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Skrenth
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R.A.P. Ferreira
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The— that— this where the rap comes from, rap comes from We are the old men of the rap age When we started bringin' the music and the poetry and stuff together, it was considered wild We said, we want poetry that you can take out of these classrooms That you can read in bars and taverns That you can read in playgrounds That you can read on the street That’s what we did in the '60s That's what I used to tell my students, you think your stuff is good? See those guys diggin’ a hole in the street there? When they get a minute off to eat a sandwich, go read 'em a poem If you get hit in the head— If you don't get hit in the head, you've got a future Flying high off the strength of kickin' a old habit Miasma fold like fabric The old Ciabatta roll out the hat trick Rogue be a Rhodes scholar boom-baptist Quantum leapin' through timelines Fanta orange dimes Keystone XL pipeline When reality seeps into dreams And you find yourself rappin' 'bout political things It ain’t like steppin’ on ants It ain't like steppin’ on ants If you wanna be a poet, you can't be You gotta know you are a poet And then you've got no f**king choice 22,369 miles above sea-level and you lookin' like a bull’s-eye Off the loose leaf, goofy Feelin' loose as a looney Rubbery, buttery, cringle, crinkled, frinky I think of you thinking of me Back and forth forever, let's endorse the better With wiggly handwriting And even with all this room, the little piggies get to in-fighting I like hiding my feelings in plain sight In plain speaking, in plain sight Did you see that, did you hear that? A poet, a poet's, uh, fate is by choice You choose it You gotta know you're a poet But, you ain't gonna get the financial rewards You're gonna get a lot of weight laid on you They'll look at you as weird or something somehow I don't care your style, if your hair's long or short Or you could get in the academy where it's stifled Or you could see something new And by seeing that something new that's here, and nobody sees And you illuminate others, then you got it made
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