this next song is called the dealer and it's about knowing your path of life in your faith and kind of being walked through the series of events that are going to happen in your life and it's not yet online but it is coming out soon and if you do want to hear it feel free to thank you so much this is so fun to be here today i absolutely love coming here whenever you guys have opened my super funny when i think jeremy and everyone this next one here is called forever thank you i've got one more for you a little cover this is on by frank ocean miraculous motion of being formed in shape and here comes the playwright's our spoken word the hip hop is ravenous but the mind as a whole seeing above is seeing beyond way hurting the work was born distance me with the strength of my will to be truer to as i kept becoming something new art forms in my possession and just in case you haven't been taught this brother can not be pigeonholed it's just when you think you've gotten paid takes off stepping on another yes it's a fascinating phenomenon  watching a chameleon changes you for although he's neither nor he can be either or he is whatever the occasion calls for and what you might ask isn't it you take is one who educates wildly entertain heterophobia homosexuals or homophobic heterosexuals now which are replies to you i really don't care whichever shoe fits you with because left and right wing tips make a pair in both close mindsets equally unfair prosaic pilot who takes comfort zones on adventurous flight so please don't dare leave your mind behind as we saw to the higher heights on this elevated in airborne tour on the wings of not but pure uncensored metaphor if your comfort zone runs out of fuel up here due to some thought provoking metaphor you hear as you bail and saw through the air of your discomfort to your own self be mind works only when open like a parachute and you will always be left in a better condition for knowing it only works in the open position so think deeply you just might be me it's not illegal not yet so that being said you know that i exercise my awful poetic license so i want to do this piece called labels you know  we lot of us a label heads and we don't really think about the origin of some of the labels that we are and advertise so follow me very closely on this one you don't need t or in the dairy on till he makes baby fat because he didn't rock aware that can't go don't make jimmy had then he won't support the child what part of the game is that there'd be baby daddy what a mess now he's talking pay less because he got hit with the raps that troop men totally ruling over oppressed people my peeps timberland is also a brand known by the clan don't sleep on the labels like you know why timberland can't get none of my dough because the tree on the side of the timberland bill is where i and sisters once dangle looking like strange fruit so bomoh me don't be mentally  educating a bible over here is much too much to commit it all to memory so some pieces i do have to read it's not my preference but this being black history month i would be remiss if i didn't do a piece about five and six on that great and dreadful day you need someone to guide him before the coming of that day i will send to you a to turn the fathers hearts to the children and children back to the fathers lest i come and smite the earth with a curse but i will send you a lives your st born in georgia on to the slave no food when the honorable marcus mills i a car be passed the way a larger pool continued to pray for the guidance to raise the mental slavery with a word and a grin from a shallow grave loaded his lips to speak the naked truth to the well dressed lie to fulfill the last two verses of the book of malikai he changed the pull to mohammed meaning worthy of praise the guidance god promised for the great and dreadful days with three years of grooming from this divinely wise man eliza mohamed raise malcolm x and minister farrakhan be patient with me he said black man and don't linger are make you so smart you wrap the oppressor around your little pinky finger he turned to him cindy providers prostitutes in the house wives criminals and the entrepreneur he change black people's lives he is the father of black consciousness made us proud to be black showed us our god like greatness self esteem we no longer lack he taught james brown the move the crowd will say it loud i'm black and i'm proud you know we commonly we hear about dr king a lot during black history month and do in january the month of his birth but most people when they talk about d king it's all about a dream they've reduced him to a dream that snippet i have a dream but that was in the earlier part of his life his consciousness was raised the black muslim and the black christians all over he had to get rid of malcolm and king for fear that they might come together because he said black unity is the biggest threat to america and that was the foundation of  that most humans being only do while sleeping he was laying on his awakening and still after his sacrifice it seems most refused to open their eyes and realize he is more than just a dream make no mistake meeting the honorable elijah muhammad rendered king wide awake so for god's sake let's not be fake when we know my friend he did  ascend to the mountain top let's not pretend that he didn't see the promised land that he didn't see the hidden hand pulling the strings of the trigger man to execute cointelpro plan to reduce him to a dream now wake up everybody don't just integrate the bed when king awoke from the american dream please process what he said all our rights here and now to get them this is how we hold your cash the joke is done nebulae commerce target your friends the wide awake king the ski while the sleeping king but had a dream ok i want you to keep keep it going i'll close it out with this one this is a personal piece for my journey on the planet ok this piece called my name is not corey and this is  you know around prison reform they like to do us when we come home from prison so goes a little something like this so whether in minimum medium or maximum security i maxed out every moment productively of every unjust day of my very unjust day that is why by the grace of god i'm such a powerhouse cons rise and shine like stars when we come home they still want to imprison us but this time without bars and for those of us silly enough to beg them for a job they'd rather see us pimp more wholesale more drugs and continue to rob but thanks to the prison minister introducing me to farrakhan and the nation it's been thirty years and i've never been back to their constitutional slave plantation except your own be yourself tooted no more playing the fool i'm playing by god's rules treating sisters as queens no longer garden to the kind you wife bring in new life oasis of peace in the desert of strife no longer clever name is not cory my name is not corey talk with you ten or that's my time thank you very much my next post is about going to slay a friend a couple of friends in line to sign and we will go out to a professional site parking site and it was really a scam it was a singles bar so we went to say went downtown to a professional site to do some networking that night paid a lot to park the car we didn't realize we had to walk so