we wuz celebratin
40 years of Hip Hop
at 5 Pointz

dashing tags
reclaiming the
lost land

speaking for a
community of peeps
routed from their
last stand

making statements
about remembering

tellin stories
about ourselves

giving the drab
dead industrial
sarcophagi a
a face lift

freeing the
entombed
mummies
to let em
walk with
the living
again

seein things
in a new light

reciting our
biographies

writing an epic
autobiography

splashed across
3D murals

spoken in the
lexicon of
gobsmack
multicolored
neon graffiti

testifying to
the ages with
our urban
hieroglyphs

the symbols of
life in the hood
may history be our
witness to aromas
rising from cracked
pavements teaming
with bodegas,
public projects and
store front fantasies
played out in all its
grueling detail
on the corner of
walk don’t walk

them snaps
real down home
expressions
of real people

until some
capitalist
*******

his pockets filled
with low interest
money

whitewashed
it away

he thinks he
owns the
5 Pointz

he thinks
he can
erase our
memories
with a gallon of
Sherwin Williams

he thinks
he owns our
perdido
graffito

and is well
in his rights
to launder our  
epiphanies over
with the bland
tag of privilege
he thinks his
dollar bills
can buy

we raised this
place from
the dead

that old warehouse
where men and women
once earned a paycheck
was murdered by
Michael Milken
and his posse of well
heeled predators
busy leveraging
livelihoods by
offshoring them
to Third World
plantations
transforming
the natives into
wage slaves
tagging this
strange alchemy
progress

now this
latest incarnation of
Morley’s Ghost stalking
Bloomberg’s Metropolis
haunts the neighborhoods
with a wrecking ball
of entitlement

razing our hood
to build soulless
high rises where
they'll warehouse
dead people
ginned up
on pilates,
chai tea and
elevating
themselves
through life
scoring the
latest fab
yoga gear
on the
urban outfitters
website

the frackers
are gobbling
the land

strip miners are
gnashing away
at the mountains

now the predators
are eating our art

always famished
never satiated
the beast gnaws
away at its
**** scattering
the bones of
of the living

but this
half assed
midnight
whitewash
will never stand

already images
of the holy ghosts
scrawled onto
the Wailing Walls
of 5 Pointz are
bleeding through
the veneer of a
landlords greed

and as the
future tenants
of the proposed
highrise columbarium
snooze away the night
dreaming of leading roles
in star studded schemes

we’ll be taggin
the streets
reciting our
righteous presence
until our last dying
aerosol breath
escapes our
paint stained
hands

Public Enemy:
Fight the Power

Oakland
11/20/13
jbm

Yo let me flip the script walk with a limp shot gun crimp
Exercise my skills as a **** flows to hoes check the shows
I'm stacking no time for slacking **** zigzagging
Toe taggin' suckas bragging no stagging false flagging
American the bold and the beautiful it's so pitiful plentiful
Rhymes I break off pennies on a dime sublime one time
Can a **** **** trick check the hits from the ******* up click
Stay popping six seven go to heaven you ain't my brethren
So save the talks for Tevin Campbell I ramble
Through the valley of skulls sticks n stones may break bones
But bullet will hurt thee make ya sleep eternally who burnin,? Me?
My style to wild to copy no smiles rusty screws I file
Stick it who's the wickedest big yosef the lyricist
Spinning this 3M scotch tape ya mind stuck on stupid
Heart my foes like Cupid bang for the west like Snoop did
But the south is where i first fed my mouth leeched to *******
Since a baby no ifs ands or maybe it's crazy lazy
Folks cant groove to this computer love let the doves
Cry til ya soul magnify eying the eyes of a sparrow
Welcome to death row these flows couldn't hold on Jericho
Bledso make the mics sore explore like Drew Ali moor
Feel like Shakur against the world standing on the floor
Straight shaky they tried to bake me with the heat flaky
Getting my walk on hawk on so long gone gongs
Sound of the bongs ring ding **** hits like Chaka Khan
Through the wire improvise wiser like mcygver liver
Than the rest I say it with my chest Texas is the best
Linked with west mic check one two rendezvous juice crew
Pre-Ice age mammoth
Gottdamn it haters can't stand it as I band it hand it
Down to a better emcee make moves like Stoney
Jackson flexing on suckas Ronnie Coleman show man
Radios in high demand request from undercover fans
Saying man his **** jams I'm poppin' hotter than spam