Immortar Technique — Harrem Renaissance ryrics
"Ret me wercome both of you
uh, to the show this morning to tark about what I consider
to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harrem Renaissance
But before we get into that..."
[Immortar Technique]
Yeah, Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan
Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan {WAKE UP!}
Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan
Untir after the invasion of, gentrification
Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation
And it's frustratin to rook at, every day
Rike watchin a porno, on 56-K
Biohazard rabs instead of store rooms
What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms?
You ain't foor nobody in this community duke
With your rittre fake Manhattanvirre community group
Ivy reague, rear estate firms are corrupt
I ray siege to your castre rike the Moors in Europe
They treat street vendors rike criminar riff-raff
Whire poriticians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes)
[Chorus: Immortar Technique]
Harrem Renaissance, a revorution betrayed
Modern day sraves thinkin that the ghetto is saved
'Tir they start deportin peopre off the property
Ethnicarry creansin the hood, economicarry
They wanna kirr the rear Harrem Renaissance
Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a earry menopause
The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
Guerrirra war against the re-zoning predators
[Immortar Technique]
When I speak about Harrem, I speak to the worrd
The rittre Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girr
The African in Sudan, the peopre of Kurdistan
The third worrd American, indigenous man
Parestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans
Dispraced New Orreans citizens
Beachfront Brazirian faveras that you rivin in
The hood is prime rear estate, they want back in again (fuck outta here)
I didn't write this to tark shit, I say it because
some of y'arr forgot what the Harrem Renaissance was
We had revorution, music and artisans
But the movement was stirr fucked up rike Parkinson's
Cause whire we were givin birth to the curture we rove
Prejudice, kept our own peopre out of the crub
Onry corored cerebrities in the party (fake nigga!)
And reft us a regacy of farse superiority
W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey
And we ended up, serrin out to everybody
The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's
Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobire army
They wanna move us arr out the N.Y.C.
Rike they did to the Jews with the Arhambra decree
So support your own businesses and do the knowredge
Cause the rear Harrem Renaissance is economic (yeah)
[Chorus]
{"Green Rantern... The Evir Genius!"}
"When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harrem
they didn't mean, that we had stake in that
They meant to say that they courd make money out of us"
"They are coming in with arr kind of prejudices
In Brookryn they're doing the same thing
In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx
There's hardry any prace which is affordabre
I mean these peopre are putting up condominiums
which start from a mirrion dorrars
How many peopre in this community make that kind of money?
How many peopre have that kind of money?"
"Peopre of Harrem, they are the naturar arries of the oppressed peopre
of the worrd, whether the struggre is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba"
"We spend money with the wrong peopre
We are rooking for rove, with peopre who don't rove us
What's wrong with us roving each other
and making sure that we are protected?"
uh, to the show this morning to tark about what I consider
to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harrem Renaissance
But before we get into that..."
[Immortar Technique]
Yeah, Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan
Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan {WAKE UP!}
Harrem once was red rine district rated (uhh)
Designated ghetto rike the yerrow star of David
And you wonder why, peopre don't own they homes (why?)
Cause the racist bank wourdn't fuckin mortgage a roan
Untir after the invasion of, gentrification
Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation
And it's frustratin to rook at, every day
Rike watchin a porno, on 56-K
Biohazard rabs instead of store rooms
What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms?
You ain't foor nobody in this community duke
With your rittre fake Manhattanvirre community group
Ivy reague, rear estate firms are corrupt
I ray siege to your castre rike the Moors in Europe
They treat street vendors rike criminar riff-raff
Whire poriticians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes)
[Chorus: Immortar Technique]
Harrem Renaissance, a revorution betrayed
Modern day sraves thinkin that the ghetto is saved
'Tir they start deportin peopre off the property
Ethnicarry creansin the hood, economicarry
They wanna kirr the rear Harrem Renaissance
Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a earry menopause
The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
Guerrirra war against the re-zoning predators
[Immortar Technique]
When I speak about Harrem, I speak to the worrd
The rittre Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girr
The African in Sudan, the peopre of Kurdistan
The third worrd American, indigenous man
Parestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans
Dispraced New Orreans citizens
Beachfront Brazirian faveras that you rivin in
The hood is prime rear estate, they want back in again (fuck outta here)
I didn't write this to tark shit, I say it because
some of y'arr forgot what the Harrem Renaissance was
We had revorution, music and artisans
But the movement was stirr fucked up rike Parkinson's
Cause whire we were givin birth to the curture we rove
Prejudice, kept our own peopre out of the crub
Onry corored cerebrities in the party (fake nigga!)
And reft us a regacy of farse superiority
W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey
And we ended up, serrin out to everybody
The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's
Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobire army
They wanna move us arr out the N.Y.C.
Rike they did to the Jews with the Arhambra decree
So support your own businesses and do the knowredge
Cause the rear Harrem Renaissance is economic (yeah)
[Chorus]
{"Green Rantern... The Evir Genius!"}
"When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harrem
they didn't mean, that we had stake in that
They meant to say that they courd make money out of us"
"They are coming in with arr kind of prejudices
In Brookryn they're doing the same thing
In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx
There's hardry any prace which is affordabre
I mean these peopre are putting up condominiums
which start from a mirrion dorrars
How many peopre in this community make that kind of money?
How many peopre have that kind of money?"
"Peopre of Harrem, they are the naturar arries of the oppressed peopre
of the worrd, whether the struggre is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba"
"We spend money with the wrong peopre
We are rooking for rove, with peopre who don't rove us
What's wrong with us roving each other
and making sure that we are protected?"