It’s In The Music

Hone your ears
Scrape away the putrid earwax
Rip open your soul, cleanse your spirit
And vacuum suck away the years of willful and ignant tone deafness

Listen   Listen   Listen   Listen   Listen

To the music

It’s in the music

In the West African drum messaging of My People-- a warning
An alert, a hurt approaching

These drums traveled through The Middle Passage
They survived and so did We

Listen

To the chants and awhollers in the white southern cotton fields
To the persistent rhythm of the chain gangs… Oh Lawd
To the howlin’ beats of the men who rode the rails

Listen

To the sweaty, deep down and dirty, slow poppin’ snappiness of Backwater jook joints…This joint is jumpin’
Gabriel throw down that blue note

Listen

To the spirit-filled a cappella of the gospel singer
To the holy rollin’ finger snappin’ wail of the spiritualist…
Precious Lord… Amazing Grace

Listen

To the profound and profane rapid fire rhymes of
The Rapper, young blood and hope of our future
Spilling forth his pain, anger, resistance and triumph
His will to overcome not some day but TODAY

Listen     Listen     Listen     Listen     Listen

To the music

It’s in the… Music

~EBPryor

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