The FREE STYLE NEO-SOUL

EDITOR'S NOTE:(Off the top of my head, hence the FREESTYLE) Contrary to popular belief Soul is more than just music. The music is only one of many avenues through which an entire movement (i.e a progressive lifestyle, an ideology) is expressed. For those of you who have managed to trivialize an entire lifestyle into a single LP because you just "like the music" the following is offered to encourage you to extend your thought's boundaries, to widen your mind's scope of vision in order to help promote the essence of a people's lifestyle without too rigidly defining. For it seems to always not quite fit...... Open your Heart and Mind. Welcome to LIFE.

The LIFE STYLE of SOUL

Not just Dishikies and Afro's

Its the silence in between the prose

the comma's, the inhale..

It's the comfort of the "I'll be there"

the movement before us

the satin cocoa lush

we are life

freestylin'

profilin'

with kinky hair that reach toward greater height

the gift of word and understandin'

that make u shed tears at the sacrifice

IT IS A SACRIFICE

determined not to follow so we travel the road

less trodden

And with these retro skills I pray closed minds

will broaden

I live the SOUL's purpose

the term names the place of INSPIRATION

not some cliched category

stripped of the celebration

as our sweat runs down, hits ground

like liquid libation

you'd be wise to take note

SOUL is COUNTEE and LANGSTON

and the life they wrote

dig this

SOUL sh&t..

definition neva quite fit

ANGELA DAVIS'

black fist

SOUL be JILL SCOTT and GIL SCOTT

sayin "we dig ourselves in a major love way"

SOUL is in the lullabyes of LALAH HATHAWAY and

LADY DAY

and today- we speak and live the legacy of SOUL

We aint speakin past tense

It aint rocket science

It's COMMON SENSE

and we never lose touch with our ROOTS

we armed wit bullets for words and aint afraid to

shoot

We

stand proud with hearts humble and meek

We

sing, write, and dance like RAPHAEL SADDIQ

we birth all kinds of visions and BADU-ISMS

then get lifted off BLACK THOUGHTS

we max HARD and MAX-WELL

like ME'SHELL neva fails

to get a point across

Soul is a lantern for the lost

while

ELLA, ANGIE, and NINA bring heat to this frost

'cuz it's a cold, cold world

but through it all

MUSIQ makes the people come together

from far away places like INDIA and all types of weather

but hold on..it gets BETTER

Soul is

the royalty in ASSATA, the regal nature of PRINCE

the instinct of JAGUAR

and you STILL aint convinced?

Aint much mo' to say, explain or do

cuz this FREE style is just about ova

except that BARAKA will stop ya

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