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I'd like to welcome you, welcome you all

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to BSA presents Georgia Me. [Applause] Okay, so a

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little background Georgia Me has been awarded several honors

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for poetry for just poetry alone, among other things.

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She's a peabody recipient. Um, she's been

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honored for the Tony award and her show, which

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has been a part of first season's HBO Def Jam

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poetry session won televisions and coveted Emmy award. She

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was also awarded the Savanna Spoken Word Festival award,

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Best feature. So please welcome um, join

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me in welcoming Georgia Me. Also there's tea and soda.

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So please please welcome get everything anything you want,

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How you all doing? All right. I am

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so happy to be here and we're gonna have a

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crunk show. How many of y'all have ever seen

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me before raise your hand. Okay. How many

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of you have never seen me before raise your hand.

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Okay, so I am totally free. I

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don't know where you are in your life, but

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I thank God everyday that I'm alive. I have

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God's will and I live in America because I have

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freedom of speech and I can say whatever the fuck

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I want to say whenever I want to say it.

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Now will be appropriate. Ain't no kids here,

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but we all grown. So we good. Right?

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Okay, now this first piece I'm gonna do

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for y'all it's about my city. I was born

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and bred in Atlanta, Georgia. Nobody from Atlanta? And,

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my city has a reputation for being uh known for

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strip clubs and crunk, but we are so much

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more than that. We are the origin of the

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civil rights movement. I went to the same high

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school as Martin Luther King Jr. and that being the

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case, yes, he lived in my neighborhood, and shouted

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like with zone one. So um, I just

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wrote this poem because I wanted the world to know

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about Atlanta. When you are a black girl, black

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child in this in America, you don't realize how

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blessed you are to be from Atlanta. In Atlanta

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we have a black mayor, our sheriff is black,

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our police chief is black. We go to

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Booker T. Washington high School, Frederick Douglass high school,

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Benjamin E. Mays high school for some of y'all

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who don't know who those people are, those are

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very prominent uh powerful black people. We ride down

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Andrew Young boulevard, make a right turn onto Xernona Clayton

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Way and head up to Martin Luther King and then

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make a left onto Ralph David Abernathy. You understand

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me? So it's nigger land. You understand me?

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It's just, it's just a beautiful thing to

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know that you can do anything. Like on our

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career day, you have philosophers and professors and doctors

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and lawyers, but there are no white people.

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So you're not stifled by the stigma that only white

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people succeed. So being from Atlanta I always felt

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there was there wasn't anything I couldn't, I could

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do. I mean like if I wanted to go

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to the moon, I felt like I could. You

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feel me? Martin Luther King was enough! You understand

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me? Like shouting like when brothers be like, "the man

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holding me down, the man holding me down." Look, like

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you the man. I don't understand what

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you're talking about. You're holding yourself back? That's

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what you're doing? So this poem right here,

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is called The Promised Land. If Brooklyn, ain't nobody

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from Brooklyn? What? Hold on. Wait a minute.

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I'm sorry. Wait a minute. I done been

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to Scotland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

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When I say Brooklyn, somebody always say something. I'm from Manhattan. That's

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That's Good. No, you know, New York rep New York.

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You know what I'm saying? So I just

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I'm just used to a book book or something,

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you know when I say that. Okay, if Brooklyn,

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is the heart of America, Atlanta gots

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to be the sole. Were are you from?

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Gots to be the south. No doubt. You

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can tell by the flow of my mouth. My

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southern twang, distinguished disposition, superior manners in earth

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intuition. The feeling of home whenever in my presence,

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for I reek of the essence of Atlanta.

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My whole life was right off Martin Luther King.

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My whole life. I sang We Shall Overcome.

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I knew I was one, one of those who would

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go down fighting most likely through my writing and speaking

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continuously seeking truth, letting my folks beware but never

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afraid. Cause destiny is laid knowing all you can

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give is showing others how to live. I learned

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that from King. Such a simple thing. Living

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with no fear. I was fed that right here

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shit, how the hell I'm gonna be scared? My

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grandmother's grandmother was a slave. Rape and rear current resignation,

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no one could save her, stop her from

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engraving survivor on the road she paved. Four generations later,

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I stand unscathed. Called me brave, but

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it just runs through my veins. The pain and

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the triumph of Camille Bell. I remember the killings

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in the A. T. L. There was

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blaming this kid named Wayne but we ATL's would

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claimed to the klan for most of those slain. Stone

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Mountain where the Ku Klux was created. Now invaded

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with the flow Nubians and Mexican natives where other kids

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stay jaded. We stay elated off the excellence of

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Monica Kaufman on channel two. You never know how

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she's gonna have her do. I saw her one

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year. This would all been festival. You know

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the famous avenue where Ebony's about? The church is

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located. Never been in real hard to get through

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A. T. L. We love Dr. King

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the king family, Another issue. And who knew

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a city that feels like a neighborhood to host the

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olympic games. I'll tell you who, Maynard Jackson and

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Andrew Young. They did the damn thing. See

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being from here, I knew I could do whatever

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I wanted long because I had a plan C.

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Being from here. I knew I could do whatever

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I wanted long because I know I am. See

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being from here. I knew I could do whatever

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I want. As long as my mission. I

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understand. I thank God I'm from the promised land

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A. T. L. Thank you give y'all

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a little history lesson. How many y'all ever heard

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of Atlanta's missing and murdered Children. Four people In

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the summer of 1980. 25 black kids turned up

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missing. Some were found. And when they were

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found of course they were murdered And to this day

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is still a mystery because they can't account for the

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kids that got killed after wayne Williams went to jail

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. So obviously he didn't do it. But no

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, they had to put it on somebody. How

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many y'all ever heard of a uh an ingredient or

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I want to say in an ingredient it's a part

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of our D. N. A. It's black

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people. Especially black men, it's called Interferon.

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Look that up. Y'all need to take notes while

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I'm up here. I'm just letting you know.

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I'll put you on. That's what I do.

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You know what I'm saying? I can't help it

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. I'm just a nerd. So everything african principles

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is what each one teach one. Do not post

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the whole information for yourself that defeats the purpose.

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So like I said I'm a nerd right? Yeah

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but I don't look at it as a bad thing

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. I look at it. It's like a great

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thing like that. Many people can't bullshit me.

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You know what saying they think they can talk to

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me about something and I know what you're talking about

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. You better make sure you know what you're talking

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about for you come holler at me and being from

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the hood. You know, people always put limitations

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on you. They think you have less intellect,

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less breeding less character. But as a child of

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God, I'm limitless. I'm not defined by what

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you think. But what I know, I don't

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give a damn what you think Most people I am

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only marginally intelligent. I'm not saying you in here

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. You know what I'm saying? You all are

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learning. I just hope that you use your education

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and not just be full of education. That's what

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I find a lot of educated fools got 7° and

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stupid as fun. But anyway, so this poem

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right here I wrote because my ex boyfriend said I

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was too ghetto for him. No, but you

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know what I'm saying? I like I like I

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talk like this sometimes I get krump and stuff and

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I got shot. You know like my my Westside

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come up at me, you know, But you

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know I got the five second rule. You all

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know the five second rule is see he country.

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You know what it is? Five seconds you dropped

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some food. You got five seconds, pick it

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up kissing up the guard, understand me? I'm

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not missing my snack. Hello And and really you

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know as black people and that's my white friends in

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here. We've been uh, we've all been Hoodwinked

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, you know this right here, all that stuff

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we do. That's language and cosa it's a south

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African dialect and it's absolutely beautiful. Some things we

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do innately people, we don't even know where it

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comes from. Like the dances then the ancestors,

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y'all know, beefing it up, y'all beefing up

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up here. They never busted the shiver. You're

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saying that that that, that, that, that

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train, y'all don't know nothing about that. That's

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all that is lean with it. Rock with it

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. That's the usher rock. That's how that is

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the usher rock y'all Ushers don't do that in the

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church or maybe that's just black churches. See what

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I'm saying? I was just beginning it boy,

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they got a whole drill team, you understand.

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So a lot of things that we allow people to

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put on us, they don't know where it comes

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from, but you need to know where it comes

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from and you need not be defined by that this

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piece right here is called ghetto Bella Bella as in

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beautiful in french, you know because I'm international and

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ship. Uh huh I wrote it because I am

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so grateful to be from the hood. I'm so

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grateful to God that I was raised on the west

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side of Atlanta because it prepared me for the world

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. I never believed that I was less. I

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thought I was prepared for anything. So this piece

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is ghetto bell, I'm gonna sing a little bit

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now. I don't know what's going on. Like

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just I just started all this. I don't know

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what this is, but I don't really sing.

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I just sing for the Lord because he don't care

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how it sounds. You know, y'all care about

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pitching. No, I ain't just scott. You

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understand me Cause I'm a ghetto bell straight from night

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85. I have my business. Well fuck you

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pay me. I try so I cannot fail,

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fail. No, my*** said I was a

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little too ghetto said my slum nous. I just

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couldn't let go. He liked me but his requirements

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. I hadn't met though. Then he realized my

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mind traveled from vine city to Soweto blessed with little

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limitation. Knowing my location had valuable indication of my

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elevation. Understanding my relation to blacks, Greeks and

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Haitian shows my worldly view though the times I had

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been outside the dirty south was less than two.

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I'm a ghetto bell. I'm a seeker of heaven

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though I have dwelt with those of hell, Love

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to sleep with the constant busting of shells awakened by

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the blowing train on the rails. I will be

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successful though. The world expects for me to fail

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. I'm a Georgia, peach o'Grady baby, A

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southern belle. I was raised to say yes ma'am

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, respect my elders. I know how to eat

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at the table. I want you to open my

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door, Help with my coat, take my bags

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if you're able, God blessed me with the mind

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that is somewhat stable. So just because I'm from

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the hood doesn't mean you can fill my head with

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fables. So you assume my doom because ignorance looms

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over together like a cloud of dust from a sonic

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boom. But jewels shine bright like the new day

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. The jews and lost souls finding our way who

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feel like no one's trying to hear what we say

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. We're around every corner, the devil's dead,

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a slave. We fight. Sometimes. Other times

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we run away trying to survive. So we have

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somewhere for our heads to lay. Well, unfortunately

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, temporarily crime does pay, forgive me father,

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we walked these streets every day, we pray.

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That's where I come from. That's where my heart

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will stay though. The epitome of the stereotype shit

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I don't want to display. Yeah, I say

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shout out to everyone I know learner, catch it

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over here, pop. That adds to the age

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of nine, not for cash, just for sure

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. And just because I can break it all the

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way down. Don't mean I'm a ho I chop

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up words when I talk a country ghetto flow,

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only speak proper english when speaking to the ceo,

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make sure we understand the rolling on my door so

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the system is determined to keep a bit of pol

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, don't underestimate, I'm not the so called average

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negro C. I know it hurts their ego to

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see I'm not with someone, believe me to be

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a cracked out unemployed criminal who drained society instead before

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you stands. The queen one whose mind is serene

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, understands my lineage is supreme. When I step

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on the scene, I actually bang, Ding ding

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, ding, ding ding or set off a globe

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waving around, don't think or believe they know that

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bitch is the ship where the rock and the snatch

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back ponytail, afro puffs. A natural twist.

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Could give a good goddamn. If a hater tries

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to disk, you hate me cause you ain't me

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my ask. You can kiss. I try to

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keep a gentle nature. But if I get pissed

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your face, I'm a bus with my fists.

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I had this right here. So to those that

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hiss, I blow a kiss. See I know

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through my room, all things come to exist.

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You know why? Because I'm a ghetto. Bet

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y'all can catch the elves help me out straight from

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1980 west side ho Zone one. I handle my

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business with fuck you pay me. I try so

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I cannot, Oh, I want to keep me

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down, but I'm heaven bound. I'm from this

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dirty. So I don't suck around. I got

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so much game. They call me Georgia me,

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I bring the light so my folks can see that

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you are not weak, but also strong letting everybody

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know what's going on, shout out to my people

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baby. Just hold on. If you're feeling me

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, come on and sing along on because I'm a

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ghetto. Just try y'all just catch it straight from

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that Blackbeard V. Tech V. I handle my

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business where fuck you pay me. I try so

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I cannot fail. Thank y'all y'all. So cute

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. She's like, I'm gonna catch all the oils

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. I'm gonna catch all the oils. I love

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that piece for so many reasons. Don't let anyone

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define who you are, no matter what your race

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is, no matter what your sex is, no

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matter what your economic situation is, you are not

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defined by one aspect of who you are. That's

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a time. That's a moment. And don't allow

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anyone to do that to you. You know?

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Dream killers. They are rampant and it's your fault

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. If you let them kill your dream, that's

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their job. Damn God damn grandfather. They dream

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their job is to kill yours. So you must

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be aware of that. I tell my friends all

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the time, your wealth is in your relationships.

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So if you got miserable people around, you need

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to run, you need to be like, this

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ain't on you for my safety, for my self

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preservation, for me to exist. We can't be

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friends, feed him with a long handed spoon as

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my grandma would say, you can't sit at my

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table, you can eat around the corner. I

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learned from jesus. I ain't gonna let Judah sit

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beside me funk that he was jesus. He knew

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all. I'm just his little sister. I don't

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know all the ship he knew. So I'm like

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, I'm gonna learn, jesus ain't gonna let Judah

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sit beside me. That's what it is. I'm

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not as good as him now. If you and

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my crew and you betrayed me. Mhm. I

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am God's child and there shall be a wrath upon

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you. So this next piece I'm gonna do.

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It was the first piece. Um Did, it's

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not the first piece I ever did, but first

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, no problem. I'm talking ain't no big deal

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. Hand yourself you straight? Okay cool. Um

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My friends, I worked at a job called gallop

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y'all y'all know about the gallup poll According to 70%

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of Americans, approve of Obama those polls. I

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was the girl on the other end making those calls

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which taught me statistics don't mean anything because I was

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the one who would go. I'm sorry ma'am.

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You're not a demographic fit? You don't make enough

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money to do this poll. Oh, I'm sorry

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ma'am. You didn't have you don't have enough education

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to do this pole because we asked those questions before

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we even start to ask the questions, we asked

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, what's your race? What's your gender? What

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level of high school, What level of education did

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you go to? How much money is it?

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25 to 35. 35 to 45. 45 to

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55. This is what we have? Oh I'm

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sorry. Are you republican or democrat. Oh I'm

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sorry. You know what I'm saying? Like this

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is what we did. That's what I was like

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why the, has the ship failed? If we

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can just count people out, it's because the people

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who pay for the pole want the result that they

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want. So I know that, but I love

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gallup because it showed me a whole bunch. It

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showed me um, well, Which is winning others

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over. You have to win these folks over to

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have them do a 14 minute survey. You know

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what I'm saying? Like that's what you got to

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do. But it also put me in a place

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to be around some very powerful, amazing college people

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. This was when I was in college and it

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wasn't just my college was students from all over Atlanta

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and they were, everybody was going after their dreams

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and one of my friends perfect bit. Her name

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is Alicia. She is, she speaks chinese and

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spanish. She went to Spellman her hair down here

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and it's hers. She's like a size nothing.

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She's and she's cool. You know what I'm saying

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? Like you could be at least lane, but

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you know what I'm saying? She's just perfect.

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But anyway and I'm glad God put in my life

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. She said Tamika, that's my real name.

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She was like, you need to go read that

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poem because I read it to my coworkers. You

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know what I'm saying? You do that kind of

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thing. I'm like, girl, you got to

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say this ship and find nobody? And I'm having

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me judging me. She was like, no,

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I'm telling you, you need to say this.

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You need to do this at the poetry spot now

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being from the hood. I have no idea where

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the poetry spot is. But you know when you're

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in college, there are things that are available to

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you that the rest of the city just don't know

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about. So she told me about this club named

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Mecca. I went there shaking paper in my hand

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just about to lose it. And um, did

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the poem after I finished the poem, Sister came

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up to me standing ovation would not and I was

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overwhelmed. They're getting on my nerves. Um,

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she said, I'll put some clothes on when I

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go to the club and I'm looking at her like

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what the hell is she talking about? And she

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said, I put some clothes on when I go

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to the club because of your poem. And it

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was at that point that I knew I had the

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power to affect people positively or negatively and I could

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really move them to do what I wanted in the

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world. My poetry is my weapon and my wealth

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. So this problem right here is called sister to

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sister. Now some of you might feel indicted,

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don't feel indicted. You too can walk away from

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horde. Um, it's just a temporary place.

