hip-hop music and culture || the breaker's performance
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The Breaker's PerformanceAuthor(s): Ronaldo V. WilsonSource: Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 3, Hip-Hop Music and Culture (Summer, 2006), p. 739Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488345 .
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THE BREAKER'S PERFORMANCE
by Ronaldo V Wilson
Will wine and cheese glut my art - kill my pop-locking arms?
Will it de-coon my continence, make me a better black?
Had this been the rat poison under my stove, I would've left it alone.
Had this been lumpia, pancit, afood song, you'd give me an island.
If I leaped into the arms of the first white suit and broad chest I saw, I might sink.
This last and desperate arc by spine is no
nigger dance, no-blaxo-blessed-be.
I spin: my back bores into the floor. I tear out my song, not yours.
Callaloo 29.3 (2006) 739
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