A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval

A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval

Author:Kevin Coval
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, ebook
ISBN: 978-1-60846-766-2
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017-03-06T05:00:00+00:00


there was a time when hip-hop felt like a secret

society of wizards & wordsmiths. magicians

meant to find you or you were meant to find

like rappers i listened to & memorized in history

class talked specifically to me, for me.

& sometimes

you’d see a kid whisper to himself

in the corner of a bus seat & you

asked if he rhymed & traded a poem

a verse like a fur pelt / trapping.

some gold or food. this sustenance.

you didn’t have to ride solo anymore.

Jonathan was the first kid i met who rapped. he was Black

from a prep school, wore ski goggles on top his head & listened

to Wu-Tang which meant he was always rhyming about science

& chess. his pops made him read Sun Tzu. his mans was Omega

a fat Puerto Rican who wrote graffiti & smoked bidis.



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