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You don't have to stay there. You don't have

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to stay there. This poem is called sister to

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sister. Okay, why must you show your ass

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? Why not have some class? Do you want

406
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to be lusted after or respected? And you wonder

407
00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.430 A:middle L:90%
why real*** reject you? Do you ever wonder

408
00:22:22.430 --> 00:22:22.859 A:middle L:90%
what a sister be thinking? What she in the

409
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club shaking her as drinking, drinking and shaking to

410
00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:30.089 A:middle L:90%
her ask is fucked up. But then she stuck

411
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when she looked up on a*** that just don't

412
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care. He wants to cut up and pull out

413
00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:37.230 A:middle L:90%
that hair. She wears a blonde, we'd teased

414
00:22:37.230 --> 00:22:40.299 A:middle L:90%
about four ft style and a fan. Got it

415
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done by a***. She claiming her man.

416
00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.000 A:middle L:90%
But if she got a man while she in the

417
00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.859 A:middle L:90%
club letting*** molest her. She thinks that she's

418
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love is not love is lust, but she wants

419
00:22:49.490 --> 00:22:52.980 A:middle L:90%
that attention. She needs it from men I never

420
00:22:52.980 --> 00:22:56.769 A:middle L:90%
knew her daddy had to mention. That's a clue

421
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to why Real***. She never knew. Well

422
00:22:59.579 --> 00:23:00.529 A:middle L:90%
, her lovely self death. No telling for a

423
00:23:00.529 --> 00:23:03.509 A:middle L:90%
man what she'll do. She'll shake, she'll smile

424
00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.779 A:middle L:90%
, She'll lie. She'll fuck, she'll drop,

425
00:23:06.779 --> 00:23:10.880 A:middle L:90%
she'll lick, she'll swallow. She'll suck*** can

426
00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:11.660 A:middle L:90%
see this by her demeanor. He shows her some

427
00:23:11.670 --> 00:23:15.509 A:middle L:90%
interest so she's eager. He's not concerned about how

428
00:23:15.509 --> 00:23:17.670 A:middle L:90%
to please her. He'll use her even though her

429
00:23:17.670 --> 00:23:21.829 A:middle L:90%
resources are meager damn schemer. But when you look

430
00:23:21.829 --> 00:23:23.109 A:middle L:90%
and act like a whole, you'll get pimped you

431
00:23:23.109 --> 00:23:26.720 A:middle L:90%
being played for a fool of sucker or simply letting

432
00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.950 A:middle L:90%
these fake*** blow you up like a blimp.

433
00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:30.549 A:middle L:90%
He never wants you for his queen. Just attempt

434
00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.549 A:middle L:90%
now take that$60 to the pink fox and get

435
00:23:33.549 --> 00:23:37.339 A:middle L:90%
your, we've crimped you don't realize and it's right

436
00:23:37.339 --> 00:23:38.579 A:middle L:90%
before your blue eyes, how you have been brainwashed

437
00:23:38.589 --> 00:23:41.819 A:middle L:90%
, even hypnotized by tv, video picture show and

438
00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:45.430 A:middle L:90%
other hoes to be similar to the devils who ain't

439
00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.829 A:middle L:90%
even on your level, trivial things aren't way like

440
00:23:48.829 --> 00:23:49.859 A:middle L:90%
gold. My sister, the true jewel is your

441
00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:52.380 A:middle L:90%
soul. But you said it busting your as to

442
00:23:52.380 --> 00:23:56.140 A:middle L:90%
get a shirt by BB Some cloth with four letters

443
00:23:56.140 --> 00:24:00.119 A:middle L:90%
across your kitty just to impress people who aren't a

444
00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.380 A:middle L:90%
good character, paying$140 for an outfit when you

445
00:24:03.380 --> 00:24:07.150 A:middle L:90%
only got 200. That's a factor. Your priorities

446
00:24:07.150 --> 00:24:10.420 A:middle L:90%
are all wrong. But it won't be long before

447
00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:11.849 A:middle L:90%
you wake up. I hope you will like this

448
00:24:11.849 --> 00:24:17.200 A:middle L:90%
because you can't cope with being yourself 24 hours a

449
00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.799 A:middle L:90%
day To be you means to be different. Too

450
00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:22.269 A:middle L:90%
big of a price to pay. Well, think

451
00:24:22.269 --> 00:24:25.230 A:middle L:90%
about the cost of freezing your assets off in the

452
00:24:25.230 --> 00:24:26.410 A:middle L:90%
cold in line, waiting an hour and a half

453
00:24:26.410 --> 00:24:30.759 A:middle L:90%
to get in that club 559 with a skirt right

454
00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.490 A:middle L:90%
below your butt cheeks, sister, shake their head

455
00:24:33.490 --> 00:24:37.180 A:middle L:90%
brothers holler freak. If you ain't cutting, I

456
00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:40.180 A:middle L:90%
ain't speaking, he ain't speaking unless you're freaking,

457
00:24:40.190 --> 00:24:42.109 A:middle L:90%
he'll hook up with you next weekend to sit and

458
00:24:42.109 --> 00:24:45.160 A:middle L:90%
chat and spit some game you like him and figure

459
00:24:45.170 --> 00:24:48.519 A:middle L:90%
, hey, he's not a lame so you suck

460
00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.180 A:middle L:90%
him and don't know his full name when he doesn't

461
00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:55.759 A:middle L:90%
call you back. You feel ashamed. I've been

462
00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:57.660 A:middle L:90%
there my sister, I feel your pain sister.

463
00:24:57.660 --> 00:25:06.299 A:middle L:90%
The sister look at her, she's out there like

464
00:25:06.299 --> 00:25:07.079 A:middle L:90%
that looks really cool. What are they doing in

465
00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:14.559 A:middle L:90%
there? Come on in, come during the show

466
00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:18.240 A:middle L:90%
, come enjoy the show. Alright, eat your

467
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.029 A:middle L:90%
food, eat your food. She's like, what

468
00:25:22.029 --> 00:25:26.799 A:middle L:90%
is that? That looks neat now. Some of

469
00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:27.460 A:middle L:90%
y'all, I know some of y'all like how does

470
00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:37.569 A:middle L:90%
she know my life? I remember being in college

471
00:25:37.579 --> 00:25:40.980 A:middle L:90%
getting dressed up to go to class. That's freshman

472
00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:42.089 A:middle L:90%
year bullshit though by sophomore year, you should be

473
00:25:42.089 --> 00:25:45.480 A:middle L:90%
over that. If you're still dressing up to go

474
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:47.579 A:middle L:90%
to class, there's a problem. And there's someone

475
00:25:47.579 --> 00:25:48.839 A:middle L:90%
who just like to dress, you know what I'm

476
00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:49.240 A:middle L:90%
saying? Like they got, they get up an

477
00:25:49.250 --> 00:25:52.789 A:middle L:90%
hour early to put the makeup on and the whole

478
00:25:52.789 --> 00:25:56.470 A:middle L:90%
nine power to you, you are gonna be a

479
00:25:56.470 --> 00:26:00.960 A:middle L:90%
trophy wife, know that you're putting the work in

480
00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:03.059 A:middle L:90%
. I'd rather own the trophy store me personally.

481
00:26:03.069 --> 00:26:06.069 A:middle L:90%
You know what I'm saying? Like I want to

482
00:26:06.069 --> 00:26:07.900 A:middle L:90%
be no trophies, trophies going on the shelf and

483
00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:15.180 A:middle L:90%
I forgot about don't be an acquisition ladies because what

484
00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:19.809 A:middle L:90%
happened to acquisitions they get traded, you do the

485
00:26:19.809 --> 00:26:23.740 A:middle L:90%
choosing don't just get plucked like no flour, that's

486
00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:26.299 A:middle L:90%
some bullsh it, that's 50 years ago. We're

487
00:26:26.299 --> 00:26:27.900 A:middle L:90%
not doing that. Make sure that they're honorable and

488
00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:30.559 A:middle L:90%
that you, if you're gonna lay down ladies,

489
00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:33.779 A:middle L:90%
make sure that you're doing it. Not that you're

490
00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:36.289 A:middle L:90%
trying to please him. Trying to be approved.

491
00:26:36.289 --> 00:26:37.180 A:middle L:90%
Don't want to lose him. Please bump all that

492
00:26:37.190 --> 00:26:38.359 A:middle L:90%
. There's plenty of dick on this planet. I

493
00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:41.470 A:middle L:90%
understand that he ain't the only one. He ain't

494
00:26:41.470 --> 00:26:44.710 A:middle L:90%
the last one. And I'm telling you take it

495
00:26:44.710 --> 00:26:48.660 A:middle L:90%
from me. It gets better. You're like,

496
00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:52.940 A:middle L:90%
he's the best guy I ever met. 20 more

497
00:26:52.940 --> 00:27:02.170 A:middle L:90%
*** better than him. So yeah, I'm just

498
00:27:02.170 --> 00:27:06.119 A:middle L:90%
saying. So this next piece as you all can

499
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.500 A:middle L:90%
see now that speech I just heard was the piece

500
00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:11.630 A:middle L:90%
that got me on def poetry. I've never done

501
00:27:11.630 --> 00:27:15.920 A:middle L:90%
that piece on there. Poetry. Never live your

502
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.500 A:middle L:90%
life with regret. I do what I want to

503
00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:22.970 A:middle L:90%
do within the confines of the law to, to

504
00:27:22.970 --> 00:27:30.839 A:middle L:90%
a certain degree. It's gonna be legal song.

505
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:41.220 A:middle L:90%
But anyway, excuse me. But um, when

506
00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:42.539 A:middle L:90%
I got chosen for def poetry, I didn't even

507
00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:47.049 A:middle L:90%
know I was being submitted for def poetry. I

508
00:27:47.049 --> 00:27:49.180 A:middle L:90%
didn't know, um, I met a brother trying

509
00:27:49.190 --> 00:27:52.859 A:middle L:90%
to find out how to do poetry outside my city

510
00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:56.079 A:middle L:90%
three years later, he calls me and says,

511
00:27:56.089 --> 00:27:59.359 A:middle L:90%
you're still doing poetry at this time. I'm captain

512
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.109 A:middle L:90%
of the Atlanta team. We headed to Seattle for

513
00:28:00.109 --> 00:28:03.599 A:middle L:90%
the nationals. I said, yeah, I'm really

514
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:04.619 A:middle L:90%
doing it now. He said, send me a

515
00:28:04.619 --> 00:28:07.240 A:middle L:90%
tape. You got some other people that's good.

516
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:08.359 A:middle L:90%
So I sent my whole slam team in. We

517
00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:11.910 A:middle L:90%
didn't because that poetry was like the gooch. You

518
00:28:11.910 --> 00:28:12.279 A:middle L:90%
know what I'm saying? You didn't really know when

519
00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:15.559 A:middle L:90%
it was gonna happen if it really existed or whatnot

520
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:17.200 A:middle L:90%
. You know, we're just like whatever we've been

521
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.160 A:middle L:90%
hearing about this ship forever. And um Out of

522
00:28:21.170 --> 00:28:23.599 A:middle L:90%
3900 tapes with several people on the tapes I got

523
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.470 A:middle L:90%
chosen. Out of 3900 was like 40 people got

524
00:28:26.470 --> 00:28:29.559 A:middle L:90%
chosen. So sister, the sister, what you

525
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.109 A:middle L:90%
all just heard is what they was excited about.

526
00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.140 A:middle L:90%
They were like, she'd admitted Jackson and poetry and

527
00:28:34.140 --> 00:28:37.990 A:middle L:90%
I was like who the is Millie Jackson? I

528
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.440 A:middle L:90%
don't know who that was. You know what I'm

529
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.049 A:middle L:90%
saying? But then I learned I was like okay

530
00:28:41.049 --> 00:28:42.460 A:middle L:90%
that's a compliment but I'm not doing that. And

531
00:28:42.470 --> 00:28:44.630 A:middle L:90%
I was like what are you doing? I said

532
00:28:44.630 --> 00:28:45.150 A:middle L:90%
I want to do this. And I was like

533
00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:47.509 A:middle L:90%
, well that's not what we picked. I said

534
00:28:47.509 --> 00:28:48.180 A:middle L:90%
but you don't like it. And I remember when

535
00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:52.279 A:middle L:90%
Russell came in he had some old tofu grass looking

536
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.440 A:middle L:90%
ship he was eating, I was like that sh

537
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.000 A:middle L:90%
it looked nasty. And he was sitting over to

538
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:00.390 A:middle L:90%
the side and you know when Russell Simmons come into

539
00:29:00.390 --> 00:29:02.990 A:middle L:90%
the building after he worked for him, he don't

540
00:29:02.990 --> 00:29:04.019 A:middle L:90%
have this effect on you no more. But when

541
00:29:04.019 --> 00:29:07.549 A:middle L:90%
he first sees his brother like I've seen him on

542
00:29:07.549 --> 00:29:07.839 A:middle L:90%
tv my whole, you know what I'm saying?

543
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.940 A:middle L:90%
He's just like oh my God. So I went

544
00:29:10.940 --> 00:29:12.240 A:middle L:90%
on stage, it's a sound check and I did

545
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.289 A:middle L:90%
it and they loved it. And from that point

546
00:29:15.289 --> 00:29:17.329 A:middle L:90%
on I was like, I'm never gonna deny myself

547
00:29:17.329 --> 00:29:18.549 A:middle L:90%
or regret live life with regret. I don't want

548
00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:21.500 A:middle L:90%
to second guess if this is what my heart tells

549
00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.849 A:middle L:90%
me to do, this is what I'm gonna do

550
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:25.339 A:middle L:90%
. So this piece right here I wrote um as

551
00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:27.460 A:middle L:90%
you see, I've been over£200 since I was

552
00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:30.089 A:middle L:90%
10. Like I went straight from looking like a

553
00:29:30.089 --> 00:29:30.750 A:middle L:90%
little girl to a school teacher. Do you understand

554
00:29:30.750 --> 00:29:33.779 A:middle L:90%
me? Like it just was bad. Like people

555
00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:37.849 A:middle L:90%
thought I was a substitute and shipped like it's just

556
00:29:37.849 --> 00:29:40.710 A:middle L:90%
not right. You know what I'm saying? And

557
00:29:40.710 --> 00:29:41.890 A:middle L:90%
there ain't no cute clothes when you're that big.

558
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.559 A:middle L:90%
So I walk around with blazers, you understand me

559
00:29:45.569 --> 00:29:48.670 A:middle L:90%
? My Mama wrong my momma wrong. She was

560
00:29:48.670 --> 00:29:51.319 A:middle L:90%
like, that's how we can find the future.

561
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:55.769 A:middle L:90%
You know what I'm saying? So, but I

562
00:29:55.769 --> 00:29:56.690 A:middle L:90%
was never the big girl that was like, oh

563
00:29:56.700 --> 00:30:00.569 A:middle L:90%
what was me? Don't, nobody asked me,

564
00:30:00.569 --> 00:30:03.910 A:middle L:90%
you know that girl, I don't know them big

565
00:30:03.910 --> 00:30:07.410 A:middle L:90%
bitches. That's not big. That's asthma. That's

566
00:30:07.410 --> 00:30:10.650 A:middle L:90%
bronchitis. You understand me? That's not big because

567
00:30:10.650 --> 00:30:11.269 A:middle L:90%
I know little girls that run out of breath,

568
00:30:11.269 --> 00:30:15.119 A:middle L:90%
You understand me don't think because you're skinning you in

569
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:15.539 A:middle L:90%
shape. I know you can't make it to the

570
00:30:15.539 --> 00:30:18.859 A:middle L:90%
end of the block. I know. So um

571
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:22.259 A:middle L:90%
Mhm This piece came from just me being in this

572
00:30:22.269 --> 00:30:26.589 A:middle L:90%
in this vessel and dealing with people's ignorance is and

573
00:30:26.589 --> 00:30:30.059 A:middle L:90%
their and their judgements of me and the cruelty that

574
00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:32.180 A:middle L:90%
I've endured, but how I never allowed it to

575
00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:34.210 A:middle L:90%
define me and I'm so grateful to God. Um

576
00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:38.680 A:middle L:90%
this piece started because I've always always work in the

577
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.230 A:middle L:90%
community if you can people all the talk, you

578
00:30:42.230 --> 00:30:44.980 A:middle L:90%
know, all the liberal guilt, all the edges

579
00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:47.210 A:middle L:90%
when you get your college degree and like what can

580
00:30:47.210 --> 00:30:52.269 A:middle L:90%
I do for my people volunteer volunteer mentor, do

581
00:30:52.269 --> 00:30:55.950 A:middle L:90%
something, don't complain and not be a part of

582
00:30:55.950 --> 00:30:59.349 A:middle L:90%
the solution. Don't waste your degree. Just on

583
00:30:59.349 --> 00:31:03.339 A:middle L:90%
a job, share your knowledge. Okay. Just

584
00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:04.269 A:middle L:90%
had to say that cause most of y'all motherfucker's graduated

585
00:31:04.269 --> 00:31:06.809 A:middle L:90%
. Don't never think about doing that for nobody else

586
00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:07.440 A:middle L:90%
. So, I just have to say that.

