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How to be a Poet

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Losing My Mind?

The Mix Up

I Come From

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How to be a Bad Vegan

What It's Like To Be A King

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Ten Things About Me

Warm Water

Some Men Have Vaginas

Party Political Broadcast


We are the Apathy Party 
For those who dare not to care 

For those too busy or too blasé
For those who are happy without a say

Give us your vote, it's the easiest to cast 
You don't even need to get off your backside 

Take a seat to make a stand 
Maybe you think it's too difficult to understand 

The hyperbole and hypocrisy 
Involved with this democracy 

Maybe you think all the parties one and the same?
Maybe you think those who voted Lib Dem are to blame?

Maybe you think the Con-Dems conned them all?
Maybe you don't think about it at all? 

Then we are the perfect party for you 
Vote for us, all you have to do is nothing. 


Party Political Broadcast [BBC Radio 4 : Broadcasting House]

I Am Nobody's Nigger

Rappers when you use the word "nigger" remember that's one of the last words Stephen Lawrence heard, so don't tell me it's a reclaimed word.

I am nobody's nigger
So please, let my ancestors rest in peace
Not turn in their graves in Jamaica plantations
Or the watery graves of the slave trade 
Thrown overboard into middle passage 
Just for insurance claims
They were chained up on a boat
As many as they could manage and stay afloat
Stripped of dignity and all hope 
Awaiting their masters and European names
But the sick and the injured were dead weight to toss
And Lloyds of London would cover that cost.

I am nobody's nigger
So you can tell Weezy and Drake 
That they made a mistake 
I am nobody's nigger now
So you can tell Kanye and Jigga 
I am not a nigger... in Paris
I'm not a nigger in London
I'm not a nigger in New York
I'm not a nigger in Kingston
I'm not a nigger in Accra
Or a nigger with attitude in Compton
Cos "I don't wanna be called yo nigga"

How were you raised on Public Enemy
And still became your own worst enemy?
You killed Hip Hop and resurrected headless zombies 
That can't think for themselves or see where they're going
Or quench the blood lust because there's no blood flowing
In their hearts, just in the streets 
They don't give a damn as long as they eating
Their hearts ain't beating, they're cold as ice (bling)
Because they would put money over everything
Money over self respect or self esteem
Or empowering the youth to follow their dreams
Stacking paper cos it's greater than love it seems
Call me "nigger" cos you're scared of what "brother" means

To know that we share something unspeakable
To know that as high as we rise we are not seen as equal
To know that racism is institutional thinking
And that "nigger" is the last word you heard before a lynching.

I Am Nobody's Nigger

Author best known for THE BLACK FLAMINGO.

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