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I Do Not Talk Politricks ( Normally )
I Normally , ( What Me Normal ? ) Do Not Talk Politricks ,
I More Like A Magic Man Doing What I Can , Takin' A Stand
Yet What Is Goin' On It Be So Sick , Not Sick Like A Good Ride
But Sick Like An Ache Inside , Tearin' The Heart , Tearin' The Soul
Leaving One Empty Rather Than Whole , Wonderin' And Cryin' Why ;
You Can Hear Humanity , In The Insanity , Just Weep And Sigh ,
Break It Down Try To Understand , Try To Make It , So Many Fake It ,
Pain's Too Great , So Many Tempt Fate , So Many Just Don't See ,
What They Do To Create a Destiny , Where We Cannot Be Free ,
Cannot Make Our Own Choices , Drown Our Voices , All They Hear
Is What They Want , What They Say , Just Games They Play , Cause
They Want To Be On Top , And They Do Not Stop , They Only Hear Their
Own Talk Not Walk Their Walk , Creating Fear , Far And Near , And They
Know But They Don't Care , They Just Stare From Their High Thrones ,
Throwing Stones At Their Glass Walls , And Watching As The Bones ,
Pile Up On The Side Walks , And They Talk Out Of Mouths That Have
Never Spoken Truth To The Common Folk , They Be A Joke , They Be
A Systematic Attack On Our Consciousness , Refusin' To Just Confess To
Their Crimes , They Think We Blind , But We See , Ain't No Mystery ,
Ain't Nothin' Lost In Translation , They Be Like An Infestation Of Disease ,
And Then They Say Please Just Elect Us , Don't Reject Us , We Are Doing
All This For Your Own Good , Yeah , Go Tell That To The Brothers In The Hood ,
Go Tell That To Those Sleepin' On The Streets Tell It To Those Who are Starvin'
Cause They Got No Food , And You All Be So Rude To Say We Ain't Got No Right
To Ask For A Hand , Ain't Even A Demand , You Make Us Beg , While You Got Your
Gold Plated Toilet Seats , The Way You Treat Us , Hurts Us and Then You Got Your
Private Jets , And Pay Hookers For Their Silence , And You Wonder Why There Is
The Craziness , Why There Is The Violence Then You Say I'm Presidential I Think
You Just Be Mental , Detrimental , A Stranger To Need , Why You Even Breed , You
A Danger , But We Got Your Number , Remember The Five Percenters , Some Were
Our Mentors , And Now It's Our Turn , With Our Words With Our Songs We Gonna
Burn You We Say No More We Say Me Too , You Don't Know What We Gonna Do ,
You Just Don't Know What Be Comin' , We Are Rising It's On The Horizon , We Are
Comin ' We Are The Old We Are The Young , We Are The Ones You Want To Just Forget ,
Kill Us , Unfullfill Us , But We Are Still Here , And Hear This We Have Lost Our Fear ,
The Time Is Past For That , This Is Where The Last Shall Be First And The First Shall Be Last
Do You Hear Me , I Can See It , Like The Seer I Be , We Have a Dream And It Ain't Yours
The Door Is Open , We Got The Beat We Got The Pen We Gonna Talk Hard We Gonna Do Right ,
And There Ain't A Fuckin' Thing You Can Do About It , We Got The Torches And They Are Lit ,
With The One Thing We Need To Set Us Free , And That As The Poets We Be Is : Word !
Published 23rd Apr 2018
| Edited 24th Apr 2018
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23rd Apr 2018 5:31am
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Thanks For Your Honesty , Cloven ;
Truth is , I have lived in some neighborhoods , where this is common day speech ,
and further truth this was so far from forced from within me , this just flowed out ,
my finger moving on the keys without stop , and if you read some of my other poems ,
some read as rap , cause that is part of me...part of my poetry , and my soul...
And the code I work with , is not what they are speaking about in this article but what is
underneath the code they are revealing here...Tupac , Wu Tan Clan , many others , know
it and use it , as do I to write my poems and songs...
