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this
is not the place nor the time
to remind you of yourself
caught in stories wrapped around dollars
bucks in a blanket
what is there to keep real
hip hop was a phrase not a place
and yet here we are, in residence
charging rent for those who want to come peep
through our windows
this is not the time nor the place
many pages have been written
to explicate validate enunciate and truncate
this thing called hip hop
just words and beats ain’t nothing to do with moves
but when the bass drops
anyan comes to take all of us with a pulse
wreakin’ havoc on our joints
daring us to try and stand still
it's real then
hip hop does dance, is perhaps
only that started in a club after all
move your hip
then you hop
this is not the time nor the place
to think about race
club scene was an art scene
art scene was a we seen
all y’all there, not just any ol’ body
not any particular body
we felt your heat, wiped your sweat off our face
after you did that dope ass spin
first your hip break, then we hopped
Latino, Puertorican, Black, White, all of the above
twist that hip make that ribcage hop and pop
it was solo freestyle party over here
naw, party over there
naw party now on MTV so what you gon’ do now?
this is not the time our place
but when you see my black face, my backside, my hip
you seen all my sisters and brothers too
we roll like that, feel real bad when one get dissed
want to be the originators
not the perpetrators
even if that means taking television on as a mentor
learning moves far from their home
giving names without knowing that they already had one
and don’t try and call us no slave drivers
this is not the time nor the place
to admit that hip hop dance don’t really exist
outside of a soundstage
but we said it did 20 years ago
at least we thought we did
we’ve given it to our kids
and now we dare you to take it back
this is not the time nor the place
to talk about authenticity, but when you’se an originator
not a perpetrator
its hard not to
and it’s so hard to cut up the past into photo ops
making a collage that resembles what must’ve happened
to get us to this place, even if it didn’t
nope, not the time, not the place
so we lined up and now we do it in unison
cause we think about framing
the audience
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