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C. Eric Lincoln Listen to me Brothers, I'm gonna tell it like it is, Why you don't get your percentage while The Man is gettin' his. Now it ain't no great big secret, and it ain't no mystery, You peed on the pumpkin, Brothers, when you forgot your history. Well, rap on, Brother! I got to lay it on the wood. Rap right on, Brother! Listen to me . Listen good. 'Cause you don't have to scratch An' you don't have to grin. Scratchin' without itchin' Is a vee-nial sin! Now you read in the Bible about the First Creation. Well it don't even mention this here civilization But they dug up the world to find the Very First Man, An' Brothers, lo and behold, he was a black African! Well, rap on, Brother! He was in Tanganyiki. Rap right on, Brother! He had on a Dashiki! The poem, J25th Street Rap Session," written in 1967 by C. Eric Lincoln, distin guished African American professor of religion at Duke University, demonstrates that the influence patterns between rappers and scholars is by no means a one way street . Reprinted with permission from C. Eric Lincoln, Thi s Road since
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1991
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