- It's a reflection. Reflection. No, no, brother. I don't think I heard you. That's a reflection. I think
- you're gonna have to say it again. Reflection.
- Let's say after Valentine's, which means pre-Civil War, and I'm gonna teach it in my rhyme, are people
- black? Let's call them slaves, used and abused in inhumane ways. The family split, they take a newborn
- from her mother. Yeah, why you there? Take that sister from her brother. There, that should end all
- their identity. In every word that I say, they should have faith in me. But brave slaves had competition
- back in the shack held fast to religion.
- Yet, it was not Christianity. A spirit supreme being is what they see. There's two main ways that our
- culture remains. New message in religion. Without this, we would not be the same. It's very crucial
- to the message I am given. Through religion, the slaves kept faith that their life did have meaning
- and was not a total waste. Medicine, a big part of my comparison. When I am done, black will never be
- embarrassing. There was a person, one we call the conjurer.
- The white master's thought, he's a great wanderer. But he was the magic man, protecting many slaves
- from harm through the hand. See, back then, the spirit was intact. If only we could stop him getting
- whips upon our back. Conjurer, served to the needs of the slaves. Sometimes I only worked upon a spirit
- that was brave. Not here is where I make my reflection. Stop, stop. And listen very carefully.
- Black old man. King of the guards. King of the guards. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?
- Times of today.
- or similar to those before, a couple changes, but nothing more. As a people, we still feel the heat.
- I sit in class, and I'm scared to get beat when I say beat. I don't mean in a physical way. I'm simply
- speaking of a mental game we play. Look around my class, and I get the white face. As for me, and also
- for the black race, an extrovert, no, it's not fair. Yeah, but I don't care. Maybe that's why I'm here.
- Like the conjurer protecting slaves from attack, I give that job to the educated.
- It's a reflection it's a reflection.
- and say that it's no good. It's not that it's no good, but we're simply misunderstood. The lady told
- me, you wouldn't rap if you could sing. It's just a bunch of noise, and no message could it bring. But
- I see you different rappers just report the times. Instead of on the news, we recite it, and I don't
- rhyme. Music's a good way to get across to others. One can convey morose to sisters and his brothers.
- Now no more intro down to the bodies. It's best to sit and listen, and not dance like at a party. A
- serious topic that to me is like a fad. Our parents say it's old.
- They already had. We all know of the 60s in the fight for civil rights. We also knew the fighters were
- black against the whites. My people got the food, because the color of their face. The battle was externals
- outside the Negro race. Now take the number six. Flip it over, it's a nine. Agreeing with the number,
- a reflection is the time. The images holding their peace is the number's direction. Just like my people,
- they seem more perplexed. And at least back in the 60s, all the whites, we did attack. My brothers in
- the 90s fighting black against blacks. Your boss now knows he's your second enemy.
- The one to overcome is in my community. The youth lacks guidance. They have no future plans. They need
- a father figure to...
- I'm a better man, my papa, huh, he says he drink for recreation. Yet, he's at the bar trying to build
- a reputation for how many drinks he can swallow. Come on, punk, what kind of path is that for your son
- to follow? Attempts to drive home from the bar, hit someone who killed him. Now he's riding bye bye
- in a police car. They go to court and pay a fee. The judge pulls the pin and throw away the keys. That's
- how it comes to bid you farewell. Man, he's seeing himself in that jail cell. He's a flexioner.
- This is an original vision, saw by a black man trying to make a stand. The goal, the goal, the goal,
- to seek knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, and truth, and truth, and truth, in life, in life, in life.
- He's, he's, he's.