Path P - Nina

Nina said…
How could I not reflect the times?
I am a child of the zeitgeist
I’d be remiss to not hold the line
Griots before me are fading
They either dead
Or they sick and tired
So who gon’ hold stories
Of truths not so self evident
In the face of my peoples trials?
Young man, old man, shot down
Daughter, sister or a mother
Slammed to the ground
Now my people can’t breathe
Cuz they fightin’ for their life
In they muthfuckin’ sleep
Cuttin short a Black scholar’s dreams
After livin’ daily nightmares
Can’t even shop, white women
Goin’ full Karen
On my Black ass
Date brothas darker than me
Don’t mean you might pass
Back off for I go Gandalf
Speak a language they might understand
Since the cries of oppression of pain
Don’t resonate, don’t know how else
To make it simple and plain
Won’t hesitate to call the cops
Hashtags for my name
Cuz they see my Black skin as a threat
That melanin, I’m as rich as they get
So they all want a piece of the strange fruit
Swingin’ in the breeze
When they can’t aim and shoot
My ancestors said they gon’ be right back
I’m they wildest dream
Ain’t no question I’m gon’ fight back
The vibes don’t lie when I lift my fist high
If another brother die
We gon’ light this shit on fire (That’s no lie)
They don’t want peace
They just want blood
Want us to tap dance
But I do the Kanye shrug
‘Merica ain’t been great
Tryna make me hate the ones I love
Mansa Musa, Shaka Zulu, Malcolm X
They the plugs, that’s what’s up
Nina said...
What’s freedom? No fear
I felt that... So be clear
2020 Breonna swore this was her year
We should be runnin wit’ Ahmaud
Not for him
Why’s death the reason
The world saw George Floyd?
Sean Reed to Sean Bell
Been livin’ in Hell
Indoctrination had as all fall
Under the spell
In the land of deceit
Home of the depraved
150 years later, reconfigured the slave
Billionaire status
Still a nigger in the eyes
Of those in blue wit’ badges
Then they wonder why we bare arms
It’s The Hate that U Gave to our babies
Killed their dads, left their mom’s to go crazy
Systematic deconstruction of a people
Freedom gon’ ring, our Sankofa gon’ see you
My ancestors said they gon’ be right back
I’m they wildest dream
Ain’t no question I’m gon’ fight back
The vibes don’t lie when I lift my fist high
If another brother die
We gon’ light this shit on fire (That’s no lie)
They don’t want peace
They just want blood
Want us to tap dance
But I do the Kanye shrug
‘Merica ain’t been great
Tryna make me hate the ones I love
Mansa Musa, Shaka Zulu, Malcolm X
They the plugs, that’s what’s up

Written by:
Colin Lawton

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