587
00:31:07.450 --> 00:31:11.869 A:middle L:90%
So, I'm at the why I'm a counselor.

588
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:14.670 A:middle L:90%
I just finished swimming eight laps. I just finished

589
00:31:14.670 --> 00:31:18.839 A:middle L:90%
swimming eight laps. Atlanta is hilly. I'm going

590
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.359 A:middle L:90%
up a hill. I just finished winning eight laps

591
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.769 A:middle L:90%
, sumbitch, lean out her car and say lose

592
00:31:26.769 --> 00:31:29.480 A:middle L:90%
weight. Mhm. It's okay. A pussy's thinking

593
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:36.359 A:middle L:90%
her mama don't like her notice. She can't read

594
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:37.130 A:middle L:90%
or something. You know what I'm saying? Like

595
00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:40.529 A:middle L:90%
she just got demons. You know what I'm saying

596
00:31:40.539 --> 00:31:42.500 A:middle L:90%
? So, so what's messed up is I go

597
00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:45.250 A:middle L:90%
home. Like I go, I go I go

598
00:31:45.250 --> 00:31:47.109 A:middle L:90%
to my house, I called my best friend a

599
00:31:47.109 --> 00:31:51.440 A:middle L:90%
mirror and I'm crying she has somebody move, y'all

600
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.170 A:middle L:90%
want to sit right here because y'all peeping over the

601
00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:55.480 A:middle L:90%
thing like she moved out of the way. So

602
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.880 A:middle L:90%
y'all come sit right there, come on in the

603
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.789 A:middle L:90%
room. Oh, I like them shoes. So

604
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.029 A:middle L:90%
um so I called my best friend a mirror and

605
00:32:04.029 --> 00:32:06.210 A:middle L:90%
I'm like a mirror. I'm crying. And she's

606
00:32:06.210 --> 00:32:07.910 A:middle L:90%
like, what's wrong? What's wrong? And I'm

607
00:32:07.910 --> 00:32:10.019 A:middle L:90%
like, I was at the way and I was

608
00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:13.900 A:middle L:90%
swimming eight laps and I'm not talking about like Just

609
00:32:13.910 --> 00:32:15.680 A:middle L:90%
like this into my one to you feel me.

610
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.430 A:middle L:90%
So really, essentially 16. I'm just saying so

611
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.240 A:middle L:90%
, so like I swear eight laps and she was

612
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:23.849 A:middle L:90%
like, you swim a lap. So I'm like

613
00:32:23.859 --> 00:32:27.359 A:middle L:90%
, you can't even swim eight laps. And so

614
00:32:27.369 --> 00:32:29.710 A:middle L:90%
she's like, what's wrong? I say this girl

615
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:30.710 A:middle L:90%
, she, she's leaving out the car and she

616
00:32:30.710 --> 00:32:35.450 A:middle L:90%
said lose weight. That's my best friend, We're

617
00:32:35.450 --> 00:32:36.990 A:middle L:90%
gonna run out of that hole, We're gonna find

618
00:32:36.990 --> 00:32:42.309 A:middle L:90%
that bit. We're gonna send a search party out

619
00:32:42.309 --> 00:32:43.950 A:middle L:90%
for a whole, we don't know do you understand

620
00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:47.279 A:middle L:90%
me? But the problem was I gave her the

621
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:52.069 A:middle L:90%
power to define me and from that point on,

622
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:53.829 A:middle L:90%
I've never allowed it, like if you call me

623
00:32:53.829 --> 00:32:57.829 A:middle L:90%
fat first off, that's not an option. I

624
00:32:57.829 --> 00:33:00.440 A:middle L:90%
know what I am. So you are telling me

625
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:01.130 A:middle L:90%
you want to get bust in the mouth, that's

626
00:33:01.130 --> 00:33:04.980 A:middle L:90%
what you're saying. You can say big, you

627
00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:07.519 A:middle L:90%
can say grand, but you can say to a

628
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.769 A:middle L:90%
skinny person fat and they're gonna crumble. You know

629
00:33:08.769 --> 00:33:12.420 A:middle L:90%
those are fighting words but you're doing that because you

630
00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:14.049 A:middle L:90%
hate yourself so much. You want me to feel

631
00:33:14.049 --> 00:33:16.269 A:middle L:90%
as bad as you do. So this poem right

632
00:33:16.269 --> 00:33:19.519 A:middle L:90%
here, the first poem I did on def poetry

633
00:33:19.529 --> 00:33:22.019 A:middle L:90%
and because I did this poem, I got the

634
00:33:22.019 --> 00:33:27.000 A:middle L:90%
most correspondence emails, letters, phone calls because I

635
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.410 A:middle L:90%
went with my heart and Russell was like, I

636
00:33:30.410 --> 00:33:32.480 A:middle L:90%
like that. I like that. You know that

637
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.119 A:middle L:90%
*** lying. But anyway, he is, Yeah

638
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:38.470 A:middle L:90%
, I'll tell you all that. But he's great

639
00:33:38.470 --> 00:33:40.259 A:middle L:90%
. I'm so grateful. I learned so much from

640
00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:44.400 A:middle L:90%
Russell Simmons everyday. His knowledge seeps into my head

641
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:45.180 A:middle L:90%
from back. I couldn't receive it. As young

642
00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:46.640 A:middle L:90%
people, let me tell y'all something right now don't

643
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:50.269 A:middle L:90%
do what I did. Don't be young and arrogant

644
00:33:51.339 --> 00:33:52.609 A:middle L:90%
. You think you know something because you've got degrees

645
00:33:52.609 --> 00:33:54.829 A:middle L:90%
and you supposedly got together and let you get a

646
00:33:54.829 --> 00:33:57.509 A:middle L:90%
car in the house and you really think you got

647
00:33:57.509 --> 00:33:59.690 A:middle L:90%
it going on. No, constantly learn and be

648
00:33:59.690 --> 00:34:02.500 A:middle L:90%
humble constantly. And even in front of people you

649
00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:08.900 A:middle L:90%
are intimidated by be still listen, shout out to

650
00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:14.170 A:middle L:90%
Russell Simmons lame man. So this problem right here

651
00:34:14.170 --> 00:34:22.710 A:middle L:90%
is called full figured potential. Mm hmm Fat girls

652
00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:24.210 A:middle L:90%
Blues, which I'm going through today. Lord have

653
00:34:24.210 --> 00:34:25.610 A:middle L:90%
mercy on my first time wearing this dress. You

654
00:34:25.610 --> 00:34:27.969 A:middle L:90%
know, it was something the first time you wore

655
00:34:27.969 --> 00:34:28.869 A:middle L:90%
it, right? You don't, you don't know

656
00:34:28.869 --> 00:34:30.550 A:middle L:90%
how you're supposed to go. I ain't figured this

657
00:34:30.650 --> 00:34:31.159 A:middle L:90%
out yet, but I'm, I'm gonna get it

658
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:37.030 A:middle L:90%
together. Thank you. I love y'all. Thank

659
00:34:37.030 --> 00:34:44.929 A:middle L:90%
you. No. And two young and should get

660
00:34:44.929 --> 00:34:51.239 A:middle L:90%
me locked up. We go. It's my choice

661
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:54.940 A:middle L:90%
. Whether I win or lose, won't be subject

662
00:34:54.940 --> 00:35:00.599 A:middle L:90%
to your shallow views. God has blessed me with

663
00:35:00.610 --> 00:35:05.210 A:middle L:90%
the good news. Love yourself No more fat girls

664
00:35:05.210 --> 00:35:12.170 A:middle L:90%
! Blues out of money. Looking for a snack

665
00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:20.550 A:middle L:90%
. Yeah. Then I see little Debbie's face on

666
00:35:20.550 --> 00:35:28.559 A:middle L:90%
a pack, smiling, enticing me. Invited me

667
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:30.570 A:middle L:90%
to have a taste with haste. I raced to

668
00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:35.369 A:middle L:90%
the destruction of my waist as the sugar sets in

669
00:35:35.369 --> 00:35:37.730 A:middle L:90%
. So does it disgust. I feel wishing I

670
00:35:37.730 --> 00:35:40.190 A:middle L:90%
had the power of wheel or hoping someone would kill

671
00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:44.849 A:middle L:90%
this gluttonous monster which rules my eyes, which is

672
00:35:44.849 --> 00:35:46.559 A:middle L:90%
bigger than my stomach. So we fill my belly

673
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:51.030 A:middle L:90%
with pies and cakes, buy products, additives and

674
00:35:51.030 --> 00:35:53.280 A:middle L:90%
other shit. It's hard for me to quit,

675
00:35:53.289 --> 00:35:58.530 A:middle L:90%
sweetheart. Quick hit. My diet includes fried everything

676
00:35:58.530 --> 00:36:00.090 A:middle L:90%
, all kinds of pork. People asking if I

677
00:36:00.090 --> 00:36:04.360 A:middle L:90%
had been visited by the stork. See it looked

678
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.760 A:middle L:90%
as a sin to be fat without Children or a

679
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:08.789 A:middle L:90%
medical condition. So it leaves the girl fishing looking

680
00:36:08.789 --> 00:36:13.739 A:middle L:90%
for an excuse to stop the abuse I endure every

681
00:36:13.739 --> 00:36:19.780 A:middle L:90%
day in every way. The ridicule and personal shame

682
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:22.679 A:middle L:90%
, unwanted attention and fame from the group of young

683
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:28.750 A:middle L:90%
men who holler big drawers. Big trouble as I

684
00:36:28.750 --> 00:36:32.869 A:middle L:90%
passed by, I start to cry. The wind

685
00:36:32.869 --> 00:36:37.449 A:middle L:90%
drives my eye, but nothing can heal the scar

686
00:36:37.449 --> 00:36:39.030 A:middle L:90%
left on my esteem, praying this ordeal is a

687
00:36:39.030 --> 00:36:42.780 A:middle L:90%
dream better at a nightmare, for it's too hard

688
00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:46.500 A:middle L:90%
to bear this constant scale as my reality. A

689
00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:51.480 A:middle L:90%
complete disregard for humanity. Not seeing as humane more

690
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.159 A:middle L:90%
like insane or having no self control. She can't

691
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:58.489 A:middle L:90%
even pass up a jelly roll, not seen as

692
00:36:58.489 --> 00:37:00.929 A:middle L:90%
beautiful. Look at the folds and gut the sale

693
00:37:00.929 --> 00:37:02.389 A:middle L:90%
like thighs and out of shape, but not seen

694
00:37:02.389 --> 00:37:05.639 A:middle L:90%
is strong. She can't go long. She'll be

695
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:08.619 A:middle L:90%
down before the end of the song. My personal

696
00:37:08.619 --> 00:37:13.280 A:middle L:90%
demons are hard by themselves, comparisons the pigs,

697
00:37:13.289 --> 00:37:15.030 A:middle L:90%
elephants and whales. You might look at me and

698
00:37:15.030 --> 00:37:21.389 A:middle L:90%
see lazy and weak given no second thoughts that before

699
00:37:21.389 --> 00:37:25.889 A:middle L:90%
you an angel may speak. You can't see the

700
00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:29.630 A:middle L:90%
beauty besides the pretty face. You can't see the

701
00:37:29.630 --> 00:37:32.010 A:middle L:90%
walk from my heart which provides a safe place or

702
00:37:32.010 --> 00:37:36.610 A:middle L:90%
home where not only Love Rome's for myself and others

703
00:37:36.610 --> 00:37:37.639 A:middle L:90%
, where the light has not been shown. See

704
00:37:37.650 --> 00:37:39.849 A:middle L:90%
, I realized that more than a body I have

705
00:37:39.849 --> 00:37:43.989 A:middle L:90%
a spirit in mind which through divine knowledge told me

706
00:37:43.989 --> 00:37:45.960 A:middle L:90%
it's about time for me to love who I am

707
00:37:46.429 --> 00:37:51.150 A:middle L:90%
and decline those devils who try to steal my joy

708
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.800 A:middle L:90%
. I'm conquering my phones like the battle of Troy

709
00:37:52.809 --> 00:37:55.420 A:middle L:90%
and with the same spirit, I make the world

710
00:37:55.420 --> 00:38:00.489 A:middle L:90%
here. It's love who you are, be the

711
00:38:00.489 --> 00:38:01.789 A:middle L:90%
best, that you can be, your spirit will

712
00:38:01.789 --> 00:38:05.750 A:middle L:90%
soar, the whole world will see your strength,

713
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.199 A:middle L:90%
your beauty and your heart. The ignorance of others

714
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:12.119 A:middle L:90%
won't pierce like a dart that dogs who worship aesthetic

715
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.519 A:middle L:90%
little pathetic life, no substance, no feeling self

716
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:19.190 A:middle L:90%
inflicted strife. If they can't see the beauty of

717
00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:22.800 A:middle L:90%
my soul. I know I'm beautiful in the eyes

718
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:25.170 A:middle L:90%
that God beholds now. See I know at times

719
00:38:25.170 --> 00:38:28.980 A:middle L:90%
I may get knocked down or even doubt my ability

720
00:38:28.989 --> 00:38:36.039 A:middle L:90%
but I look in the mirror and say I'm wonderful

721
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.820 A:middle L:90%
with humility. Now we're supposed to respect everyone with

722
00:38:40.820 --> 00:38:46.750 A:middle L:90%
different choices, beliefs and Hughes but who gives a

723
00:38:46.750 --> 00:38:57.650 A:middle L:90%
damn about a fat girl's blues? Thank you.

724
00:38:58.340 --> 00:39:02.019 A:middle L:90%
Yeah, go to my website Georgia. Meet the

725
00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:05.170 A:middle L:90%
poet. Check out some other stuff. Thank you

726
00:39:05.170 --> 00:39:07.329 A:middle L:90%
all for stopping by because they weren't even playing.

727
00:39:07.329 --> 00:39:07.739 A:middle L:90%
They just stopped for me. They're just walking through

728
00:39:07.739 --> 00:39:12.840 A:middle L:90%
like let's sit down for a minute. So um

729
00:39:13.619 --> 00:39:15.090 A:middle L:90%
oh let me get out of the business out of

730
00:39:15.090 --> 00:39:21.730 A:middle L:90%
the way. Was that twitter Georgia me facebook Tamika

731
00:39:21.730 --> 00:39:22.909 A:middle L:90%
Georgia, me harper. Not Tamika harper Georgia me

732
00:39:22.909 --> 00:39:24.980 A:middle L:90%
it's full. So Tamika Georgia me harper if you

733
00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:28.639 A:middle L:90%
wanna be my friend on facebook that's my other page

734
00:39:28.650 --> 00:39:34.980 A:middle L:90%
. But my phone number is 678 82. Game

735
00:39:34.980 --> 00:39:37.449 A:middle L:90%
one. Gang G. A. M. E

736
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.530 A:middle L:90%
. Is there enough numbers. What my cards say

737
00:39:42.530 --> 00:39:50.940 A:middle L:90%
? Hold on. Yeah that's it. 67882 game

738
00:39:50.940 --> 00:40:00.500 A:middle L:90%
one. Yeah I'm not saying I'm now you can

739
00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:02.269 A:middle L:90%
call me anytime after the view that means noon and

740
00:40:02.269 --> 00:40:07.469 A:middle L:90%
on. Don't be calling me while Whoopi Ammon.

741
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.429 A:middle L:90%
I don't do that And I'm up till after Wendy

742
00:40:09.429 --> 00:40:13.610 A:middle L:90%
Williams on B. ET So you can get me

743
00:40:13.610 --> 00:40:15.820 A:middle L:90%
at 1:00. I am a minister. Seriously.

