Phoenix Aquua : Revolutionary Malpractice

Just a little bit.

Rev-o-lution.

Yeah.

Just a little bit.

Rev-o-lution.

Yeah.

Half them poets…politicians.

They ain't got no conviction.

They ain't got no predisposition.

Their only revolutionary position

is exactly to become self-crafted caricatures

of the popular expectations of a revolutionary.

And if you punch half them male revolutionary poets

hard enough in their chest

they'll give you whatever they have

on their person for free.

So how am I expected to believe that

this same individual is capable of stopping

a ruthless metropolis

from neo-colonizing a community?

much less a country?

They don't want me to speak on government.

Any time I slide to the mic and start

"Marblez" or "Morally Bankrupt"

them punk propaganda poets should be lovin' it.

They ain't got no covenant.

It's just the bullshit they're full with.

Regurgitating impragmatic rhetoric

all over the pulpit.

Chile,

You got revolution backwards

and I can't wait for the day

that they begin to litigate poets

for revolutionary malpractice.

Bankrupt all your fake revolutionary asses

for dressing the part

but just being actors.

You can't completely open

your third eye as long as you

afraid to die.

Using your poems

to talk down about other people's

9-to-5's

when they're doing whatever

they have to do

in order to keep their family alive.

Knowing good and well your ass

is scared to hustle to survive.

You'll never understand the extent

to which this world ain't no joke.

And you ain't down and out

just cause you fell out with your folks.

And as long as them cats

is still middle class

then your ass ain't never really broke.

So I suggest you

reconsider that impractical diatribe

before it exits your throat,

before some single mother

step up on stage and smack the shit

out of you

'cause she relied on some bullshit

that you wrote.

With her kids about to beat your ass

with their toys

and ready to slit your throat.

And leave you for dead

soaked to the bone

in your own Malcolm X misquotes.

See the words of a revolutionary

have a fiduciary relationship

with his or her actions.

And whether you talking

Male/female relationships

or politics,

you just better mean that shit

like George Jackson.

Showing Angela Davis

why he needed her to feel him.

Establishing a relationship

with his brother Jonathan

that epitomized real men.

And even now in this new millennium

when chances for young black men

are still slim,

we gotta give it to him

for putting so much fear

in the heart of the system

that even in prison

they saw no other alternative

but to kill him.

But today's poets are

indifferent

to this world's capacity for

ignorance.

They'd rather gossip about

how we pimpin' this with CDs.

Like we ain't supposed to see G's.

Like we supposed to take these degrees

and work for some other man and be pleased,

and wait for him to have some J-O-B freeze,

and get us out on the line for free cheese,

and watch our wives and girlfriends leave,

and have our kids bouncin' up on

some big willies knees.

See that's why them Black Panthers took off,

got them corporate jobs,

and wiped that Black Power look off.

And if you talked to them today

about revolution,

there's a 99% chance

that they will attempt to hook off.

Cause they too had revolution backwards,

not that they were all actors

but their mathematics was inaccurate

see sharing cannot exist amongst greed

and socialists do not succeed amongst capitalist.

Now this is a little different from that spiel

with the cosmetic locks and fatigues

and other popular hypocrisies

that make mockeries of revolution

by improperly introducing

a cacophony of confusion.

that's not for we to be abusin'

using false prophesies and illusion

like y'all do it to'em.

Like fake revolutionary poets

come in here to tell the truth and

there's something about your ear holes

that's seduces them.