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"Let me welcome both of you uh, to the show this morning to talk about what I consider to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harlem Renaissance But before we get into that..." [Immortal Technique] Yeah, Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan {WAKE UP!} Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan Until after the invasion of, gentrification Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation And it's frustratin to look at, every day Like watchin a porno, on 56-K Biohazard labs instead of store rooms What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms? You ain't fool nobody in this community duke SongtexteWith your little fake Manhattanville community group Ivy league, real estate firms are corrupt I lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe They treat street vendors like criminal riff-raff While politicians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes) [Chorus: Immortal Technique] Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved 'Til they start deportin people off the property Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators [Immortal Technique] When I speak about Harlem, I speak to the world The little Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girl The African in Sudan, the people of Kurdistan The third world American, indigenous man Palestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans Displaced New Orleans citizens Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin in The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again (fuck outta here) I didn't write this to talk shit, I say it because some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was We had revolution, music and artisans But the movement was still fucked up like Parkinson's Cause while we were givin birth to the culture we love Prejudice, kept our own people out of the club Only colored celebrities in the party (fake nigga!) And left us a legacy of false superiority W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey And we ended up, sellin out to everybody The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobile army They wanna move us all out the N.Y.C. Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree So support your own businesses and do the knowledge Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic (yeah) [Chorus] {"Green Lantern... The Evil Genius!"} "When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harlem they didn't mean, that we had stake in that They meant to say that they could make money out of us" "They are coming in with all kind of prejudices In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx There's hardly any place which is affordable I mean these people are putting up condominiums which start from a million dollars How many people in this community make that kind of money? How many people have that kind of money?" "People of Harlem, they are the natural allies of the oppressed people of the world, whether the struggle is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba" "We spend money with the wrong people We are looking for love, with people who don't love us What's wrong with us loving each other and making sure that we are protected?" Aus Songtexte Mania