Harvard i-lab | Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought Freestyle at Other Side Speaker Series

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it does come naturally sometimes though as as I witnessed today it has to come naturally or I'm not going to do it you drop some you drop some uh some lyrics day at

00:16

lunch can you give us a little uh reprise or something [Applause] uh I said at lunch I had a little rhyme that I started freestyling and I put uh Phil Phil's name in and I'm not going to do that but I will

00:33

uh I mean I can kick G yeah yeah I think we'd all enjoy it okay um don't don't judge me um okay all right let me see uh um

00:51

okay we living in some times that's the craziest they say these legislators are the laziest dedicated religious figures have gone atheist each and everything must change there's no escaping this I'm on a block post-apocalyptic smoke covers

01:08

coincidentally presented by the Coke brothers the magnitude of this is bigger than the both of us the attitude is trying to manage not to choke from it go and get the bolt cutters open The Floodgate any relationship I've ever been in was love hate the city I was

01:24

living and really never was safe for Sumer temporary resolution was duct tape now I'mma probably be on The Blacklist but I don't give a [ __ ] so I'm a shrug like Atlas And if my skepticism was a brand new practice would y'all be disappointed like you just got catfish

01:39

is cold blooded I'm wholeheartedly coldhearted and swo from it the same unseen hand still in control of it I should be minding my own like it's a gold nugget but I'm on that same [ __ ] just on a lower budget waiting on change that been low till the day after tomorrow I sit by the window in

01:56

the police state like your man Michael Winslow my Kim Folk told me there's a brand new gy Crow I've been going to bed at 10:00 up at 5:00 hustle to the bus and ride to the job it's feeling hot as the for of July my lady just getting home we living Separate Lives she

02:11

couldn't be one of those stord wives if she tried they shot my cousin he died it wasn't Justified I guess I'll see him if I make it to the other side The Corner Deli owner tell me hurry up and buy if everybody is somebody tell me who am I the same figure who came from angua

02:27

ain't nothing different I think I'm addicted to killer I'm unpermitted to enter the village of Shane griller I'm depicted as being a killer that's dangerous huh half dozen in one hand six in the other yo this is more than a suntan is Living Color black as Oblivion

02:44

black as obsidian black as the sky at midnight outter Meridian I am black as a portrait with Diddy Tupac and Biggie in black as the influence on the culture we living in I survive the Ching circuit V villainin manag to inspire The Beatles and Bob Dillan

03:00

but did I miss the mark because I'm just as dark as John Henry Clark's inner thoughts at the time of the Harlem Renaissance after which right's activist deviated the flight path the black ratchetness putting us back smack dab when Knight catches us we just go along

03:15

for the ride passengers glutton for punishment massacres still doing whatever Master asks of us with this generation go down as the last of us were being young men wild black was hazardous into the proverbial M Avenger

03:31

all these Pretenders suffer from symptoms of affluenza I'm just thinking out loud about Extinction and genders and plans my grandmother definitely remembers listen her suits were ta her made Sundays Melia played simple familiar ways like the way she kned and

03:46

played well and Lord Master forgive us I trust pastors had us real afraid I never listened but I still obeyed I got to see how gangsters played at such an early age what my father was into sent them to his early grave that mom started chasing that base like Willie maze my childhood

04:03

was all of 40 nights and 40 days trouble was my ball and chain shies will call me names humble beginnings black daughters with that all became my journey from a dirty hallway to the Hall of Fame music my therapeutic way to deal with all this pain I was headed for the drain soaking

04:20

before the rain water came and Chaos that's when the order came I started doing what I'm supposed to do in life trying to move out of the dark and closer to the light they say when you get a chance to do it overdo it right cuz tomorrow is in promise every time we say good night listen drug hold up dope

04:37

shot mug shot gunshot jump shot take your pick but you only got one shot advice from a school teacher to a young to applying a sticker to a Spider-Man lunchbox when even role models tell us we're born to be felons and we ain't

04:53

getting in the Harvard or Carnegie melon and of these other people blessings we going to be jealous it's not fair to that's all they can tell us that's why I hustle hella hard I don't celebrate a holiday that could be the day a brother could have struck the lottery I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away or

05:10

chalk it up is just another one that got away so I'm Unapologetic I'm on my calisthenics if I have given it all I got I cannot regret it my final destination's different from where I was headed cuz I'mma shoot for the stars to get it one shot

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