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1. |
Dark Light Intro
00:47
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2. |
Fire Starter Equipped
03:15
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Pruven verse 1
Yeh, San Diego to the Bronx
Fire starter equipped
Mortar and brick strip flesh a bit
Pendulum pit hit'em dense Conan axe fit spitting they ribs killing they biz
Getting this in blood rinse decapitate sin evil living in men
Warrior spit begin
A 1957 Chevy truck
Barbarians know whats up
Cut some lacking the wisdom
The victor wrote his legacy
Telepathy seen, empires fall from greed
Shine with your history stand for your team
A 8th to the face smoke great
Read scriptures paint art to emulate zones to escape create obstacles to break
Trials and tribulations take a toll on life to fluctuate
Occasions risen
We reach our potential vision with the golden living
Wrote down the words so they come into living quicker
Must train with vigor
Boy you must think bigger
chorus:
Make moves with hip hop don't fuss
Hip-Hop in the heart, yes we do trust
Make moves with the pen do not fuss (yeh)
Hip-Hop in the heart yes we do trust (tell'em)
Make moves with the pen do not fuss (make moves)
Hip-Hop in the heart yeh we do trust
Make moves with the pen do not fuss (no)
Hip-Hop in the heart yeh we do trust (yeh)
Pruven verse 2
My prophecy with the pen
Is like psychology to these men
Vividly spiritually I release the sin
No gimmicks
Reach down touching eternal spirits
Clash critics bash physics math & rhythm bound to hit'em
Happiest pain part ways left a strange look on your face
Like the devil speaking for peace
Irony seen life is strange as it looks quite deeper
Keeper seeker don't shake hands with the reaper
Student became the teacher loser became the leader bound to reach ya
Heat seeker tongue missile bound to defeat ya
& start doing drugs and got selfish hell bent
Don't listen hella quick convict concrete hella sick nonsense
Stick crazy glue spit upgrade the consciousness
Tips of pyramid lit shines the brightest and never quit
Evident architect build the blueprint for knowledge
Castle so brolic
She looking gorgeous
But not important rhymes roaring soaring you boring
We touring scoring on enemies floor kid
Raw sounds are morbid ya dormant forfeit
Your sounds distorted
Sounds distorted
Career's over over career's over
There career's over
Career is over
Make moves with hip hop don't fuss
Hip-Hop in the heart, yes we do trust
Make moves with the pen do not fuss
Hip-Hop in the heart yes we do trust
Make moves with the pen do not fuss
Hip-Hop in the heart yeh we do trust
Make moves with the pen do not fuss
Hip-Hop in the heart yeh we do trust
(sample)
Tell yourself what you want to do. Don't tell yourself what you don't want to do. You know, tell yourself what you can do. Don't tell yourself what you can't do.
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3. |
Toxic Anger Release
03:21
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Jimi Hendrix sample:
All it is just let me do what I want to do. My own kind of sickness. Or like onetime I said maybe I should burn a guitar tonight I really like, you know. Or maybe I should smash a guitar or something like that and he says, "Yeh Yeh". I said, "You really think I should?"
Scvtter Brvin - "Yeh"
Chorus (Scvtter Brvin) "Burn guitars on stage" (x4)
Pruven verse 1
Boy learn the hard way
Burn guitars on stage
Bash guitars on your face
Trip lace L.S.D. pace the wild out way
The wild out razor blade chainsaw a inch from your brain
Most say Rome saw and overcame
Forcible feeble people
Death row is lethal
Eyes wept and they half step
A man dies once and owes God that death
Made the game winning shot and banked it in
No glass I call "Game" we win
Paul Pierce legacy
Frequently score no stopping me
Dare devil Netflix awake and spit
Appreciate the nonsense life's eloquent dominance
Manifest the relevance superiority complex (threats)
I think deep and get'em vex I'm earning respect
Advice launching
Researching Jack Parson to Dr. Umar Johnson
Autographical with my pens
They never learn
So on stage their bodies will burn
Chorus (Scvtter Brvin) "Burn guitars on stage" (x4)
Pruven verse 2
Swing guitars through your dame
Swing guitars through your fame
Thought provoking Hip-Hop earn props vomit the art.