744
00:40:16.210 --> 00:40:21.389 A:middle L:90%
This gift is not just about writing and getting up

745
00:40:21.389 --> 00:40:23.360 A:middle L:90%
before people and speaking, that's great. I've been

746
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:25.360 A:middle L:90%
doing that my whole life. I could be a

747
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:28.670 A:middle L:90%
toastmaster and do that. You know what I'm saying

748
00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:30.150 A:middle L:90%
? But with my poetry, I have a direct

749
00:40:30.150 --> 00:40:34.909 A:middle L:90%
result that I want. I want people to be

750
00:40:34.909 --> 00:40:37.510 A:middle L:90%
free. I want to not be defined by where

751
00:40:37.510 --> 00:40:39.610 A:middle L:90%
they're from or allow people to pigeonhole them. I

752
00:40:39.610 --> 00:40:43.239 A:middle L:90%
want women to respect themselves and know that the respect

753
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.909 A:middle L:90%
comes from you first. I don't care about Nicki

754
00:40:45.909 --> 00:40:47.449 A:middle L:90%
Minaj. You know why? I think she's a

755
00:40:47.449 --> 00:40:52.059 A:middle L:90%
dope emcee. She chose her path. But I

756
00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:54.010 A:middle L:90%
don't think that objectifying yourself as a woman is something

757
00:40:54.010 --> 00:40:58.269 A:middle L:90%
that we all should do. But horses have made

758
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.670 A:middle L:90%
, I mean, come on now horses are necessary

759
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.769 A:middle L:90%
. I'm just saying horns make you feel good about

760
00:41:05.769 --> 00:41:07.949 A:middle L:90%
yourself, don't they? I'm just saying, I

761
00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:08.869 A:middle L:90%
feel good about myself every time I see a hoe

762
00:41:08.869 --> 00:41:15.710 A:middle L:90%
, I swear to God, I feel virtuous like

763
00:41:15.710 --> 00:41:17.809 A:middle L:90%
the households of Atlanta. I swear them bitches made

764
00:41:17.809 --> 00:41:21.159 A:middle L:90%
me feel great. Do you understand me? Because

765
00:41:21.170 --> 00:41:22.510 A:middle L:90%
you can have, I don't care all the households

766
00:41:22.510 --> 00:41:27.269 A:middle L:90%
of Beverly Hills, Orange County, New Jersey because

767
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.739 A:middle L:90%
they have so much and feel so bad about themselves

768
00:41:30.909 --> 00:41:32.360 A:middle L:90%
and you ain't got sh it and you can walk

769
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:36.690 A:middle L:90%
around and be happy. I feel good. I'm

770
00:41:36.690 --> 00:41:39.340 A:middle L:90%
just saying they can barely pronounce, loop it on

771
00:41:39.349 --> 00:41:43.619 A:middle L:90%
first off, you stupid, you stupid don because

772
00:41:43.630 --> 00:41:45.460 A:middle L:90%
your assets buying shoes for some red paint, use

773
00:41:45.460 --> 00:41:49.429 A:middle L:90%
a stupid, but I'm just saying, and there

774
00:41:49.429 --> 00:41:52.610 A:middle L:90%
are, there are custom shoemakers and like be real

775
00:41:52.610 --> 00:41:52.829 A:middle L:90%
G about like, if you're gonna get, you're

776
00:41:52.829 --> 00:41:55.659 A:middle L:90%
gonna pay five stacks for some shoes, get them

777
00:41:55.659 --> 00:42:00.590 A:middle L:90%
custom yours, like nobody else in the world can

778
00:42:00.590 --> 00:42:02.269 A:middle L:90%
have them. That's some dope ship, but it

779
00:42:02.269 --> 00:42:05.300 A:middle L:90%
has something that everybody else got just to say you're

780
00:42:05.300 --> 00:42:07.920 A:middle L:90%
doing it. That's lame as hell. So,

781
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:08.639 A:middle L:90%
I look at them in the housewife with, there's

782
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:10.619 A:middle L:90%
no, not, they ain't housewives, they just

783
00:42:10.619 --> 00:42:13.159 A:middle L:90%
hose, hip hop, the love and hip hop

784
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:17.010 A:middle L:90%
, hoes my esteemed must be through the roof.

785
00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:20.469 A:middle L:90%
My friends say I'm wrong for that, but I'm

786
00:42:20.469 --> 00:42:22.769 A:middle L:90%
like, instead of being mad at, I look

787
00:42:22.769 --> 00:42:23.510 A:middle L:90%
at it like soap operas, how many y'all look

788
00:42:23.510 --> 00:42:25.969 A:middle L:90%
at it, like soap operas, you don't even

789
00:42:25.969 --> 00:42:29.579 A:middle L:90%
know what soap operas are. Yeah, I remember

790
00:42:29.579 --> 00:42:30.420 A:middle L:90%
all my Children and all that stuff that used to

791
00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:32.780 A:middle L:90%
be on. That's how I look at the reality

792
00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:36.260 A:middle L:90%
tv. I read a lot. I know too

793
00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:38.449 A:middle L:90%
much conspiracy ship. How many, y'all ever uh

794
00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:45.130 A:middle L:90%
seen esoteric agenda or zeitgeist. Okay, watch hidden

795
00:42:45.130 --> 00:42:46.380 A:middle L:90%
colors to go online and look up hidden colors.

796
00:42:46.389 --> 00:42:49.400 A:middle L:90%
That's some old oh my God, but see I

797
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:50.860 A:middle L:90%
walk around with too much like that, so I

798
00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:53.579 A:middle L:90%
need them households because otherwise I would just jump off

799
00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:55.170 A:middle L:90%
a bridge, you know what I'm saying? Like

800
00:42:55.179 --> 00:43:00.659 A:middle L:90%
when you know the truth about America and our system

801
00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:01.619 A:middle L:90%
and our society. Oh my God. So I

802
00:43:01.619 --> 00:43:06.070 A:middle L:90%
need many of them to help me forget just for

803
00:43:06.070 --> 00:43:07.860 A:middle L:90%
a minute. So um, this next piece I'm

804
00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:09.559 A:middle L:90%
gonna do, I heard it's a favorite, a

805
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:14.369 A:middle L:90%
young lady over here, ladies, I would rather

806
00:43:14.369 --> 00:43:20.119 A:middle L:90%
be and a live ho than a dead good girl

807
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:23.039 A:middle L:90%
. You're something you're like, I don't ever want

808
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.829 A:middle L:90%
to be a whore that's in my past life.

809
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:34.260 A:middle L:90%
Last semester, last semester was my whoring days.

810
00:43:34.269 --> 00:43:38.219 A:middle L:90%
I've been going to the chapel this semester. Yeah

811
00:43:39.699 --> 00:43:49.440 A:middle L:90%
. Okay. Oh, now on with the peace

812
00:43:49.449 --> 00:43:52.030 A:middle L:90%
, y'all so silly y'all making me laugh. I

813
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:59.059 A:middle L:90%
wish this was some Hennessy. But anyway, for

814
00:43:59.059 --> 00:44:08.710 A:middle L:90%
your protection. Yes, I ain't sucking no more

815
00:44:08.710 --> 00:44:17.889 A:middle L:90%
*** without a condom and y'all know, I ain't

816
00:44:17.889 --> 00:44:22.420 A:middle L:90%
gonna stop sucking***, no matter how cute,

817
00:44:22.789 --> 00:44:27.440 A:middle L:90%
how fine. No matter how the conversation blows my

818
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:29.769 A:middle L:90%
mind, no matter how many whips they roll,

819
00:44:29.780 --> 00:44:31.739 A:middle L:90%
no matter how many bills they fold, no matter

820
00:44:31.739 --> 00:44:35.900 A:middle L:90%
after promises of commitments, no matter the money he

821
00:44:35.900 --> 00:44:37.289 A:middle L:90%
spent on my rent, no matter how dope he

822
00:44:37.289 --> 00:44:40.349 A:middle L:90%
is. No matter I got his kid, no

823
00:44:40.349 --> 00:44:49.030 A:middle L:90%
matter the fake reading ceremony in bed, Funk as

824
00:44:49.030 --> 00:44:52.469 A:middle L:90%
***. No matter if I believe everything he said

825
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.050 A:middle L:90%
, no matter how good it feels to have it

826
00:44:55.050 --> 00:44:59.920 A:middle L:90%
raw and reel, this latex will fit the bill

827
00:45:00.489 --> 00:45:01.190 A:middle L:90%
. No matter if he gets offended. I don't

828
00:45:01.190 --> 00:45:04.449 A:middle L:90%
know if he's been rear ended fledged packing, living

829
00:45:04.449 --> 00:45:07.699 A:middle L:90%
double lives or just experimenting Now. I recognize you

830
00:45:07.699 --> 00:45:09.559 A:middle L:90%
should know the one with whom you lay. That

831
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:14.380 A:middle L:90%
doesn't discount the times we swayed cause the swoon at

832
00:45:14.380 --> 00:45:16.730 A:middle L:90%
the possibility of a stab to the womb mounting of

833
00:45:16.730 --> 00:45:21.119 A:middle L:90%
the general exchanges of energy cut session, making love

834
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:22.070 A:middle L:90%
fund buddies, whatever you want it to be.

835
00:45:22.070 --> 00:45:27.030 A:middle L:90%
I still ain't dying over. No dick. I

836
00:45:27.030 --> 00:45:29.289 A:middle L:90%
don't know who a*** been with. You know

837
00:45:29.289 --> 00:45:30.800 A:middle L:90%
, they lie when they say they can tell.

838
00:45:31.389 --> 00:45:37.289 A:middle L:90%
Mhm. I had to do it again. And

839
00:45:37.289 --> 00:45:42.010 A:middle L:90%
though my soul may go to hell for carnal copulation

840
00:45:42.010 --> 00:45:45.639 A:middle L:90%
and unwary cohabitation, I shall not break the first

841
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.900 A:middle L:90%
rule of nature, which is self preservation on this

842
00:45:49.900 --> 00:45:52.539 A:middle L:90%
reserve. There's no game you can shoot. I've

843
00:45:52.539 --> 00:45:53.750 A:middle L:90%
heard all the lines. I won't end up living

844
00:45:53.750 --> 00:45:57.099 A:middle L:90%
proof. I know how to have sex girl.

845
00:45:58.789 --> 00:46:06.400 A:middle L:90%
Obviously not. You're not even prepared to begin.

846
00:46:06.409 --> 00:46:07.530 A:middle L:90%
Well, good. And let me stick their head

847
00:46:07.530 --> 00:46:14.119 A:middle L:90%
in. Not happening. Pre com travel just as

848
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:15.460 A:middle L:90%
good as a full load. I see myself with

849
00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:17.909 A:middle L:90%
only you girl that's having kids down the road.

850
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.619 A:middle L:90%
Your clavo wants is an annoyance because it seems you

851
00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:23.900 A:middle L:90%
want to get in your way. Stop selling your

852
00:46:23.900 --> 00:46:27.670 A:middle L:90%
wolf tickets. I ain't buying today. Who you

853
00:46:27.670 --> 00:46:30.099 A:middle L:90%
fucking with girl talking about me what you got?

854
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.369 A:middle L:90%
I got some sense and who else? I'm fucking

855
00:46:32.369 --> 00:46:36.199 A:middle L:90%
ain't part of this plot. It's definitely not a

856
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:37.239 A:middle L:90%
concern to you. If it is. Why are

857
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:42.130 A:middle L:90%
you so willing to have an unprotected screw futile attempts

858
00:46:42.130 --> 00:46:45.190 A:middle L:90%
at reverse psychology, insulting my intelligence. All designed

859
00:46:45.190 --> 00:46:47.969 A:middle L:90%
to hurt me, but nothing would hurt more than

860
00:46:47.969 --> 00:46:52.719 A:middle L:90%
the announcement of having HIV. I know I was

861
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.179 A:middle L:90%
fucking you wrong. But now there's a new law

862
00:46:54.190 --> 00:46:57.409 A:middle L:90%
. No glove, no love, no hat,

863
00:46:57.409 --> 00:47:00.010 A:middle L:90%
no cats, no banana with a pill, no

864
00:47:00.010 --> 00:47:06.190 A:middle L:90%
monkey. Maybe a feel. I understand this conflict

865
00:47:06.190 --> 00:47:07.619 A:middle L:90%
, but safe sex shouldn't be a question. Remiss

866
00:47:07.619 --> 00:47:12.050 A:middle L:90%
of race, orientation class braun or behavior. There

867
00:47:12.050 --> 00:47:15.579 A:middle L:90%
is no detection. It's not about trusting anyone.

868
00:47:15.590 --> 00:47:19.860 A:middle L:90%
It's about me honoring my reflection. Don't just strap

869
00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:22.010 A:middle L:90%
up for me, but for your own protection.

870
00:47:22.019 --> 00:47:30.119 A:middle L:90%
Thank you. Thank you. Like, Hey,

871
00:47:30.130 --> 00:47:31.730 A:middle L:90%
y'all get these cards right here. You have been

872
00:47:31.730 --> 00:47:34.179 A:middle L:90%
here a long time. So y'all take cards.

873
00:47:34.190 --> 00:47:36.260 A:middle L:90%
Take some cards with you. Go check out my

874
00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:38.199 A:middle L:90%
site. Tell your friends and stuff spread the world

875
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:39.579 A:middle L:90%
. Youtube baby. You've been here since the beginning

876
00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:42.869 A:middle L:90%
. So you get a card too. For y'all

877
00:47:42.869 --> 00:47:45.920 A:middle L:90%
leave up out of here. Thank you. So

878
00:47:45.929 --> 00:47:47.230 A:middle L:90%
, um, I don't know how much time I

879
00:47:47.230 --> 00:47:49.679 A:middle L:90%
got. I could just talk for days. Y'all

880
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:51.440 A:middle L:90%
know me well tonight. No, she don't talk

881
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:52.769 A:middle L:90%
to me on the phone. She didn't expect all

882
00:47:52.769 --> 00:47:57.019 A:middle L:90%
that. We're having life conversations and ship. Um

883
00:47:57.030 --> 00:48:00.690 A:middle L:90%
, how much more time I got you mean?

884
00:48:01.170 --> 00:48:04.889 A:middle L:90%
Okay, not until 8:15. Okay. Okay.

885
00:48:04.889 --> 00:48:05.889 A:middle L:90%
Okay. I just need to know. I just

886
00:48:05.889 --> 00:48:07.389 A:middle L:90%
don't want, I don't want to do you know

887
00:48:07.389 --> 00:48:08.300 A:middle L:90%
what I'm saying that overstayed my welcome. That's very

888
00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:12.900 A:middle L:90%
in southern. I am very Southern. Okay,

889
00:48:13.570 --> 00:48:17.190 A:middle L:90%
so this next piece I'm gonna do for y'all ha

890
00:48:19.170 --> 00:48:22.769 A:middle L:90%
It's rather racy trying to decide if I'm gonna do

891
00:48:22.769 --> 00:48:25.730 A:middle L:90%
it in front of these babies. Okay, now

892
00:48:25.739 --> 00:48:30.530 A:middle L:90%
, now, now this is the thing, see

893
00:48:30.530 --> 00:48:35.329 A:middle L:90%
y'all babies though, so y'all gonna be bashful because

894
00:48:35.329 --> 00:48:42.739 A:middle L:90%
this is real. Okay, now this this is

895
00:48:42.739 --> 00:48:45.570 A:middle L:90%
a group piece that I do with them. Some

896
00:48:45.570 --> 00:48:47.289 A:middle L:90%
of the ladies of Adam's rib, Adam's rib is

897
00:48:47.289 --> 00:48:51.900 A:middle L:90%
an all female collective. I have uh when you're

898
00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:52.329 A:middle L:90%
in this poetry game and women, when you get

899
00:48:52.329 --> 00:48:55.349 A:middle L:90%
in this game, most places you go, it's

900
00:48:55.349 --> 00:48:59.519 A:middle L:90%
gonna be usually less women. And so a lot

901
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.610 A:middle L:90%
of times women compete, but I want to impart

902
00:49:01.610 --> 00:49:06.449 A:middle L:90%
upon everybody in here, ladies pussy ain't got no

903
00:49:06.449 --> 00:49:08.269 A:middle L:90%
face waste of race. It just feels good.

904
00:49:08.269 --> 00:49:10.469 A:middle L:90%
So you ain't got no reason to be competing with

905
00:49:10.469 --> 00:49:15.969 A:middle L:90%
nobody. Never fight or argue or have dissension with

906
00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:17.900 A:middle L:90%
any woman over a man, you lame as hell

907
00:49:17.900 --> 00:49:21.570 A:middle L:90%
off gate, you will bust a bit off back

908
00:49:21.579 --> 00:49:25.460 A:middle L:90%
because he can make his decision as to who he

909
00:49:25.460 --> 00:49:28.780 A:middle L:90%
want to be with. That ain't for you to

910
00:49:28.780 --> 00:49:30.780 A:middle L:90%
be up there fighting no female over that. That's

911
00:49:30.780 --> 00:49:38.380 A:middle L:90%
just unacceptable ratchet nous at its highest. So this

912
00:49:38.380 --> 00:49:40.800 A:middle L:90%
piece right here is an empowerment peace and like I

913
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:43.159 A:middle L:90%
said, I do it with these young ladies and

914
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.449 A:middle L:90%
Adam's rib. What is that noise girl? You

915
00:49:46.449 --> 00:49:49.079 A:middle L:90%
know I hear that noise. You act like,

916
00:49:49.090 --> 00:49:51.349 A:middle L:90%
who is that was that, jesus? What was

917
00:49:51.349 --> 00:49:53.289 A:middle L:90%
that she was listening to. It's all good.

