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This "My Life". This is a looking into my 20+ year journey as a performance poet and MC. Walk with me.

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My Life
Spoken word hero
Made it to ten from zero
Inspired Bmore’s Wire
And half the poets you know
E flow
With a bit of an ego
But there's a need though
I pass around these crowns
To my Browns on their Nino
Come regal to my people
So the God in you can see you
No caricature
Of rich but morally poor
Just be you
Like me
I “E”
Alien nation
i.e
Other words
Other worldly
Destinations
I see
I spit that mothership
But keep it on my gutter shit
Speaking to my niggas
Now my niggas on their brother shit
Keep’em equiped
Uncover the script Of this government
If you know it's a trap
Why does the rap sound like you lovin it
If all your friends are dead
Why still do what they did
Girl that beat moves your ass
But what it do to your head
The entertainment
We enter our brains with
Don't fit
Our inner sustainment
It stains it
Other words
We’re yucked the fuck up
From what some fuck rapper done thought up
No one stops to figure
How these new niggas were brought up
No OG checkin’ you
I'm not respectin’ you
No rites of passage in your passage
You a nut nigga
Testicle(6)
My lyrical feeling
Comes from project building vestibules
Freddie Grey Is everyday
But niggas wanna lecture you
About selections in election booths
With killers living next to you
Boys in blue sent to protect you
Be suspecting you
Judge and jury you injure you
While arresting you
Teachers can’t reach us
When they're really thinking less of you
So I left they're school
Then I met these tools
Rhyme scheme and my dreams
Then I mesh these two
Now I'm painter of purpose
On the surface of worthless
First speak to my hurt kids
Spark their metamorphosis
Fuck whose running for office
Whose running for these orphans
Lost spirits on cough syrup
Filling up these coffins
Whose talkin
To the streets they walk in
Whose sparking the light with their breath
When the shadow of death darkens
These lines
Come from my life is the sunshine
I’m Roy Ayers of rhyme sayers
We write up in crime lairs
Conundrum of onions
I'm pulling back my layers
There's Gods where I come from
I’m sendin’ them my prayers
Orishas of street preachers
Teachers for light seekers
Shango tonight's speaker
He might be in stripe sneakers
God knows he rose
In those broad nose features
I'm from the era of boom bip
Where black hips hold beepers
The 80’s raised me
To be an elder to these babies
They're born not to conform
Where all norms seem crazy
It's our time
Find a new life in the sunshine
Disobey what the dark say
Think with your God mind
One time for my kids
Flippin’ nicks flippin’ dimes
I've been where you are
You're a star ‘bout to shine
When your grind finds a cause
And The God in you combines
With the change of the times
See we’re chains of divine
Links of the Most High
Smoke to be most high
So most die
Before their third eye see wise
Now you see why
My travel circle is mostly street guys
You see what they use to do
All I do is see rise
These lines
Come from the days of the once blind
No punchlines
Just more rays of the sunshine

credits

from Orishas In 3 Striped Sneakers, released June 1, 2018
Word by E. Muhammad Music by Jsoul

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E the poet-emcee Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Depending on where you encounter him, E the poet-emcee is either a MC with powerfully poetic lyricism or a performance poet with masterful MC presence. E the poet-emcee delivers social commentary with street-wise swagger. Combine the storytelling of a Slick Rick, Godbody wisdom of a Rakim and lyrical wit of a Jay-Z and you have E the poet-emcee. Be sure to click "Follow"! ... more

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