ILLDRM© Saturday Shout Out: REALITY CHECK by Jordan Wilson
"Freedom of jail, clips inserted, a baby is being born same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end as far as rap goes, it's only natural I explain my Plato and what defines my name."
Let Nas Down - J.Cole
"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last......
BUT ARE WE...?
because every time I turn my head I see my fellow peers in handcuffs or in body bags being picked up and being replaced with teddy bears, candle lights, and obituaries with repeated trips to cemeteries...
"Wait!!...
Sir visiting hours ended at 5:30."
So think.... Are we truly free?
Or..... are we just experiencing the definition of the 14th Amendment?
Which means as long as we are "EQUAL"
and no one is spitting, lynching, or demanding us to keep picking.
Instead of acknowledging us as Sir or M'am,
they would trade 10 N*GGAS for a piece of land.
. . .
Are you serious?
Do you realize how comfortable we have became disrespecting our ancestors by calling each other by the slave masters name?
Man, I just said the N-word and nobody took a stand.
But if I was WHITE,
and I traded the "A" for an "ER",
I would've instantly got booed off the mic because
it's only right, but in his head, he's thinking,
"What's the problem?...you guys say it every night, so I figured everything was 'alright'...so before you attack and send me to the hospital,how can you blame me when the respect for each other is oh so little?"
Meanwhile, we got young brothers being raised in the streets and raising their brother at the age of three around pounds of weed, telling them 'this the way to be' and 'you don't need to know how to tie a tie, just stay fly and we will make it by.'
"But Bro, what about the other side?
I wanna go to college and graduate with honors."
Listen, the way the world going, we will be lucky to see 25, if it ain't a crooked cop, it's a stray bullet from a drive-by.
I swear I told too many of my little homies, GOODBYE.
Just promise me we will stick together because only the strong survives....
But,
"AYE...Give me five,
I'm late for my last class about what to do if the cops arrive."
We the people of the United States are ignorant to the fact that everything the KKK stood for hasn't changed. We got Black on Black crime thinking we evened the score with them boys, on the low end dressed in blue, but in reality we ain't no different than them white boys that used to ride around with them white hoods and threatened every black person that they could. Think about it, we got Blue beefing with who? SHE mad at HIM so now that means YOU mad at WHO? Then this dude from this crew, just had sex with ol' girl that got a dude from his rival crew.
Now at the end of the week, we got 5 black males dead...
All because our pride won't allow us to call a truce. At this rate, they might as well open up the prison gates and say 'be great.'
Wait...
I need to translate it or something... I said they might as well open up the prison gates and say be great because why give him life when on the streets he would only last a few nights...?
Think about it, are we winning or are we about to lose,
because we taking out our black population faster than the slave owner could tie a noose.
I love my city and I love my culture,
but I will never settle for anybody disrespecting such a beautiful COLOR.
REALITY CHECK!!"
RIPMIKEBROWN
- Jordan 'Smooth' Wilson
