Be Black Men Again
I often wonder if these so-called Gangsta Niggas are delirious.
It is obvious that these lost black men don’t know who they are.
They are comfortable in being a festering wound to our people;
They inflict a daily wound that will never become a healed scar.
However, I still ask, “How do you live with yourself?”
They don’t seem to comprehend the disappointment of their villainous sight.
They take us into a gloomy and ever eclipsing tenebrous abandon.
Too many of our people are crushed by these black holes in the night.
These brothers sling our children a venomous poison
They flash stacks of ill-gotten money earned from our conjoined dispair.
The innocent in our communities are victimized and slaughtered;
While these Gangsta Niggas drench innocent blood onto the gold they wear.
These lost Gangsta Niggas keep slinging and banging in a foul abandon.
They run through lost women and corrupt our girls to believe they are “Hoes”.
Racist whites promote their rancid images in the backlash after the following backlash.
Fearful cops are destroying innocent black men that unwilling to take on their blows.
O.G. Nigga imagery was spotlighted in Chicago after we elected the first black President.
It was the violence of the wanna-be Gangsta Nigga that was promoted on TV each night.
Black people were the focus of murders, rapes, and sprees of mob-like robberies;
We watched as thousands died on the streets; simple victims to callous gang fights.
However, on Facebook and social media, our foolish Gangsta Niggas were flossing strong.
They took pictures of their money and gold, while continually proclaiming, “I’m the Man!”
They pulled a new generation of misled brothers into a melee of ignorance and immoderation.
Too many of our people die for a Gangsta Nigga mentality; so I want to make you lost brothers understand:
The gold, diamonds, and money that you floss are all stolen.
They are parts of the hearts and bodies you use and throw away.
The paper money you display on FB is payment for modern slavery.
It is the payment for leading more and more of our brothers astray.
Every year thousands of you Gangsta Niggas languish away in prisons.
You are the wasted mentors for the millions that are still operating and killing on our streets.
Your ignorance has inundated the public mentality and the result is more wanna-be Gangsta Niggas.
Your progeny continue to kill the hopes and dreams of every brother and sister they meet.
I hope some of you wanna-be OGs can hear me
You are destroying millions of black hopes and precious lives!
You are running like rabid dogs through your own culture and forgiving people.
When you kill a people’s future, only pain, betrayal, and hurt can survive.
I hated to term you as Niggas, but I had to accept that you have become that painful word.
You took on the mantle of the cooning and sexually savage lost nigga, created by bigots lies.
You give credence and validity to the beliefs of hateful white racist, and brothers that is absurd.
Too many of you brothers are content to live and fester in a putrefying and withering crowd.
You don’t want to accept the moniker of a conscious and successful black man
Your ruthless scheming minds try to forget what it means to be "Young, Black, and Proud!"
The truth is, they are killing the lights on you Gangsta Niggers and making you all go home.
It is at this point my lost and ignorant brothers, far too many of you will wake up in Hell all alone!
The clock was ticking down on all you wanna-be Gangsta Niggas
I am sure you see jail and death striking down all of your friends.
However, I see that as a light for some of you redeemable brothers;
When the lights go off, many of you will run home and try to be Black Men again! © Eddie K. Phillips
