From April 4th to June, the Poor People’s
Economic human Rights
Campaign (PPEHRC) will be marching in solidarity with the world’s
poor and struggling masses. Hip Hop Congress is an organization that
supports and connects artists, organizers, educators and many of the
working folks that the march is about. Hip Hop Congress stands in
solidarity with PPEHRC and asks that any artist, Hip Hop or not, that
is aware of this march or in a location where it will be taking place
stand with us. America is at a crossroads.
Will this country support its citizens or the banks? Will our
government place it’s focus in appeasing the needs of the corporations,
or on ensuring that each and every one of its citizens are provided the
basic necessities in life? One thing is for certain, if the people do
not stand up for themselves the decision will be made for us. That’s
why HHC asks that all artists in general, and all Hip Hop artists in
specific stand with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.
You can find more information at
www.economichumanrights.org.
For more information about how you can
get involved, visit www.hiphopcongress.com.
— DLabrie, Page Editor,
Email: dlabrozia2005@yahoo.com
March in Solidarity with the world’s poor
Shamako Noble.
PHOTO/kijalucas.com
Broke: A Love Song to PPEHRC
Aye yo, cat’s is broke,
You act like that’s a joke
Like these cats will not grab the gat and smoke
for like, half a coke and that jacket, loc
Getting the sense you ain’t here
but the young g’s are really about it and down to clown here
down to move pounds all across the town here
and make moves without fear
we got these, poorly rated makeshift lawmakers fucking up
bankers sinking tankers but the haters still coming up
people losing their homes with no one to blame
except an imaginary market that gets harder to tame
God it’s a shame, these credit companies harvest your pain
pillage and plunder and just chalk it up as part of the game
stalking your wage, call you and call you and call you again
you make deals don’t even know who you bargaining wit’
They try to act like it’s not a threat to their order
But thousands in Detroit still don’t have any water
Going after your son or your daughter to sign them up for their own slaughter
Another public housing unit torn up
Police don’t even bother with conversations or whatnot
They just speak with a taser or object with a gunshot
They abhor us all in their court of law it is crystal clear
convicting for surviving the traps they have engineered.
Aye yo, folks is starving
The White House is starting to look like JP Morgan
Obama just barged in by a limited margin
because of charm and all of the harm the bush farm did
But I’m a keep it real, cause even though he won
We still got an economic system that is overrun
And we don’t understand it, man we are all lost
These corporations, they only want to cut the cost
The hack away at jobs, prices don’t level off
playing ball’s more expensive, people have less to toss
We’ve always loved America cause we’ve been better off
But give a warm goodbye to privilege ya’ll cause we just shipped it off
They bail out hella banks, raise the stakes for corporate cronies
We have to choose between bankruptcy and our heart exploding
It thickens up in this piece, they see the plot unfolding
cooped up in a psuedo free market just as it starts imploding.
Yo, folks is pissed,
critical mass what will happen to us after this
it’s a conspiracy a theory we can master if we get past our past
look at the math and just smash the shit
For many there’s a God for some cash is it
and they’ll be glad when fascism crushes activists.
Why are toddlers sleeping on benches
while pundits are sitting on TV addicted to pills and promoting agendas
Ya’ll we could affect it all, with our collective thought
but there are sections lost, and there are sections bought
and there are sections that may never want to understand
and there are sections that will gain the upper hand working the numbers man
There are lines drawn you’re wrong trying to ride the fence
Strengthen heart and mind and then focus in a timed offense
It won’t take one of us, it won’t take twenty five
It will take all of us, for all of us to survive.
2009-Shamako Noble-Still the Sword of the West
You act like that’s a joke
Like these cats will not grab the gat and smoke
for like, half a coke and that jacket, loc
Getting the sense you ain’t here
but the young g’s are really about it and down to clown here
down to move pounds all across the town here
and make moves without fear
we got these, poorly rated makeshift lawmakers fucking up
bankers sinking tankers but the haters still coming up
people losing their homes with no one to blame
except an imaginary market that gets harder to tame
God it’s a shame, these credit companies harvest your pain
pillage and plunder and just chalk it up as part of the game
stalking your wage, call you and call you and call you again
you make deals don’t even know who you bargaining wit’
They try to act like it’s not a threat to their order
But thousands in Detroit still don’t have any water
Going after your son or your daughter to sign them up for their own slaughter
Another public housing unit torn up
Police don’t even bother with conversations or whatnot
They just speak with a taser or object with a gunshot
They abhor us all in their court of law it is crystal clear
convicting for surviving the traps they have engineered.
Aye yo, folks is starving
The White House is starting to look like JP Morgan
Obama just barged in by a limited margin
because of charm and all of the harm the bush farm did
But I’m a keep it real, cause even though he won
We still got an economic system that is overrun
And we don’t understand it, man we are all lost
These corporations, they only want to cut the cost
The hack away at jobs, prices don’t level off
playing ball’s more expensive, people have less to toss
We’ve always loved America cause we’ve been better off
But give a warm goodbye to privilege ya’ll cause we just shipped it off
They bail out hella banks, raise the stakes for corporate cronies
We have to choose between bankruptcy and our heart exploding
It thickens up in this piece, they see the plot unfolding
cooped up in a psuedo free market just as it starts imploding.
Yo, folks is pissed,
critical mass what will happen to us after this
it’s a conspiracy a theory we can master if we get past our past
look at the math and just smash the shit
For many there’s a God for some cash is it
and they’ll be glad when fascism crushes activists.
Why are toddlers sleeping on benches
while pundits are sitting on TV addicted to pills and promoting agendas
Ya’ll we could affect it all, with our collective thought
but there are sections lost, and there are sections bought
and there are sections that may never want to understand
and there are sections that will gain the upper hand working the numbers man
There are lines drawn you’re wrong trying to ride the fence
Strengthen heart and mind and then focus in a timed offense
It won’t take one of us, it won’t take twenty five
It will take all of us, for all of us to survive.
2009-Shamako Noble-Still the Sword of the West
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