hood flick

Glory Portrait

Dropouts about to get back in the game

Pop 40 highlights outta town escapades

Been afraid

Tomorrow might transition

Too comfortable to bounce so hastily

Lately becomes yesterday

Half a man cell decay evaporates with each pull

Lil higher stale lavender flowerpot

Opposite of true intelligence

Can’t get an overtime replay

Blown call at hood tournament

Do over suspect Watson flooded

Camouflaged hot boys ready to ignite fuse

Challenge your promotional single will ever

Reunite familia haven’t seen

Since shat for amusing embarrassment

Ayer chopped down faster than

Ancient swamp trees

Woodchip legacy

Projector on side of brick fades with sun

Rises over brighter mistakes

You can’t take back when your ball caught limbs

Bird shit dropped on brim

Chances are slim screams battle

Just to hear loud whispers

What we supposed to do with all this knowledge

Brag about ignorance

Or freely distribute jewels to beloved

Float gravity deadly possibility

Pluck grey hair

Wisdom be Achilles

No time for shook sons

Don’t question power

Voice is necessary

When old wounds get fresh scabs

Grab mother’s hand

Stop dumb weight crashing father’s dome

Should know lane by now

More confused how life will turn out

Stay rooted in faith

Happiness is not for sale

Point is to do it

Fuck depression if you fail

You succeed from your effort

This is not your fault

You don’t deserve doubt

Hang on to hope

Don’t dead your dreams

Impossible seems likely

Fighting air letting you breathe

Accept anger

Endless bliss crying hurts

Perhaps manana won’t end like this

Give thanks for your ground

Floor slanted to make you slouch

The real has just stepped into the house

Props to SOPA

And so I am alive today

And I call that

Victory

Naomi Ayala

Fly the flag reconquering your essential space

No disclaimer for what’s already been given

Standing on top of past failures

Dancing over self denial

Brand new bugalu bangs with blessings

Message no longer be afraid of divine protection

Profession of faith is to stomp sin compromise

In face of criticism

Unmask yourself obvious villain

Jeepers evil stalks you

Shaking chair inviting beef as you soothe

Away anxiety with good news gathering

What have you done

Daring to exist fearless

Don’t let weakness be strongest attribute

Legacy testament to how tough you been

Next century smoothly circulate

Regenerative energy motivate ancestors to share

Despite lack of invitation you made presence visible

Stuck in critical statis

Undermines basis of self actualization

Sacrifice reputation

For sake in creating original path

Most awake when

Opportunity can be affirmed

Return to examine growth

Hope to not see you here

For quite some time

Do me a favor and get lost

Relocate where you should land

Safely enough whole flight

Give Bronx cheers for timely arrival

Participation crucial enthusiasm vital

Earn props for surviving

Predestined outcome of inevitable demise

Do not be shook to show how you’ve risen

All our problems are now forgiven

Buns

Cheekage

What do you speak of

Nalgas y damage to confidence

Conditioned to accept complacency

Limited agency with unrealistic expectations

Staged conquest demise at climax

Don’t be sack of stinking excrement

Fragrant evidence dramatic reenactment

Faces and names changed to protect legacy

Smudged body grease eye water

Simple answers complex questions

Plato didn’t own patent on perfection

Shadow original irreplaceable form

Calmest storm in chaos

Comatose despite carnage

Roadside carne sizzle roasted asphalt

Mountains don’t move

Billy goats gently bounce valley breeze

Who do you plan to please with those weak degrees

Fancy ink on parchment

Quickly started hastily ended

Center of displeasure hard to measure

Crawl in search of what you left behind

Difficult experience brilliant chances

Separate expectations welcome elevation

Premeditated mystery confounded

Compelled to tune in

While magnifying glass zooms out

Skinny figure cast largest shallow

Worm at middle of putrid apple

Earliest quenching hunger

Latest comprehending highly visible

Living miracles testifying redemption

Remembrance of blessed elders

Walked down slippery roads

So be wealthy

Tender molecules precious atoms

Who could fathom such a wonderful life

Smile shows your peoples beauty

What a glorious sight

zone squad

Smoke as much as you breathe

Aura is lonely cloud of broken benches

Once play area closes at dusk

What you doing past midnight

Empty bottle your exclusive mixtape on blast

Stretch marks on gut

Grey hairs past neck tat

Mami calling you back in house

So you better get the dipping

Hunger dripping funky fangs

All you do is hang around vacant block

Looking for quick sale

Soak up chuleta thigh extra salsa

Bag up on chess board

Throw your blunt at the speaker

For where you at forced to accept

Cornerstore munchie nutrition

Malt liquor massages liver

Job is reading JOB working with your lot

Better what you got

Beloved wobble brain bobble

Hard to sit still like ground you stuck on

Clason Point Gardens standing next to

6 dope boys 5 shottas 4 suckheads 3 Thots

2 Dutches 46 2 story houses

on ghosts of Army barracks

43^rd at end of lane

