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Why No Mask?

from Black Power Live by Organic Flow

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CHORUS
Obliterate prescribed rhyme
Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom
No expost Black though
Shift levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate

Status quo representational
Shift forms and twist norms with six arms
spit strong/ a poetic mission
just us in on/ democracy been flawed
Tried to out hound us/ around us
Water swimming in / Black power: yes
Tremendousness / It’s systematic
How these cats will try to limit us
Flipping this /
They thought I was this timid kid
Spit clearest images/
Reconnecting our villages
Decolonize / recognize
Who the real pillagers
From chaos to hits coder/
Since this old sir
Mirror in line measuring /
In the doorway
Light source gathering
Pattern rings like Saturn
Clamoring/ waves centripetal
And the moon with a hand
In it / Tacit in the assumption of system
bumping/ no fixing elicited listlessness
Cats mission to diminish
Black Übermensch
They knew they’d miss
Wanted humanness
Without the dudu dish
Stop shooting us/
Beat Rhythm / clock pattern
maddened/ abstract cloud
Glacial ocean/ borrowed pattern
Authoritarian regime: suppression
More than a hand in it
Being pulled / couldn’t hammer it
Patterns round / conglomerate
Wheel throw til self / hold
Schematic / Molotov: pottering
Light from dark seemed modern/
 
CHORUS 2
Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?
 
VERSE 2
Tried to trap light / Pull the God
Out of him/ storm settle several
Droughted vegetables /design new line
Telephone/ push button
To set the flow/ dialed in
To hyper contextual/ Da balm
Hits hair follicles/ ready
For theater / Apollo show/
Immo flow/ remarkable timing
Natural alignment / sow
You’re the guy / who sauntered by
Seeded sow / no alibi
Rise / no shallow tide and
Scintillating / on some I shall not hide
reworking / subversive sure means shirking
Eorthiest furthering’s/ hurdling
Pages of history
With her nurturing/ wake
To some sir murmuring/ spiritually
Stirred certainties/ inner city
Emerging theme/ laissez faire
Absurdity/ eye like
From curve you see/ highlight
The heard verbal scenes/ fly
Merged circle / speak fertile
Paternal hegemony/ obliterate

CHORUS !
Obliterate prescribed rhyme
Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom
No expost Black though
Shift levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate
 
CHORUS 2
Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?

Flip levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate

Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?

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from Black Power Live, released November 17, 2023

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Organic Flow Chicago, Illinois

Known for their innovative style, Organic Flow create cultural dialogue through their music. They are known in the Chicagoland area for their process of respectfully combining elements of jazz and hip hop music. The band is a quartet composed of Zane Ranney (drums), Michael Cantafio (guitar), Liam Bird (MC) and Dave Gilman (bass), but also calls on many feature members and guest artists. ... more

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