ok, so i see that most everyone comes through here. i know there have been various music threads, im sure, but no one covered hiphop. and i know most of you are like “hiphop, oh you mean black men rapping about bling and cars” no no, i DONT mean that. if any of you have ever listened to hiphop, then you know waht im talking about. and im not even talking about the street poetry, like J5, or Heiroglyphics, or blackalicious, im talking about REAL, heighten your consciousness hiphop. if ANY of you are into poetry, i suggest you read the next line…
Robeson -
I slept once
the dream has yet to end
it was on a purple evening such as this
the curtains had been pulled by a hand un-attched
i lay proped on a pillow of eagle feathers, on a couch, framed with the skeletons of my uncles, and great uncles.
I did not intend to close my eyes, but when i did…
the night is falling on the moist palms of children, to weak to bare it weight. the stars are visibly breathing, in fact they almost look as if they are chewing gum.
the moon is crecented on both sides, while its center remains unseen.
i can faintly hear my mother calling me, or is that my sister singing songs of the railroad.
Roads center’d in a reflection of a floating mirror. but then i realize that the mirror is not floating, but being pulled by a white horse, in a great golden chariot.
The horse ahs humna feet, i look down at my feet, and they are hooves, when i look up it is no longer night.
The sun covers the entire sky, as if it has been stretched to reach all corners. Flames are visible, but not threatening.
A girl brushes my knee with her tail, shes earing pink overalls, and rollerblades.
she signals for me to follow her, as soon as i take a step towards her, im flying.
there are rocky mountains below me, i decide to land in a small settlement between mountains.
a mna walks up to me, he is my father, but he introduces himself to me as John Gault.
I ask him if he is there Reverand John Gault, we begin to say the lords prayer together…
The whole world seems to join in, the mountains have mouths.
i am standing at an alter, it takes a second for me to realize taht im getting married
the woman beside me, my bride is sitting on an indian silk pillow, shes holding a white umbrella over her head, i cannot see her.
i keep whispering to her, “its ok love, its ok love” and she keeps shushing me, and shushing me
i am wearing a backpack, i decide to take it off, its filled with coloring books, and i keep thinking, “i have to be done in time to pick saturn up from school, i have to be done in time to pick saturn up from school”
my darling saturn, i seem to break your heart daily, how could i ever neglect to hug you, you are a planet hugged by a rainbow, for give me, sometiems i become so consumed in the trevails of my own heart, taht i neglect yours. there is no greater crime, i will enver commit it again, for there is no other adultry, you are my child, gods gift to the world, gods will be done, i love you.
Wine
The new wine is dying on the vine
How much must you age before you’re ageless?
Align yourself with the divine
Allow your inner sage to burn you rageless
'Cause I find through testaments of time
There is not space for time within your mind
If you’re looking for yourself, yourself you’ll find
Through your crystal of your spirit
You’ll inherit the divine
You are God, you best believe
Don’t waste your time down on your knees
It’s everybody for themselves
You are the fire and the cross
It’s our loss
Collective soul, collective wealth
The new wine is dying on the vine
How much must you age before you’re ageless?
Align yourself with the divine
Allow your inner sage to burn you rageless
'Cause I find through testaments of time
There is not space for time within your mind
If you’re looking for yourself, yourself you’ll find
Through your crystal of your spirit
You’ll inherit the divine
You are God, you best believe
Don’t waste your time down on your knees
It’s everybody for themselves
You are the fire and the cross
It’s our loss
Collective soul, collective wealth
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
I’m every daughter and son
That’s like a bible and gun
Peacocked and ready aim as steady as a ray of the sun
My ammunition: intuition full eclipse (clips) from my lung
Son you could never guess what planet I’m from
My MC name is my first name
My birth name
Alias is all of us
Soul of us, the fall of us
To surely come when we deny it
Loudest nigga gets quiet
His inner peace is a riot
Sell your soul if you wanna, but that don’t mean I’ma buy it
See, I’ve been concious of your nonsense
Stay offensive and quiet
And I ain’t gonna lie it
Be too hard to deny it
I ain’t from your block and never had to deal with your shit
Never had a glock, never kept it real with no bid
And when I saw a nigga like you, son I practically hid
‘Cause you did what you did
And I wasn’t the kid
Don’t give a fuck now, I’ll be the first one to player hate
The eye of the needle set the record straight
And I retialate
Retialate
Retaliate
Retaliate
And I be fishin on
That same star you be wishin on
Make your move, son you know the missions’ on
So never question who I am, God knows
And I know God personally
In fact he lets me call him me
In fact he lets me call him me
So never question who I am, God knows
And I know God personally
In fact she lets me call her me
In fact she lets me call her me
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
I could recite the grass on a hill
And memorize the moon
I know the cloud forms of love by heart
And have brought tears to the eye of a storm
My memory banks
Vaults of autumn forests and amazon river banks
And I have screamed them into sunsets
That echo in earthquakes
Shadows have been my spotlight
As I monologue with night
And dialogue the days
Seliliquies of wind and breeze
Applauded by sun rays
We put language in zoos
To observe caged thought
And tossed peanuts and p-funk at intellect
Motherfuckers think these are metahors, I speak what I see
All words and worlds are metaphors of me
My life is authored by the moon, footprints written in soil
The fountain pen of martian men noveling human toil
And yes, the soil speaks highly of me
When earth seeds root me
Poet tree
Now, maybe I’m too serious
Too good to hear
Too matter
Though I’m riddled with the reason of the sun
A stand-up comet with the audience of lungs
This body of laughter, is it with me or at me
Hue more (humor) or less though genders mute
And the punchline has this lifeline at it’s root
I’m a star, this life’s the suburbs, I commute
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
So do you know how I feel tonight?
Now can’t you see I’m surreal tonight?
See how I shine I’m a star
Oh yea
Now do you know who you are tonight?
for any of you who knwo Saul’s work, you know what i mean, Saul Williams everyone…
