Concerto In X Minor

Well, good evening my Nubian brothers and sisters

Tonight we got a really big show, really big show

Conducting his Concerto in X Minor

We have the brother, Derek X

His theme tonight will be on racism

In a New York, backdrop, Brother Derek X

Yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you

And all a that

Yo, before I get this wrecked, I wanna give a strong shout

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

And I just wanna 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 an' willy?

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

{Up against the car

Yo, I ain't even do nuttin', man

Aiyyo, shut up or you get smacked

Yo, why you pushin' me? Why you hittin' me, man?}

Now Huey Newton, was slain an' we all felt the pain

Of Yusef Hawkins an' 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 an' so was my brothers

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

An' 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 the world, 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

An' I try to achieve this with verbal outreach

In my community an' all outlayin' counties

Spread the message of good with my 'Now Rule' mighty

Step up to the right, dispense an' 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

Ya don't stop, ya 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 my 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 gets fiery

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

Best you ever saw an' 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 an' I covered the whole spectra

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 an' 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

An' Cherokeem also in Tucson, Rich with the carry on

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

Melacasis, Sea an' my man True Born

I wanna give a shout to Big Bob, Scooby Real

An' the whole Mob from the Stallion, Mark the Spark

An' I'm outta here