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Harlem Renaissance

Immortal Technique

The 3rd World

2008

Harlem Renaissance a revolution betrayed
Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved
'Til they start deporting people off the property

it
You're mad wack on a Mic but you swear that you ripped it.

(Chorus) 

1900s Bert Williams got poetic on a track;
Then the Harlem Renaissance put

Pray

Jay-Z

American Gangster [Clean]

2007

of a nemesis
Mother America's not witnessed since
The Harlem Renaissance birthed black businesses
This is the tale of lost innocence's, as the incense burn

at my young Philly boys
Harlem renaissance, upper echelon
Check writer, the nigga they come and check upon
Nigga please, we spend G's in a restaurant

Avalanche

Prince

One Nite Alone...Live!

2002

The Harlem Renaissance
Hear Duke Ellington and his band
Kick another jungle jam
Ooh, do you wanna dance?
Who's that lurking in the shadows?
Mr. John

Audubon Ballroom

Lupe Fiasco

Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1

2012

won big, can't be undid
Form a whole culture in just one kid
Miami dope boys, Oakland militants
Harlem Renaissance it's our deliverance

Now white

Johnson of rap, Harlem Renaissance
I provide the fix, a young Lanvin son
The secret's in the mix, I sell it a la carte
I peddle everything you want,

Blue water 
cnd what the Lady Billie Holiday sings. 
This a renaissance, I aint talking about Rome This is Harlem. 
Where cpollo makes its home This

Cullen, and Jean Toomer, and Claude McKay

And these people had taken the blues
As a poetry form back
In the twenties and the teens
During the Harlem

And then as a result of that, ya know
I noticed everybody, we had the Harlem Renaissance
Everything was happening here
Then when I noticed, I said hold

the dark
Took a seat up front, Rosa Parks
Through the Harlem Renaissance
They tried to keep us down but this was our response
We started from the bottom now

the new Harlem renaissance
I died and I came back another form
I done seen angels with devil's horns
I made it to heaven
I'm Talking to PAC
Yo what's poppin

I got places to see and I got things to get into
Like the Harlem Renaissance I make music bout the blues
If you don't know who I am then you ignoring

around when this shit was started
Nigga your bitch an eater your bitch a harlot
Harlem Renaissance, all off my niggas are Goated
I ain't Harrison barnes

Jane and Dick
I'm poppin' on your government as if I'm on some bubble shit
I represent the Harlem renaissance
Jazz institution passed on to P Funkadelic

I wonder how life would have felt if I grew up during the Harlem Renaissance
I wonder how loud we would speak if not for a conditioned response
I

Desmond,
HarrietTubman underground in the trenches,
Harlem renaissance rebirth movement impressive
Madame CJ Walker fast forward Kamala Harris,
on a terrace

and serenity is informed on how far back we go

So I suggest we let go of our fixation with plantation slavery, the Harlem Renaissance
And the 60s
And I mean

Met a bronze diva that happened to be palm reader Eccentric like the Harlem renaissance she was elegant, crystal ball for a brain with artificial

globetrotters
Renown renovation, like the Harlem renaissance
DJs and b-boys, how we set the ambience
I was birthed from the grind, like rap, to call and response

in place
They say a lesson learned is a blessing earned
Like the Harlem renaissance I've seen dreams deferred
Dedicated my whole life to this, I'm

the atmosphere
Keeping the location discrete
Got sand on my feet
Jazz music on repeat
Helps keep me calm
My ancestors was turning up
During the Harlem renaissance

moving stolen art
Like Reagan Contra
Peep the Harlem Renaissance
Before I reprimand
It's CD
Young conduct disorder
Music my life
Imma black record hoarder

& devastation, Just to make it, some a rob & some would kill they brothers, Granny taught me take of self to help others, This is duwop in the Harlem Renaissance