Divine Blessing

from View of A Loser From On Top of The World by Gif

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I had an epiphany one morning. I had gotten a hold of a book called "Africans at the Cross roads" by John Henry Clark. At the time all my entertainment had gone down, the fuse to my T.V had blew so that killed watching T.V and play video games. All I had was the radio, once I got tired of that I decided to troop it to the library which was a ways away.

"Africans at the Cross roads" was the book I ended up getting. I didn't just read that book, I studied it. I read it once, underlined words in it I didn't know, studied the words till I knew them, and then went back and read the book again. I felt enlightened, everything seemed to make sense to me.

I was allowing myself to be a victim of circumstance and convenience. Selling drugs and stuff, that wasn't me. My people were in need of a solution and when I looked in the mirror I saw myself as the problem. I had to make the decision to either be a part of the problem or be a part of the solution. I decided to be part of the solution. In that decision I felt I couldn't allow myself to compromise, this lead to a very big change in me. All of these events is what inspired this verse, which I wrote fresh out of bed one morning when I woke up with a heavy head.

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Brothers are outlandish/ can't respect a man until a pistol in his hand is brandished/ and they hear about the body's that vanished/ like Atlantis/ put it in the bible God damned us/ the curse of Ham/ son of Jahova life over like life in Veitnam/ lucky we live to grow older solder believe the scam/ no blood of Lam on doors to protect your loving fam/ from thugs that will slam through doors with fours pause and...Blam!/ just to settle scores when the mettle roars/ in a place where pimps pedal whores and drug peddlors/ pipes placed in jaws keep money flowing like reservoirs/ speak in admittance/ our life is like a jail sentence/ with dry eyes I shed tears through every written sentence/ just to put it down/ people be preacher but dogs don't want to listen till they locked in the pound/ so I rap to/ give you a hap view/ of rotten parts of the big apple where cops will entrap you if they don't clap you or just let the butt of the gun smack you/ us being poor is unnatural/ follow the road that Garvey and Malcom put X on the map to/ with aggression/ we shouldn't be oppressed people/ they prey on oppressed people/ instead of joining together and fighting oppression/ since the slavery transgression we still aint learn our lesson/ man this depressing/ but I got a suggestion/ damn a clothes line we have a whole Continent to invest in/ more expensive clothes for bros to flip o's and rip foes when shit blows to keep themselves dressed in/ being black aint a curse man....It's a divine blessing

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from View of A Loser From On Top of The World, released 16 July 2005
Written by Shawn Folk a.k.a Gif for IAMTHEGIF Ascap Publishing 2005 All rights reserved

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Has appeared in the Daily News, El Mundo, Trace Magazine, & many other publications and blogs. Performances @ Apollo ... more theater, BAM, Harlem Stage, & more. Featured on legendary blend DJ Silva Sirfa’s mixtape “The Rise of Silva Sirfa” with Doug E. Fresh & DJ Ophax’s, winner of Justo award for best international mixtape DJ, mixtapes “Call It How You See It” and “I’mma Take What’s Mine”. less