mira estupido

noid nincompoop

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so called leaders with no followers

Verguenza Sin Baba

Conference full of clowns

Experts elected to maintain status quo

Shucking jiving to squeeze inside

Ivory tower illusions of power

Mingling minions

Hungry for idol worship

Suck up with selfie to prove

You rub elbows with celebrity academics

King’s crown lack sincere shine

Dangle you dream with torn laundry line

Dirty drawers thrown away

Forgotten funk realer than elevator jingle

Crazy how far block fame

Can bring you back to foundation

Genesis of critical consciousness

Essential why

Pen to paper sacred word cry

Heavenly muse decided to pay visit

Divine reception inspiration

Soothes spirit so much static in city

Can barely hear your own voice

Many choices few options

No selection stuck on bobito

You are writing to heal soul

Not become spokesman of your people

So much evil

Lurking tempting you to join

Spaced out zombies

Brain meat chunks

Deep dive in dark lagoons

Curse thought clouds

For lack of levitation

Analyze situation

Stuckazoid in middle of Smacked City

Poor barely get pity

Rich are rotten ripe

Picking apart bones from flesh

Hollow skull brittle skeleton

Miscreant meddlin

Right where devil’s been

Prepare receive blessings

Daily work is your evidence

fucked up angel

Nuyorican Angel of Desperation

Go get it

Got that fever itching

Cojelo con take it easy

Suave pai

No need for bug out be chillz

Relax these are facts

Relapse more probable than elevation

Resuscitation of reputation unlikely

Why try fighting your oppression

You have that tranquil passive lean

Fux your American dream

CREAM ain’t just a ring tone

Bunch of shallow company

Shut up and smoke dope

Shells never dummy

How hungry are you

Enough to sacrifice

Can you go with out

No matter how loud you shout

No one listening

Hands clammy puddles

Plan one day to bubble

For now real struggle

Cotton mouth stinky paranoia

Legal aid inconvenient lawyer

Lack of ours waste hours

Watching brown skin wrinkle

Dried fruit bruised and beautiful

Shit shave shower

Might feel better about regular routine

Pana this ain’t a dream

Attempting fantasia out every day

Which way

Can’t fix a crooked game

Exclusive proof you lame

Copycat kitty until you bitten

Hand that breeds you

Who believes you

People in lurk of some strife

Gripping bubble guts

So hangry could belch

For fine first impression

Eye contact without daps

Thirsty coqui peleando

For last sips of dusty botella of regret 

2015 heavy

Don’t sign away your life

Pow wow with proud people

Bring forth righteousness

Divine drop jewels round neck

Catch respect all praises for mazes

Meant to capture wide lenses frame

Broken ears repaired heart

Band aid round brain

Rabbit receiver plyers on black and white Vision

Prisons bended bars to let you taste freedom

Through hole in fence

Prevent shame from overpowering passion

Why did you begin rapping

Lurking remixes to love death pain happiness

Satisfied with malaise

Conquering inaction with professionalism

Maturity assuredly

Positive logical profitable blessings added

Each one like counting pennies

Who can be friendly

When acquaintance is convenient enemy

Wondering why you so lonely when you seek

Bitter company suffering solitude

When you should have happier attitude

Open windows look out pull shade

Pray to mirror give thanks to sky

All the reasons why lie outside

Go gather your semillas

To reap proper harvest

Charges against you been dropped

At the puddles you been splish splash

Catching chill at dusty elbows

Let your warmth thaw your frost

Add up the cost

Cancel out your weakness

What is this voice you speak of

Grappling ghosts

Deadening demons

Realize your potential is within

Shine of your gleaming

No more half stepping

Declaring dreams out loud

Fetti Cheddar Guap Paper Currensy Stacks

Disposable income

Preexisting condition with affliction

To ignoring cultural tradition

How can this transition into raw capital

Suitable for social economic political guerilla warfare

Known knowns

