"Yes Yes Yall and it don’t stop
To the beat yall and it don’t stop
Ah yes yes yall and it don’t stop
I said yes yes yall
SHE IS HIP HOP"
This is for ever brave heart
Strong enough to house a hip hop soul
For those who traded their woodwinds and drums
For the keepsake of their hearts
Introducing a time when
Lips first found love with huddled palms
Recreating mastery sounds
The art of beat box
Became native language for hip hop
For those whose words turned round table story time with griots
into circled ciphers
Reinventing our stage
Forcing rappers to always be at their greatest
Redefining the definition of lyrical geniuses
Poets and MCees
Seize to see their own reflection
Believing to be looking into one mirror
Connecting the line between times
Making two generations into one
Like how
Maya and Lauryn are one
Langston and Lupe are one
Amiri and Tupac are one
We have become known as the generation of the new rerenaissance
Rebirthing the birth of our own culture
But never forgetting the steps it took for us to get here
That’s why you’ll always see breakdancers take two steps before they into their moves
Always remembering to pay homage to the two steppers that blessed the stage before them
Still reinventing our stage
Turning Glazed wood flooring into concrete grounds of main streets
Hip Hop started way before the back allies in the Bronx
This is for those who have forgotten where the seed was planted at first
Jazz has always been the over protective grandfather,
He still lingers in the back beats and melodies of modern days song.
Reminding hip hop that she was built off of his foundations
And that thre blues, no her father was the reason why she can express her inner soul during the darkest times.
Times have changed, but not the reason for our music
Our culture
Still reinventing itself
Like how Henry Tanner's paintings now bless urban streets in the form of graffiti
Hip Hop is here to stay
So we can all continue to say...
"Yes Yes Yall and it don’t stop
To the beat yall and it don’t stop
Ah yes yes yall and it don’t stop
I said yes yes yall
This was an Ode to Hip Hop"
