Let me welcome both of you uh to the show this morning
To talk about what I consider to be a very very important topic
Uh the Harlem Renaissance But before we get into that
Harlem once was red line district rated
Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
And you wonder why people don't own they homes
'Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin' mortgage a loan
Harlem once was red line district rated
Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
And you wonder why people don't own they homes
'Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin' mortgage a loan
Harlem once was red line district rated
Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
And you wonder why people don't own they homes
'Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin' mortgage a loan
Until after the invasion of gentrification
Eminent domain intimidation that's not negotiation
And it's frustrating to look at every day
Like watchin' a porno on 56k
Biohazard labs instead of store rooms
What's next motherf**ka' projects as dorm rooms
You ain't foolin' nobody in this community dude
With your little fake Manhattanville community group
Ivy league real estate firms are corrupt
That lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe
They treat street vendors like criminal riffraff
While politicians get the corporate kickbacks
Snakes
Harlem renaissance a revolution betrayed
Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved
'Till they start deporting people off the property
Ethnically cleansing the hood economically
They want to kill the real Harlem renaissance
Tryin' to put the Virgin Mary through an early menopause
The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
Guerrilla war against the rezoning predators
When I speak about Harlem I speak to the world
The little Afghan boy and the Bosnian girl
The African in Sudan the people of Kurdistan
The third world American indigenous man
Palestinians Washington Heights Dominicans displaced New Orleans citizens
Beachfront Brazilian fevelas that you livin' in
The hood is prime real estate they want back in again
I didn't write this to talk s**t I say it because
Some of ya'll forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was
We had revolution music and artisans
But the movement was still f**ked up like Parkinson's
'Cause while we were giving birth to the culture we love
Prejudice kept our own people out of the club
Only colored celebrities in the party
And left us a legacy of false superiority
W E B Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey
And we ended up selling out to everybody
The Dutch
And the John Gotti's
Banksters modern day gangsters
They want to move us all out the NYC
Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree
So support your own businesses and do the knowledge
'Cause the real Harlem renaissance is economic
Harlem renaissance a revolution betrayed
Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved
'Till they start deporting people off the property
Ethnically cleansing the hood economically
They want to kill the real Harlem renaissance
Tryin' to put the Virgin Mary through an early menopause
The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
Guerrilla war against the rezoning predators
Sample
When they were saying it is the renaissance of Harlem they didn't mean that we had stake in that They meant to say that they could make money out of us
They are coming in with all kind of prejudices In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing In um Queens they're doing the same thing The Bronx There's hardly any place which is affordable I mean these people are putting up condominiums which start from a million dollars How many people in this community make that kind of money How many people have that kind of money
People of Harlem they are the natural allies of the oppressed people of the world Whether the struggle is in Panama in Africa Cuba
We spend money with the wrong people We are looking for love with people who don't love us What's wrong with us loving each other and making sure we are protected
