Lady B. Street Beat WUSL FM (1985) - OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP MIX SHOWS
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Suspended in a poem,
The subject became me
Meaning becomingly
First letters….
Then rhythm and rhyme

It was the story of how I grew up
Seeking to communicate
Learning structure and form
Then the rules I’d later break

cause slang made me ghetto
While I just considered myself bilingual
One language spoken amongst gringos
And the other with family and friends

Funniest thing
Was we called it hip hop
creating sign-language so the def
could follow
in closed captions
(called ciphers)

just head nods
…and no writers
free style innovations
that somehow
just made sense