Hommage à la poète décédée hier.
Wale – The Artistic Integrity
“Maya Angelou spawn/Abandoned and raised by Nas/Raised by the sharks but I’m swimming with the prawns/I found my own lane/Meet Mr. Folarin”
“Langston Hughes with a blew fuse and a screw loose/Maya Angelou abused child with her notebook/Spitting like Kipling with a tooth missing/Tongue bring torture to men, women and children”
Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beamin
“Mix Melissa Ford/With Maya Angelou/Become a top model/And Sojourner too”
“Word evangelist/Diabolical vandalist/Infamous/Maya Angelou with Marlon Brando shit”
“So okey-dokey folks/Most provoke me I’ll choke ya so hold your oats/Was rollin’ ’cause I’m strollin’ with the quotes/Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Edgar Allan Poe/But since I’m a negro, I flows like Maya Angelou”
“Ridin in the phantom ghost/Yellow bone camel toe/Jewelry on tropicals/Call it Maya Angelou”
“I’m on that Richard Pryor, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali/Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Salvador Dali/Now we rap Langston Hughes and Maya Angelous/Out the disco Xanadu/Hip-hop for the streets”
“Can’t you see?/You’re like a book of poetry/Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni/Turn one page and there’s my mommy”
“I spit like Maya’s poems, palming chromers/For the buyers’ chromosomes I got soma’s/I got Vicodins, Valiums I ain’t stopping/Got powder, heroin, ex, oxycontin”
“Gimme Sade’s mystique, she gotta know her way in the streets/Like Billie Holiday in Harlem/Body from Ki Toy Johnson and Kenya Moore and Apple Bottoms/Maya Angelou’s brain and some groove from Terry McMillan”
“It’s something about that Nina Simone piano flow/It’s like a Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou/And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote/If music get’s you choked up this is the tree and a rope”
“But if you know you ain’t a bitch, then you wouldn’t get mad/You’se a fake Maya Angelou, stunt, get a job”
“Yo, she was like Rosario Dawson and Claudette Ortiz/With a little Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie/When she spoke it was like Lauryn Hill or Maya Angelou/All of those brains and body too hot to handle, too”
“Picture me rollin’, young, handsome and focused/Got that vision of ‘Pac although I’m branded as Oprah/Michelangelo portrait meet Maya Angelou notebook/Michael Jordan performance nigga I’m picturing all of it”
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