Let me welcome both of you to the show this morning   To talk about what I consider   To be a very very important topic, the Harlem Renaissance   But before we get into that      Harlem once was red line district rated   Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David   And you wonder why people don't own they homes   '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 frustrating to look at every day   Like watchin' a porno on 56k      Biohazard labs instead of store rooms   What's next motherfucka', projects as dorm rooms?   You ain't foolin' nobody in this community, dude   With your little fake Manhattanville community group      Ivy league real estate firms are corrupt   That lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe   They treat street vendors like criminal riffraff   While politicians get the corporate kickbacks      Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed   Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved   'Till they start deporting people off the property   Ethnically cleansing the hood, economically      They want to 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 rezoning predators      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   Beach front Brazilian favelas that you livin' in   The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again      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 giving birth to the culture we love   Prejudice kept our own people out of the club   Only colored celebrities in the party   And left us a legacy of false superiority      W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey   And we ended up selling out to everybody   The Dutch soldiers and the John Gotti's banksters   Modern day gangsters, immobile army      They want to move us all out the NYC   Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree   So support your own businesses and institute of knowledge   'Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic      Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed   Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved   Till they start deporting people off the property   Ethnically cleansing the hood, economically      They want to 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 rezoning predators      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 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 we are protected?