Now before I start just let me say that I don't count myself as a rapper or a poet. I don't put myself in a category that include great minds and voices and thoughts and ideas like our Maya Angelou or Langston Hughes or Tupac or Notorious BIG or Gwendolyn Brooks or Etheridge Knight. My thoughts aren't comparable to those who eat sleep breath these beautiful words with delicate stanzas constructed to inform just as much as entertain enlighten and expound. These are just my views as a man. And no these views may not make sense in the sense that they are not interconnected but then again rarely is a mans mind interconnected when it's not connected to his...
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These are just my views as a man, a realistic idealist. Or maybe an idealistic realist.
And no that's not a play on words to work in a complicated contradiction just to sound witty.
I'm the man that takes a realistic view and explains it to you in a way you didn't see and it just so happens to sound pretty. The man that not only works hard but works hard at letting you know I work hard. Because never will I be the deadbeat, the "ain't shit nigga", the minimum wage maker who is content living hand to mouth because his views are to narrow minded to see the bigger picture within himself. Never will I be the one who died and everybody just looks at each other and shrugs because that somebody before them was a nobody. I will live till my dying day knowing that when my little girl can formulate and articulate like her daddy, she will be proud to look up at THIS MAN and say,
"HE IS
SOMEBODY!"
I will be that man that will do what it takes to be better than that man who just did what it took. The man who just at one look..
You know he's about the smile on her face and the food in her mouth. And she will never come second to me tryna see how you look up out that blouse.
These are just my views as a man.
Not to be confused with the view of men. Because for the longest I never understood how my own species operated. How you can raise your hand to a woman and still count yourself amongst men. How you can worry more about a woman wit something between her legs for you than the growing woman in front of you that has something in her backpack for you.
But again these are just my views as a man.
If you like em feel free to take em. If not it's been nice but you can leave em. Either way there's no skin off my back because I know what this mind I've been sitting on is a gold mine. And it's time get bought. It's time to share my Sacajawea and Ulysses S Grant coins with the people. So no longer am I taking a penny for my thoughts.
These are just my views as a man an idealistic realistic man with a mind of gold. Ready for a silent audience of nobodies and everybodies tryna be somebodies.
