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Hip
Hop is a culture that the encompasses the entire Black musical
experience. We can all identify with it because it incorporates
so many musical forms under one umbrella. The so-called Neo-Soul
movement was born of members of the Hip Hop generation who were
groomed by Soul Music influences. It also shares an audience with
the movement that is revolutionizing Spoken Word Poetry. Reggae,
Jazz, Blues, R&B, Classical. No matter how it is that you
express yourself, Hip Hop is a vehicle because the most distinctive
part of Hip Hop is spontaneous expression. The foundation upon
which every other branch and genre of Hip Hop was built is this
element of spontaneity. The core audience for the most part has
the ability to reform and restructure itself when new sounds and
new styles are introduced. The only question is Do you have the
creativity and energy necessary to bring something new?
Random
Thoughts that trace the diameter in the circumference of my mental
energy and spoken symmetry My Word is Bond backslash Power Sound
of the Sonar Spark and Grow Stars Currently I spit subtle forms
of Currency No Exchange I change the Brain of the Mind ripe with
Pain Is Life a Game Yes I play the Chessmaster Move my pieces
a little bit faster Beyond Preacher and Pastor I Minister to the
Seekers of the Light Whether Fight or Flight Does Might make Right
Wound up too tight In Black Blood Type Speak Black and White cause
Color was too much for your Pentium to process Who can stop the
progress of a Man determined to make Power moves Re-God-less Non-cents
I came to break your Dollar But you were too set in your ways
to make change Freeze Frame I watch time dissolve as I break minutes
down into seconds Break Kemet down into Lessons To break falsehood's
infection...Random Thoughts...
To all
the revolutionaries, freedom fighters, and conscious thinkers
in the audience, I got a question for you. Many of us refer to
our ultimate goals for the Nation as Freedom, Land, Consciousness,
or Community Control, but what happens after that? We have too
many individuals out here that want Freedom, Culture, and Land,
but don't know why they want these things. Do we know of the real
purpose of working for Freedom? Do we know of the real work involved
in maintaining Freedom? How many of us are in this struggle for
the long haul? And how many of us just think of it just something
to occupy time until we finish school? I remind you of the wise
proverb "When you fail to plan, you plan to fail." We
must have an idea in our mind of the short term, long term, and
extended term goals of our struggle. So let us make a few assumptions,
let us assume you have Freedom and Community Control. Now What?
What do you do with it? How do you act? You know I-Self actually
build program models and implement them individually amongst those
I already know. We must recognize that a long journey begins with
small steps at a slow, but steady pace. If you wait until we are
free to plan these things, you will have some catching up to do.
The longer the time it takes your feet to touch the ground, the
easier it is for someone to plan to trip you up. Peace.
I've
been observing a disturbing trend in the Black Community. What's
with this whole "Just because you got dreads, don't think
that I'm 'gon speak to you." aesthetic that's floating around.
Seems like so-called "conscious" heads be on some Negro
League sh*t sometimes. Whether or not I have dreads or saw you
at a poetry reading should not be a factor in whether or not you
say at the very least "What's Up?" to me. Speak to me
because I 'm Black and you're Black and you recognize that Love
and Unity amongst Black People is at the root of all of the work
we do towards the effect of raising National Consciousness. Dreads,
Poetry, Clothing, Jewelry, and various other external symbols
may not denote you as one who is truly about the business of building,
but every chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Strengthen
those weak links by involving them. Speak with them. Build with
them. If they are propagating falsehood, destroy them. At the
end of the day, you can know that you were in the trenches doing
the real work. Speaking with the ones who need the knowledge rather
than just expounding upon your arrogance at some damn poetry reading
or other notable black event. For the next so-called conscious
cat I see on the streets that I speak to who does not acknowledge
me back, Allah is coming for heads. Word is Bond. Believe that.
Peace.
I wonder
why...? Why do people enter ciphers determined to talk, but not
paying any attention to listening. Be honest with your Self. When
you are involved in a heated argument, you know the kind where
you are entirely out of character and ego-tripping, but won't
admit it. Do you actually process what the other person is saying
separately or in the context of the response that you are going
to give to them when they are finished speaking? Do you actually
listen or do you wait to talk? Truth be told, I did the science
to those arguments for Self awhile back. What I honestly found
out is that the reason they get so heated and never really come
to an end is that all persons involved want to satisfy their ego
and win an argument. It's not about principle or any of that bullshit.
The person of principle could walk away and give a damn whether
you had heard two sentences of what they were saying. On the other
hand, the person of arrogance can't do that because it diminishes
their value in their own eyes. This is also why young heads new
to knowledge go all out trying to prove the very minimal jewels
that they have to people because they want to add value to what
they have instead of recognizing that People have to see the value
in what you know for themselves. Peace.
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