Grandmaster Flash - The Message (1982)

"Don't push me
'Cause I'm close to the edge
I'm tryin' not to lose my head
Ah-huh-huh-huh
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers TV
Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
All My Children in the daytime, Dallas, at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors, they ring my phone
And scare my wife, when I'm not home

Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane
I swear I might hijack a plane

Don't push me
'Cause I'm close to the edge
I'm tryin' not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
'Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think, I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey"

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"A child is born, with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smilin' on you, but he's frownin' too
Because only God knows, what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto, livin' second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The place, that you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way

You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers

You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
Got sent up for an eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
Spend the next two years as an undercover fag

Being used and abused and served like hell
'Til one day you was found hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

So, don't push me
'Cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
Ah-huh-huh-huh
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh"

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Livestream @ 12p Eastern • 6 March 2022 • Sunday Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream every Sunday & full video: https://youtu.be/t740-fO4rxA • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • https://t.me/TheTempleOfHIPHOP/417

"You're not afraid of anything. You're not afraid of lack —- because you know whatever you need, you can just intend it, & it will come your way. That's a real lesson; we talked about this. The Greeks called it 'participation in causes'; to be able to manipulate the reality around you; to be able to speak to & communicate with your surroundings, the intelligence of your day —- to be able to communicate with that is a wonderful gift. Not everybody has it, not everybody has access to it. But everybody can TRAIN to rise to this level."
"This is who you REALLY ARE. The core of you. That core of you is what's creating your circumstances & your situations in your life. You can communicate to the circumstances & situations in your life by communicating through the CORE of you... something pressing inside revealing its true spirit."
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Part 5 • 27 February 2022 • Sunday Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream every Sunday & full video: https://youtu.be/uAw27buS7Sc • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • Check out the previous clip & the following clip: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/413, https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/426 • Visit & share this message at The Temple Of HIP HOP on Telegram messenger: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/421

"Freestyling, as it was originally known, was an effort to modify and personalize the popular dance-forms of the 1970s. During the 1970s Hiphoppas mimicked James Brown’s 'Get On The Good Foot' dance steps and combined them with older, more traditional dance forms and body movements (like Capoiera martial arts), creating new individualized dance moves commonly called freestyling."
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Part 6 • 27 February 2022 • Sunday Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream every Sunday & full video: https://youtu.be/uAw27buS7Sc • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • Check out the previous clip & the following clip: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/421, https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/428 • Visit & share this message at The Temple Of HIP HOP on Telegram messenger: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/426

"Fasting does not always mean abstaining from food. When we teach fasting as a spiritual principle, it also means —- abstaining from hate. Abstaining from anger."
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Part 7 • 27 February 2022 • Sunday Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream every Sunday & full video: https://youtu.be/uAw27buS7Sc • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • Check out the previous clip & the following clip: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/426, https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/431 • Visit & share this message at The Temple Of HIP HOP on Telegram messenger: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/428

"The day is not out there. The day is in here. My interpretation of my day is what's going to make my day happen. The day is not out there. The day is in here. The sun-light does not make the day. The light of the mind makes the day."
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Every Sunday, join us for Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream Sundays here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCiHUDd2py5sYt1h8e2yBBHw • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • Visit & share this message at The Temple Of HIP HOP on Telegram messenger: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/430

Part 8 • 27 February 2022 • Sunday Gospel Study with Philosopher, Teacher, & Teacha KRS-ONE, Acronologist Minista G SIMONE, Minista SUN-ONE, & The Temple of Hip Hop • Livestream every Sunday & full video: https://youtu.be/uAw27buS7Sc • Comments & discussion: https://t.me/TOHHchat • Check out the previous clip & the following clip: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/428, https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/433 • Visit & share this message at The Temple Of HIP HOP on Telegram messenger: https://t.me/thetempleofhiphop/431

"Right now, I'm giving myself good memories for my 60-year-old, 70-year-old self. I'm being a friend to my 70-year-old self right now. When I look back on this at 70, I'm going to laugh, because I'm being a friend to my 70-year-old self right now. Looking back on myself, I'm giving myself good memories; I'm actually recording this, as a matter of fact, so when I look back on it, this is going to give me a good memory. Krs, what did you do with your time?"
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1. The idea of submitting yourself to a teacher/instructor for the purpose of “specialized” knowledge, advice and/or guidance is a very important and ancient concept.
However in today’s world of betrayal, incompetence and deceit it is hard to trust anyone with any area of your life. Yet without trust, it is impossible to learn anything new from anyone.
2. Information travels from one human being to another upon the chariot of respect, which then leads to trust, which then leads to learning. If there is not a mutual respect and trust between the student/apprentice and teacher, then nothing can be taught or even learned and both (teacher and student) are wasting their time together. For any real learning to occur, both teacher and student/apprentice must take each other seriously.

Somthing
Pressing
Inside
Revealing
Its
Truth
- GSIMONE