(it is with extreme pleasure that i present this recording to you as it cannot be bought anywhere for any price) / fire, fire in the sun / it’s here it’s near it’s now it’s how we sort things out contort n shout not doubting dreams that rise above these clouds sneer n pout clear this now i’ll let you on to this fire inside you pal prometheus gave us a gift fire up hip hop seeking new ways to use it you learn about these solar systems just to say bigbangs have let them loose instead of taking the spirit truth n letting it hit each n all of you it’s raging n taking more than a weak hold for young n old but there’s sunfire run not tired it can’t be bought or sold / it’s a fire in the sun n it’s here n near n now / but you act like you ain’t seen it like it’s passing you by like the pharcyde like gary larson drawing martians that fly but hark i hear the angels sing the sun a new blaze a new dawn a new day a new face raze the old one with no trace extend the face of what you’d consider yr place hip hop can expand explosively dance to the march of the planets or reuse the waste orbiting our sun you become the change or stuck on earth where you’ve landed stay stranded with old standards unmanned soul crammed into minds if you can stand it no carpe diem cos you start to see them slip thru fingers when you seize no matter how tight you squeeze so you could become the here n now n let the solar fire let yr insides breathe a good dungeon could cure yr disease /
The British-Somali poet draws upon everything from leftfield folk to minimalist spoken-word, bound together by simple-yet-cutting wordplay. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021