Call Me "Prince"

Read my words straight off your screen
You won't hear just what i mean,
Though definitions you may know
Of these many words I chose
In the poems that I show
And speak loud over prose.

Its the rhythm to my rhyme,
My cadence and my perfect time,
That really speak to the heart
Of the wisdom I impart
Through these letters on this page
And these sounds on this stage

My heart aches like no other
Worse than separation from a lover
Cause men were forced to live in chains
Despite intellect and human brains
And Whips cracked their backs like thunder
As their human rights were cast asunder

My chest beats strong like a drum,
And these solemn hymns I hum
Were by gospel choirs sung
When those country niggas were hung
High up by the leaves of tress,
Of the georgias, the Mississippis.

And a few years later, like mr X
Our King was killed in Memphis
Leaving no prince for his rank on lincoln steps
To fight for whats right, curing injustice
He led us towards the mountaintop without waiting
But for preaching his dream, there was assassinating

Even now my people still are oppressed,
From our burden, we get no rest.
Seems every morning the sun has risen
Another blood wakes up in prison
Victims of a "war" unjust
A war on blacks, not angel dust

See, our "drug war" isn't colorblind
Look up the facts, you'll surely find
Laws painted with colorful bias
And while in the ghettos this is a crisis
In the burbs its hardly a footnote
So i publicize it, through these words type wrote

Bust still, through our trials
Through our fight
Through our struggle
We flex our might

We fought to be reborn
like the Phoenix
Even though this country's torn
By our Double Helix
We're like a lotus flow3r
blooming into our role
To give the US of A
A little color and soul

The pain behind my history
Never was a mystery
Its been in books for years it seems
And still haunts some Negro's dreams
Yet some brothas still don't know
Why "Roots" was a classic show

Enter me, to claim the throne martin left
And sweep the streets that must be swept
I scribe my thoughts as I do best
Hoping to give my people rest
Rest from pain, heartbreak, and tragedy
Finally free to truly be

Its time for a new purple reign
To rule over this domain,
And provide to some education
On the Black story in our nation,
So I'm here to cure the ignorance
I am no King, but call me "Prince"