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"Let me welcome both of you |
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uh, to the show this morning to talk about what I consider |
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to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harlem Renaissance |
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But before we get into that..." |
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Immortal Technique: |
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Yeah, Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) |
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Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David |
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And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) |
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Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan |
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Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) |
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Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David |
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And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) |
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Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan {WAKE UP!} |
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Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) |
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Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David |
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And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) |
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Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan |
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Until after the invasion of, gentrification |
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Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation |
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And it's frustratin to look at, every day |
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Like watchin a porno, on 56-K |
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Biohazard labs instead of store rooms |
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What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms? |
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You ain't fool nobody in this community duke |
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With your little fake Manhattanville community group |
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Ivy league, real estate firms are corrupt |
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I lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe |
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They treat street vendors like criminal riff-raff |
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While politicians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes) |
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Chorus: Immortal Technique |
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Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed |
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Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved |
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'Til they start deportin people off the property |
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Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically |
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They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance |
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Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause |
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The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off |
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Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators |
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Immortal Technique: |
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When I speak about Harlem, I speak to the world |
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The little Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girl |
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The African in Sudan, the people of Kurdistan |
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The third world American, indigenous man |
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Palestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans |
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Displaced New Orleans citizens |
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Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin in |
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The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again (fuck outta here) |
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I didn't write this to talk shit, I say it because |
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some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was |
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We had revolution, music and artisans |
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But the movement was still fucked up like Parkinson's |
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Cause while we were givin birth to the culture we love |
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Prejudice, kept our own people out of the club |
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Only colored celebrities in the party (fake nigga!) |
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And left us a legacy of false superiority |
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W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey |
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And we ended up, sellin out to everybody |
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The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's |
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Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobile army |
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They wanna move us all out the N.Y.C. |
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Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree |
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So support your own businesses and do the knowledge |
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Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic (yeah) |
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Chorus: Immortal Technique |
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Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed |
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Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved |
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'Til they start deportin people off the property |
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Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically |
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They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance |
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Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause |
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The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off |
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Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators |
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{"Green Lantern... The Evil Genius!"} |
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"When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harlem |
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they didn't mean, that we had stake in that |
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They meant to say that they could make money out of us" |
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"They are coming in with all kind of prejudices |
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In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing |
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In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx |
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There's hardly any place which is affordable |
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I mean these people are putting up condominiums |
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which start from a million dollars |
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How many people in this community make that kind of money? |
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How many people have that kind of money?" |
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"People of Harlem, they are the natural allies of the oppressed people |
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of the world, whether the struggle is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba" |
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"We spend money with the wrong people |
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We are looking for love, with people who don't love us |
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What's wrong with us loving each other |
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and making sure that we are protected?" |
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