Concerto in X Minor

Well, ah, good evening my Nubian brothers and sisters, ah

Tonight we got a really big show, ah, really big show, ah

Conducting his Concerto in X Minor

We have, the brother, Derek X

Ah, his theme tonight will be on racism in New York

Backdrop, Brother Derek X

Ah, yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you

And all of that

Yo, before I get this wreck I want to give a strong shout

To all the positive brothers and sisters that's out there

And I just want to let y'all know

Who I came down here with

I slid in here with Lord J

And Alamo with the A

And I came to get wrecked like this

I'm kinda blessed so I wrote this manifesto for life

Co-signed by the others with a knife

On the real tip let's take a field trip from the ghetto

You pick the time and we'll meet in the meadow

To discuss racial issues and tension

New York's a powder keg did I forget to mention?

Now case in point y'all remember that Brooklyn Bridge joint

When things got wild and willy?

Yeah, that day the Feds played the role of the bully

Now Huey Newton was slain and we all felt the pain

Of Yusef Hawkins, and they was mad but we was squakin'

They tried to show a false compassion, yet at the rally

They tried to bash in our brains, further addin' to the bloodstains

I was mad at this news and so was my brothers

And I wanted to get violent but I'm a lover of black mothers

And black mothers need sons, not children that's been killed by guns

It's just another form of slavery, a modern day lynchin'

The others get reward, the black man feels the tension inside

Not out to hide, just provides us all the answer

I will stop racial injustice if I get the chance to

Now the civilized man's main goal is to teach

And I try to achieve this with verbal outreach

In my community, and all outlaying counties

Spread the message of good with my Now Rule mighty

Step up to the right, dispense and be known

Remember what I said is to teach your own at home first

And as we disperse I sparks your head like a cloudburst

You don't stop, you don't quit

Derek X, I'm guaranteed to be the ultimate

(Brother Derek X) I kicks the flavor

So bust that, I drop the stack from an almanac

It's all truth so it's got to be a shown fact

So keep on this is the dawn of the Capricorn Turtle

A rhyme that I kick is stored daily in my journal

Or my diary, when speakin' on the black man I get fiery

The record's in the record store, category's black war

Best you ever saw and it comes in a three or a four pack

In a month or two I'll be back to confer with you on both of my works

In my contract, I get crazy perks from Elektra

See me kick this rhyme and I covered the whole spectrum

This is the final verse, grand finale in Crescendo

Message substance of the X cannot be thrown out the window

Unseen, lean two years past the teen

Never use makeup, got a natural sheen

It's like that y'all let's have a ball

I'm Derek X about six feet tall

Yeah, and as I stop this wreck for one sec

I wanna give a shout to the Grand Puba

Also to club kid Marley Marl, Pete Rock from the Vernon

I wanna give a shout to Mike P and Cherokee also in Tucson

Rich with the karaoke

I wanna give a shout to all the Gods in Now Rule

Melacasis, Sea, and my man True Born

I want to give a shout to Big Bob

Scooby Real and the whole Mob from the Stallion, Mark the Spark

And I'm outta here