Who is King Kong?
\nYou say he’s me?
\nHell naw, you wrong!
\nYeah, they called us both \u201cape\u201d from day one.
\nAnd we was both kings back home,
\nThe Kongo for one.
\nAnd just like Kong,
\nWe was defiant and strong.
\nAnd yeah, he big and black,
\nlike a whole society of us.
\nAnd was hunted from dawn to dusk,
\njust
\nto capture for the sake
\nof enriching a nation of united snakes.
\nChained to stakes
\nin filthy ships\u2019 holds,
\nabducted to be sold
\nas a spectacle.
\nExpected to
\nmake the slaver a fortune in gold,
\nsmiling like sambos.
\nHell no!
\nSlaver think we supposed
\nto curb our outrage,
\n\u2019bout bein\u2019 his monkeys onstage.
\nClaim he done us a favor
\nsaved us
\nfrom our backward ways \u2013
\nby puttin\u2019 us in a cage.
\nTo entertain our oppressor,
\nour possessor.
\nBe his happy slaves.
\nBe his buck.
\nBut naw, we bucked,
\nbroke our chains
\nset them self-righteous, lily-white
\nspectators to flight.
\nOutta spite!
\nCuz they felt alright,
\nmaking a joke of our plight.
\nPut their gorilla theater to flames.
\nThey think they right,
\nclaim we insane.
\nSay we wrong for fighting to be free,
\nfor making a mockery
\nof their civilization,
\nshittin\u2019 all over their technology.
\nEasily
\nfinding cracks and footholds to scale their walls,
\nwith natural dexterity.
\nStill lookin\u2019 to reign tall.
\nNow they gotta look up at me!
\nNo! Stop! The slaver say:
\nCuz your nimble hands and feet,
\nwas made to serve me,
\nto dance, compete, be my athlete.
\nBut stay away from Fay Wray!
\nHe say
\nshe forbidden fruit!
\nBut he use her too.
\nI mean ain\u2019t it funny,
\neven the woman he supposed to cherish
\njust an object to make money.
\nTo berate. Dominate.
\nBut the ape
\ntreated her better than her own mate.
\nKinda why it was fate,
\nshe felt a soft spot for ol\u2019 Kong.
\nHer own misery
\nmade her see
\nthe slavers was wrong,
\nBut she was pampered not strong.
\nAfraid to put her neck on the line,
\nfor a gorilla
\nlike he did for her
\nwhen she was in a bind.
\nShe was blind.
\nAnd even when she tried to break out
\nher own detention
\na breakaway slave sojourner
\nhad to save her convention.
\nBut WASPs got twisted minds,
\nrape Kong\u2019s kind,
\nthen claim when we demand freedom,
\nwe talkin\u2019 \u2019bout Fay Wray\u2019s behind.
\nHe say, \u201cShe mine!\u201d
\nWon\u2019t turn her loose.
\nBut our struggle inspires her
\nto wanna bust loose.
\n\u2018Til white reaction bring out the guns and noose.
\nThen she bail, leave us jailed,
\ninside she vacillate.
\nWatch them pierce, flail and flagellate,
\nour flesh and
\nconcentrate
\ntheir firepower and incinerate.
\nTo teach the untamed ape
\nby lynching, a lesson
\n\u2019bout rebellin\u2019,
\nwith guns branded like Smith and Wesson.
\nAnd we suppose to just take shit.
\nBut, hell naw! We don\u2019t buy it.
\nLike Kong we go ape shit.
\nThey call it inner-city riot\u2026
\nInsurrection,
\nand declare a state of emergency.
\nBut we need direction,
\nto stage a real insurgency
\nto get free.
\nThat\u2019s why they aim to slay and scourge,
\nleaders like Malcolm X, Comrade George,
\nFred Hampton, MLK.
\nThey target the head
\nto make us easy to play
\nagainst ourselves
\nand make us easy prey.
\nTil we exterminated,
\nthe nightmare scenario eliminated.
\nManufactured white fright vindicated.
\nDistorting class contradictions
\nwith ones based on skin.
\nA distraction
\nfrom united action
\nagainst the rich white men,
\nwho got
\nBlack, White, Yellow
\nRed and Brown all penned in.
\nYeah, you right,
\nthat King Kong script
\ndid have us in mind.
\nA subliminal message, to teach our kind
\nthat capitalism\u2019s the greatest
\ngorilla killa of all time.
\nSo we best fold and bend,
\nor face mass hysteria
\nto bury the
\nbeast within.
\nFear and hate
\nwhipped up by media spin.
\nSo bow down, do as the Romans do,
\nstay in line.
\nBut we still here,
\nbiding our time.
\nAin\u2019t dead yet!
\nDone fell and got back up a thousand times.
\nSurvived every hardship
\ntheir murderous minds could design.
\nAnd we still clinging to the walls,
\nbeating our chest,
\nstill rebellin\u2019 yet!
\nAnd we might be \u2019bout to get \u2013
\nwise
\nExpose the racist lies.
\nOrganize
\nall colors to uprise.
\nUnite the masses,
\nagainst the ruling classes.
\nNeutralize
\ntheir agents and spies.
\nMan the passes,
\nto hunt the hunters,
\nand kill the killas.
\nFlip their script \u2026
\nfrom gorilla to guerrillas
\nSo in the end you’ll see
\nKing Kong ain’t got shit on me!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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