Immortal Technique - Harlem Renaissance lyrics

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Harlem was once was red line district rated

Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David

And you wonder why people don't own their homes

Cuz the racist bank couldn't fuckin mortgage a loan

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Until after the invasion of gentrification

Eminent domain intimidation

That's not negotiation, and it's frustrating to look at

Everyday, like watching a porno on 56k

Bio hazard labs instead of store rooms

What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms

You ain't fool nobody in this community duke

With your little fake Manhattanville community group

Ivy league real estate firms are corrupt

They'll lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe

And treat street vendors like criminal riff raff

While politicians get the corporate kickback

Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed

Modern day slaves, thinkin that the ghetto is saved

So they start deporting people off the property

Ethnically cleansing the hood, economically

They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance

Tryna put the Virgin Mary through an early menopause

The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off

Guerrilla war against the beasts only predators

When I speak about Harlem

I speak to the world

The little Afghan boy and the Bosnian girl

The African of Sudan, the people of Kurdistan

The third world American, indigenous man

Palestinians, Washington Heights Dominicans

Displaced New Orleans citizens

Beachfront Brazilian, favelas that you living in

The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again

I didn't write this to talk shit, I say it because

Some of ya'll forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was

We had revolution, music and artisans

But the movement was still fucked up like Parkinsons

Cuz while we were givin birth to the culture we love

Prejudice kept the old people outta the club

Only colored celebrities in the party

And left us a legacy of false superiority

W.E.B DuBois versus Marcus Garvey

And we ended up selling out to everybody

The Dutch Schultzs and the John Gottis

Banksters, modern day gangsters

Immobile army

They wanna move us all out the NYC

Like they did to the Jews

With the Al Hura Decree

So support your own businesses and do the knowledge

Cuz the real Harlem Renaissance is economic.

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