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Poetisa's Groove
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Poetisa's Groove Vocals: Legacy Leonard and A.P. Marks Instrumentation: A.P. Marks Production: Eli Wallace/A.P. Marks of Blazing Sun Productions
poetry spoken word hip ho
Legacy Leonard acclaimed spoken word artist, poet, and singer that combines poetry for social change and conscious elevation with song and rhythms.
In 1995, at the age of 15, Legacy Leonard made her debut as a spoken word artist at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She blends a variety of socially conscious, revolutionary, and thought provoking poetry with song and soul, painting the pictures of the world and society as seen through her eyes. Her passion for the art is surpassed only by her passion for change and revolution. She is an Urban Griot that believes the Power belongs to the People. Enter the mind and heart of Legacy through the art of her compelling and controversial spoken word...
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Genre
Hip-Hop • Spoken Word
Charts
Peak #4,625
Peak in subgenre #61
Author
Legacy Leonard
Rights
2004
Uploaded
February 16, 2005
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MP3 2.3 MB • 96 kbps • 3:22
Story behind the song
This song was written in dedication to a poetic sister I admired for her enduring spirit through all the hardships she went through.
Lyrics
Brenda’s (Poetisa’s) Groove By Chantay “Legacy” Leonard She be Latina-Italiano Princessa moving her hips through time portals While sifting the grains of her existence through slender fingers 26 years of a somber samba of bitterness and pain Yet she don’t go for no consoling shit words whispered Behind her back as she strides by proudly “Pobresito” She simply smiles and continues on her journey Through courtyards of closed souls She be screaming in her own head Sometimes the cries be so intense that she takes silver tears And slits open her wrists And bleeds her story on torn, yellowed parchment Ties it with faded ribbons from a forgotten quinciera Places it among the Dead Sea Scrolls As she wades waist high into the cold black waters Trying to forget how to forget the reality Of how things were, are, and will be Latina-Italiano Princessa grooving in the spotlight of her own shadow Cause the mirror deceives her with reflections of a woman-child Entrapped in the bitter struggle of who am I? Between the tri-une of her spirit, mind, and soul Faceless individuals trying to act like they can’t understand the permanent touch of sardonism to her smile The edge to her words As they slide like electrical salsa steps Into back doors of Southwestern after hours She don’t plead for your pity No need for your empathy No desire to feel you wrap her in the empty warmth Of condolences long ago overdue From perverse father figures Who taught the meaning of love with cracked cheek bones Shattering self worth of young girls Penetrating uterus too tight for tearing penises Penetrating brain cells too young to comprehend That the sins of the father are only his Not hers Yet she grooves along the stony path that cuts her feet Shoving aside the desecrated cathedral curtains Seeking past stained glass windows And the piety of false professors of God’s love She is her own star Guiding herself back to her own temple Transcending the pain and bitterness of 26 years Of hostile environments that seek to capture her kingdom That lies behind smoldering dark eyes Questioning what man has deemed unquestionable Defying the limitations of defined terms of womanhood Refusing to be cast into the recurring role of nightmares Faded in the silver glory found above the Earth’s atmosphere As she grooves her way along Orion’s belt Leaving a trail of diamond stars in her wake She be Latina-Italiano Princessa Grooving to new rhythms of her own Universe
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