by Leroy Moore/The Black Cripple a.k.a. NWD
Limping & rolling to the mike
Slurring our lyrics
The concert hall goes silent
The Black Cripple
Paraplegic MC
Bird Man
Drooling our rhythms
Hip-Hop you are under arrest
Tony Touch & Fezo da MadOne
On the turntables
The Blind leading the Cripple
Spoken word from Ayisha Knight
Fingers dancing in the air
Sign language arms up high
An ocean of brown & white hands waving back & forth
Like Horace Pippin, Rob Noize Temple
Creating art at the keyboards with one arm
House, Funk, Pop, and Hip-Hop beats
Getting people up from their wheelchairs, rocking-chairs & the electric chair
Music therapy
Healing our disabled brothers & sisters
From assaulting raps by artists
Holding the Hip-Hop industry captive
Demanding an apology
From Eminem to the Black Eyed Peas
"Lets Get Retarded"
No, "Lets Get Some Disability Education"
Or should we aim higher
At record companies
Or executive producers
Sadly Hip-Hop artists are only puppets on a corporate string
Verbal masturbation
What a waste of space
Crip Hip-Hop all in your face
Putting you in your place
Canes, wheelchairs & crutches
Setting off metal detectors
While we roll, limp and hop to the stage
Continuing in the shoes of NWA
Nigger with Disability, NWD that�s me
Fists in the air like PE
Cause Crip Hip-Hop respects the old school
They were no fools they knew the real enemy
Today we are divided and being conquered
Spitting at each other
While Sony, RCA and Columbia pimps our talent
No wonder Jay Z is retiring
Crip Hip-Hop turning the mirror inwards
Cleaning out the closet
And what we found was
local artists suffocating under a layer of dirty isms
Where is Paris and other independent labels
Crip Hip-Hop is ready to sign up
No contract between family
The community is the studio
Calling all my crips
Invading the American Idol and MTV
Sick of seeing white perfect bodies
And hearing the same ABC stamp approve voices
Hey Russell Simmons
How about some crip spoken word
Or some real deaf poetry
Or should we follow in the steps of Jessica Care Moore at Apollo
Anyway we go
Crip Hip-Hop mixing up the flow
Straight & narrow, hell no
More like crooked & wide
Watch out for Cripple Connection Productions, CCP
Videos, Books, clothing and CDs
No fuck that we are more than consumers
So step off, listen and get politicized by Crip Hip-Hop
By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
The Black Cripple a.k.a. NWD
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