White woman with a dingy dress leaves that swamp.
(What??)
The portrait starts
Crown of glory shows a cowards false bark
Lips stapled to a wall
John Wall ball handling for all
Infinite brawls
Light verse the dark & dark verses the light (come on)
Mike Tyson fights Floyd Mayweather tonight
The age of Ultron will ignite
All song raw
Cutting so hard
You not found
You wack when they hear you years from now
Selfies stop taking snake moves stop making
She was from Russia
He met her from twitter go figure
No instagram get the picture cotton picker living bigger
Hit a bowl and watch the "Eric Andre Show" (flow)
& know we all psychopaths on the low
Some scared to let it glow
Shine bright flow a thousand rivers of karate gold
Platinum soul
Loving my blackness
Life is attractive ugliness
Chorus (Scvtter Brvin) "Burn guitars on stage" (x4)
(sample)
interviewer: The anger maybe is dispersed?
Jimi Hendrix: Oh yeh thats always happening now. But like I didn't know it was anger until they told me about feeling destruction and all that. Probably everybody should have like a, a room where they can get rid of all their, you know, all there uh, releases. Where can do your releases at. So my room was the stage.
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4. |
Sun Ra
03:03
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(sample: Sun Ra) - Jazz is a spiritual music of African American people. & people think that our spiritual music is church music. It's not, sorry. It has an aspect. Our spiritual music is jazz.
Pruven verse:
Samurai sword tongue.
Genetically dominant.
Who tries to lie & socially incompetent?
With nonsense.
The Negro your white daddy don't like.
Insight.
Hitting "Uncle Sam's" face with that razor swipe.
Goodnight.
Apartments no electricity.
Easily, blunt guts vividly on staircases.
Teens lacking history.
What's your legacy?
Term described so loosely.
My fam out in Detroit selling the dubs.
It was what it was.
Face cringe tooth brush floor scrub.
Nuns sipping the rum.
Fighting snake labels.
Trying to be stable.
Financially able: independent.
Say, "Whoah"
I know I know I know,
Standing 6'5" live nappy afro.
Black "Champion" hoody.
Black sneakers black reefer.
On, "Morrison Ave" in the Bronx writing next to this speaker.
Sound bombing.
Made the body weaker of Purity caught a fever for the intriguer.
See orchestra showpiece stay discreet earn dreams.
Earn your own food to eat: Angelic thieves.
So in time you will find,
Facebook becomes outdated as "America Online".
They'll design, new virtual slavery for all..mankind.
Stay sharp giving the heart
Connected to innovative starts.
Destroy fears reconnect with peers persevere view clear.
Looking at faces on the subway.
People's pain written on their face autographed with shame.
21 year old white girl.
Fights to change her world.
Heroin addict sleeping in her car.
Inside she a star & trying to see a better tomorrow.
All faces all races erase the hatred.
Connect as one.
Make this life amazing.
Captivating.
(sample: Sun Ra)
Everything comes out of jazz. Everything. Whether its R&B, soul, funk, rock, hip hop, all that is derivative of jazz. And, and...
Chorus:
Zoned out lost in the beat
Zone Zoned
Zoned out lost in the beat
Zone Zone
Zoned out lost in the beat
Use music to get away
From problems everyday.
You not (not)
Not apart of the progress.
You not (not)
You not
Not apart of the progress
You not (not)
You not (not)
You not apart of the progress. Change your thinking
Start living. Start living.
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5. |
Started In Africa
04:10
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(sample: Neely Fuller Jr) Yes racism is white supremacy.
(interviewer) - Ok
Neely Fuller Jr. - White supremacy is racism.
Interviewer - Ok
Neely Fuller Jr - Now these, uh, in following, with the textbook of victims of racism, uh, one of the things to focus on.
