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It makes my beat, my beat,
my beat skip
Like rain falling backwards,
falling upwards
I find myself being bold coloring
outside the lines.
Come on color police; arrest
me, i dare you.
It's like believing in God
blindly, making love through prayer.
See..I find myself...finding
myself
Cracking these shackles of
monotony.
It makes, it makes, it makes
my beat skip
like listening to bass of rock
and roll drums and head banging
even though I’m black i love
rock like 50 cent's whack and should
j-j-j-j-j UST go back...
back to where he came from
like short basketball shorts and jerry curls.
It makes, it makes, it makes
my beat skip
like fairy tales where the
prince comes and saves the girl and all live happily ever after forever
and ever in this disgustingly perfect world.
But how come the princess always
has blonde hair and blue eyes OR
if not, she’s a black haired
beauty named Pocahontas running through the forest in a mini skirt.
Where is the black princess?
Is she Shaquatashanaynay Princess of the Projects braided up with jewels
on her nails waiting for her prince, Jovante to come in his pimped out
Cadillac, platinum grill, and do rag to sweep her off her feet and pay
her child support?
IT makes, it makes, it makes
my beat skip.
Like Egypt and Africa being
prostituted by corporate America
Like white girls rocking henna
tattoos on their back. Cost: 5 dollars. Ask them wut it means:
I don't know...I just, like,
thought it was cute.
Culture cannot wear a price
tag.
It makes it makes it makes
my beat skip
Like malnourished children
living malnourished lives
Can tell you anything about
Paris Hilton and Beyonce but Rosa Parks is just some funky Outkast song.
Like we know the geography
of Jennifer Lopez's butt better than we know the geography of the world.
Like a no child left behind
act will kiss the wounds and place a band-aid..all better.
Like school children thinking
"Apartheid? Is that the new Disneyland ride?"
It makes, it makes, it makes
my beat skip.
Like McDonald's committing
murder but never going on trial
Like French Fries and Big MAcs
and Sourdough Jacks.
Like HIV AIDS is arsenic killing
us softly
Like we're in Ancient Greece
but we're not Spartans and Athenians; we're Crips and Bloods.
Like “yeah, I lean with it…and
yeah, I rock with it” but how come we continuously fail to lean on
each other in order to rock the nation.
It makes, it makes, it makes
my beat skip.
It makes my beat. skip.
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