WEBVTT 00:00:01.218 --> 00:00:14.108 - It's a reflection. Reflection. No, no, brother. I don't think I heard you. That's a reflection. I think 00:00:14.108 --> 00:00:19.934 - you're gonna have to say it again. Reflection. 00:00:44.930 --> 00:00:50.865 - Let's say after Valentine's, which means pre-Civil War, and I'm gonna teach it in my rhyme, are people 00:00:50.865 --> 00:00:56.800 - black? Let's call them slaves, used and abused in inhumane ways. The family split, they take a newborn 00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:02.562 - from her mother. Yeah, why you there? Take that sister from her brother. There, that should end all 00:01:02.562 --> 00:01:08.612 - their identity. In every word that I say, they should have faith in me. But brave slaves had competition 00:01:08.612 --> 00:01:10.974 - back in the shack held fast to religion. 00:01:11.202 --> 00:01:17.546 - Yet, it was not Christianity. A spirit supreme being is what they see. There's two main ways that our 00:01:17.546 --> 00:01:23.766 - culture remains. New message in religion. Without this, we would not be the same. It's very crucial 00:01:23.766 --> 00:01:29.986 - to the message I am given. Through religion, the slaves kept faith that their life did have meaning 00:01:29.986 --> 00:01:36.330 - and was not a total waste. Medicine, a big part of my comparison. When I am done, black will never be 00:01:36.330 --> 00:01:40.062 - embarrassing. There was a person, one we call the conjurer. 00:01:40.290 --> 00:01:46.019 - The white master's thought, he's a great wanderer. But he was the magic man, protecting many slaves 00:01:46.019 --> 00:01:51.806 - from harm through the hand. See, back then, the spirit was intact. If only we could stop him getting 00:01:51.806 --> 00:01:57.765 - whips upon our back. Conjurer, served to the needs of the slaves. Sometimes I only worked upon a spirit 00:01:57.765 --> 00:02:03.208 - that was brave. Not here is where I make my reflection. Stop, stop. And listen very carefully. 00:02:03.208 --> 00:02:08.937 - Black old man. King of the guards. King of the guards. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? 00:02:08.937 --> 00:02:09.854 - Times of today. 00:02:10.018 --> 00:02:16.101 - or similar to those before, a couple changes, but nothing more. As a people, we still feel the heat. 00:02:16.101 --> 00:02:22.304 - 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 00:02:22.304 --> 00:02:28.508 - speaking of a mental game we play. Look around my class, and I get the white face. As for me, and also 00:02:28.508 --> 00:02:34.771 - for the black race, an extrovert, no, it's not fair. Yeah, but I don't care. Maybe that's why I'm here. 00:02:34.771 --> 00:02:39.710 - Like the conjurer protecting slaves from attack, I give that job to the educated. 00:02:40.610 --> 00:02:57.982 - It's a reflection it's a reflection. 00:03:23.266 --> 00:03:28.376 - and say that it's no good. It's not that it's no good, but we're simply misunderstood. The lady told 00:03:28.376 --> 00:03:33.586 - me, you wouldn't rap if you could sing. It's just a bunch of noise, and no message could it bring. But 00:03:33.586 --> 00:03:38.696 - I see you different rappers just report the times. Instead of on the news, we recite it, and I don't 00:03:38.696 --> 00:03:43.856 - rhyme. Music's a good way to get across to others. One can convey morose to sisters and his brothers. 00:03:43.856 --> 00:03:48.915 - Now no more intro down to the bodies. It's best to sit and listen, and not dance like at a party. A 00:03:48.915 --> 00:03:52.254 - serious topic that to me is like a fad. Our parents say it's old. 00:03:52.386 --> 00:03:57.485 - They already had. We all know of the 60s in the fight for civil rights. We also knew the fighters were 00:03:57.485 --> 00:04:02.832 - black against the whites. My people got the food, because the color of their face. The battle was externals 00:04:02.832 --> 00:04:07.881 - outside the Negro race. Now take the number six. Flip it over, it's a nine. Agreeing with the number, 00:04:07.881 --> 00:04:13.079 - a reflection is the time. The images holding their peace is the number's direction. Just like my people, 00:04:13.079 --> 00:04:18.129 - they seem more perplexed. And at least back in the 60s, all the whites, we did attack. My brothers in 00:04:18.129 --> 00:04:22.238 - the 90s fighting black against blacks. Your boss now knows he's your second enemy. 00:04:22.402 --> 00:04:27.699 - The one to overcome is in my community. The youth lacks guidance. They have no future plans. They need 00:04:27.699 --> 00:04:28.830 - a father figure to... 00:04:29.026 --> 00:04:34.728 - I'm a better man, my papa, huh, he says he drink for recreation. Yet, he's at the bar trying to build 00:04:34.728 --> 00:04:40.485 - a reputation for how many drinks he can swallow. Come on, punk, what kind of path is that for your son 00:04:40.485 --> 00:04:46.075 - to follow? Attempts to drive home from the bar, hit someone who killed him. Now he's riding bye bye 00:04:46.075 --> 00:04:51.944 - in a police car. They go to court and pay a fee. The judge pulls the pin and throw away the keys. That's 00:04:51.944 --> 00:04:57.310 - how it comes to bid you farewell. Man, he's seeing himself in that jail cell. He's a flexioner. 00:05:00.866 --> 00:05:08.283 - This is an original vision, saw by a black man trying to make a stand. The goal, the goal, the goal, 00:05:08.283 --> 00:05:15.700 - to seek knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, and truth, and truth, and truth, in life, in life, in life. 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:17.022 - He's, he's, he's.