Pruven verse-
Some pain can't shake "etch a sketch"
Dark Light Tablets no regrets
Wake up no rest verse confess treasures from Heaven's chest doing my best
Detect anguish in his voice box
Choices non stop hop give your pops props
Life's boar no more you just a bore
Spare tire getting thicker pretender rhymes get torn quicker
Whiskey in your liver
You a wigger with a bad temper
Beyond and above all thought
It's God's art paintbrush blotch erase away your start with no heart
Empires of the age
Power missions virtuous
You failing for decades
I'm missing my braids
Realms hitting keep spitting
Hunter bounty two convicts from prison missing
My spiritual will glisten consume the vision
Hell's temple snakes hissing
My mission there's no honor for the gun your hand gripping
Weaponry divine
So open your 7th eye
Make the new America mythical forever
The planet all started in Africa
chorus:
Far from famous kid
Just a underground emcee serving a hard bid
In the industry
In the industry
Knife to the spleen
Fight for your team
Light to the scene
Light to the scene
Far from famous kid
Just a underground emcee serving a hard bid
In the industry
In the industry
Knife to the spleen
Fight for your team
Light to the scene
Light to the scene
Pruven verse 2
Vocal imagery
Spiritual chemistry
Connected to that zero point energy
Disclosure projects tantamount hear'em out
Military abductions centuries of corruption
In any event emit Egypt even immense egos will exit
Books to relish
Carlos Castaneda breaking bread measures
Intimate communion with God
Cancel your facade
The fear monger words confuse
Into, hyperdimensional realms I toss you
Psychopaths are channels in which evil aliens work though
Always drop the jewels
Source expose the blood flow will grow
Spot powers
Bank of America, Wells Fargo are sour
J.P. Morgan, CitiBank
Have privileges the average person can't
Wealth and secret estates
Bank cartel run the federal reserve all well running the country to hell
So dwell
The dollar depreciation is deliberate with political crime syndicate raw sewage etiquette
It don't matter who the president is they running the biz
Federal reserve in power taste is sour directing the matrix from behind the scenes do not cower
So don't be a passive observer
For peace and happiness some people will murder
The Giant blew his hand off with a firecracker
What in life that matters that your after?
chorus:
Far from famous kid
Just a underground emcee serving a hard bid
In the industry
In the industry
Knife to the spleen
Fight for your team
Light to the scene
Light to the scene
Far from famous kid
Just a underground emcee serving a hard bid
In the industry
In the industry
Knife to the spleen
Fight for your team
Light to the scene
Light to the scene
sample:
(Neely Fuller Jr)- The use of words, ok cause that's the cement, that holds the system together, other than violence. The words are used to deceive the victims.
(Interviewer): The words are used to deceive the victims?
(Neely Fuller Jr) - Yes
(Interviewer) - ok
(Neely Fuller Jr) - Whoever thought of the idea of racism, white supremacy, had to, according to the evidence, think in terms of, in order to make this system work, we'll have to use words. Which means we will use the words to deceive people, & in order to deceive people we will have to use word tricks. & when the word tricks don't work, then we will back it up with direct violence. Because when your deceiving people to their detriment that is a form of indirect violence.
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6. |
Remain Learning
02:52
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Pruven verse
Anarchy survives
Crippling your spines
Awake
From Kepler research hard
Pythagoras, Plato & others learned from "Thoth"
Invented words from God brought taught cosmic parts through out the art
Nauseous stutter burn rubber clean leaves from gutter
Believe in each other
He sound soft so wonder
Skeletons in the gutter accommodate the brother
Mankind discovers crippling spines
Anarchy survives
On church steps a lil girl cries
She seen Mom beat to death on church steps asking why?
Why there's crushed glass on your feet as you slide?
He would write more lines than you blink in a day
While the soundtrack of his ancestors played
When elders reach a certain age
They retrain and share the knowledge that they gain
Generations younger
Living stronger
No lazy persona
& live with honor
Tape cassettes placed in gold caskets analyzing life steps
chorus
Get up get focus
Have a plan
Get up get focus
Life overstand
Get up get focus
Avoid rapture move faster
Mistakes pain make a change
Get up get focus
Where you going?
