Rob Gibsun Receives Standing Ovation on Verses and Flow | Spoken Word

Описание: Rob Gibsun gives a powerful spoken word performance "For All" on Verses and Flow Season 5!



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POEM TEXT:
S'all good. S'all goodie.
All hood. All hoodie.
All shade. All shady. All suspicious.
All dark—Y'ALL AFRAID OF THE DARK.

All black. All blue.
All catz. All cool—
faces painted by blue lights
"All of the lights all of the"
Suspects: Black. Police: All white.
All this questionin'. "A white girl?
"Officer, I don't even mess wit them!
"Aw, here we go again" All patted down:
No weapon. No ganj. No white. No justice for all so
somebody getting locked up tonight.
All iron cuffs. All shackled up.
All up on the whip. ALL TOO FAMILIAR!
ALL SLAVESHIP ON FOUR WHEELS, huh?
No fields. No Roots. All chopped off foot—
"Aw, massa done playin! Run fast as you can!"
All prisons is ovens packed with hundreds
of gingerbread mans!

All burnt. All smoke.
All weed. All trees. All rope.
All neck. All jerk—All bleed. All rose
petals. All funerals. All mourn.
All praying a lot. All praise to Allah—
All "Ah!" Aw Lawd! Our Lord—
OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
Okay, but what's his race, huh?
No bronze. No wool. No cotton.
All thorn. All crown of thorn.
All crucifixion. All truth or fiction?
All blasphemy!
All "God, please, answer me!"
All "God been flakin..."
All con/dem/nation.
All "Burn, baby, BURN!"
All hell. All naw. AW HELL NAW!

All gnaw on pork. All fat. All clogged.
"Say grace, s'gon be alright—" All wrong.
All healthy foods too far, too expensive.
All corner stores sell junk food and liquor.
All wine. No religion. No Holy. All Spirits.
Faith all finicky. Unrealistic trinity:
All Ghost—no mom.
All-seeing angry Father—no God.
"No son! My god, son, no sun god!
No Big Bang. All evolution."
"Yeah pops, from Black Panthers to Apes.
Banana-clip Gang, my clique bang." clickBANG!

LIGHTS OUT. ALL AFRAID OF THE DARK.
All dark. All dark. All dog—naa
dawg, you got it twisted, ALL GOD.
ALL DARK-SKINNED GOD. ALL GODDESS.
O YES GOD! O GOD YES!

NONE AFRAID OF THE DARKNESS.
All hearts lit. S'all love. None lost.
All compass. All encompassing!
Come one, come all kin come and sing
the story of BLACK—naa—
AMERICAN HISTORY.