918
00:49:53.769 --> 00:50:00.130 A:middle L:90%
She listened in the future and ship I? D

919
00:50:00.130 --> 00:50:10.320 A:middle L:90%
Love and affection. Uh, Adam's rib. Adam's

920
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.289 A:middle L:90%
rib is an all female collective of some of the

921
00:50:13.289 --> 00:50:15.119 A:middle L:90%
best female poets in the country because when you are

922
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.090 A:middle L:90%
a female in this game the same and particularly the

923
00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:21.800 A:middle L:90%
man try to pit you against each other, they

924
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.199 A:middle L:90%
say stuff like you the best girl or you the

925
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:27.260 A:middle L:90%
best out of all the girls***. Then I

926
00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:30.059 A:middle L:90%
beat you in every slam this year. I think

927
00:50:30.059 --> 00:50:32.789 A:middle L:90%
I'm better than all you guys to some best period

928
00:50:32.789 --> 00:50:36.019 A:middle L:90%
***. What the is wrong that I, you

929
00:50:36.019 --> 00:50:38.119 A:middle L:90%
know, I have to bring myself back, you

930
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.780 A:middle L:90%
know, so Adams read was formed and I,

931
00:50:42.780 --> 00:50:45.719 A:middle L:90%
and I've always been a girl's girl and a guy's

932
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:47.659 A:middle L:90%
girl. I've never had problems with women. Um

933
00:50:47.670 --> 00:50:50.900 A:middle L:90%
, I still have the same friends from first grade

934
00:50:50.909 --> 00:50:52.019 A:middle L:90%
, every friend I've ever had, still my friend

935
00:50:52.019 --> 00:50:53.710 A:middle L:90%
. Every time I make a friend there still here

936
00:50:53.710 --> 00:50:55.239 A:middle L:90%
, I'm just like, my mom was like,

937
00:50:55.250 --> 00:50:59.639 A:middle L:90%
you have too many friends and I'm like, I

938
00:50:59.650 --> 00:51:00.380 A:middle L:90%
don't, I don't want them all, you know

939
00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:02.769 A:middle L:90%
what I'm saying? But it just happened, they

940
00:51:02.769 --> 00:51:06.139 A:middle L:90%
just keep, they just say so, but Adam's

941
00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:08.280 A:middle L:90%
rib consists of sunny patterson. If you notice people

942
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:13.079 A:middle L:90%
raise your hands, sunny patterson. Go look up

943
00:51:13.460 --> 00:51:20.489 A:middle L:90%
emerald green Teresa, the songbird. Tasha jones,

944
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:27.090 A:middle L:90%
Scorpio blues ruckus out of Denver, dana Gilmore?

945
00:51:27.099 --> 00:51:29.690 A:middle L:90%
I know y'all college has got no dana Gilmore.

946
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:31.119 A:middle L:90%
Damn, I'm putting these beaches on. They need

947
00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:36.309 A:middle L:90%
to pay me um, um, Israelite from Brooklyn

948
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:37.380 A:middle L:90%
and queens. Sheba, Y'all ain't never heard of

949
00:51:37.380 --> 00:51:39.039 A:middle L:90%
Queen Sheba. Of course it's Virginia. That's her

950
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:43.280 A:middle L:90%
home. So anyway, we come together, we

951
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.599 A:middle L:90%
do shows, we, we help each other out

952
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:46.889 A:middle L:90%
and it's all because I have this, this theory

953
00:51:46.900 --> 00:51:52.929 A:middle L:90%
, miserable bitches hate bad bitches unite. Well,

954
00:51:52.929 --> 00:51:54.030 A:middle L:90%
beautiful because Tasha would kill me. She don't never

955
00:51:54.030 --> 00:51:55.980 A:middle L:90%
use the B word. She's like you around here

956
00:51:55.980 --> 00:51:58.579 A:middle L:90%
like that, which made Matthew over the corner one

957
00:51:58.579 --> 00:52:01.150 A:middle L:90%
beautiful. Like every time you come out your mouth

958
00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:04.639 A:middle L:90%
, why she gotta be a bitch's Georgia because she's

959
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:06.469 A:middle L:90%
a bitched Tasha. She's a bit, she's like

960
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.349 A:middle L:90%
, no, she just misunderstood funk that, that

961
00:52:09.349 --> 00:52:15.250 A:middle L:90%
ratchet ho is something So um, this piece right

962
00:52:15.250 --> 00:52:19.420 A:middle L:90%
here is done with me, Teresa Emerald and ruckus

963
00:52:19.429 --> 00:52:21.849 A:middle L:90%
and Tasha had a verse but she dropped out because

964
00:52:21.849 --> 00:52:22.559 A:middle L:90%
she just ain't used to doing around three poetry.

965
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:24.260 A:middle L:90%
She was like, I just don't feel comfortable.

966
00:52:24.269 --> 00:52:25.940 A:middle L:90%
And then she had sent all her poetry to her

967
00:52:25.940 --> 00:52:29.190 A:middle L:90%
pastor, which are you gonna send some ships like

968
00:52:29.190 --> 00:52:32.760 A:middle L:90%
this to your pastor like that. Yes, she

969
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.309 A:middle L:90%
did. So, um, I'm gonna say it

970
00:52:36.309 --> 00:52:37.809 A:middle L:90%
and you all are gonna repeat. Okay, now

971
00:52:37.809 --> 00:52:40.150 A:middle L:90%
I'm gonna say it twice myself. So y'all can

972
00:52:40.150 --> 00:52:44.179 A:middle L:90%
catch on to what it is. Okay, Some

973
00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:45.590 A:middle L:90%
of y'all might have seen this on youtube. It's

974
00:52:45.590 --> 00:52:47.340 A:middle L:90%
under that section. That ain't what it's called.

975
00:52:47.340 --> 00:53:00.750 A:middle L:90%
It's called Ride. Reid me me me. I

976
00:53:00.750 --> 00:53:02.579 A:middle L:90%
want to ride your face. I want to ride

977
00:53:02.579 --> 00:53:06.559 A:middle L:90%
your face. I want to ride your face.

978
00:53:06.570 --> 00:53:12.909 A:middle L:90%
I want it from the back. I want it

979
00:53:12.909 --> 00:53:20.019 A:middle L:90%
from the back. I want to hear my name

980
00:53:20.030 --> 00:53:23.929 A:middle L:90%
. I want to hear my name cause there ain't

981
00:53:23.929 --> 00:53:32.170 A:middle L:90%
no Shane. My fucking gang almost caught one almost

982
00:53:43.250 --> 00:53:46.630 A:middle L:90%
. He coming in. Oh, you're looking at

983
00:53:46.639 --> 00:54:15.510 A:middle L:90%
a we went from giving it up to taking it

984
00:54:15.510 --> 00:54:20.789 A:middle L:90%
from my own ego. No, not ho more

985
00:54:20.789 --> 00:54:23.849 A:middle L:90%
like conqueror. I'm the one fondling. You never

986
00:54:23.849 --> 00:54:27.159 A:middle L:90%
had a woman with so much aggression. I'm pressing

987
00:54:27.170 --> 00:54:29.929 A:middle L:90%
. I desire your strength. Your hold, Truth

988
00:54:29.929 --> 00:54:32.789 A:middle L:90%
be told. Lifetime made would be great. But

989
00:54:32.789 --> 00:54:37.389 A:middle L:90%
I just want to fuck you. The smile got

990
00:54:37.389 --> 00:54:38.190 A:middle L:90%
me off gate match with dimples a bit. You

991
00:54:38.190 --> 00:54:43.300 A:middle L:90%
could sleep in and then and then and then had

992
00:54:43.300 --> 00:54:45.150 A:middle L:90%
the nerve to walk in dragging like you packing I

993
00:54:45.150 --> 00:54:49.059 A:middle L:90%
believe because your slacks ain't slacking behind. Not lacking

994
00:54:49.070 --> 00:54:52.849 A:middle L:90%
fact is a woman knows whether or not if a

995
00:54:52.849 --> 00:54:54.800 A:middle L:90%
man can make her hot. Don't worry about finding

996
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:57.630 A:middle L:90%
my spot. I'll make a map. Become a

997
00:54:57.630 --> 00:55:00.480 A:middle L:90%
surveyor. I'm pervading for the perfect osteria, prominent

998
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:04.960 A:middle L:90%
protruding penis. Partner got the meanest the meaning like

999
00:55:04.969 --> 00:55:07.699 A:middle L:90%
you like yourself. At least. I hope you

1000
00:55:07.699 --> 00:55:10.010 A:middle L:90%
do know you're worthy of this gift. This prize

1001
00:55:10.010 --> 00:55:13.820 A:middle L:90%
. This trophy. Just some men's point of view

1002
00:55:13.829 --> 00:55:15.730 A:middle L:90%
. You think you fucking me now. Sharky.

1003
00:55:15.739 --> 00:55:22.960 A:middle L:90%
I'm fucking you. I let you believe mission achieved

1004
00:55:22.969 --> 00:55:24.409 A:middle L:90%
. Not trying to deceive. I just need to

1005
00:55:24.409 --> 00:55:28.389 A:middle L:90%
relieve myself from some of the stress, a distraction

1006
00:55:28.389 --> 00:55:30.489 A:middle L:90%
from the daily trials and you happen to be the

1007
00:55:30.489 --> 00:55:31.760 A:middle L:90%
best candidate to catch my eye in a while.

1008
00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:35.829 A:middle L:90%
So don't call file. You just didn't run this

1009
00:55:35.829 --> 00:55:38.469 A:middle L:90%
play. Don't get mad that you ran this way

1010
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.579 A:middle L:90%
. I summoned you over from across the room licking

1011
00:55:43.579 --> 00:55:45.389 A:middle L:90%
my lips. I know what you assume. So

1012
00:55:45.389 --> 00:55:47.340 A:middle L:90%
. You persuaded me to go gaze at the moon

1013
00:55:47.349 --> 00:55:51.420 A:middle L:90%
populated by the ancestors ruling Orishas. I'd be all

1014
00:55:51.420 --> 00:55:57.690 A:middle L:90%
your right now we're not soon bullshit like wind.

1015
00:55:57.690 --> 00:56:00.110 A:middle L:90%
I start gentle like the breeze kissing on your neck

1016
00:56:00.110 --> 00:56:01.260 A:middle L:90%
. I feel the buckling of your knees staying strong

1017
00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:05.050 A:middle L:90%
baby. I haven't even ruffled the trees, sucking

1018
00:56:05.050 --> 00:56:07.010 A:middle L:90%
on the loads of your ear, your hands find

1019
00:56:07.010 --> 00:56:08.039 A:middle L:90%
their way to my rear, I push you back

1020
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:09.969 A:middle L:90%
, grab your belt, caught off guard, You

1021
00:56:09.969 --> 00:56:13.639 A:middle L:90%
look for help under siege, but you don't mind

1022
00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:15.510 A:middle L:90%
the capture Jacking your dick with my jaw, feels

1023
00:56:15.510 --> 00:56:22.320 A:middle L:90%
like the rapture after the eruption you fall over your

1024
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:24.670 A:middle L:90%
body. I begin to crawl. I struggle your

1025
00:56:24.670 --> 00:56:28.199 A:middle L:90%
pride for a monument to ride as I catch my

1026
00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:30.619 A:middle L:90%
stride, your eyes and mouth open wide fucking me

1027
00:56:30.619 --> 00:56:34.880 A:middle L:90%
, You moan inside confusing all over your face.

1028
00:56:34.889 --> 00:56:37.059 A:middle L:90%
You grabbed my waist to slow my pace. I

1029
00:56:37.070 --> 00:56:38.340 A:middle L:90%
didn't know a big girl could be this flexible.

1030
00:56:38.730 --> 00:56:43.139 A:middle L:90%
Yes, this pussy is impeccable, feels so good

1031
00:56:43.139 --> 00:56:45.420 A:middle L:90%
. The taste is delectable. Betcha this pussy is

1032
00:56:45.429 --> 00:56:53.059 A:middle L:90%
edible, trying to turn the tables. You flipped

1033
00:56:53.059 --> 00:56:55.519 A:middle L:90%
me on my back, spread my legs and begin

1034
00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:59.030 A:middle L:90%
licking my cat. You think you're in control?

1035
00:56:59.030 --> 00:57:01.969 A:middle L:90%
I knew you would do that. Most male egos

1036
00:57:01.969 --> 00:57:05.400 A:middle L:90%
can't withstand the thought of a woman having the upper

1037
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.670 A:middle L:90%
hand though in this deal. No one loses.

1038
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:10.590 A:middle L:90%
So why be concerned with who chooses? We both

1039
00:57:10.590 --> 00:57:13.800 A:middle L:90%
reached the climax both with a kool Aid smile.

1040
00:57:13.809 --> 00:57:15.070 A:middle L:90%
Then I thought of that pass up in the air

1041
00:57:15.070 --> 00:57:17.010 A:middle L:90%
time for doggy style. You get all riled up

1042
00:57:17.019 --> 00:57:21.139 A:middle L:90%
and raring to go. Another indicator as to who's

1043
00:57:21.139 --> 00:57:27.039 A:middle L:90%
running the show me men talk themselves out of the

1044
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:30.139 A:middle L:90%
postseason. They talk up on you think it's your

1045
00:57:30.139 --> 00:57:31.250 A:middle L:90%
game. You better thank the patron. The gray

1046
00:57:31.250 --> 00:57:36.030 A:middle L:90%
goose canvas create absolute Hennessy kush. Perc drove whatever

1047
00:57:36.030 --> 00:57:38.769 A:middle L:90%
it takes or allows me to call you baby and

1048
00:57:38.769 --> 00:57:43.809 A:middle L:90%
boo. You think you fund me? No shorty

1049
00:57:43.820 --> 00:57:45.599 A:middle L:90%
? I fucked you. I want to ride your

1050
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:52.210 A:middle L:90%
face. I want to ride your face. I

1051
00:57:52.219 --> 00:57:58.199 A:middle L:90%
wanted from the back. I want it from the

1052
00:57:58.210 --> 00:58:04.739 A:middle L:90%
back. I want to hear my name. I

1053
00:58:04.750 --> 00:58:12.250 A:middle L:90%
want to hear my name cause there ain't no shame

1054
00:58:12.260 --> 00:58:22.739 A:middle L:90%
in my fucking game. I now I like to

1055
00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:25.260 A:middle L:90%
a lot of time for questions. Mhm Let's see

1056
00:58:25.260 --> 00:58:29.360 A:middle L:90%
what time it is. Oh yeah, Well we

1057
00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:30.289 A:middle L:90%
got enough time for me to answer a couple questions

1058
00:58:30.289 --> 00:58:32.739 A:middle L:90%
. Anybody got any questions, comments, concerns,

1059
00:58:34.420 --> 00:58:38.690 A:middle L:90%
period about anything. They don't, I'm born and

1060
00:58:38.690 --> 00:58:43.230 A:middle L:90%
bred Atlanta Georgia 80 s. Are you hip and

1061
00:58:43.230 --> 00:58:50.429 A:middle L:90%
ship anybody else? Don't be bashful as free as

1062
00:58:50.429 --> 00:58:55.940 A:middle L:90%
I've been up here. Uh Are you serious?

1063
00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.489 A:middle L:90%
I'm southern and you southern to, you know,

1064
00:59:00.489 --> 00:59:05.139 A:middle L:90%
a southern woman. Don't tell their age. You

1065
00:59:05.139 --> 00:59:09.409 A:middle L:90%
are beautiful. No, I'm 37 years old.

1066
00:59:09.420 --> 00:59:13.420 A:middle L:90%
I have a 13 year old son. His name

1067
00:59:13.420 --> 00:59:19.349 A:middle L:90%
is wisdom, Wisdom and Sheila harper king. And

1068
00:59:19.349 --> 00:59:20.760 A:middle L:90%
when he was four years old, he said,

1069
00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:22.710 A:middle L:90%
mom, don't call me wisdom. Don't call me

1070
00:59:22.710 --> 00:59:22.929 A:middle L:90%
, I don't wanna be called wisdom no more.