Get up get focus
What are you doing?
Get up get focus
Become the threat
I'm the razor blade to the neck of your regrets
Pruven verse 2
Negotiations made
Played rough foul out the game
Compromises gained agreements to betray
Confidence I don't see it in you
Voice unbelievable
Flow is terrible
Ah lord
His subject matter is nails on the chalkboard
His past thoughts infected him as an adult
He couldn't let go of yesterday today is decayed
Everybody knows somebody that know somebody
But nobody knows all things in the galaxy
Questions unseen locked in misery
Weak emcees I punch beat'em with tree trunks
Bodies wrapped in rugs
Receive no love
Miracles like making M.F. Grimm stand up
You liking the redrum
The banshee vocals will shatter your eardrums
& some disagree fellow
But I don't have to beat your skull in right with that shovel
Patience, tranquility and calmness
Meditate bliss, for hours through any vile process
The real life "uncle toms" are the problem
Watch the movies "Hidden Colors- 1,2,3,4" to solve them.
chorus
Get up get focus
Have a plan
Get up get focus
Life overstand
Get up get focus
Avoid rapture move faster
Mistakes pain make a change
Get up get focus
Where you going?
Get up get focus
What are you doing?
Get up get focus
Become the threat
I'm the razor blade to the neck of your regrets
sample
(interviewer) - What to you want to do with your music? As you were saying.
(B.B. King) - Play the best that I can. Reach as many people as I can as many countries. Other words, I'd like the whole world to be able to hear.
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7. |
Dark Light Interlude
01:08
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8. |
Conduct Of Code
03:52
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Pruven verse
Honest traitors don't talk to neighbors without asking for favors
Borrowing paper
No conversation face to face stimulation
Talking to get to know a person, is deserted, it worsens
Eye contact ignored several times
Look deep speak true and wise
Know your neighbor without selfish tides
I compete with unique designs
Align, God's signs little palace demise
From Richmond, Va to those N.Y. boroughs
Are you thorough, trustable, reliable?
They see the money in you to invest in you?
Is your career through?
Can you see how blacks been demsculated recently
Wearing the tight jeans
Men wearing purses tight skirts and it worsens
Dads wearing make-up at home leaving son stuck
Families need love more to touch, foundation with out drugs
Motivated steps motivated with breath but better yet
We motivated with cigarettes inhale breath in hell yes
We buy Jordans, liquors & rims
We lie, and won't invest in a real business to build in
Conduct of code
Wipe your bloody nose
What's needed in your community though?
Room for the youth to grow
You don't care hoe
Everyday mistakes made but grow anyway
I can fix your I-phone cell phone windows when they break
Stay working verses, to break the fake
Exhale the hate
The streets beat him with a belt
So I stay searching for the better version of myself (yourself)
Chorus:
We make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
Pruven verse 2
Now adays being fair unheard of
Watching Facebook timeline murders
Cop killed a kid with his burner
Cop gets off Spanish teen life is gone the kid was unarmed
The justice system is wrong
Families need more than radio songs
Next step
Be spiritual with your heart
Don't protest and don't march (bullshit)
Marching escalates your softness
With no real message
No real change in social efforts
Times need to strategize & organize
Unify economically
Take actions politically
A code of the streets make racism defeat, white supremacy seen
But it don't exist, to all these naive kids but let it live
Cops with body cams
Killing the black man with no jail time on land
Our social role is low on the totem pole but must glow
Lord's park I walk plus I stroll
Stomp dominant with my plans
Demand community goals and expand
We will expand
Make a difference
Make a difference
Chorus:
We make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
We we make a difference and we show these demons we living
(sample)
Dr. Llaila Afrika - One other aspect of the M.K. Ultra program, that many have failed to sight, is the usage of food, as a weapon to control the minds of the population.
