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swim'n bird - intro [citizen rem] lyrics

[intro- max roach]
now, when people ask me about ‘rap’, i equate them with louis armstrong, and charlie parker, and john coltrane
because there was no cultural enrichment for them either, if mahalia jackson had been sent to an opera academy and went to europe to study with all that natural voice that she had, she’d have been like jessye norman and that crowd, you understand what i’m saying?
we wouldn’t have aretha franklin today who in the continuum of the great mahalia, if you understand what i’m trying to say
it left us to create something ourselves
now, when i listen to rap and look at the whole idea of what they’re doing-
they didn’t have rhetoric in school the same we didn’t go to school, charlie parker didn’t go to school to study music, or john coltrane or dizzy gillespie, all the people we know, or louis armstrong
so they’re all part of the same continuum
its like taking the least and making something out of it
it’s what we’ve always had to do

[verse]
to the listeners, open your ears
hit the lights, cue pictures and peer
each day my nails get chewed down to the last
seeing shifting sands slide down and hour gl-ss
while watching with wisdom the days end shorter
is it me or are my peers still stuck in strollers
money, p-ssy, weed stunts growth to get older
now our worlds circled by cobras and vultures
b-tches get knocked, kids picking your locks
itching for rocks, clip in their glocks
read today’s paper, misleads, capers
disease, gangsters, greed of world bankers
raise a living lying but all my children dying
eight out of ten kids is drug dealers
me? i’m a stye in that all eye that’s spying
brought peace to even cold blood k!llers
i’m guiding the blinds gods like a seeing eye dog
they not truth to whispers and lies high vol
he stayed over their heads like a flying-
saucer, and carved david out of gibraltar
while you was getting stuffed the bird was starving
i crash landed on the earth a star seed
now it’s the sixties age and ali’s rising
da vinci’s first brush strokes laid against the page, silence

[outro- max roach]
talking about rap is this that and the other and it’s not up to what charlie parker was doing, well i disagree because first of all the term ‘rap music’ is not applicable to where they are because they deal with the spoken word, the fact that they have that rhythm going on attracts people, so everybody is now become part of the dance communities
and so somewhere down the line we’ve said theyre not like charlie parker- they’re not trying to be like charlie parker
they’re more like shakespeare and laurence olivier-
and that’s the bands that they should be in the record companies as well to me
and the stories they tell, they talk about their life in our community today
so that art has got- it even has us confused

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