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Ancestors Ebonics
It was first grade and I was gullible
I didn't understand
When the teacher had put out her hand
to pass me a book of "Hooked on Phonics"
I wasn't being me
I wasn't being me
if I was adding ing's instead of apostrophes
And hyphenations to the American prophecies
of how I'm supposedly supposed to be
This slang brang me somethin'
feel like to you my roots are nothing
Feel like being me is insecure
Like back in first grade I wasn't mature to the world
But you Miss Educator were miss educating
Pronouncing imitations of my ancestors creations
Understand the betrayal I'm facing
From the little wisdom I've been given
that I've been so long chasing
Got me write me writing essays about my country and origin
But you get made when I say that verbal plague has invaded
and now my people are flourishing
Verbalize the synonyms to the nouns that be our forefathers
What was changed shouldn't have even been bothered
Putting e's over a's that made their mark as first in the alphabet already
we like to end off notes heavy
"Laaaaaaaaaa" is song and "the" just can't sing
Derived from Latin not derived just anything
My people are everything
I'm hooked on Ebonics not Phonics
Like still writing and speaking with out electronics
I don't need a spell check or a censorship
Coz every time I here a beep or a tone it's la Corazon of my ancestors removed from the microphone
Coz I'm amped without an amp
And I prefer a pen and paper
but most of all I'm the prefix
suffix and the base putting back time where ever there's writing space
I'm the history of the word
My slang carried southerners to free land
in between lines, and verses with no curses
We learned how to read and write by trying to write life back into our leaders in hearses
Many say we're just a lazy tongue
but you just complicated the songs we sung
coz "laaaaaa" is a song and "the" just can't sing
Derived from Latin not derived from everything
I'm la old school home remedy refreshed as alphabet soup the coulda' shoulda' woulda' that was crossed back to literate minds of these times that flown da coop.
I'm da only first grader that didn't just except
I went back to my ancestors to double check.
(super oldie...wrote it as a child)
I didn't understand
When the teacher had put out her hand
to pass me a book of "Hooked on Phonics"
I wasn't being me
I wasn't being me
if I was adding ing's instead of apostrophes
And hyphenations to the American prophecies
of how I'm supposedly supposed to be
This slang brang me somethin'
feel like to you my roots are nothing
Feel like being me is insecure
Like back in first grade I wasn't mature to the world
But you Miss Educator were miss educating
Pronouncing imitations of my ancestors creations
Understand the betrayal I'm facing
From the little wisdom I've been given
that I've been so long chasing
Got me write me writing essays about my country and origin
But you get made when I say that verbal plague has invaded
and now my people are flourishing
Verbalize the synonyms to the nouns that be our forefathers
What was changed shouldn't have even been bothered
Putting e's over a's that made their mark as first in the alphabet already
we like to end off notes heavy
"Laaaaaaaaaa" is song and "the" just can't sing
Derived from Latin not derived just anything
My people are everything
I'm hooked on Ebonics not Phonics
Like still writing and speaking with out electronics
I don't need a spell check or a censorship
Coz every time I here a beep or a tone it's la Corazon of my ancestors removed from the microphone
Coz I'm amped without an amp
And I prefer a pen and paper
but most of all I'm the prefix
suffix and the base putting back time where ever there's writing space
I'm the history of the word
My slang carried southerners to free land
in between lines, and verses with no curses
We learned how to read and write by trying to write life back into our leaders in hearses
Many say we're just a lazy tongue
but you just complicated the songs we sung
coz "laaaaaa" is a song and "the" just can't sing
Derived from Latin not derived from everything
I'm la old school home remedy refreshed as alphabet soup the coulda' shoulda' woulda' that was crossed back to literate minds of these times that flown da coop.
I'm da only first grader that didn't just except
I went back to my ancestors to double check.
(super oldie...wrote it as a child)
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