Known unknown

Hood shorties voluntarily give up

Because of subliminal intimidation

Plantations been preserved

Invisible chains around decaying brain

Withering body

Unhealthy processed bodega

Tasty synthetic food

Hunger pains give ill attitude

Students said it’s too dark in projects

Can only read by streetlight

Bleak vision fuzzy focus

They leave the TV on so commercials

Can program their dreams

Gold plated ghetto

Is not as shiny as it seems with

Delicious distraction

Fashionable fads

Terror trends

Can’t recognize

Who is enemy

Who is friend

None left

Vulture scavengers have bled

Remainder of revolution

Mosquito drone fly into ear

Make you zone to lower levels

Scan barcode of humanity

Only see veins intoxicated

Corrupt chemicals

Inedible vegetables

Seeds sown in contaminated soil

Guns oil diamonds

Carrot dangling silly rabbits

Will never feast

Ain’t no place safe

When eyes always watching

Plotting sophisticated algorithm

Disrupting electric signals

Governing stressed nervous system

Delayed reaction makes you

Destroy your brother

Slander your sister

Misguided violence produces

Empty existence

So ignorant never learned how to listen

Mire bobito

Pon atencion

Greatest weapon is a burnt tongue

Waiting to scream

Declare the pain

We need world to change

Overcoming internal conflict

Soul guiding purpose

Application of essential knowledge

Critical to resurrection of reason

Believe in pigment’s power

Melanin reflection of sun

Heart’s drum will forever keep a descarga beat

Ready to improvise the inevitable antidote to poison

Polluting our Pa’lante

Upon entrance

Make a ninja like exit

Leaving bodies behind you

With rest of tomorrow in front of

Glossy eyes unafraid of frightful fate

Is it all too late

To start making a comeback

Nah Son

Ain’t where you from

How you break out that trap

if you claim it/ then own it/ fully without regrets

If I’m a poet

Then I must be responsible

                James Baldwin

So prize

What are you waiting for to begin

Rest of existence

So much resistance to revolution

Rather be comfortable in cut

Waiting for rock salt to sting

Breath of fresh hope

On ropes wobbly legs shabby ankles

Recuperate start to percolate

What gives you shakes

Anxious nerves paranoid premonition

Constitution needs multiple revisions

Declaration must have house remix

Heavy bass crumbling ivory towers

On top of dead white marble statues

Embrace inspiration’s seductive selfie

Inviting you to creep over

Pick up frequency of your delinquency

What can give you more reason to be righteous

Besides modern madness

Paint opus capturing calamity

Contains courage feeding malnourished hopeless

Steaming porridge fresh farina

Grits stick to smoky ring ribs

Guttural Gloria

Palms raised with absolution

Divino when we recognize our Godliness

Smiling musk frowny funks

Wrinkles across beauty marks

Open window

Let city cough away until naptime

Wake up clave at corner colmado con

Proclamations Cristo viene pronto

Stop playing tonto

Suckas posing cool will get

Devil’s pie stacked with sprinkles

Thank viejos for voices

Jumping from tired mouths to eager ears

Thirsty brains needing better reception

Too much radio static

Props to poets hustling hearts on tattoed sleeves

Peace to enemies who try to silence and censor

Oppression knows no boundaries

Ni uno puede cagar en paz

Without demonios out to rob your mananas

Gracias amazing grace within palabras symphony

Voice box sounds syllables

Communicate with electric signals

Praise imagination

Daring dreamers to see

For brighter dawns

Life shouldn’t look like this

Moment in rhyme provided by infinite spirit

Traveling through natural mystic

Atmosphere floating

Getting dirtier by the breath

Precious oxygen vital water

Soon elements all we have left

Earth Wind and Fire

Won’t be telling us to celebrate in September

Remember yesterday

Today moves faster than tomorrow

But that is all we are given

Lucky perhaps

Good looking for another chance

Rugged resurrection

Nothing romantic about reality  

Responsible artist

Pray for power of Pa’lante

Be fearless