tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27613576320692981292023-11-15T06:24:10.165-08:00Contribution To ChangeBlog is designed to be a platform for all interested persons in the new book titled Contribution To Change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761357632069298129.post-64447151938339205462009-03-05T08:07:00.000-08:002009-03-05T08:58:31.382-08:00ResurectionHello to all, this is it the final installment for your enjoyment before the publishing of the highly anticipated book entitled Contribution To Change. This piece is titled Resurection, and in order for change to occour thats what needs to happen we need to resurect ourselves, because without order, there is indeed CHAOS!!!!! <br /><br /><br />What happened to Hip-Hop?<br /><br />Can any of you young brothers tell me how it got its<br />start?<br /><br />We went from songs like criminal minded to snap ya<br />fingers do ya step, while we allowed our minds to<br />linger criminally.<br /><br />We used to take the wackest songs and make them<br />better, nowadays the wackest song is always<br />better.<br /><br />This blindness has led us to Self-Destruct.<br /><br />We generated this culture, so why are we no longer<br />the dictators of its infrastructure?<br /><br />We’ve allowed radio and the execs to direct and<br />control our creativity, this will explain why there<br />is a lack of talented rappers lyrically.<br /><br />What happened to the classic times when Knowledge Reigned Supreme over every ONE, while Eric and Parish Made Dollars, Erick B and Rakim made us clap to it.<br /><br />When Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh provided the<br />audience with a show, right after Ice-T told us<br />about the Original Gangstas and their Colors.<br /><br />So I have to wonder where we went wrong and what<br />will it take to get it right.<br /><br />It’s not about east, west, north or south, it’s about us<br />using the power of positively speaking with our<br />mouth.<br /><br />When Kanye Graduated, gradually he redirected the<br />misconception of what was cool.<br /><br />Lupe fed us Food and Liquor, and we still<br />misunderstood and acted like fools.<br /><br />What is Common to Mos Def---innately, is not<br />common to all the rest.<br /><br />When you listen to Common and Mos Def lyrically<br />you understand, and that’s what’s best.<br /><br />Now let’s be honest with ourselves, when Jada asked<br />WHY, why didn’t we answer, even though we<br />walked around singing it like an anthem.<br /><br />We lost the Malcom X of our time because we truly<br />didn’t listen, we only heard his rhymes.<br /><br />A thug to most, but he was a prophet to all, now<br />who’s prepared to stand so the order of confusion<br />can fall.<br /><br />What’s your RESURECTION?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761357632069298129.post-5068450725946950202009-01-25T08:33:00.000-08:002009-01-25T08:54:38.208-08:00The RecipeI want to welcome everyone back. I have added the second poem for the highly anticipated book entitled Contribution To Change. This piece is a very <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">pivotal</span> part to the change that needs to be made. Once again I hope you enjoy and I welcome all questions, comments and profound thoughts.<br /><br /><br />Let me put you on some of the happenings in a few of the<br />places I frequent.<br /><br />You’ll find it’s much easier than you think making a<br />juvenile delinquent.<br /><br />First thing first throw away them books, that’s right,<br />keep books locked away like his father and let him<br />run the streets with crooks.<br /><br />Make it hard to find himself but easy to buy weed and<br />liquor.<br /><br />Convince him that wearing certain labels on his<br />clothes will make him a man quicker.<br /><br />Put him on a track and tell him to run like Flash<br />Gordon, and when the seasons change, throw him<br />a ball and show him highlights of Michael Jordan.<br /><br />Imprint in his mind that he started out as a slave, but<br />at best he can be a nigger.<br /><br />Teach him that the most important thing about a<br />woman is her girlish figure.<br /><br />Better yet, give him reasons to think that every other<br />woman besides his mother is a natural bitch and<br />every time he tries to get his life together<br />distract him with fantasies of being rich.<br /><br />Don’t teach him anything about economics and<br />finance unless it relates to cocaine supply and<br />demand.<br /><br />Keep him disappointed when he tries to do right, and<br />things don’t go as he planned.<br /><br />Put him in classes where the teacher <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">couldn</span>’t pass<br />the test they’re giving.<br /><br />Make him think that having chrome wheels and<br />champagne is the only purpose of living.<br /><br />Show him gangster movies and porno flicks until he<br />re-enacts them over and over again.<br /><br />Make him believe that a small handgun or a big dog<br />can be his only friend,<br /><br />Keep his head bent in dice games motivated to win<br />the latest style.<br /><br />Tell him to use his ice grill so often that even he<br />forgets his own smile.<br /><br />Give him the wrong role model, that is if you give<br />him any at all.<br /><br />Don’t encourage him to rise to the occasion, but to go out in a blaze of glory<br />when he falls.<br /><br />Persuade him to rebel against the system and “buck”, only learning to<br />surrender when he’s handcuffed.<br /><br />Teach him that the only way he will ever become a<br />man is if his pockets are stuffed.<br /><br />Now I know I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ve</span> covered a lot of material and hopefully you understand the<br />sequence.<br /><br />If we keep this up I promise you that we will end up with more than our fair<br />share of Juvenile Delinquents.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761357632069298129.post-12863733039897267152009-01-05T13:19:00.000-08:002009-01-25T08:48:13.705-08:00Contribution To ChangeI’m so mentally inclined that what I write is lyrically<br />underlined as too far ahead of it’s time. <div><br />We’re going to take a ride where many thoughts,<br />feelings, and statements will be expressed, yet in<br />the end there will be only one question left.</div><div><br />I’m a verbal assassin when I’m writing, killing trees<br />as I prove easily that you’re not better than me<br />creatively or intellectually.</div><div><br />See I mentally murder many minds while I creatively<br />devise a plot planning to perfectly place people of<br />poverty in positions of power to survive.</div><div><br />I understand that this is my role to play in this game,<br />but I wonder have you identified with your<br />contribution to change.</div><div><br />It’s time to change what we identify with as what’s<br />cool, all these weak rappers with their shallow<br />lyrics are just recreating the fool.</div><div><br />I wonder, what happens when writing withers, what<br />will we want waiting while we waste time talking<br />to those that think they tell the truth through<br />the daily deception displayed during discussions<br />determining dollars. Our current currency<br />catastrophes create climates causing cheap choice<br />choosers choices, easily evaporate everyday.</div><div><br />Tell me, why does the NBA draft seem like a modern<br />day slave trade?</div><div><br />The team’s master standing on stage calling the next<br />niggas name, while the owner is in the back<br />playing the multi-trade a nigga game.</div><div><br />These are the things the untrained eye doesn’t see,<br />that’s why we started CV20/20 and Thought360.</div><div><br />See at all times I keep one eye open like CBS, looking<br />at Ted Turner secretly publicize his corruption on TBS,<br />only exposing my son to some of the stuff<br />on PBS because everything else on T.V is just B.S.</div><div><br />America has gotten hooked on reality T.V., now tell<br />me how much reality can there be when the<br />camera dictates what you see.</div><div><br />I know I took you on a ride of highs and lows, I’ve<br />even exposed you to some information that not<br />everyone knows.</div><div><br />I told you at the start that I was going to creatively<br />and intelligently exercise your mind, so I hope<br />you’ve been keeping up this whole time.</div><div><br />We all have our Godly ordained roles to play in this<br />game, so now you can answer the one and only<br />question that remains,</div><div><br /></div><div>What’s your Contribution to Change?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3