Poetry Takeover

Lyrics

[Chorus: Myka 9] Haiku D'Etat's a poetry takeover Haiku D'Etat's a poetry takeover Haiku D'Etat's a poetry takeover Haiku D'Etat [Verse 1: Myka 9] Our genre is in a state of Johnny-come-late Awkward armor Won't tear the skin off a cherry, harmless Can't scrape the surface of a grape Snake charmers raking in at an alarming rate Bad karma bait for entrapment Warning, wait before debate dharma Find your own style, warm up Practice, rehearse Tune in to what's boomin' Soon a verse will match a track that hits worth the while To develop your own pocket for rap tricks Their organization will collapse quick, stylistic The current so-called aristocracy Of the underground and mainstream have a vacuum People were taken from home and culture Poachers stole our beliefs and wardrobe, no closure Suppressed the music, it screws 'em School's abusive unless you were privileged But Hip-Hop found a way over the inner-city village What happened to the days of climbing charts and reading them too? What we need to do is be more Haiku to determine who'll rule [Hook: Haiku d'Etat] Intelligence is raiding, ignorance is fading Dignity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Path that we are paving, road that we are taking Integrity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Community educating, women and men relating Unity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Legislatures changing, because of demonstrating Victory! Haiku d'Etat (Poetry takeover!) [Verse 2: Aceyalone] When the time comes where the art is in the hearts of the people They'll take you and keep you away from these evils But until then you're subject to the burning of the churches The books and the artwork, and the findings to the searches Blackball of the music, controlling of the airwaves Hoping for a clear way, when it's crowded on the fare way Blocked up at the entrance, locked up at the exit The soldiers on the front line, and the gun line that protects it The hiding of the scriptures, the order of a new world The red pill or the blue pill, divides us into two worlds Seizing of the regions, taking of the spirit Executioner with no face, and the public who fears it The answer of the questions, the griots that spoke it The teachings of the old world, tradition never broken When they can't see, and don't speak, and claim they'd never heard For the pain, and the pleasure, and the poetry of the words [Hook: Haiku d'Etat] Intelligence is raiding, ignorance is fading Dignity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Path that we are paving, road that we are taking Integrity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Community educating, women and men relating Unity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Legislature changing, because of demonstrating Victory! Haiku d'Etat (Takeover!) [Verse 3: Abstract Rude] Saturation is played, our maturation and age Has readied us for the stage, evacuating the slaves Half of them underpaid, they're laughing behind your back Not learning the right training, walking the wrong track Talking the rap slang and making contact With the youth of a like mind, I'm pumping your lifeline And the saga continues, just like in a opera, Act 1, Scene 2 There's not another you out of all these people Haiku d'Etat – the antagonists fall in our rise to glory Ride through and leave your town void of a viceroy To overthrow when the old one ain't governing in fairness The guerillas come in, rushing him, get him out of there, embarrassed So unaware and careless, it would lead to his pinch For with greed, they would hoard and gorge every inch Besieged by who he'd befriended, close We're not to be deceived, by who we dependent on most Now that's the question [Hook: Haiku d'Etat] Intelligence is raiding, ignorance is fading Dignity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Path that we are paving, road that we are taking Integrity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Community educating, women and men relating Unity! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover Legislature changing, because of demonstrating Victory! Haiku d'Etat's a poetry takeover [Outro: Aceylone, Haiku d'Etat, DJ Drez scratches] Haiku d'Etat! Haiku d'Etat! Haiku d'Etat! ("Po-po-poetry") Haiku d'Etat! ("Takeover") ("Po-poetry takeover-ver-ver-ver") ("Po-po-poetry takeover-ver-ver")