far arrived at the chagrin it cost ten dollars to get in there were lots of singles hanging around but not a professional to be found we wanted to take a load off of our feet but couldn't find a seat after buying drinks that will be way overpriced we looked at each other and didn't think twice after all the money we layed we left and went to slade's found a parking space across the street went in found a seat we sighed and took off our shoes if nothing less we'd be amused because this was mostly a younger crowd the hip hop music was so very loud bass pounding in our ears where grateful we can still hear there was hardly any light we hoped there wouldn't be a fight got settled and looked around everyone was getting down folks were in high gear bartenders gave our free beer lights shone on a mirror dome hips weighed like a metronome the music have folks in a daze jarryd in all kinds of ways red lights flashing then aren't green yellow day i stepped on the dance floor and dance till i couldn't there's no more he looked at me and said you look thirsty can i buy you a drink but i what he really wanted to do was to talk i should taken a walk i didn't want to talk to this clown who said he was from out of town but i was just being polite he wound up talk in the rest of the night i squirmed in my chair he talked and goes on beer when i had heard enough of this tale woe icicle signal to my friends it was time to go but they'd just ordered our fried chicken wing plate and said i had to wait so i ordered another rum and coke and they went out for a smoke patient i didn't make a stink they ate weighings i drank my drink eventually we left our joint we could complain but what's the point it was nice to go out with friends better than going to bed at ten well chucko and remember when we went downtown to the professional site and wound up as slaves hip hop night can't stand with me and it was written and two thousand and sixteen after i was going going through several things and also after saying then that turn a movie and also that was the time when we got a new president what do i stand for i stand for integrity social justice fairness freedom for family caring service community for character courage education perseverance progress positivity i stand for happiness health exercise strength and beauty for spirituality inspiration peace love and sincerity for creativity music song dance style prose and poetry stand for deeds not words stand for goals not dreams if someone dictates what defines us we lose our identity if someone else speaks for us they take our voice if we allow someone to label us we lose our identity if for press we must we submit while others turn a blind eye if we set for everything we stand for nothing we must be willing to do the hard work for social justice to prevail what are we waiting for mobilize take command together we can rise up and stand with me and the last poem that i'm going to read is called blackness i wrote this in one thousand nine hundred and eighty one and it's one of my favorites touch my soul for i am africa for i am the drums in the villages here are my sounds beating from your past it comes as the mandate of our people eg knowledge the culture of our continent saying to me  i am a lotus spirited voices chant and rhythmic harmony words of integrity fill the air and echoes in my heart savor my food for i am honey sweet spiced with the african variety of nutrients bountiful energy and stamina the hallmarks of our lineage my skin and tense as the soil bury dark oil rich on earth and deeply rooted i am the fruit of the bell bob tree i am the warm sun rising i am the majestic kilimanjaro my breasts like pyramids the fullness of my lips the curbing this of my hips my locks and my garb are the displays of beauty unveiled to the world i excellence i am intelligence i am strong i am resilient i am black and beautiful descended from kings and queens this is my heritage i hold my head high for i am proud africa cradle of life touch my soul feel my blackness you're charging it to the game while you're sitting behind bars but the game is just a small little part of the frame genocide is on his mind and that's his ultimate aim you see the dragon that will serve you give power to the beast and he sent them on a mission to destroy the weak like the blind who lead the blind you to the trap get left behind wake up mighty nation we're running out of time the unspoken truth we've got to get to the youth we've got to make them see unspoken truth his death they really don't care we're just the number in a casualty in the game of warfare you mean to tell me that the pill is not destroying the earth birth control control over birth see the words and reverse automatic systematic we won't control synthetics genetics demand your soul automatic systematic remote control the unspoken truths the words to hold that demons all around do you  when everything else fails islam rise when the unspoken truth is all laid out it's like a snail on the ground at the point from some storm why you hit them so hard i'm going to take this message here survive judges prosecutors lie in his lame cold milk and honey beware the devil's in the skies i want to pull your coat bring you back to your nation they got plans for you so on it is called plantations made of concrete and steel poison mills guard raping girls snitches and deals straight up the highways clean up of the byways shutting down your last to be trying to look sideways three hundred and sixty degrees  knighted snakes the word got out after coke was raked as the death toll rolls in the dark a mass is lost a one hundred million lives just in the middle passage you say that was the pas way and the ways of this world men lusted for men girls go for girls you think i'm just plain you better hear what i'm saying because your very life is at stake by a snake just lay in terror feel  boy keep your head down so what i saw your daughter to the other side of town but still he is forgiving with hope he's still waiting but he doesn't realize the evil  glass you'll see the distinct what they are bound to hell they go despise and frown so just have faith my children you see it's in the hands of the almighty thank you that is last little piece i'm go it's been a long time coming but now it's going to be said the diary of the black woman just got to be red now all glory belongs to god but we  you with the deed you've held the world on your shoulders through walls families in slavery the undeserved love you so freely give out is the twin love your feet i've seen the slave masters babies suckle on your breasts i've seen the scars on your heart that they know not yet i've seen the coming of his glory  it is hands i've seen you prepare a great meal with a part in a pan i've seen you deny yourself everything so someone else can hang i've seen a smile on your face when i show me a woman who does these things and i will show you a woman who is a weak deal black woman the mere words did i say is but a small sm token to the price you have paid your a comfort to the king you are the song that makes him sing i am who i am because of you black queen and don't think for one moment that i don't really care but know that you know not why god really sent you here so once more we are to you with the deed as we think deal lot for his gift