Crip Hip Hop

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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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