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THE NAT TURNER PROJECT

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    MEMORY

     

    Newspaper Articles, 1861 - 1931

    Brown, The Black Man, 1863

    Berry, WPA Narrative, 1937

    WPA, Negro in Virginia, 1940

    Hayden, Ballad of Nat, 1962

    Webb, Sketches, 1963

    Ol' Prophet Nat, 1967

    Reviews of Styron's Books

    A Troublesome Property, 2003

    Kyle Baker, Nat Turner, 2008

    New Nat Turners, Jul. 2016

    The Birth of a Nation, 2016

    Jasiri X, New Nat Turners, July, 2016

     

    I’m tired of Black murders

    If they the new slaves we that New Nat Turners

    No bodyguards no entourage

    We them Cinque n****s taking the Amistad

    Bomb clad we need to fast like Ramadan

    The industry’s a bunch of fakes heroes like Comic-Con

    Behind that mask you Robert Downey Jr.

    My heros got a 2 million bounty on her future

    Mutulu’s locked in San Bernardino County as a shooter

    You some go a long to get a long Howie y’all neutered

    I’m a mother f***ing truther

    My truth scars you gonna need a mother f***ing suture

    Don’t let these new Stephen a** n****s recruit ya

    Cause when Monsieur Candie gets tired he gonna mute ya

    And I ain’t Django either

    I ain’t waiting for no whit man to come and give me my freedom

    I won’t join ‘em I’ll beat ‘em leave ‘em rottin in the hot sun

    Rockin ‘em with the shotgun Shotta I’m the top one

    Tell the coroner box ‘em eulogize then drop ‘em

    If they chose is freedom or death then what’s the option?

    Oh y’all them RG3 n****s

    Smiling at the camera them happy that y’all can please n****s

    I’m Barack but Fonzworth is a marine nigga

    Deep like the mind of Farrakhan I’m on my dean n***a

    That’s why I never believe n****s

    Oh you got them instagrams how come we never see pictures

    Then claim God but never read scriptures

    So we worship fame because a celebrities richer

    So Jesus becomes Yeezus

    Then I guess Kim Kardashian is Mary Magdalene

    And all her sins are cleansed through the camera lens

    But then again maybe I’m just rambling

    Line up these industry CEOs and let me battle them

    Show Jimmy Lovine the crime scene with his

    Headless brethren and tell him sign these

    And when I hear sirens disconnect his neck from his spine clean

    The difference my spitting is the equivalent of using ya high beams

    All I want is you and ya mind freed the time needs

    Way more than a nice beat and rhyme scheme

    Cause all that bull shit y’all talking don’t fertilize seeds

    I heard it takes 2 chains to make a slave

    One on your physical frame and one on ya brain

    And once they got ya mental enslaved it runs like train

    So what are you really saying when you claim you stuck in the game

    See they create corporations cause they never wanted fame

    So the n***a that you see is the n***a that’s underpaid

    Damn just another slave

    I’m Jean-Jacques Dessalines I swing a mother f***ing blade

     

     

    "Jasiri X – New Nat Turners." Genius. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2016. (Warning: Contains strong language)