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ALL SINGLE PEOPLE MAAAAKE SOME NOOOISE!!!

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“I’m a Rapper”. Sekou the Misfit – Def poetry.
http://www.myspace.com/sekouthamisfit

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HBO’s Def poetry Jam

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Smokey Robinson stating his americanism

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“Self Conscious” Kanye West (Def poetry)
Season 3, Episode 6 (S03 E06)
Original Air Date: 9 May 2003

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The perils of teenage pregnancy and a lack of proper parenting/ moral foundation.

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“I Am That Nerd” Shappy (Def poetry)
Season 3, Episode 4 (S03 E04)
Original Air Date: 25 April 2003

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One of my favorite poets from The Def poetry Show on HBO talkin about what kind of love he wants

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Fickle emcees with no heart.

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I uploaded this video because I think it’s the best counterargument to the red haired woman in the Tyra Banks Show http://youtube.com/watch?v=TA9RGsmJLMs

-Suheir Hammad-
there have been no words.
i have not written one word.
no poetry in the ashes south of canal street.
no prose in the refrigerated trucks driving debris and dna.
not one word.

today is a week, and seven is of heavens, gods, science.
evident out my kitchen window is an abstract reality.
sky where once was steel.
smoke where once was flesh.

fire in the city air and i feared for my sister’s life in a way
never
before. and then, and now, i fear for the rest of us.

first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot’s heart failed,
the
plane’s engine died.
then please god, let it be a nightmare, wake me now.
please god, after the second plane, please, don’t let it be anyone
who looks like my brothers.

i do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
i have never been so hungry that i willed hunger
i have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
not really.
even as a woman, as a palestinian, as a broken human being.
never this broken.

more than ever, i believe there is no difference.
the most privileged nation, most americans do not know the
difference
between indians, afghanis, syrians, muslims, sikhs, hindus.
more than ever, there is no difference.

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