But Again , Thank You for your critique and honesty...;)
Hip Hop
In its article on Five Percenter Jay Electronica, Vice Magazine stated in regard to the Five Percent Nation: "It's a movement that's been affiliated with hip-hop from the very beginning, coining terms like 'ciphers' and 'dropping science' and influencing everyone, World's Famous Supreme Team, Big Daddy Kane, Jay-Z, Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Brand Nubian, Common, Poor Righteous Teachers and Nas. With these artists, and any others associated with the Five Percenters, music was more than just a message."[44]
The Nation of Gods and Earth has propagated its teachings throughout the United States and abroad. In the early 1980s, this spread was in part due to early adherents teaching when away at college or in the military and, more famously, because of the rise of hip hop music. The main theme of the NGE doctrine spoken on hip hop records were the teachings that black people were the original or first human life to walk the planet, that the Blackman is God, the Black Woman is Earth, and through the inner esoteric powers of the God and Earth, the youth can transform and possess its true potential, which seems to overthrow the overbearing oligarchy by becoming just rulers of themselves. This especially meshed well with conscious themes found in other golden-age hip hop recordings.
Early hip-hop acts affiliated with the Five Percenters, and who spread its teachings through hip hop, include two MCs of the late 1980s–early '90s conscious-rap era—Rakim of Eric B. & Rakim[45] and Big Daddy Kane. These two acts, as well as some of their other contemporaries, infused Five-Percent teachings and symbolism throughout their music and videos. This reputation brought fans of Rakim in particular to refer to him as the God MC. Not soon after Rakim and Kane's heyday rose acts that were even more explicit with allegiance to the NGE, most notably Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan, Killarmy, Sunz of Man, Gravediggaz and Busta Rhymes. The popularity of these acts sparked a boom of new NGE students. Even the Caucasian hip hop group 3rd Bass cited NGE lessons in the song "Triple Stage Darkness" and other songs.[46]
Five Percenters were the innovators behind early hip-hop slang, including "Word is bond", "Break it down", "peace", "droppin' science", and "represent".[3][47] Many MCs employ the technique and terminology of the Supreme Alphabet to create acrostics, acronyms and backronyms in their rhymes. For example, in the song "Wildflower," Ghostface Killah rhymes, "I'm God Cipher Divine," spelling G-O-D in the Supreme Alphabet.[48][49] Furthermore, The RZA directly rhymes the Twelve Jewels of life's objectives on his later work with Gravediggaz, rhyming in succession: Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace, Happiness.[50] He regularly wears an eight-pointed star pendant with a number seven and a crescent, which can be seen on the cover of his album The World According to RZA.
Five Percenters in New York City were even known as a visible presence at parties during hip hop's formative years of the 1970s. Scene pioneer DJ Kool Herc recalled that while there was a heavy gang presence in attendance, the Five Percenters were also there as a de facto peace-keeping element.[51]
Other examples of hip hop and R&B acts who are (or have been) associated with Five Percent teachings include Killah Priest, Digable Planets, J-Live, Nas,[52] Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, Planet Asia, Guru and Petey Pablo.
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Truth is , I have lived in some neighborhoods , where this is common day speech ,
and further truth this was so far from forced from within me , this just flowed out ,
my finger moving on the keys without stop , and if you read some of my other poems ,
some read as rap , cause that is part of me...part of my poetry , and my soul...
And the code I work with , is not what they are speaking about in this article but what is
underneath the code they are revealing here...Tupac , Wu Tan Clan , many others , know
it and use it , as do I to write my poems and songs...
But Again , Thank You for your critique and honesty...;)
Hip Hop
In its article on Five Percenter Jay Electronica, Vice Magazine stated in regard to the Five Percent Nation: "It's a movement that's been affiliated with hip-hop from the very beginning, coining terms like 'ciphers' and 'dropping science' and influencing everyone, World's Famous Supreme Team, Big Daddy Kane, Jay-Z, Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Brand Nubian, Common, Poor Righteous Teachers and Nas. With these artists, and any others associated with the Five Percenters, music was more than just a message."[44]
The Nation of Gods and Earth has propagated its teachings throughout the United States and abroad. In the early 1980s, this spread was in part due to early adherents teaching when away at college or in the military and, more famously, because of the rise of hip hop music. The main theme of the NGE doctrine spoken on hip hop records were the teachings that black people were the original or first human life to walk the planet, that the Blackman is God, the Black Woman is Earth, and through the inner esoteric powers of the God and Earth, the youth can transform and possess its true potential, which seems to overthrow the overbearing oligarchy by becoming just rulers of themselves. This especially meshed well with conscious themes found in other golden-age hip hop recordings.