1071
00:59:22.929 --> 00:59:25.429 A:middle L:90%
And I was just devastated. This*** told me

1072
00:59:25.429 --> 00:59:35.809 A:middle L:90%
called him the greatest At four at four. This

1073
00:59:35.809 --> 00:59:37.900 A:middle L:90%
is the kind of Ego idea where he's 13 now

1074
00:59:37.900 --> 00:59:39.079 A:middle L:90%
. So he just oh my God. And he

1075
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:45.900 A:middle L:90%
wears size 12 shoe. That's true. four dimples

1076
00:59:45.900 --> 00:59:47.730 A:middle L:90%
and shipped like. Mhm. I've been telling my

1077
00:59:47.730 --> 00:59:50.250 A:middle L:90%
son since five hoes. Ain't ship. Do you

1078
00:59:50.250 --> 00:59:52.380 A:middle L:90%
understand me? So, but that's my plight to

1079
00:59:52.380 --> 00:59:55.119 A:middle L:90%
raise wisdom. Any questions, comments concerns about,

1080
00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:57.469 A:middle L:90%
you know, I was on broadway. That's true

1081
00:59:57.480 --> 00:59:59.239 A:middle L:90%
. I'm sorry, wait a minute. I want

1082
00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:00.289 A:middle L:90%
to bring up this brother to do some poetry.

1083
01:00:00.289 --> 01:00:01.880 A:middle L:90%
He drove me up here And if y'all ever in

1084
01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:05.289 A:middle L:90%
the Richmond area. So you better say something cause

1085
01:00:05.289 --> 01:00:07.880 A:middle L:90%
you know, I just keep on going um in

1086
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:09.030 A:middle L:90%
the Richmond area. He is a staple. He

1087
01:00:09.030 --> 01:00:10.780 A:middle L:90%
had several might. So y'all you know, go

1088
01:00:10.789 --> 01:00:15.489 A:middle L:90%
check him out on facebook um twitter him and his

1089
01:00:15.489 --> 01:00:17.190 A:middle L:90%
partner. They put shows on in Richmond and maybe

1090
01:00:17.190 --> 01:00:19.320 A:middle L:90%
they'll be able to put one on up here.

1091
01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:28.250 A:middle L:90%
Put your hands together for choose the poet. How

1092
01:00:28.250 --> 01:00:38.820 A:middle L:90%
you doing? Yeah. Uh that's funny. But

1093
01:00:38.820 --> 01:00:43.289 A:middle L:90%
this is one of my item. Thank you.

1094
01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:45.210 A:middle L:90%
Thank you. Thank you. So we was blessed

1095
01:00:45.219 --> 01:00:46.780 A:middle L:90%
. I happen to be friends with one of her

1096
01:00:46.780 --> 01:00:50.730 A:middle L:90%
dear friends. So that's how the universe works.

1097
01:00:51.210 --> 01:00:52.719 A:middle L:90%
We got to talk and she said I can bring

1098
01:00:52.719 --> 01:01:10.340 A:middle L:90%
Georgia down with Que 5 6. Okay. Just

1099
01:01:10.340 --> 01:01:15.329 A:middle L:90%
like but she's definitely been oppressing to me. So

1100
01:01:15.809 --> 01:01:21.500 A:middle L:90%
I'm Michelle before. It's like I walked this road

1101
01:01:21.510 --> 01:01:22.760 A:middle L:90%
before but I'm not sure. But some would say

1102
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:27.179 A:middle L:90%
I should be c'est divorces in my head and I

1103
01:01:27.179 --> 01:01:30.210 A:middle L:90%
know it sounds crazy but it's it's like they gave

1104
01:01:30.210 --> 01:01:35.239 A:middle L:90%
me a key in. Now I see now I

1105
01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:38.769 A:middle L:90%
see the future of me the weed But lesson after

1106
01:01:38.769 --> 01:01:43.809 A:middle L:90%
lesson I'm reminded that I'm still incomplete like that decoration

1107
01:01:43.809 --> 01:01:45.510 A:middle L:90%
and independently took those souls away from me. See

1108
01:01:45.510 --> 01:01:49.429 A:middle L:90%
with the it was the screams that woke me in

1109
01:01:49.909 --> 01:01:54.909 A:middle L:90%
. Now I see now I see dispute me the

1110
01:01:54.909 --> 01:01:58.769 A:middle L:90%
we walking over the standards of the 3/5 love once

1111
01:01:58.769 --> 01:02:00.739 A:middle L:90%
in a visible wall but not tall enough to hide

1112
01:02:00.739 --> 01:02:04.500 A:middle L:90%
the great secret to show why I be a spark

1113
01:02:04.500 --> 01:02:07.159 A:middle L:90%
in the eyes of a toes and fuel. Yes

1114
01:02:07.170 --> 01:02:09.400 A:middle L:90%
. One million strong men and women voices and harmonies

1115
01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:16.719 A:middle L:90%
saying now I see now we're gonna see dispute beyond

1116
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.780 A:middle L:90%
the gates bars and fences. The count towns and

1117
01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:22.070 A:middle L:90%
miss visit this place to change you if you let

1118
01:02:22.070 --> 01:02:24.579 A:middle L:90%
it a new birth of deception is mounted on the

1119
01:02:24.590 --> 01:02:30.159 A:middle L:90%
backs of the broken. I guess some things should

1120
01:02:30.170 --> 01:02:34.909 A:middle L:90%
be spoken, regurgitating their lives that made these true

1121
01:02:34.909 --> 01:02:37.289 A:middle L:90%
self evident. The time is systematic. The desire

1122
01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:39.679 A:middle L:90%
for a real change is lacking in the valley where

1123
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:44.320 A:middle L:90%
the dry bones where they drop bones, they sleep

1124
01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:49.820 A:middle L:90%
, john holden stay sleep. Now I see now

1125
01:02:49.820 --> 01:02:53.000 A:middle L:90%
I see huge through the eyes of the ancient They

1126
01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:54.840 A:middle L:90%
have painted the will that they thought so. My

1127
01:02:54.849 --> 01:03:00.309 A:middle L:90%
mentor. Yes. Evolution, evolution is what I've

1128
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.650 A:middle L:90%
been through and I'm honored to give thanks because now

1129
01:03:02.650 --> 01:03:09.849 A:middle L:90%
I see, I see future hold up. Why

1130
01:03:09.849 --> 01:03:15.480 A:middle L:90%
should I be ashamed about love by existence? It's

1131
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:17.210 A:middle L:90%
true prophecy. See, my life, it hasn't

1132
01:03:17.210 --> 01:03:21.559 A:middle L:90%
been that much. The true and dangerous species before

1133
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:22.969 A:middle L:90%
martin Luther king's dream. It was a nightmare.

1134
01:03:22.969 --> 01:03:27.880 A:middle L:90%
Not on Helm Street, but on Richmond Street.

1135
01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.750 A:middle L:90%
See we was the 100 before America's most wanted.

1136
01:03:30.750 --> 01:03:31.500 A:middle L:90%
You wanted, you could get it just twitter,

1137
01:03:31.500 --> 01:03:35.750 A:middle L:90%
you're thanking the senior homes, drink abusive drinking,

1138
01:03:37.590 --> 01:03:40.360 A:middle L:90%
leave your mind is wicked. 100 years of tension

1139
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.860 A:middle L:90%
has changed. My range of emotions like the ocean

1140
01:03:43.860 --> 01:03:46.610 A:middle L:90%
where means of died just for a ride of others

1141
01:03:47.500 --> 01:03:50.460 A:middle L:90%
. A noble sacrifice for their rights. Just to

1142
01:03:50.469 --> 01:03:53.719 A:middle L:90%
be free experience. You know what I mean?

1143
01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:58.250 A:middle L:90%
I guess not because you have lost your backbone in

1144
01:03:58.250 --> 01:04:00.420 A:middle L:90%
your house, has never been your homeland or mother

1145
01:04:00.420 --> 01:04:02.150 A:middle L:90%
after. Please help us because we have lost that

1146
01:04:02.150 --> 01:04:05.150 A:middle L:90%
way. Is it me or is my mind going

1147
01:04:05.150 --> 01:04:08.199 A:middle L:90%
crazy with the band being talent in the mind to

1148
01:04:08.210 --> 01:04:10.380 A:middle L:90%
make my mind confused by the way we lose.

1149
01:04:10.389 --> 01:04:12.760 A:middle L:90%
Don't be surprised. It's time to fly to the

1150
01:04:12.769 --> 01:04:15.920 A:middle L:90%
greatness of our ancestors. I hope you hear me

1151
01:04:16.090 --> 01:04:19.599 A:middle L:90%
. Maybe future is yours to mold by any means

1152
01:04:24.989 --> 01:04:28.090 A:middle L:90%
. No, I cried tears late at night.

1153
01:04:28.099 --> 01:04:30.969 A:middle L:90%
Thinking of having your tub despite there's something that sounds

1154
01:04:30.969 --> 01:04:36.809 A:middle L:90%
right. Yeah. To your autonomy. No,

1155
01:04:36.820 --> 01:04:45.309 A:middle L:90%
I focus the home. Yes. You see Eve

1156
01:04:45.690 --> 01:04:46.389 A:middle L:90%
She was the independent one. But the dependent.

1157
01:04:46.389 --> 01:04:48.800 A:middle L:90%
OkCupid and drawing strength from the balcony of the day

1158
01:04:49.289 --> 01:04:51.460 A:middle L:90%
dropping and thinking of it. Now picking up the

1159
01:04:51.469 --> 01:04:54.940 A:middle L:90%
thinking of the heathen child is just not my mother

1160
01:04:54.949 --> 01:04:58.710 A:middle L:90%
africa the richest of the ritual walk called natural switch

1161
01:04:59.690 --> 01:05:02.010 A:middle L:90%
for resolution because now for revolution in the streets,

1162
01:05:02.590 --> 01:05:05.610 A:middle L:90%
society and the suites whatever happened to words like family

1163
01:05:06.090 --> 01:05:11.530 A:middle L:90%
humility. Yeah, I guess it's non existent together

1164
01:05:11.530 --> 01:05:13.969 A:middle L:90%
. Thinking being black. It's all about the paul

1165
01:05:15.989 --> 01:05:19.920 A:middle L:90%
. Right. When the did it. Yes,

1166
01:05:20.889 --> 01:05:27.750 A:middle L:90%
I'm finished with you. Thanks rosa Parks at this

1167
01:05:27.750 --> 01:05:30.230 A:middle L:90%
stage. The bomb and the four little girls set

1168
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:31.820 A:middle L:90%
the race Malcolm X did in my name. Don't

1169
01:05:31.829 --> 01:05:35.690 A:middle L:90%
be ashamed if the light came from the dark.

1170
01:05:35.699 --> 01:05:39.079 A:middle L:90%
Doesn't it make the dark the essence of the truth

1171
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:42.539 A:middle L:90%
that the light manifests economics was the reason then.

1172
01:05:42.539 --> 01:05:48.730 A:middle L:90%
And the reason. Just look around. Mhm Yeah

1173
01:05:51.889 --> 01:06:08.630 A:middle L:90%
. Yeah. Was the streets that maybe facebook I'm

1174
01:06:08.630 --> 01:06:12.179 A:middle L:90%
gonna tell y'all something. The poetry world has a

1175
01:06:12.179 --> 01:06:15.809 A:middle L:90%
very diverse group of people. You know, that's

1176
01:06:15.809 --> 01:06:17.039 A:middle L:90%
the killer right there. I want you to know

1177
01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:17.940 A:middle L:90%
that right now. You know what I'm saying?

1178
01:06:17.940 --> 01:06:20.150 A:middle L:90%
That***, I don't know if you're killing that

1179
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:24.900 A:middle L:90%
. But no, seriously? Like real talk people

1180
01:06:24.900 --> 01:06:26.570 A:middle L:90%
think that everybody in the poetry world that, you

1181
01:06:26.570 --> 01:06:28.170 A:middle L:90%
know, it's all, you know, love peace

1182
01:06:28.170 --> 01:06:30.199 A:middle L:90%
and hair grease and I shake and all that.

1183
01:06:30.780 --> 01:06:31.530 A:middle L:90%
A lot of people do porches, porches so they

1184
01:06:31.530 --> 01:06:33.710 A:middle L:90%
don't know, murder people. They don't walk around

1185
01:06:33.710 --> 01:06:35.239 A:middle L:90%
here just, you know, like, I know

1186
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:36.789 A:middle L:90%
I just be slapping people are burning back then the

1187
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.900 A:middle L:90%
head of state when he's just walking through the airport

1188
01:06:39.909 --> 01:06:40.940 A:middle L:90%
. There's so many people, I want to do

1189
01:06:40.940 --> 01:06:42.380 A:middle L:90%
that too. I just swear to God, that's

1190
01:06:42.380 --> 01:06:44.860 A:middle L:90%
the best thing in the world. I love that

1191
01:06:44.860 --> 01:06:47.449 A:middle L:90%
thing. So, y'all gonna know more about this

1192
01:06:47.449 --> 01:06:50.159 A:middle L:90%
poetry where if you all like me and some of

1193
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:54.320 A:middle L:90%
the names I gave you, look these people up

1194
01:06:54.329 --> 01:06:57.650 A:middle L:90%
let them know. Tell other people about the poets

1195
01:06:57.650 --> 01:07:00.039 A:middle L:90%
that you like because our art form has not been

1196
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:00.960 A:middle L:90%
defined. That's why everybody think they can do it

1197
01:07:00.969 --> 01:07:03.090 A:middle L:90%
and everybody not good at it. And you need

1198
01:07:03.090 --> 01:07:06.699 A:middle L:90%
to understand that there's a difference between professional and aspiring

1199
01:07:08.980 --> 01:07:13.639 A:middle L:90%
. Do you understand me***? You just got

1200
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:18.389 A:middle L:90%
here. You already vocal. I mean, it's

1201
01:07:18.389 --> 01:07:19.650 A:middle L:90%
all good. You know what I'm saying? But

1202
01:07:19.650 --> 01:07:24.000 A:middle L:90%
you could have been here for the show. But

1203
01:07:24.010 --> 01:07:25.519 A:middle L:90%
some other part How many, y'all ever heard of

1204
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:29.920 A:middle L:90%
Black Ice? Um some other people, y'all want

1205
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:30.269 A:middle L:90%
, y'all to look at this brother, his name

1206
01:07:30.269 --> 01:07:31.969 A:middle L:90%
is will the real one. He's no longer with

1207
01:07:31.969 --> 01:07:34.030 A:middle L:90%
us, but he's one of the best to ever

1208
01:07:34.030 --> 01:07:36.929 A:middle L:90%
do it. He was murdered outside his poetry spot

1209
01:07:36.940 --> 01:07:42.059 A:middle L:90%
in Miami. This is real. One of my

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01:07:42.059 --> 01:07:43.800 A:middle L:90%
friends. This ain't no game. Like we live

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01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:45.880 A:middle L:90%
our lives doing this. Like when you're a spoken

1212
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:49.380 A:middle L:90%
word artist, it's not just sometimes at night you

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01:07:49.380 --> 01:07:51.300 A:middle L:90%
sit and write, you wake up doing this.

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01:07:51.679 --> 01:07:55.139 A:middle L:90%
If you're not writing, you're working to find a

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01:07:55.139 --> 01:07:58.409 A:middle L:90%
way to work or you'll find a way to diversify

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01:07:58.780 --> 01:08:00.809 A:middle L:90%
as George and me. I have lady Girl productions

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01:08:00.809 --> 01:08:03.519 A:middle L:90%
where we put on productions. Um, I brought

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01:08:03.530 --> 01:08:05.590 A:middle L:90%
, I've produced a show of Saul Williams coming to

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01:08:05.590 --> 01:08:09.639 A:middle L:90%
Atlanta. I've done passion and poetry at center stage

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01:08:09.650 --> 01:08:11.420 A:middle L:90%
. I've done several, several shows, but I

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01:08:11.420 --> 01:08:13.500 A:middle L:90%
also have a tv show that I just wrapped in

1222
01:08:13.500 --> 01:08:15.750 A:middle L:90%
december. It'll be every, every week on Youtube

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01:08:15.750 --> 01:08:19.380 A:middle L:90%
signal 23 starting um, in May, I didn't

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01:08:19.380 --> 01:08:23.390 A:middle L:90%
tell y'all, but I have my own day.

1225
01:08:25.569 --> 01:08:28.890 A:middle L:90%
Like really my city gave me my own day.

