Hip Hop, Love, Money, Teachers...Def Poetry @ Its Best

I was in a Poetic mood and wanted to post some Poetry that really hit my soul. Enjoy.

Def Poetry Jam

Hip Hop

Sick & Tired

Favorite Quotes from this poem:

“Sick of people acting like slavery doesn’t effect the present states of black in this country, when Slavery was erased with a 450 year head start for everyone else”

“Tired of master p speaking on behalf of hip hop when he represents nothing but everything that’s wrong with it”

“Sick of George Bush acting arrogant about his ignorance”

“I wanna drop kick minorities (people of color) who vote republican”
Black ice on Def Poetry Jam

Favorite Quotes from this poem:

“America makes you an opportunist and at the same time institutionalize you, so that fact that these brother get this big record deal, big money and then they go to jail shouldn’t surprise you, that’s what lies do, most of these guys do have raw talent, just infantile education, so the business feeds them weed and exstasy, and a little bit of paper to provide some pacification, from all the bullshit frustration they serve you, meanwhile they corrupt your perception of the what the real is, see they taken all our businessmen and made them into drug dealers, taken all our messengers and made them rappers, flappin they jaws afraid to admit their treason, took all our soldiers for the cause and made them killers for no reason“

“ They still flooding our streets with thugs, drugs and killing they just using these record labels to do it, taking our hard earned demos, puttin us in limos tryin to fuck up our direction, and most niggaz is trained to chase money and pussy so we fall victim to our own erection, and ignorance is bliss and niggaz take pride in not knowing, and not growing”

Money (first appearance on Def Poetry Jam)

Money
This Type Love

A Love Like This
Taylor Mali - Def Poetry Season 1 Ep. 2 - "What Teachers Make"

What Teachers Make

These are the types of Teachers we need teaching our kids. Teachers that are truely passionate about teaching and those that hold the kids to a higher standard and implemement accountability not only for the students but for the parents as well. This is what our schools lack (especially those in the inner cities) and I pray the next wave of young teachers can find that passion within themselves, or get out the way and let the real teaches guide the children of this nation. Because the kids in these schools, in these classrooms today will be the leaders of this country one day and that day will come sooner than you think.