"Can you tell that I've been hurt so?
Can you tell I wanna lay low?
Can you tell that I'm a flower
Waiting for a sunshower?
Can you tell that love denied me?
I need someone to revive me
If you give me a reason,
I'll be with you through the seasons
And we'll shed of our skin like trees do with leaves
We'll glide together down on winter breeze
And rest in the earth intertwined at the roots
Until we have grown into one, me and you...
And we can be new"
-Be New, Amel Larrieux
Even Former Vice-Presidents are throwing it up.....Al "I'ma G" Gore throws up the "scissors" with Little Brother
"Lifestyle cruising blue behind my watersNo welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughtersDays are shorter, nights are colderFeeling like life is over, these snakes strike like a cobraThe world's hot my son got not evidently" --If I Ruled the World, Nas
" I think hip-hop is far from dead. I consider it a functioning alcoholic. It knows it's not operating at 100% but it's a found a way to still get the job done while relying on a toxic substance. For hip hop that toxic substance is mediocrity. Nobody is trying to be the best emcee anymore. "--Amanda Diva, poet and host