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01:08:29.270 --> 01:08:30.350 A:middle L:90%
So May four is Tamika Georgia, ME, Harper

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01:08:30.350 --> 01:08:33.340 A:middle L:90%
Day and we, you know what you do when

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01:08:33.340 --> 01:08:34.310 A:middle L:90%
you get a date, you don't know what the

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01:08:34.310 --> 01:08:36.460 A:middle L:90%
hell to do, you know? So I was

1230
01:08:36.460 --> 01:08:40.520 A:middle L:90%
like, we're gonna read pray and turn up.

1231
01:08:41.380 --> 01:08:45.090 A:middle L:90%
So, um, what happened was, we decided

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01:08:45.100 --> 01:08:49.960 A:middle L:90%
to have a fair called Tamika Fair and it went

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01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:54.250 A:middle L:90%
from a two day fair to a three day festival

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01:08:54.260 --> 01:08:57.850 A:middle L:90%
to afford a festival to an eight day festival to

1235
01:08:57.850 --> 01:08:59.470 A:middle L:90%
, it almost killed me last year. We back

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01:08:59.470 --> 01:09:01.020 A:middle L:90%
down to five this year. And this is the

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01:09:01.020 --> 01:09:05.039 A:middle L:90%
fifth year and we're honoring um, escape. We

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01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:08.930 A:middle L:90%
was honoring candy, but now we're honoring the whole

1239
01:09:08.930 --> 01:09:10.600 A:middle L:90%
group that you took too long to call back.

1240
01:09:10.609 --> 01:09:14.289 A:middle L:90%
Okay. So we're honoring Escape and we're honoring Goodie

1241
01:09:14.289 --> 01:09:16.590 A:middle L:90%
mob and we're honoring this um, this man named

1242
01:09:16.590 --> 01:09:20.800 A:middle L:90%
Freddie Hendrix. He has a school and he's taught

1243
01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:25.319 A:middle L:90%
so many Atlanta youth acting, singing and dancing,

1244
01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:29.010 A:middle L:90%
Y'all know d woods from danity Kane. She wanted

1245
01:09:29.010 --> 01:09:30.380 A:middle L:90%
his um, students. Mika means you ever heard

1246
01:09:30.380 --> 01:09:33.119 A:middle L:90%
of her? She, she ain't all that.

1247
01:09:33.130 --> 01:09:35.939 A:middle L:90%
But anyway, she ain't shot. Like I'm so

1248
01:09:35.939 --> 01:09:41.359 A:middle L:90%
unimpressed. But, but Robbie, if y'all get

1249
01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:43.619 A:middle L:90%
a chance, go on Youtube and see this brother

1250
01:09:43.619 --> 01:09:45.909 A:middle L:90%
named rob B R A H B. I when

1251
01:09:45.909 --> 01:09:49.779 A:middle L:90%
I say he prints on 1000 I am not joking

1252
01:09:49.779 --> 01:09:51.659 A:middle L:90%
like Erica when she comes to Atlanta, she has

1253
01:09:51.659 --> 01:09:54.729 A:middle L:90%
him open for her. Do you understand? That's

1254
01:09:54.729 --> 01:09:56.750 A:middle L:90%
how good he is. He is so amazing.

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01:09:56.750 --> 01:09:58.409 A:middle L:90%
He's one of his students. So we want to

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01:09:58.420 --> 01:10:00.199 A:middle L:90%
honor my favorite teacher last year. MS linda smith

1257
01:10:00.210 --> 01:10:02.279 A:middle L:90%
every year we honor an educator or a teacher or

1258
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:04.569 A:middle L:90%
someone who makes a difference to the community. And

1259
01:10:04.579 --> 01:10:06.409 A:middle L:90%
um, it's the Tamika festival. So if y'all

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01:10:06.409 --> 01:10:09.340 A:middle L:90%
can't come this year because y'all probably got finals or

1261
01:10:09.340 --> 01:10:12.689 A:middle L:90%
whatnot. But this year's april 30th through May 4th

1262
01:10:12.699 --> 01:10:15.350 A:middle L:90%
next year, it's the last, it's usually the

1263
01:10:15.350 --> 01:10:16.029 A:middle L:90%
last day of the last two days of april the

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01:10:16.029 --> 01:10:17.909 A:middle L:90%
first week of May. And when I tell you

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01:10:17.909 --> 01:10:21.380 A:middle L:90%
it is five days of not just poetry because we

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01:10:21.380 --> 01:10:23.609 A:middle L:90%
ain't just gonna do poetry. Now. I've got

1267
01:10:23.609 --> 01:10:26.029 A:middle L:90%
friends that sing. We've got people like Killer mike

1268
01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:28.180 A:middle L:90%
, Rodney, Perry O. D. Odell,

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01:10:28.189 --> 01:10:32.909 A:middle L:90%
uh algebra blessed. Um, So many Malika.

1270
01:10:32.909 --> 01:10:35.670 A:middle L:90%
There's so many different artists over 60 artists over five

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01:10:35.670 --> 01:10:39.880 A:middle L:90%
days. Um we have all female showcase, all

1272
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:44.510 A:middle L:90%
male showcase. Uh town hall workshops. What's the

1273
01:10:44.510 --> 01:10:46.930 A:middle L:90%
dopest thing about this year? This is our 5th

1274
01:10:46.930 --> 01:10:49.840 A:middle L:90%
year and the first young lady who received the hood

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01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:51.770 A:middle L:90%
scholarship. I was telling some of the people how

1276
01:10:51.770 --> 01:10:55.180 A:middle L:90%
everything is an acronym for me. The hood scholarship

1277
01:10:55.180 --> 01:10:58.550 A:middle L:90%
is my scholarship and it stands for hope. Overcoming

1278
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:01.380 A:middle L:90%
obvious destruction. The first recipient graduates this year.

1279
01:11:02.859 --> 01:11:05.289 A:middle L:90%
Not only is she graduated with a 3.8. So

1280
01:11:05.289 --> 01:11:08.880 A:middle L:90%
I was just saying that right quick. But we're

1281
01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:14.210 A:middle L:90%
also premiering her movie that she wrote and directed called

1282
01:11:14.210 --> 01:11:18.029 A:middle L:90%
accepted on college homelessness. She bad. I love

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01:11:18.029 --> 01:11:20.569 A:middle L:90%
her. She's like my daughter. Uh but everybody

1284
01:11:20.569 --> 01:11:21.930 A:middle L:90%
become my daughter. Once you get a scholarship,

1285
01:11:21.930 --> 01:11:24.909 A:middle L:90%
I gotta make sure you graduated, I just can't

1286
01:11:24.909 --> 01:11:26.279 A:middle L:90%
be giving out money and you don't do sh it

1287
01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:29.800 A:middle L:90%
, you know what I'm saying? So uh so

1288
01:11:29.810 --> 01:11:30.550 A:middle L:90%
um in this year's recipient, she don't even know

1289
01:11:30.550 --> 01:11:33.170 A:middle L:90%
. It was always surprised. Nobody ever knows who's

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01:11:33.170 --> 01:11:36.000 A:middle L:90%
gonna get it, I'm sorry. Um, nobody

1291
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:38.569 A:middle L:90%
ever knows who's gonna get in this year. The

1292
01:11:38.569 --> 01:11:41.069 A:middle L:90%
young lady, I know she's gonna be so surprised

1293
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:43.289 A:middle L:90%
, but she was spitting poetry in my front yard

1294
01:11:43.300 --> 01:11:45.609 A:middle L:90%
at the second year, the Tameka festival and she

1295
01:11:45.609 --> 01:11:46.319 A:middle L:90%
don't even know she's getting a scholarship this year.

1296
01:11:46.329 --> 01:11:48.829 A:middle L:90%
Once she got accepted to Howard, I was like

1297
01:11:48.829 --> 01:11:51.100 A:middle L:90%
, that's it. She's getting the money. So

1298
01:11:51.109 --> 01:11:53.600 A:middle L:90%
it comes out of my pocket. So if you

1299
01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:55.739 A:middle L:90%
want to donate to the Tameka festival, you can

1300
01:11:55.739 --> 01:11:58.989 A:middle L:90%
go to Georgia, meet a poet.com and make

1301
01:11:58.989 --> 01:12:00.510 A:middle L:90%
a donation. 10 cent. I don't turn down

1302
01:12:00.510 --> 01:12:02.880 A:middle L:90%
nothing. So, um, but yeah, that's

1303
01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:04.470 A:middle L:90%
the tomato festival. Make plans like, oh,

1304
01:12:04.470 --> 01:12:05.989 A:middle L:90%
it's not gonna stop. It's just like the essence

1305
01:12:05.989 --> 01:12:10.229 A:middle L:90%
festival essence festival in july Tameka festival, First week

1306
01:12:10.229 --> 01:12:11.869 A:middle L:90%
of May, you know what I'm saying? So

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01:12:11.869 --> 01:12:13.979 A:middle L:90%
just think about that and you're making plans on your

1308
01:12:13.979 --> 01:12:14.909 A:middle L:90%
, you know, whatever you're gonna do, I'm

1309
01:12:14.909 --> 01:12:15.770 A:middle L:90%
telling you have a good time. And the tickets

1310
01:12:15.770 --> 01:12:18.189 A:middle L:90%
are very reasonable because I want the community to come

1311
01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:23.949 A:middle L:90%
. Everything is in the community. So any questions

1312
01:12:23.949 --> 01:12:27.300 A:middle L:90%
comments before I get out of here concerns about anything

1313
01:12:27.300 --> 01:12:32.010 A:middle L:90%
at all. Yes, ma'am. Get my card

1314
01:12:32.010 --> 01:12:33.409 A:middle L:90%
and I'll tell you everywhere you need to go cause

1315
01:12:33.409 --> 01:12:40.569 A:middle L:90%
some always popping in Atlanta every weekend. Huh?

1316
01:12:40.949 --> 01:12:44.460 A:middle L:90%
Um, that's just one aspect that's just like the

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01:12:44.470 --> 01:12:45.579 A:middle L:90%
last thing if you don't find nothing else to do

1318
01:12:45.590 --> 01:12:46.729 A:middle L:90%
. You got, we got, yeah, we

1319
01:12:46.729 --> 01:12:48.770 A:middle L:90%
got 50 strip clubs. Yeah, we do.

1320
01:12:49.250 --> 01:12:51.029 A:middle L:90%
You like strip club. They got good food in

1321
01:12:51.029 --> 01:12:55.399 A:middle L:90%
the strip club. I don't care about no bitches

1322
01:12:55.430 --> 01:12:58.079 A:middle L:90%
you know so you know you get like 20 wings

1323
01:12:58.079 --> 01:12:59.859 A:middle L:90%
for$5 where you gonna get that at you know

1324
01:12:59.859 --> 01:13:02.359 A:middle L:90%
what I'm saying? So that's my reason but there's

1325
01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:04.079 A:middle L:90%
so much to do. So you call me get

1326
01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:05.789 A:middle L:90%
my card and I'll tell you what's popping. And

1327
01:13:05.789 --> 01:13:09.090 A:middle L:90%
it's always something popping with poetry. And if you

1328
01:13:09.090 --> 01:13:11.439 A:middle L:90%
don't wanna do poetry wanna do concerts. Always somebody

1329
01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:14.220 A:middle L:90%
coming through. It's always something to do. Period

1330
01:13:14.229 --> 01:13:15.449 A:middle L:90%
. That's my city. You know we just had

1331
01:13:15.449 --> 01:13:17.659 A:middle L:90%
to find a form. It's always crump. Yes

1332
01:13:18.149 --> 01:13:20.579 A:middle L:90%
. When did you start right At eight years old

1333
01:13:21.250 --> 01:13:26.569 A:middle L:90%
Where? No I was at a camp for poor

1334
01:13:26.569 --> 01:13:28.880 A:middle L:90%
kids. You know how you had but I don't

1335
01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:30.369 A:middle L:90%
know if y'all know about this because they don't cut

1336
01:13:30.369 --> 01:13:31.869 A:middle L:90%
out all the programs in Atlanta in Atlanta. We

1337
01:13:31.869 --> 01:13:38.750 A:middle L:90%
got a, what is it called? I can't

1338
01:13:38.750 --> 01:13:41.460 A:middle L:90%
think of what it's called but it's um summer some

1339
01:13:41.460 --> 01:13:45.510 A:middle L:90%
accounts And all the different parks and recreation and you

1340
01:13:45.510 --> 01:13:46.939 A:middle L:90%
pay$8 a week. And they teach all the

1341
01:13:46.939 --> 01:13:50.529 A:middle L:90%
little ghetto kids seriously. And I thank God every

1342
01:13:50.529 --> 01:13:56.369 A:middle L:90%
day I learned how to tap. I know jazz

1343
01:13:57.449 --> 01:14:00.649 A:middle L:90%
. Uh I can do a split. Like I

1344
01:14:00.649 --> 01:14:02.000 A:middle L:90%
learned everything. You got$20. I do a

1345
01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:04.220 A:middle L:90%
split right now. I swear my hand. I

1346
01:14:04.229 --> 01:14:06.600 A:middle L:90%
just ain't gonna be doing no split just for recreation

1347
01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:11.359 A:middle L:90%
but you've got$20. I will drop so fast

1348
01:14:11.739 --> 01:14:14.130 A:middle L:90%
my inner a just come out like that, you

1349
01:14:14.130 --> 01:14:15.279 A:middle L:90%
know. But um, and so my, my

1350
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:18.659 A:middle L:90%
drama teacher gave me Nikki Giovanni, y'all, how

1351
01:14:18.659 --> 01:14:21.180 A:middle L:90%
many, y'all don't tell Miss Giovanni class. None

1352
01:14:21.180 --> 01:14:26.039 A:middle L:90%
of y'all. So um, well she's my idol

1353
01:14:26.050 --> 01:14:28.159 A:middle L:90%
. She's the reason why I write and I was

1354
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:30.970 A:middle L:90%
giving ego tripping And when I read ego tripping,

1355
01:14:30.979 --> 01:14:33.460 A:middle L:90%
it was over with, I was born in the

1356
01:14:33.460 --> 01:14:36.510 A:middle L:90%
congo. I walked to the photo crescent and built

1357
01:14:36.510 --> 01:14:40.100 A:middle L:90%
the Sphinx. I designed a pyramid so tough that

1358
01:14:40.100 --> 01:14:43.109 A:middle L:90%
a star that only glows every 100,000 years falls into

1359
01:14:43.109 --> 01:14:46.750 A:middle L:90%
the center giving divine perfect light. I am bad

1360
01:14:46.750 --> 01:14:49.390 A:middle L:90%
. I was like, like I was eight years

1361
01:14:49.390 --> 01:14:51.180 A:middle L:90%
old and everything just went off on me. I'm

1362
01:14:51.180 --> 01:14:55.210 A:middle L:90%
like, this is fantastic. of course my work

1363
01:14:55.210 --> 01:14:57.260 A:middle L:90%
was nowhere near hers at eight years old, but

1364
01:14:57.539 --> 01:15:00.039 A:middle L:90%
That's what started it. And then I really started

1365
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:01.390 A:middle L:90%
writing, writing. I was 11. I've always

1366
01:15:01.390 --> 01:15:03.640 A:middle L:90%
been a speaker. And you know, when I

1367
01:15:03.640 --> 01:15:06.060 A:middle L:90%
was younger I was like, God, I want

1368
01:15:06.060 --> 01:15:11.369 A:middle L:90%
to be Maher Luther King Barbara Jordan's tupac and mary

1369
01:15:11.369 --> 01:15:15.260 A:middle L:90%
J blige all together and I think I accomplished that

1370
01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:16.609 A:middle L:90%
. I just gotta get me a trainer so that

1371
01:15:16.609 --> 01:15:17.939 A:middle L:90%
I could be like mary, you know, mary

1372
01:15:17.939 --> 01:15:24.770 A:middle L:90%
muscular and shit any other questions, comments, concerns

1373
01:15:24.770 --> 01:15:28.289 A:middle L:90%
. Yes ma'am. I went to Atlanta Metropolitan College

1374
01:15:28.300 --> 01:15:30.640 A:middle L:90%
and now I am enrolling in ST leo's university online

1375
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:32.239 A:middle L:90%
to go ahead and get my last little couple of

1376
01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:34.680 A:middle L:90%
credits because right, right, while I was in

1377
01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:38.859 A:middle L:90%
college is when my poetry popped off, right.

1378
01:15:38.859 --> 01:15:41.859 A:middle L:90%
When I was in college was like, hmm,

1379
01:15:41.869 --> 01:15:44.279 A:middle L:90%
am I gonna finish this or am I gonna hit

1380
01:15:44.289 --> 01:15:46.270 A:middle L:90%
this road? And that's what happened. And then

1381
01:15:46.270 --> 01:15:48.239 A:middle L:90%
russell limb came and it was just over with,

1382
01:15:48.250 --> 01:15:49.840 A:middle L:90%
I was on the road from that point on.