Early hip-hop acts affiliated with the Five Percenters, and who spread its teachings through hip hop, include two MCs of the late 1980s–early '90s conscious-rap era—Rakim of Eric B. & Rakim[45] and Big Daddy Kane. These two acts, as well as some of their other contemporaries, infused Five-Percent teachings and symbolism throughout their music and videos. This reputation brought fans of Rakim in particular to refer to him as the God MC. Not soon after Rakim and Kane's heyday rose acts that were even more explicit with allegiance to the NGE, most notably Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan, Killarmy, Sunz of Man, Gravediggaz and Busta Rhymes. The popularity of these acts sparked a boom of new NGE students. Even the Caucasian hip hop group 3rd Bass cited NGE lessons in the song "Triple Stage Darkness" and other songs.[46]
Five Percenters were the innovators behind early hip-hop slang, including "Word is bond", "Break it down", "peace", "droppin' science", and "represent".[3][47] Many MCs employ the technique and terminology of the Supreme Alphabet to create acrostics, acronyms and backronyms in their rhymes. For example, in the song "Wildflower," Ghostface Killah rhymes, "I'm God Cipher Divine," spelling G-O-D in the Supreme Alphabet.[48][49] Furthermore, The RZA directly rhymes the Twelve Jewels of life's objectives on his later work with Gravediggaz, rhyming in succession: Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace, Happiness.[50] He regularly wears an eight-pointed star pendant with a number seven and a crescent, which can be seen on the cover of his album The World According to RZA.
Five Percenters in New York City were even known as a visible presence at parties during hip hop's formative years of the 1970s. Scene pioneer DJ Kool Herc recalled that while there was a heavy gang presence in attendance, the Five Percenters were also there as a de facto peace-keeping element.[51]
Other examples of hip hop and R&B acts who are (or have been) associated with Five Percent teachings include Killah Priest, Digable Planets, J-Live, Nas,[52] Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, Planet Asia, Guru and Petey Pablo.
Wikipedia
23rd Apr 2018 11:27am
Powerful! This is a topic that many do not like to entertain unfortunately. But it is truth it is our society and unless people stop ignoring the obvious things will never change.
Great write!
Great write!
23rd Apr 2018 3:00pm
Thank You very much , Mi' Lady Nick11 !
I was hoping it would hit someone , at least one , that way !
I hated hip hop and rap when they first came out...
Then , I made some friends when I moved into a certain neighborhood ,
and I saw things , heard things , and It was not always "nice" , to say the
very least...and they got me to start listening to the lyrics , really listen...
And then , it was the late 1980's , and they were breakin' it down , and
there were the young , break dancing on the streets , with the "ghetto
blasters" and rapping , and talking hard , and I was listening...
And with what is going on now...with all the bullshit , and lies , and bigotry
back again in a new phase , and the so called privileged or wanna - be's ,
and the starving , the homeless , and me getting older , and just so fucking
tired of it...yeah , I got my Word , and I'm going to talk hard , and speak up ,
and speak out...
But I am not going to give up , I am going to blaze a trail , some others can
follow , before it is my time to go , but I want them to go farther higher , and
deeper than I ever did and will...
As I have said in one of my other poems here :
Just Because I Age Does Not Mean I Fade Away !
And for me...that be my Word !
I was hoping it would hit someone , at least one , that way !
I hated hip hop and rap when they first came out...
Then , I made some friends when I moved into a certain neighborhood ,
and I saw things , heard things , and It was not always "nice" , to say the
very least...and they got me to start listening to the lyrics , really listen...
And then , it was the late 1980's , and they were breakin' it down , and
there were the young , break dancing on the streets , with the "ghetto
blasters" and rapping , and talking hard , and I was listening...
And with what is going on now...with all the bullshit , and lies , and bigotry
back again in a new phase , and the so called privileged or wanna - be's ,
and the starving , the homeless , and me getting older , and just so fucking
tired of it...yeah , I got my Word , and I'm going to talk hard , and speak up ,
and speak out...
But I am not going to give up , I am going to blaze a trail , some others can
follow , before it is my time to go , but I want them to go farther higher , and
deeper than I ever did and will...
As I have said in one of my other poems here :
Just Because I Age Does Not Mean I Fade Away !
And for me...that be my Word !
