Harlem Renaissance
Immortal Technique & DJ Green Lantern

Harlem once was red line district rated

Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David

And you wonder why people don't own their homes

'Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin' mortgage a loan

Until after the invasion of gentrification

Eminent domain intimidation

That's not negotiation

And it's frustrating to look at every day

Like watching a porno on 56K

Biohazard labs instead of storerooms

What's next motherfucker projects as dorm rooms

You ain't fooling nobody in this community dude

With your little fake Manhattanville community group

Ivy league real estate firms are corrupt

They lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe

They treat street vendors like criminal riff raff

While politicians get the corporate kickbacks

[Chorus: ]

Harlem Renaissance a revolution betrayed

Modern day slaves thinking that the ghetto is saved

'Til they start deporting people off the property

Ethnically cleaning the hood, economically

They want to kill the real Harlem Renaissance

Trying to put the Virgin Mary through an early menopause

The Savior is a metaphor for how we set it off

Guerilla war against the rezoning predators

When I speak about Harlem, I speak to the world

The little Afghan boy and the Bosnian girl

The African in Sudan, the people of Kurdistan

The third world American indigenous man

Palestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans

Displaced New Orleans citizens

Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin' in

The hood is prime real estate they want back in again

I didn't write this to talk shit, I say it because

Some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was

We had revolution, music and artisans

But the movement was still fucked up like Parkinson's

'Cause while we were giving birth to the culture we love

Prejudice kept our own people out of the club

Only colored celebrities in the party

And left us a legacy of false superiority

W.E.B. Du Bois verses Marcus Garvey

And we ended up selling out to everybody

The Dutch soldiers and the John Gotti's

Bankers ? modern day gangsters, a mobile army

They want to move us all out the NYC

Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra Decree

So support your own businesses and do the knowledge

'Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic

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