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lyrics

When the smoke has cleared
and the bad guys have untied their
BMW’s and Volvos from their hitching’ posts
to drive back into the hills of Simi Valley
to greet their steamy-horny housewives
who await there arrivals like submissive June Lockhart’s
after another night of wife swapping in the game room
when PBS, PUBLIC BULLSHIt, ten years from now
broadcast to the viewing audience, another flashback
of a King being beaten, while peaceful protesters
sit in cracker-owned dives, where there ain’t no bread
being broken. When the helicopters hovering over another Crip,
dripping blood because of a crack deal gone bad
explodes like an overfed vulture, who’s eaten
too many niggaz in it it’s day, burns along side
Mr. and Mrs. Chin’s Wig shop that could duplicate
the afro that Rodney Allen Rippy wore
but will never manage the makings
of Marley’s natty dreads

Will YOU BE READY?

Or will you waste-time arguing over
If Gods chosen people are from Englwood
or Winnetka; while your smoldering house
crumbles like an etch-a-sketch drawing
with invincible Century 21 signs in your front lawn,
another archaeological dig, without you there
to correct HIS story

Will you be ready?

When all the bad guys
ride-off into the sunset
of another fake-azz, Hollywood backdrop,
taking with them, all the money and all the jobs
only to return to see if Nicholson got front row seats
with other whacked out popular nobodies, who all
secretly dream…” OH how I wish I was an Oscar Nominee,
so that everybody would know who in the fuck Iam!”

Will You be ready?

The bad guys are all gone now,
but they can still smell Watts, Detroit
Chicago, Washington Heights, burning through
there pig snouts, and pig dreams…
waiting for the smoke to clear
from their eyes….

Will you be ready?

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from Marvin Tate's D​-​Settlement, released November 4, 2022

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Marvin Tate's D-Settlement Chicago, Illinois

D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: a trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with biting wit and political commentary. Led by Marvin Tate — a poet, artist, playwright and raconteur who wore pipe cleaners in his hair — and supported by a large, dynamic cast of characters, their music was both of and ahead of its time. ... more

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