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Cultural Appropriation / Cultural Gentrification

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(CHORUS)

Bizarro world navigator
In any altered state I stay smooth operator
Send him in to reclaim the black acres
Instagator taking out the invaders
Devil in a native headdress
An object that never rests will maintain emotional motion
While focusing on a distortion of tokenism
Toxic alchemic alteration of a prism where
Exchange is anything but equivalent
And cultural colonizers collect
On the social dividends like they’re
Already spent when they could’ve let it sit for a bit
And then operate off of the interest
Move-makers with shallow gravedigger mentalities
Leaves on the breeze of entitlement
Downward spiraling rapidly and trapping
Everything you’re infatuated with in the gravity
Just like crabs in a bucket
To love it is to understand that
You shouldn’t place yourself above it
Like a power dynamic in the form of a handout
Knowing in due time you’ll ask it to stand down

(CHORUS)

I am the self-appointed dictator of Flip Fantasia
Practicing my social euthenasia
Until the here and now transitions into later
Earned attribution as the absence creator like
Black hole soul, rat race pole positional
Shots lobbed at the disadvantaged hit critical
Whether or not it’s intentional
Smiling faces have created this hazy shade of criminal
Activity born of various affinity
Insiders turned into fiends for inclusion in
Outsider industries, making frenemies and
Working the angles created from the hostilities
Faded memories in the making
Like the foundation is up for the taking to the
High bidder, figurehead of the misled
Had Cliff’s Notes and the room was still misread
No accountability
Claimed legibility as a factor for impending disaster
Selling burnt bridges to those
With an embarrassment of riches
And a somewhat suspicious lack of vision
Who appropriated this appropriation?
Green lit all of this cultural gentrification?
Phasing out motivated creation by
Taking every bit and turning it to a wasteland

(CHORUS)

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from Flux Populi, released May 6, 2022
produced by Th’Mole
written by Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice

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