Black August
I.
Hooded eyelids under heavy lashes
doin’ the rain dance like she’s Hopi
Mariah says she’s a scientist,
I turned a leaf into gold in the silence,
full metal jackets
make her fall in love like rogue leaves,
hypnotizing glances,
divination for burning creations
Baring it all like a nudist, waistbeads on
—
she’s an Erykah Badu-ist
My enchantress, secret romances,
private vacances, walk down road in rain
I need one dance, right hand guide
waist
convince her to take chance,
know she's datin’ but it’s been
a long time since she faced man,
looked into eyes while he moved hair strand
She heard I'm a warrior,
wants me to take her to the oracle
hoping a virgin can tell her the future
while our bodies tie up like loose ends
II.
This is a story of Dracula,
the night’s grand ambassador
Handing off contraband
batons got me feeling the calluses,
remembering the way they did me
feeling the callousness,
now my morning routine is sippin' winter
cold spring water out chilled chalices
Southern, dark and handsome
Badman playboy
Off-the-wake-up
get-straight-to-a-play boi
Black man’s savior
They want me to crash like broken symbol
I would rather step very quiet
very Quietus
very graceful
I would rather get paid
When they bury me,
place Tutankhamen’s face on me
Join the Empire if you want to prevail
Black Diamonds all in crowns,
you ain’t just insultin’ one sultan here
Impaled my fingers wit’ gold
Mansa Musa — Vladimir
III.
Beautiful women around the world
sound out my name with cherry stems
twisted around incarnadine pearls
They said I’m chaotic and toxic
but they love how I’m sculpted
I have my grandmother's eyes,
my father’s style
I’m my brother’s keeper,
my mother’s child
My sisters know to hit me if their man hit 'em,
I got'ta meet my last grandfather before he dies
There's a melody in this melanin
I know they told you there's only aggression
and depression in our melanin
I walk around adorned in precious metals
‘cause I know stories about my history
starting with cotton is a fabrication
Chromosomes been coronated,
regalia that I can see my reflection in
before I give commandments to my regiment
Cross lamiai and hope to die today,
if I’m lyin’
Cab' sauv' bandannas, rubies without the rose,
the golden child in the hood, you think it's the bleu c-notes?
What if I told you that I had the Midas touch?
Melting gold on your hand, rubies set in your blood,
diamonds dripping off your body,
they ain’t got nothin’ on you huh?
IV.
I ain't a master of mathematics
but in the matrix, I keep it discreet;
don’t project your micromanaged fears
on me, I don’t just excel on a sheet
Many men put a dollar on my head
Half-steppers
50 cents, never seen fifty Gs,
they changin’ up like fifty cents,
that's not my problem
I’m thinking ‘bout the snakes
I see slitherin’ a little more
Two-faced like Snape and Dumbledore,
I wanna give the green light like Voldemort
Avada Kedavra, kill her softly when I charm her
A black saber grew out of the asphalt
bloody thorn, tepals rough and rugged,
trying to survive until the morning
V.
She meditates and does Pilates
her mama probably
a goddess
in her own right
(bless her, gesundheit)
if looks could kill
the Reaper
would sew his soul
to Hers tonight
Foreign macchina, African matriarch
red clay mistress from the country,
mesmerized by peacock
hundreds fannin’ off me,
wifey from the city wearin’ Prada
devilish
an angel fallin’ for me,
we both beauty and the beast,
delacour, les fleurs love it for me
I helped Stella get her groove back;
she thinks she’s Harley Quinn
she just ain’t wit’ a joker
I told you I’m a player,
I’m more Big Punisher;
I keep the drac’ by me like owl eyes
Money’s the root of everlasting power;
I only do the Beamers wit’ ophan eyes
Ke’Asia’s eyes dilate on me
to make it a special occasion,
She’s on par with Bre’Asia,
cold heart on her bracelet,
I love when she plays favorites
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