Hip Hop vs Harlem Renaissance

Gonna buy me a knife with / a blade ten inches long. / Shall I carve ma self or / that man that done me wrong?

• Harlem Reniassance

• Hip Hop

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Who is America? You, me! / We are America! / To the enemy who would conquer us from without, / We say, / NO! / To the enemy who would divide / And conquer us from within, / We say, NO!

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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I came on a slave ship, enslaved / from the cradle to the grave / For too many generations / Until the Emancipation freed a nation from the plantations.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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One day I'm gonna bust / Blow up on this society / Why did ya lie to me? / I couldn't find a trace of equality.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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In the past if you picture events like a black tie / What’s the last thing you expect to see, black guys / What’s the life expectancy for black guys? / The system’s working effectively, that’s why

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, / For weary centuries despised, oppressed, / Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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Never love with all your heart, / It only ends in aching; / And bit by bit to the smallest part / That organ will be breaking.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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What though before us lies the open grave? / Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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One hand in the air for the big city / Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty / No place in the world that could compare

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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People, people we are the same / No we're not the same / Cause we don't know the game /What we need is awareness, we can't get careless

• Harlem Renaissance

• Hip Hop

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