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word to James Baldwin, Langston Hughes
Medgar Evers and Charles Drew
Their ideas help pioneer this generation
But steps that they took are ones we're

My People

James Ingram

The Art of Love & War

2007

Brothers, Miles Davis
Mr. James Brown, 2Pac
Bob Marley, Biggie Smalls

Billie Holiday, Cathy Hughes
Charlie Parker, Betty Shabazz
Denzel Washington,

Blunt Ashes

Nas

Hip Hop Is Dead

2006

Yo, I wonder if Langston Hughes and Alex Haley
Got blazed before they told stories
Well, I'ma get blazed before I tell y'all stories
I saw on TV

Growing Up (Sloane's Song)

Ryan Lewis

This Unruly Mess I've Made

2016

Langston Hughes, I suggest A Raisin in the Sun
Listen to Sam Cooke, a change gon' come
You put the work in, don't worry about the praise, my love
Don't

and writing Langston
Hughes replica poems
Became me wanting to write like Stevie
Wonder my dad had been a singer and
Keyboardist so my mom was like
"You're

B.K. Style

Fabolous

More Street Dreams, Pt. 2: The Mixtape

2003

Every project, rebourse, Kings Borough
Bushwick, fort geen
Tilden, brownsville
Langston Hughes, LG
Glendon, Van Dike, steflo, Brookline
Albany,

drinking it in

And those harlem nights never had to end
So the harlem guys can strut their stuff again
In their two-toned shoes, shade of Langston Hughes
In

Before i see my destiny unravel
Listen, I ain't langston hughes
I ain't screaming I, too am america or weary with the blues
My poetry is flowing thru my

Armstrong
Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall
Richard Wright Rosa Parks and Gordon Parks
Joe Lewis Jackie Robinson and John Henrik Clarke
Alex Haley

Olde English

Defari

20/20

2006

Salvador Dali
Now we rap Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou
Out the disco Xanadu, hip-hop for the streets

Now the beat swing numchuk style
I'm like Jim Kelly

to the truth with hopes of living in harmony

Trained myself, became a scholar 
Frederick Douglass type of scheme
Langston Hughes, "hold on fast to those dreams"

Visiting with my friend Tonya two nights ago
I learned that Langston Hughes traveled with his record player
And several of your recordings
These "learned"

on ya couch
Taking over the rap game like Imma stage a coup
So poetic like Langston Hughes on these 808s and blues (Wooh)
And by now, ya guys should know

Superstition
Deep like the dream theme of Langston Hughes, like Ma Rainey, Beauford Delaney, Bessie Smith's Downhearted Blues
Deep like No Woman No Cry.

God
 When her pen hit the page sparks flew like lightning rods 
I'm Langston Hughes, They called me “O'Henry” 
I Wrote more poems than lights in

T Dubois 
Nat Turner Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth 
Yaa csantewaa Marcus Garvey Haile Selasie 
Langston Hughes Neale Hurston Louis crmstrong 
Rosa Parks

Katherine Bates and
 
Roosevelt and Langston Hughes and
Dickinson, J Edgar Hoover
 
Joan of Arc and Oscar Wilde
Donatello, Gomer Pyle
 
Sappho and Igor

Langston Hughes I wondered why 
These n***as got me f**ked up
I got clips of blues paint you red I f**k yu up
I just got a snake 
Learn to kick with fakes 
I

Fils du Hip-Hop

Gaël Faye

Pili Pili Sur Un Croissant Au Beurre

2013

veuves
Plus d'Etat, plus de social, le DJ scratch dans l'abîme
Quand son frère Graffiti bariole l'épiderme des villes
Langston Hughes est mort, Harlem

is
(A poet like Langston Hughes and can’t lose)
Lemonade was a popular drink 
And it still is
This for real niggas and bitches 
You gone feel this

They drunk in love
So sleazy off the keg of booze (whoa)
I’m poetic with the fashion
Bitch I’m Langston Hughes
Let it hit the floor (whoa)
Let it hit

warm up a cold heart
Leader of the pack wolf gang im like Mozart
Classic with pen Langston Hughes when i go off
Couple bad bitches on my line to get

Frost  
I'ma kill the boss
Langston Hughes while the river cross
Down your knees and you do....
Langston Hughes while the river crossed
Down your knees

profound than when I do
Explains why when I drink
These hoes turn me to Langston Hughes
I don't even know what I said
So don't hold that shit against me