The Homeless...

Yeah...

You could call a man a bum with disgust on your morning run, Cause he lives outside in the street, you don't know this...

But you've failed to realize that the one you so despise, Reflects yourself cos every black man is homeless...

You could take your Alka-Seltzer while you talk about shelter,You might even wanna talk about a little loan…

Cause no matter how rich you become you'll always be two, not one, Cause believe it or not, America aint your home... 

We've been taught to say our name, Afro-American, all the same, Not fully American but gettin' there very slowly…

Cause to fully be American, you know, you gotta take out the word 'Afro', Now they've relaxed our hair they might as well call us Toby!

See, Afro and black are African, while theft is American, So how can Afro-American make much sense?

Your ancestors come from  Africa, By stealing them now you're born in America, So the black man is homeless even though he pays rent…

Some black people say "We built this place, So we are American, but of the black race", Well let me make this little topic known...The Japanese also built this place,In technology and they're winnin' the race, But at the end of the day the Japanese can go home!

Do you see the point that I'm getting at? I'm not a racist, I'm statin' a fact,
Blacks are actually prisoners of war…

Cause while,  South Africa continues to fight,We try our best to look more and more white, Proof that the blacks have been stripped of their core! 

Well, I guess I didn't sing and dance enough, For black radio to play this stuff, But this ain't soft like ice-cream with a sugar cone...

I'm only here to state one fact, Wake up African, your color is black!
And every black man is homeless cause he ain't got no home!

*This is from the Blastmaster KRS ONE (1990, Edutainment)...man, I miss how Hip Hop was...

Comments

[CreoleInDC]

I MISS IT TOO!

[Dave]

Me too.

[los angelista]

Wait, he didn't say anything about buying anybody a drank, being at a club or getting guns and rolling up to take care of someone who looked at him wrong.

Someone give him the "Rap in the New Millennium Memo"...record company execs have a quota on the number of "conscious" rappers they can put out there...I think it's zero.

[los angelista]

Here's today's conscious rapper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKLmjkZ2qc