"Broken Reflections"

I am da ghettos, projects and poverty
And I am da misery, agony and pain
Da THC, alcohol and cocaine
Listen when I spit flames
And ignite America's propane
So feel da burning of pain
Da top of da food chain
Steadily accumulating major change
While da poor stays da same
Da poor stays poor and da rich gets richer
Is da Capitalists' aim
Our streets are flooded with cocaine
Crack melts when it touches flames
Melting da cells within da brain
Men become inhumane
It's even harder women
Jus' to let da metal touch da flames
They're selling their body with no shames
Ballers screaming, "it's all part of da game"
If it was their mothers,
They too would be ashamed
Prison is a part of da game
Is it worth da change?
Fatherless kids not well trained
Running like loose trains
Daddy was a baller
So they wanna be da same
So they push cain

Pack chrome thangs
Killing Able like Cain
9/11 planes left America in pain
Forever embedded in society's brain
But they've forgotten about,
Da winds, water and rain
Dat engulf the Southern plain
Her name was Katrina
She hit harder than Serina
People sitting on roof tops
Cuz da water is getting deeper
Those at da bottom,
Swimming up for a breather
Houses floating, bodies floating
Everything soaking
News anchors on da screen
Looters on da TV screens
More important than da destructive scenes
Bush sent out FEMA
But FEMA caught amnesia
Ghetto inhabitants shaking in seizures
Shaking from da amnesia of FEMA
Some try to escape across da bridge
But that stop!
Some shot at - some killed
Cuz hey were trying to cross over
To where the White folks live
Cuba tried to give

Fidel try to send over doctors
to help people live
Da Bush administration stop him
Yeah, this is what they did
How can America disown their own?
But this isn't something unknown
History has shown
Colonisation was da beginning
of world domination
Da results,
Da end of ancient civilisations
Natives going through re-education
Relocated to reservations
Slaves in plantations
Da birth of America's economical capitalisation
Chinese immigration - railroad constructions
Then came the Chinese Exclusion Act
work for them became forbidden
Da Japanese because of their ancestory
were kept in concentration
Secret bombings in Laos and Cambodia
Forced da Lao, Hmong and Khmer peoples
into a great migration
Now in America their culture and traditions
are slowly dying
Due to assimilation
Modern education
Nothing but psychological manipulations

No mentions of da Zulu nations
Wounded knee,
Da bravery of Souix nation
Japanese shoguns or da Chinese navigator
before Columbus da globe they navigated
Do you smell America's propane
Feel da burning of pain
I am da flame
I speak for da Zulu son
Who seeks out his kingdom
Da courage of da native warriors
who fought with pride and honour
I represent for da honour of da great shoguns
keeping alive da essence of da rising sun
Fighting hard like da shaulin
It keeps me in peace and fight with discipline
I am not just da ghettos, projects and poverty
Or da misery, agony and pain
Da THC, alcohol, and cocaine
I am also da antidote fo' da crackhoods
Da ressurector of da brain dead
Da vision fo' da kids
A brother to da brothers
A support fo' da single mothers
Da voice of da voiceless
I am something lethal
Cuz I am for da people
And I am for da struggle...

By: Souvannaseng Borbibane