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9. |
Glimmer Of Light
02:23
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Pruven -
In the darkness be that glimmer of light, (yeh) giving hope
Verse 1
Heart felt foes melt what's dealt?
Sandra Bland didn't kill herself beat the cops with belts
Momma taught him momma raised him
Streets saved him grade him
Taught him how to filet sin
Cut high blew wind
Black guy 6'5'
Michael Cooper socks high
You Ralph Sampson size, soft inside
Got on the block no props got jumped by cops never learned a lot
& you, never had the heart
His son turned 2 Saturday roll haze
Probation claim you must earn a name
Eyeball caught a splinter
A thinker
So I remain a warrior African ninja
No pretender
The disease you caught for free
Freddy Krueger got nightmares of me taking Nyquil to sleep
Rest in peace drowsy emcee
It's 1926
September 23rd John Coltrane was born bitch
Exist that in your frame of thought to spit
Practice common sense intense with the wits solitude builds spiritual strength
Uplift with the gift let us all live
& speak more truth to give
Chorus:
In the darkness become the glimmer of light give hope
In the darkness become the glimmer of light thought provoke
Verse 2
Right here to persevere facial tats. gang tears
Build up your knowledge in years
Cancel out fears
Individual independent visual thinking critical living blissful
I intend to
A teen took a stray bullet
Your favorite 90's rapper lost in a battle call it unforeseen knowledge
Prosper from hardships
We come far so far
The hum of the bull roar is believed to be the voice of the sacred star
Work hard
I do my thing the words sting the scorpion king
A circle with in a circle shows saturn's rings
I'm unknown to the unknown
Poems no bling
No diamond cluster
Flow grind and crush ya
Hold minds in wonder
Speak art & then thunder
Next step, I ponder threats (threats)
& stop the unnecessary death
(sample)
Dick Gregory - And the F.B.I, the F.B.I. do things that would make Hitler blush. But we don't know that because we just a bunch of punks, we scared, we got some some some Negros to mess with and some poor white folks to mess with but that day is just about over.
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10. |
Conscience Over Commerce
02:38
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(Dr. Cornel West, 11-7-15 @ Columbia University, NY)
- Precious black and brown folk, shot down like dogs every 28 hours for 10 years and not one police man goes to jail or in the federal prison. We did send one to jail in Oakland that was community prison over Oscar Grant. You let him out quick.
Pruven verse
N.Y.C.
At Columbia University thinking deep and free I'm me
Listen to sounds of diversity
Care about someone else besides yourself
Revolutionary knowledge
Make the demons not profit
Ida B. Well's logic
More to belief
I make you think more thank you brush your teeth
But can you see?
Find true love without the streets
Rest in peace
Better show love to your family before they decease
Dialogue devastates demeaning distress damn this
Diabolical breaking out handcuff for tomorrow
Whiskey bottles & bibles
Virgins with the rifle beside you
Can you find truth in you?
Get a clue unruly
His nature is noble truly
Who is he?
I'm speaking dark and light with degrees
Set the oppressed people free
You got to see
There is a reason Jerry Springer still on the T.V.
Got to grow
Tornado's of change will blow
Tattoo souls on the low
Wearing no bar-code
Frustrated
They rather see you dead than educated
Hesitated
Is your knowledge of self vacated?
We got cell phones but barely read though
Parable provocative
Pit of panthers I'm rocking it
Non stopping spit freedom of speech passionate
Obtaining God's consciousness find eternal bliss and still live
What's happening?
They ruined the magic with your rapping
Gain clues no acting
Who's truth is lacking?
Chess moves of entrapment
The blood pool is splashing
Who's stagnant?
Got to chose the consciousness over what's ratchet.
(Dr. Cornel West)
- & we got a black president, black attorney general, black homeland security that don't deliver justice police still getting off "scott free". And if you don't allow the suffering to speak of the folk we talking about, then your not serious about education.... You playing games.