OG Sour Uptown Haze all on deck

Whatever you want

Absorb apathy at speed of Rhino Pellet

And Rad bubblin in rusted gut

Swollen eyes numb to naivete

Innocent ignorance brilliant belligerence

Who will hear this besides mundane bsides

Men done before teenagers

Dee Lush Vudu wrinkled Sick Rick

Brush teeth with White Owl for breakfast

Fast break at Big Back Park

Monkey bar hoops hold hood throwbacks

How easily were you allowed to commit

Concurrent fuckshit more frequent on the ropes

More funny faces laughter covering your loud beads

Please believe yourself if no one else

Everyone will have opinion to deliver as fast as

Pigs can snatch your freedom preserve their weak position

How much can you listen to bullshit conversation

To let world turn deep within your dizzy doneness

Take a Record Fool

Break the Spectrum
For Esen aka Turnbull Green

Peace kiko /you roll with that BX twist
This toblerone is the bomb/ son you beat that teddy bear yo

Butter toasted croissant Rowayton reality Norwalk nod
wobbly balance on B2 Drew Spencer Jesse

Psychedelic suburbia concrete sunset
Chew dirt when face down with failure

A single tear could make a puddle ankle high

Survive with lessons from bredrens
In session on a quest for freedom

In tune with universal vibrations
When difference we make creates soundwaves
That battle demons and invite angels

Remix tragedy become friends with danger
Tiptoeing on a razor

Ain’t nothing sharp enough to slice sanity
Spin blood in a hurricane throughout cement jungle

Humbled by mistakes reborn in faith
Overstand divine purpose

Overload the circuits to turn this concert to a circus
Studio is church verses are prayers portraits are psalms

Tattooed arms heavenly testaments elevated experience
Tormented travels down a joy road to reach dull rainbows
With pawn shop pot of gold

Broken from bottom of belly to resist
Temptation of wicked beasts
Feasting frugally living dutifully brain beautifully bruised

Heart soaked in bath tub of blues
Voice texture of sandy frosting screaming

HERE I AM WALKING DOWN THE STREET
On judgment day the people will recognize the wolf in you

Searching for the right mountaintop to howl at the moon
Closest we can communicate with the clouds

Imperfection around the corner coming soon

As chaos is inevitable approach calmly and be proud

nowhere to go but up

Bop Gone Sad

                  After Willie

Damn homie/in High school you was the man homie/what the fuck happened to you? –Curtis Jackson

In between your dreams

Life happens

So fast you couldn’t catch up

With fantasies of places

You would never visit even

If wishes was granted

Slanted eyes don’t let you see straight

Crooked as your confidence you let evaporate

Meditate on melting frozen

Chosen charisma consider future

With you broken sentences with bad intentions

Standing still in shadows

Arrows pointed directly at shaky temple

Meant to live glorious existence

Not dwell on all you missed

Used to swish now you throw up bricks

Destroying instead of building not so willing

Initiate and instigate brothers’ rapid demise

Spiraling down drain

Fist wrapped around gold chain

Suffocating blood to malnourished brain

Making you believe you have best perspective

When purpose walked out long time ago

Nowhere to circle in search of getting low

Bottom has been horizon for too long

Moonlight highlights descent at breakadawn

I love my grandmother, Melba Burgos!

Abuelita abuelita no llore mas

Abuelita abuelita en su vida praying for paz

How did you feel before getting on that avion

English weak but your faith strong as back bearing jibaro burden

Decade after decade world turning always towards sunny manana

Hustle your way through factorias

Sowing lace luxury undergarments by day

By night open and shut down the Copa

Una mujer en la ciudad

Bailando until breakadawn

Ritmo mas profundo makes you sing along

Release all that pena each song

Large family in small apartments

Dreams squeezed into roach motel railroad

Prewar buildings born for arson insurance

Drama kept you moving

Hard to preach Que Pasa Power

When children are starving

Cornflakes with water

Ketchup sandwich bacalaito for breakfast

Yucca for dinner

May the Lord be with you always

We feeble fellow sinners

Don’t pass judgement on next brother

Who knows when emptiness will be fulfilled

Grandma’s hands crotchet Lares flag

Collecting dust in back of closet

Let tumbleweeds push past parched desert

Constant conversation with Dios

From your blessed mouth to beloved ears

On your side no boogieman to fear

Except monsters you been created

Image of Beetlejuice don’t say name 3 times

Appear instantly behind bad memories

Distraction is contagious

Top of head to bottom of toes

Become your holy gospel before eyes close

Shielding you from hood frights

City skyline in broken distance

Bedroom looking at Rikers Riverside

Harlem State building to Empire

Hardwired to hold on to hope

Kiss your bony knuckles to knock out negativity

Followed by heavenly trinity

Sunrise to midnight

Echandolo Pa’lante never polite

Your smile is a kite

Flying from highest cascada en el Yunque

Able to see Guzman Abajo

And look up at confianza constellations

Forever watching