Shonisani's Seeds

You're the problem if you find yourself mad at black women for celebrating their magic.  Does my melanin offend you? Does it come as a surprise? It brings tears to my eyes when i think about how much i needed this melanin movement while i was growing up. I grew up in a time where black barbie dolls were a myth , feeling misplaced in their white Barbie & Ken world, excluded and even labelled as "token".  There is so much under the surface , the deep-seeded pain of sitting in a history class for 12 years and learning about how black people all around the world have been robbed of their throne, their land, their freedom, their spiritual inclination - their souls. I have frequent flashbacks of sitting there as a minority in a classroom, in a country where our race is the majority by far; while the teacher stands there boasting about 'conquering' our heritage , raping our ancestors , and butchering my language. Young black wom...

70% cocoa , 30% ambition . Today I've got a guest chef in my soul, stewing up all sorts of thoughts in the kitchen . This one is for the kids, who were told they didn't listen, being taught in foreign languages, bribed with mirrors which reflected miracles, because oh how that melanin has a diamond glisten. How could we not marvel at our own reflection, it must've been the first time we attested to your God's perfection. Yet you turned us against each other, using greedy lines to divide and conquer, till we couldn't recognize our home, so we couldn't identify our brothers. You put laws in place, to make sure, that what's "yours" will always be yours. Reclaiming what was claimed, same house,  all you did was replace the door. Every day i break through your prejudice, as my skin precedes my name. For generations that were, & for those to come, whispering to each other, " it doesn'...

I heard someone say that rap is over, i say good rap is hard to find like a 3 leaf clover. Others are rapping in Italics, when they need to go bolder. I only realize this now, the more i get older. I heard someone say that rap is stupid, i say hearing good rap is like switching places with cupid. Going up to your crush, feeling like the new kid. Shaking through your body, until it filters you lucid. I heard someone say that rap is closed off, i say good rap makes you want to take your clothes off. Get naked while you're cooking, even though the stove's off. Then standing in the mirror, checking yourself out, 'me, myself & i' type of pose off. I heard someone say that rap is negative, i say it's what you make it,  it's your prerogative. and if you find yourself listening, whilst losing your positive. You probably need to adjust your behavior with it, and just let it be cognitive. I heard someone say...