I literally was in the crowd for this speech at Columbia University on 11-7-15 listening to Dr. Cornel West. I recorded the audio on a older cellphone I had at the time. This speech inspired the writing and this song. Powerful crowd and speakers that night. Uplifting now lets take actions. #777 (pruven)
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11. |
Colorful Canvas
04:08
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(sample) - Neither one of us exist without the other. This is "Yang". "Yang" the white and "Yin'' the dark. Yang, the word Yang originally means, or is associated with, south side of a mountain, which is sunny, Yin, the north side which is dark.
Pruven verse 1
From the mind
Right from the mind
How to start this?
Opposite smartest retarded
You dumb down sounding fraudulent
Life is tedious
As a twice told tale
Stale male drunk sounding frail
Rock mics steadily
Learn degrees heavenly
Petty friendships end in misery
Maybe that's the way it posed to be
Wild, wild, wild west
Kool Moe Dee test can't contest
The nun left a hickey on his neck
Fine high school teachers sleeping with students
When I was in high school I ain't go through it
Got to keep practicing and writing
Fighting the tyrant
The poetry hymen is broken still flowing
Lay the African bloodline by design
I'm of cousin of "I'll bust your ass if you don't stay in line"
New Jeru classic tools
Graph wall tag acid du-rag consumption outer stellar hash
Tracks back pack
Game blunts
2 for 99 cents perhaps
Roll tracks cough facts never relax
Maintain, burn a "L' with El Da Sensei
Night frame chemtrails still splash the face anyway
Against the grain, maintain
Chorus:
From the mind
From the mind, mind
Right from the mind
From the mind, from the mind
From the mind, mind
Right from the mind
What we doing? Bring color to the canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
What we doing? What we doing?
Bring color to that canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
What we doing? What we doing? Bring color to the canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
Bringing color bringing color
Bringing color to that blank canvas
From the mind
Pruven verse2
Learn from Masons
African Moors pissed elevating knowledge facing devastation
In my heart
I want to trust but can't for sure lessons ignored
Experienced gain in my life I want more
Elaborate clear spit
My viking throne castle is timeless
I live truth pearl diamond moves "Pearl Harbor" roof destroyed
No federal prisoners are employed
Can't listen to you
You learned from me in the first place my dude
Over confidence confuse left friendships doomed
Conscious demons scheming
Who made welfare?
Who polluted the air?
Who even care?
Who place the cancer there?
Answers gained are quite few are rare
I look at myself in the mirror and just stare
Is justice a whore?
Selling her ass by the corner store ass in all laugh and call
God call you better listen
Practice is the cousin of conviction
I'm back for more royalty for poor
Moor mic cords upon the floor tore through obstacles to get these hands to applaud
Sands on her feet she skinny dipping towards the shore
I'm in my life
I want more
Reflect in the mirror
I must earn it
Reflect in the mirror
I must earn it
Chorus:
From the mind, from the mind, mind
Right from the mind,
From the mind, mind
From the mind, mind
Right from the mind
What we doing? What we doing?
Bringing color to that canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
What we doing? What we doing?
Bringing color to that canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
What we doing? What we doing?
Bringing color to that canvas
Bringing color to that blank canvas
What we, what we doing? Bringing color to that canvas
Bringing color to that.... canvas
Right from the mind
From the mind, mind
Right from the mind
Right from the mind
Right from the mind
Bringing color to that blank canvas
(sample)
So....Yang & Yin, are quite different from each others, but just because they are different, they are identical.
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12. |
Emeralds Raining
00:52
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Paul Mooney:
Ain't nothing change but the weather you know I told you tonight about the doll test. The girl had the doll test. How kids say the samething. That means that they are being brainwashed. The white doll is nice is pretty and the black doll is bad & ugly. That's brainwashing.
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Pruven
With a sound that can best be described as quintessential hip hop, Pruven delivers thought-provoking, razor-sharp lyrics that just might cause folks to stop nodding their heads long enough to write an e-mail to their Congressman. The Va/Connecticut-based emcee now resides in the Bronx, Ny brings a soulful respect of hip hop’s heyday to the present-day ... more
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