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New Negritude

from Spooks and Sagacity by Diffusive

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This track represents what it means to be black, above all the stigma and stereotypes of what blackness is. And also works to embrace some of those stereotypes that come with the social conditions of many black Americans today.

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Yeah, nigga where the trap be?
Got a fifth, where the gat be?
Nigga came with a rap sheet
And a chain with some gucci
Pan-Africanism
What a wacky religion
See hutu and tutsi
Rap a bar too smoothly
Avatar like the movies
Get up and get em and
Go raw like sushi
I type code my nigga
Like Java and C when I flow my nigga
Write notes on a staff, allegro my nigga
Adagio, make it slow my nigga
Wow, wow my nigga

Rhyme smart my nigga
Read Engels and Hegel and Marx my nigga
All different flavors of art my nigga
Explaining the systems in parts my nigga
Still dark, my nigga

I'm overwhelmed by that
I should have never learned to fail, why's that?

The fuck is negritude?

Bless connections, and those infected with weapons
Entirely reminiscent of the questions to my younger self
Would harder work or potions help?
A father or some riches
Or just pondering the vicious knells
Too much complexity, the remedy is to think less
Or be less, pshh
That's a narrative of a parody depleted
I'm lovin it just like Venus
Or just like it's Mickey Dees
I'm just asking to myself "What were the naysayers thinking?"
I thought my batman mentality would save me from reality
But was put in check with the effects of my apathy
Stop for a minute, plot to the rhythm
Writing thoughts to precision of the bop with some riddles
And criticism is all that is entirely unique
Tough poor decisions require just defeat
In order to be seen
Look, none of them are speakers, or intellectually sound
Just believers with beliefs that are intellectual nonsense
The term 'conscious' is obnoxious to refer to yourself as
Yes, I'm just honest

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from Spooks and Sagacity, released October 12, 2018

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