america online bomp
I just wanted to be the first to welcome all brothers, sisters and cousins
from aol into this usenet soup. i am your friendly neigbhborhood raconteur
in the scaa space, self appointed of course, for here there is no hierarchy
in fact no archy at all but style and volume with a wicked beat. lurkers
lurk while thinkers work, and tribes scribe the mental mood feedin' ya
soul food.
we got stars both famous and in'.
we got scars from flamers who win.
we got backbone enough to contin'
you will get back more than you put in.
a word to the wise as i tell you this now
don't expect to wreck or rock any worlds
just speack your peace and let what comes out unfurl
quite naturally as we fuss and disgust
(can black people have freudian slips?)
i meant cuss and discuss
(and just trip on our trips)
of course we've got outlaws and geniuses both
and people who know
yeah we know how he know
and he said she said and scholarly writ
bogus statistics, political shit
grandiose theories, simple ideas
rumor, truth, honesty, hatred and fears
poetry, prosisdy, ignance and facts
and some folks come in with shit that's straight wack
but i know and you know that's been said before
glass cielings, grass roots, and what's a ho?
ther is no faq 'cause whose got patience to chronicle
this? like writing it down is gonna solve something
like we are here to solve something
like to involve is to solve
around which scaa does the planet revolve?
last time i checked? (well i di'n't)
so just post the article and move something
cause you just might groove something
even if you don't prove something
throw down your two cents, your lira or pence
for anything's something and all things make sense
in the context you send it if properly scented
you might get somebody else here to defend it
or not
take a pot shot, and blot out your foe
explain how you know what you know to be so
and if you can't rap it or rhyme it or spell
you can still tell the bastard to go straight to hell
and if strong language hurts your constitution
(well this is all text)
(there is no other recourse)
talk about a weaker subject, or walk
cause articulate eloquent talk, the first elements of our culture
(pandered in song by elvis the vulture)
although it belongs and no doubt will continue
has no guarantee its usage will win you
and argument or even a minor point
it's like that and that's the way it is in this here joint.
in case you are self-identifyably white
and think you just might not say something right
i have but one pointer and nought else to say
(like that anglo phraseology, eh?)
think of the reasons that you *feel* that way
and inform your opinions more every day
as far as i know (and i do know a lot)
this is one of the few spots we've got
to talk about racial shit that gets hot
and brother that's progress.
Not!
although there's alt.discrimination
(pronounce the 'dot' for more synchopation)
for issues such as affirmative action
cousins, i don't understand the attraction
that brings that technicality here
along with inevitable attendant fear
that 'our' values are swept far off of the curve
when a black person gets the job they deserve
but let me not start cause thats not my part
im present to present the presence of art
in this cultural forum though we often forget
of poetry, essays and raps
musical criticism, drama review
liturgical forms and general philology
(the love of knowlege, g)
identity, relationships, diasporal centrality
multiculturality, black virtual reality
friday hospitality, shameless carnality
psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop conviviality
also (in response to your question b. radney) known as 'bomp' mentality.
i be done now
hope you listen well
so for true rap stories you can tell
struggles in blackness righteous for the good
join to all worlds our people, understood.