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Quietly Making Noise

Jimmy Buffett

Fruitcakes

1994

No one ever calls me here
Traveling by my self these days
I'm into jazz and felt berets
Far from the that old eastern shore
Searching for strange

pollinated by the "Be"
Pac called it the rose that rose from concrete
How do you define divine that finds street?
"Hip bop," the color of my leaves
Not

JFK 2 LAX

Gang Starr

Moment of Truth

1998

Yo 
Yo Premier? 
Yeah whassup G? 
That trip to L.A.  may be delayed 
Why whassup I'm on my way to the airport now 
Yeah well your boy Guru got

of Emilia-Romagna. It’s a warm September morning and the piazza is crowded with people, watched over by the lofty bell tower of the 12th century Basilica of San

Yeah
You can tell that it's me by the way that I walk and the way that my skin is
I'm in the cut trying to fuck me a bad ting
Lights out, trying

Beef

Mos Def

One Million Strong, Vol. 2: Love Peace & War

2005

Yo I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin'
Middle Passages, I can't go back again
Battlin' years of denyin' history, lies

Yellow Brick Road

Eminem

Encore

2004

perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
From Bel-Air shopping center just for stoppin' in there
From the black side all the way

Girl I need you by my side
Make my thing go kpokpo di kpokpodi (Yeah yeah)
The way she whine it slowly (Yeah yeah)
You keep your feelings lowkey (Yeah

Kass on the beat
Whip that boy like r-r-Ribena
Big ballista African nigga
Roll up the splif I'm tryna get litter
She say she wanna go for dinner
Took

Gyal I love you
Tell her
Oh nooo yeah

Yuh knuh wen an African man love somebody
We gotta talk that thing wey her are nah fit knuh

Cus I need you oh

and sound waves
African skeletons engraved pyramid caves near water ways
Displays kind of days for elevation into the first civilization
From then to now, no

The oldest of 3 kids from an immigrant house
Navigating 2 cultural norms trying to figure things out
North American mindset, West African roots

Puerto yeah yeah
West Africana oh yeah
Raised by an African Queen
She put the rhythm in me
We love to dance and feel free
Feeling the earth with bare feet

copies can't outmatch the godly
That's Kawasaki vs a Harley
Hardly apt to dance with titans from an African horizon
Sun might rise again
Jokers need

Long time
So come rain come shine
All day all night
I be by your side Yeah

Say I see your man getting vexed I see
Omo baby make you tell am wait first

Told my mama it'd be Alright
She turned around and smiled
Angels watching you'll be fine
Demons caught me by surprise
I wanted the peso
I wanted

don't do anything wrong
I promise mom
This is all a cap by the way
This song is an entire cap
I don't do any of this
I smoke fucking weed every fucking

& progress
My head is off-neck
Jaw bones & all flesh

My heart is fast paced
My eyes - they dilate
My chest is encased with weight
Make it cave

No way to hide

the awards and accolades 'cuz I want the credit (Momma)
I'm coming up in the rap game, I'm untamed
Studying the ways of the legends, 'til I get my fame

due to my math teacher knowing about this

By the way, he's the greatest math teacher of all time
I cannot say that word cause it's a no-no word
And I

Scarecrow!
Commissioned by the will of the people
But the oath is a stamp of upheaval
As he slices tender cuts of the veal
Whilst suckling on fresh

a world where black lives Still
Don't matter, I'm way past thirty-nine

But I digress and rewind as I position my birth against and alongside several

Figure eight
I dey always television your body o
The way you whine it slowly baby o
Pon it on me let prevent konji o
My heart is taken by you baby
I'm

Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na (African children Rise Up)
Na na na na

This is survival, politics them tribal
Can’t afford to stand by, watch