating gods law

 

so as i sit and ponder

if one fine day 

i am going up yonder

i pour out a little likka

for the dear departed word  nikka

never will i use it again

in any connotation

situation

or circumstance

how can my soul advance

when too many sides have been lanced

too brothers and sisters  couldnt 

stand a chance

lived  and died being called 

out of their name

 

for those brothers and sisters 

who use it

i aint tryin to disprove it

i am from the black side 

of the tracks so i understand 

the context

of when we use it 

how the word reflects

its true you can diminish 

the power defined by a word

by pointing out the absurd

be it noun or verb

 

last time i checked 

africans in america been mighty good

at making  something edible 

out of the white man regretables

they had the chicken legs

we had to beg for the guts

and neckbones

took em home 

and made soul food to prove

we can groove to any sound

long as we freedom bound

 

i aint an angel 

nor am i the antithesis

of genesis

a revelation

im just a brother 

trying to mentally recover 

so i can emancipate  my proclamations

taking a step back 

so i can cogitate

and deliberate on my fate

fire in my soul

means i control

the dividends 

from my pen

and i am too intelligent 

to allow my ways and means 

to justify my end

no friend

i aint dead yet

 

when i return

i will burn 

the mic with sacred fire

for right now 

let me muddle in the mire

while i reach higher 

to escape  the embers

from the funeral pyre

 

people say i have an active  medulla

if thats true i can skool ya

without fetchin or steppin 4 beulah

one  thing you gotta know 

the cat who played steppin 

was a word pro

but in that time intelligence and black

wasnt consentual

 

 

yeah we had an eventual 

revolution  but it was more 

propaganda

correct me if im wrong

real revolution is che and fidel 

in the mountains of cuba 

wearing bandannas

telling batista and the gangstas

to get out 

real revolutionaries dont shout

they rout

 

from nikka to negro

from black to afro

now african with the hyphen american

not getting half returned for what yall spend

i say yall because i cant get reparations 

from the americans

im a bajan

i gotta go to the british for my ends

 

my mindset 

on the difference came correct

in the 3rd grade when a nun

maybe just for fun

told me i couldnt be president

because i was a permanent resident

and alien

like i had a choice on what ship

my ancestors was sailing 

on 

but word is bond

i embraced 

the black race  long time ago

 

be it con or pro

i ve been down since 

i read at 11 the autobiography of malcolm x

my respect for the black set

is real

and if you ask any black skin 

from another country 

they will reveal an awe

from what yall have done

even the ignorant ones

gotta admit blacks in america 

is the...aint no curse 

in this verse 

nah mean

 

so let me outro 

this flow 

by saying  

im not praying for one fine day

im staying to see the day

we as a poetic collective 

rewrite our history

aint no  mystery 

what you can do with a pen

when the ink is a godsend

feel me

 

how dee jay dean say it

thats what im talking about

shout out to the mt everest four in my mind

 

yayyy yooo..yeah sis

jooo skeee..yeah bro i see

the whaaa chaaa of 13..nah mean

and  last but not least

dee jayyy dean

 

when i return 

i will burn the mic 

with sacred fire

for right now 

let me muddle in the mire

while i reach higher 

to escape the embers

from the funeral pyre

 

momma o..queen mother

love u madly  peace i am out

 

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