Alternate the you & I verse
where the universe doesn’t stall out
destiny’s children from reaching adolescence
My idled essence of “I define mine”
Has been picked apart and sampled unclear
I found you down a road less travelled
appalled
at the tourist attraction it had become
You travelled west guided by northern starlight
to remind me of slave trained freedom runners
and the liberation of groovy funkdafied self discovery
under African Sun’s,
Philippine Island Stars,
and (repar)nation under god that still has yet to repair Nutten’ for the coffeecolored coated backs that built it from the cotton fields, to the railroads, to the farms labored
I travel back to present day where reincarnated
descendants of Rosa Parks remind me to find:
balance,
Martin & Malcom with Lapu Lapu resistance
and to not sacrifice the artist for the sake of exploitainment
P.s.
let them expose themselves at your arraignment
W Elevate yourself at your actualization, forego the need for external validation to get the message of Illmatic across disproving the need for Def fills towards American Gangster expression