1383
01:15:49.850 --> 01:15:56.659 A:middle L:90%
Yes sir. No, I wrote better than my

1384
01:15:56.659 --> 01:16:00.989 A:middle L:90%
professors. They told me that. They told me

1385
01:16:00.989 --> 01:16:04.619 A:middle L:90%
that. So, you know, the junior college

1386
01:16:04.619 --> 01:16:13.050 A:middle L:90%
, I guess I should write Yes, ma'am.

1387
01:16:13.729 --> 01:16:16.489 A:middle L:90%
Does it take actually like makeup on? I look

1388
01:16:16.489 --> 01:16:19.560 A:middle L:90%
, I right by the desperation or inspiration. Um

1389
01:16:19.569 --> 01:16:23.800 A:middle L:90%
, inspiration is gonna be one sitting. That means

1390
01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:25.930 A:middle L:90%
it had to come out, desperation is something I

1391
01:16:25.930 --> 01:16:28.090 A:middle L:90%
want to write on so bad and I got to

1392
01:16:28.090 --> 01:16:30.560 A:middle L:90%
keep pushing it, gotta keep pushing it. So

1393
01:16:30.029 --> 01:16:33.090 A:middle L:90%
sometimes a piece, you can start a piece and

1394
01:16:33.090 --> 01:16:35.140 A:middle L:90%
then not finish it a year later. You know

1395
01:16:35.140 --> 01:16:39.449 A:middle L:90%
what I'm saying? But um, usually two hours

1396
01:16:40.630 --> 01:16:43.180 A:middle L:90%
, about two hours when you keep you ain't got

1397
01:16:43.180 --> 01:16:45.060 A:middle L:90%
no interruptions, you know, and it's rare.

1398
01:16:45.060 --> 01:16:45.640 A:middle L:90%
Only time I really get the writers when I'm on

1399
01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:47.850 A:middle L:90%
the road in the hotel room because I can't write

1400
01:16:47.850 --> 01:16:49.369 A:middle L:90%
at home, my mama, I'm sister, I

1401
01:16:49.369 --> 01:16:51.369 A:middle L:90%
mean me, I'm neighbor, I'm, you know

1402
01:16:51.369 --> 01:16:54.069 A:middle L:90%
what I'm saying. I'm mentor, I'm Georgia.

1403
01:16:54.069 --> 01:16:56.760 A:middle L:90%
So if everybody, every part you can think of

1404
01:16:56.760 --> 01:16:58.930 A:middle L:90%
them being in my house stayed at my house or

1405
01:16:58.939 --> 01:17:00.779 A:middle L:90%
come by my house. Any poll, every poll

1406
01:17:00.779 --> 01:17:02.939 A:middle L:90%
of elders, the every favorite poet you got from

1407
01:17:02.939 --> 01:17:06.340 A:middle L:90%
salt the ice to sue hair been to my house

1408
01:17:06.729 --> 01:17:09.789 A:middle L:90%
. Yeah. That's why I need a reality show

1409
01:17:09.789 --> 01:17:12.079 A:middle L:90%
. Because the world don't know about these amazing people

1410
01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:15.829 A:middle L:90%
in poetry. They don't know that how you can

1411
01:17:15.829 --> 01:17:16.619 A:middle L:90%
make a living, how you can make a difference

1412
01:17:16.619 --> 01:17:18.930 A:middle L:90%
during your poetry. But you've got to be righteous

1413
01:17:18.930 --> 01:17:20.760 A:middle L:90%
. You can't make no, you cannot make money

1414
01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:24.850 A:middle L:90%
in poetry. If you're unrighteous, you can't.

1415
01:17:25.329 --> 01:17:27.180 A:middle L:90%
You got to be right. Your word has to

1416
01:17:27.180 --> 01:17:30.140 A:middle L:90%
fit your character. That's the only way. I

1417
01:17:30.140 --> 01:17:30.899 A:middle L:90%
just thank God every day that I treat people how

1418
01:17:30.899 --> 01:17:32.779 A:middle L:90%
I want to be treated. And then I tell

1419
01:17:32.779 --> 01:17:34.510 A:middle L:90%
you this all the time, I don't really want

1420
01:17:34.510 --> 01:17:36.109 A:middle L:90%
people to treat me how they want to be treated

1421
01:17:36.109 --> 01:17:38.750 A:middle L:90%
because I don't know if you love yourself or not

1422
01:17:40.029 --> 01:17:42.039 A:middle L:90%
and a lot of folks hate themselves so you hate

1423
01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:44.000 A:middle L:90%
yourself. I don't want you doing nothing with me

1424
01:17:44.010 --> 01:17:45.199 A:middle L:90%
. You know what I'm saying? So, but

1425
01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:48.479 A:middle L:90%
I've been, I've credit pretty great karma. That's

1426
01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:50.890 A:middle L:90%
why I tell people all the time as a poet

1427
01:17:50.899 --> 01:17:54.350 A:middle L:90%
, you get paid in ways that man can't see

1428
01:17:55.829 --> 01:17:58.140 A:middle L:90%
the fact that you know, y'all heard that poem

1429
01:17:58.140 --> 01:18:00.010 A:middle L:90%
ghetto bell. When I say from vine city to

1430
01:18:00.010 --> 01:18:02.029 A:middle L:90%
Soweto, my mind travels from city to Soweto,

1431
01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:06.109 A:middle L:90%
um, poets always ask each other what you got

1432
01:18:06.109 --> 01:18:08.449 A:middle L:90%
going on, what's doing what you're doing what you're

1433
01:18:08.449 --> 01:18:10.220 A:middle L:90%
doing and I would just always say I'm going to

1434
01:18:10.220 --> 01:18:12.640 A:middle L:90%
Africa and they'd be like, when I'm like,

1435
01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:13.930 A:middle L:90%
I don't know, you know what I'm saying,

1436
01:18:13.930 --> 01:18:15.260 A:middle L:90%
but I'm claiming it, you know, I'm going

1437
01:18:15.260 --> 01:18:16.109 A:middle L:90%
to Africa. So then I felt like I was

1438
01:18:16.109 --> 01:18:19.119 A:middle L:90%
getting on God nerves so I quit saying that.

1439
01:18:19.130 --> 01:18:21.350 A:middle L:90%
And right then two months later I get a call

1440
01:18:21.350 --> 01:18:25.649 A:middle L:90%
from South Africa to come do a festival one in

1441
01:18:25.649 --> 01:18:27.590 A:middle L:90%
Johannesburg one in Cape Town. So I'm gonna be

1442
01:18:27.590 --> 01:18:30.119 A:middle L:90%
there for like two weeks, a little over two

1443
01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:32.539 A:middle L:90%
weeks were not right? So I go to Johannesburg

1444
01:18:33.619 --> 01:18:35.199 A:middle L:90%
, every black person in here, get your as

1445
01:18:35.199 --> 01:18:36.899 A:middle L:90%
out of this country, just let you know,

1446
01:18:36.909 --> 01:18:39.840 A:middle L:90%
I don't care where you go, but go Africa's

1447
01:18:39.850 --> 01:18:42.060 A:middle L:90%
first if you can, but just get out of

1448
01:18:42.060 --> 01:18:45.470 A:middle L:90%
the country cause I mean you are loved everywhere.

1449
01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:47.859 A:middle L:90%
It's like this skin right here is the*** pass

1450
01:18:47.859 --> 01:18:53.369 A:middle L:90%
, I'm telling you in London and Scotland and Australia

1451
01:18:53.380 --> 01:18:55.329 A:middle L:90%
people just gonna come up to you. Black americans

1452
01:18:55.340 --> 01:18:56.520 A:middle L:90%
. You know what, I'm just gonna come up

1453
01:18:56.520 --> 01:18:58.899 A:middle L:90%
to you because they can tell by your white tennis

1454
01:18:58.899 --> 01:19:00.000 A:middle L:90%
shoes that you're not from there. They feel like

1455
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:01.659 A:middle L:90%
they know you from somewhere. Then you talk,

1456
01:19:01.670 --> 01:19:04.289 A:middle L:90%
I'm from the south, they would go black american

1457
01:19:04.289 --> 01:19:13.010 A:middle L:90%
south martin Luther king cast, that's, that's how

1458
01:19:13.010 --> 01:19:15.039 A:middle L:90%
they would do me. So anyway, I'm in

1459
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:17.649 A:middle L:90%
Africa and I'm doing, I'm one day I'm at

1460
01:19:17.649 --> 01:19:20.250 A:middle L:90%
a village, uh teaching another day I'm at a

1461
01:19:20.250 --> 01:19:23.569 A:middle L:90%
school another day. I'm doing tv. So then

1462
01:19:23.569 --> 01:19:27.029 A:middle L:90%
the show comes, I'm doing the show and I

1463
01:19:27.029 --> 01:19:30.350 A:middle L:90%
go from vine city to Soweto and the crowd just

1464
01:19:30.350 --> 01:19:34.260 A:middle L:90%
goes crazy and it threw me because that ain't never

1465
01:19:34.260 --> 01:19:36.649 A:middle L:90%
happened. But it was right then in that moment

1466
01:19:36.649 --> 01:19:41.390 A:middle L:90%
I realized you wrote yourself here, you were just

1467
01:19:41.390 --> 01:19:45.199 A:middle L:90%
in Soweto today teaching. So know that in writing

1468
01:19:45.210 --> 01:19:46.779 A:middle L:90%
you write your truth, you write your dreams like

1469
01:19:46.789 --> 01:19:51.039 A:middle L:90%
everything like I don't just write to I write to

1470
01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:53.930 A:middle L:90%
heal myself but I hope that it heals you.

1471
01:19:53.939 --> 01:19:56.560 A:middle L:90%
I write to give myself hope but I hope that

1472
01:19:56.560 --> 01:19:58.279 A:middle L:90%
it gives you hope. You know what I'm saying

1473
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.369 A:middle L:90%
and that's what your writing can do. That's what

1474
01:20:00.369 --> 01:20:02.260 A:middle L:90%
your word can do. Poetry is so powerful.

1475
01:20:02.270 --> 01:20:05.720 A:middle L:90%
There's so many, there's so many amazing artists out

1476
01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:09.090 A:middle L:90%
here that use their gift for good. So if

1477
01:20:09.090 --> 01:20:11.890 A:middle L:90%
you got to give use it to serve God's Children

1478
01:20:12.010 --> 01:20:13.829 A:middle L:90%
, you're gonna get paid, get your card.

1479
01:20:14.210 --> 01:20:16.720 A:middle L:90%
See please ma'am and I'll be home next weekend too

1480
01:20:17.109 --> 01:20:18.560 A:middle L:90%
. Alright, I'll take you around if you want

1481
01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:23.039 A:middle L:90%
me to. Okay, well that's down the street

1482
01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:24.600 A:middle L:90%
from my house. Yeah, I live on the

1483
01:20:24.600 --> 01:20:30.699 A:middle L:90%
west side. Just call me all right, you're

1484
01:20:30.699 --> 01:20:33.680 A:middle L:90%
welcome. So um I'm an ambassador, you know

1485
01:20:33.689 --> 01:20:36.819 A:middle L:90%
you know how we are suffering. So um I

1486
01:20:36.819 --> 01:20:40.300 A:middle L:90%
recognized then that I could do whatever I want in

1487
01:20:40.300 --> 01:20:42.159 A:middle L:90%
my writing and it would would come to fruition,

1488
01:20:42.170 --> 01:20:44.170 A:middle L:90%
you know what I'm saying for me to write from

1489
01:20:44.170 --> 01:20:46.630 A:middle L:90%
buying city to Soweto and be right there in Soweto

1490
01:20:47.409 --> 01:20:50.550 A:middle L:90%
prophecy, your word is prophecy. People always think

1491
01:20:50.550 --> 01:20:53.810 A:middle L:90%
christ as a person, christ is the spirit of

1492
01:20:53.810 --> 01:20:58.590 A:middle L:90%
prophecy, jesus was the person you are christ if

1493
01:20:58.590 --> 01:21:01.390 A:middle L:90%
you believe it, if you believe it, I'm

1494
01:21:01.390 --> 01:21:02.829 A:middle L:90%
jesus little sister, I know that I don't know

1495
01:21:02.829 --> 01:21:06.840 A:middle L:90%
if you know but you better now or Muhammad little

1496
01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:10.729 A:middle L:90%
sister or buddha little sister, I'm the son.

1497
01:21:10.729 --> 01:21:12.319 A:middle L:90%
Little sister. If you don't believe in the most

1498
01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:13.640 A:middle L:90%
high, you know what I'm saying? Do you

1499
01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:15.369 A:middle L:90%
believe in good? Do you know right from wrong

1500
01:21:15.369 --> 01:21:16.659 A:middle L:90%
? That's all I care about. I don't care

1501
01:21:16.659 --> 01:21:18.130 A:middle L:90%
about none of that cause that ain't for me I

1502
01:21:18.130 --> 01:21:20.810 A:middle L:90%
got my relationship, you get yours just be a

1503
01:21:20.810 --> 01:21:24.140 A:middle L:90%
good person, let your calm and create your world

1504
01:21:24.140 --> 01:21:27.239 A:middle L:90%
. People don't just be about money because that ain't

1505
01:21:27.239 --> 01:21:29.630 A:middle L:90%
ship that is not nothing in a few years when

1506
01:21:29.630 --> 01:21:32.109 A:middle L:90%
we are sitting right here on the metro cards or

1507
01:21:32.109 --> 01:21:34.149 A:middle L:90%
using the Amero, how many, y'all know what

1508
01:21:34.149 --> 01:21:38.369 A:middle L:90%
the Amero is. None of y'all don't know what

1509
01:21:38.369 --> 01:21:41.649 A:middle L:90%
the Amero is. The Amero is the new currency

1510
01:21:41.649 --> 01:21:45.760 A:middle L:90%
that's coming. So that Canada Mexico and the United

1511
01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:48.630 A:middle L:90%
States all have the same currency. Oh yeah,

1512
01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:50.359 A:middle L:90%
so them dollars and she don't mean nothing new?

1513
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:59.029 A:middle L:90%
T mm hmm value each other value skill value.

1514
01:21:59.029 --> 01:22:01.760 A:middle L:90%
Talent I'm telling you because when the revolution comes,

1515
01:22:01.770 --> 01:22:04.159 A:middle L:90%
I'm looking for the*** that can do some electricity

1516
01:22:04.170 --> 01:22:06.739 A:middle L:90%
. You know what I'm saying because the hood is

1517
01:22:06.739 --> 01:22:09.079 A:middle L:90%
gonna be lit up now, I'm telling you,

1518
01:22:09.079 --> 01:22:13.750 A:middle L:90%
we're gonna still have lights. But yeah, any

1519
01:22:13.750 --> 01:22:15.020 A:middle L:90%
other questions comments before I leave up out of here

1520
01:22:16.189 --> 01:22:19.090 A:middle L:90%
, I'm going, I love you all so much

1521
01:22:19.090 --> 01:22:27.920 A:middle L:90%
. Love each other, be blessed. I do

1522
01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:31.390 A:middle L:90%
have these CDS and DVds for sale now that DVD

1523
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:35.039 A:middle L:90%
is um, all of my appearances on def poetry

1524
01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:39.619 A:middle L:90%
jam and my favorite appearance on the mo'nique show.

1525
01:22:40.100 --> 01:22:46.079 A:middle L:90%
Now I bootleg myself because Russell get$200,000 residual checks

1526
01:22:46.090 --> 01:22:47.979 A:middle L:90%
a week. I don't get none of that.

1527
01:22:47.989 --> 01:22:51.880 A:middle L:90%
So get all of Georgia me right here in your

1528
01:22:51.880 --> 01:22:58.149 A:middle L:90%
hands. They tan questions. I ain't got no

1529
01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:01.380 A:middle L:90%
credit card swipe on me. I had a square

1530
01:23:01.390 --> 01:23:04.590 A:middle L:90%
, I had a square. The A. T

1531
01:23:04.590 --> 01:23:05.710 A:middle L:90%
. M right there. I will sit right here

1532
01:23:05.710 --> 01:23:10.020 A:middle L:90%
and wait on you. I sure will. Alright

1533
01:23:10.020 --> 01:23:12.289 A:middle L:90%
then he came in late. I'm gonna buy first

1534
01:23:12.289 --> 01:23:14.729 A:middle L:90%
. That's what's up. That's how you do