<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">the total thrust is global justice</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The total thrust is</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">global justice</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">so we gotta fix the politics</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and put a check upon its economics</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">or before you know it, a warrior-poet</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">may try to upend the</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">corporate agenda that's</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">got 'em blind to the real bottom line.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It's intense when you sense the only interests</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">on the docket</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">are fat cats with Republi-Crats</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">in their pocket.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It's crooked now</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">just look at how</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">the pundits are funded.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">They're devious at CBS and, yes,</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">they'll choose the news that fits the script unless</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I play tricks on the matrix.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">(In case you can't guess shit,</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I'm not to be messed with.)</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The folks know my art form</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">comes straight from the heart for 'em.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">A lyrical storm that departs from the norm</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and transforms as I'm giving</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">rhymes for the minds in the times that we live in.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I can't hang with the anguish</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and I don't want my language to languish</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">'cause there ain't nothing like Drew's</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">hip hop haikus</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I got a mandate</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">to disturb</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">the urban landscape.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">We got tyrannies</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">right here in these</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">States,</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and you never know</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">when they'll go</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">right back to some tactics</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">like COINTELPRO.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">If we could see through the lies</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">see how they brutalize</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and get cops</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">to beat speech in the streets</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and guard sweatshops.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">I'm ending these industries.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Please can we factor the</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">effect of the</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">trajectory?</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">This whole place is racist</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and sexist from North</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Dakota down to Texas</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">with the twenty-first century's</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">youth in penitentiaries</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and the night never seemed this dark</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">but now half of the stars</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">are behind prison bars.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Oh say can you see?</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">But if we can dream a new day it may be.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">You had to know the baddest bro</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">with the phattest flow would shake up the status quo</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">with my adjectives and adverbs and ad libs.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Like Gandhi</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">protest is my modus operandi.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It's like Malcolm and Martin's</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">evolution with art</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">and revolution</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">'cause the total thrust is</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">global justice.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Drew Dellinger</h4></div></body></html>