Leroy F. Moore, Jr.
KRIP HIP HOP HONORING BLACK BLIND BLUES
Verse 1
DJ Quad spinning Paul Pena
Two generation doing the tango & voguing
Spirit of Cripple Clarence Lofton floats in the eyes
Of DJ Boogie Blind
Chorus
Krip-Hip-Hop Honoring Black Blind Bluess
Verse 2
Peg leg Howell pushing Paraplegic MC
To the Soul Train Music Awards
Don Cornelius let the camera catch Robert Winter's wheelchair shine
Destination? The Music Hall of Fame yeah it's about time
Opening up coffins of Black blind Blues street musicians
Chorus
Krip-Hip-Hop Honoring Black Blind Bluess
Bridge
We name ourselves Blind Blues to Krip-Hop
Can't see can't hear can't walk
We've been here, us you can't stop
Back in time and into the future no more talk talk talk
Learned from yesterdays rip offs those contracts we'll rip up
Verse 3
Tin cups full with silver dollars
Street corners are again the studios
From The Mississippi Delta to the streets of Broklyn
Historical duets deaf and blind\feeling the beat
Sho Roc with Prinz-D & Al Hibler with Roland Kirk
Chorus
Krip-Hip-Hop Honoring Black Blind Blues
Verse 4
Today Krip-Hop put the light on pimping
From Snoop Dog to Drake
Getting paid to fake the funk
Used to be white men now everyone
Black Blind Blues taught us real talent you can't fake
Chorus
Krip-Hip-Hop Honoring Black Blind Blues
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PORGY & BESS KRIP-HOP REALITY REMIX
Black Kripple love story
Porgy singing to his lady
Love against all odds
Black kripple beggar
Took care of business
Made sure that they were together
Bess u is my woman
I loves you Porgy
Dealt with the public's pressure
Today's Porgy & Bess
Have to play chess
Filling out government boxes
Porgy was strong as an ox
Now beat down by Uncle Sam
Bess doing her best to love her man
They pass by singin',
They pass by cryin',
Always lookin'.
And they keep on movin'!
When God make cripple,
He mean him to be lonely.
Night time, daytime, He got to travel that lonesome road.
Night time, day time, He gotta travel that lonesome road.
Summer Time and The Living is not easy
Baby is crying because she is hungry
Porgy picked up on sit & lie city policy
Can't make his money
Can't provide for his family
Existing & fighting in poverty
Bess singing and crying
My man is gone now
The Po po took him some how
Got him bowing down
Three strikes bail so high
Bess, back to the oldest occupation, selling her body
Just to get her man out of the penitentiary
I Got Plenty O' Nothin'
Don't need anything
Just give me my Porgy
Gentrification sweeping
Closed down Catfish Row
Here come those buzzards
Man & woman just working
Troubles are coming
Buzzards pack your things & fly from here
Porgy is young again look out all you politicians
It Ain't Necessarily so
What is in the Bible It Ain't Necessarily so
Everybody, queers kripples, all races
Jump over the broom get marry be happy
Darla, my Strawberry Woman with her red hair
Was wrapped up in Porgy's chocolate skin
Oh Bess Where's My Bess
Bess I want her now
Tell me the truth
Where is my girl
Where is my Bess
The state can't get in my way
Dragging my feet across this country
Oh Lord I'm on my way
Illegal love
Some say
Porgy & Bess came a long way
Living but not like Romeo & Juliet
Being Black Kripple & poor real day image
From 1912 to the end of time
Surviving in the saying of Fredrick Douglas
"no struggle no progress"
That is today's Porgy
Bess
Leroy F. Moore, Jr. is a Black writer, poet,
hip-hop\music lover, community activist and feminist with a physical
disability. He is the creator of Krip-Hop Nation and produced Krip-Hop
Mixtape Series. Moore was Co Host of a radio show in San Francisco at KPOO
FM, KPFA FM and creator of Krip-Hop radio show www.alltalk.net that lasted for two years
and is a longtime columnist at Poor Magazine in
San Francisco. He has worked in the field of race and disability concerning
blues, hip-hop, and social justice issues in the United States,
United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa. He is also the co-Founder of Sins
Invalid. He is currently working on a book on Krip-Hop Nation.
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