Back to the 90's
Take me back to the 90's
Back to when we sampled our heart beats for music
and anchored them with shattering double bass lines
Stitched at the seams with our life stories
our hopes and our once-in-a-life-time dreams
Back to when we danced to echoed praises of cow-skinned drums
clicking to mama Meriam's pata-pata
Gyrating to the mahogany sounds of me Chaka Chaka
When, partying meant a celebration of souls
leaving our bodies with creaks and saxophonic moans
To tap their feet on cloud white smoke
breathing in symphonies and frequencies
Take me back to the 90's
Before we smothered our bass anchored monologues
in auto-tune and fleeting club beats
And shamelessly smeared senseless lyrics on the movies that play in our sleep
Numbing our ears to quality and blinding our eyes to originality
permeating flesh, bone and marrow
My spirit, man, is suffering from a nervous tick
from an over-indulgence in cocaine music
Lasting long enough to quench my fix
only until I get my next Number 1 Hit
Honey, take me back to the 90's
Back to Boom-shaka, Trompies and Sdudla ma fethle fethle
Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo and Lebo Mathosa
Back to TLC, Mos Def, De la Soul, Pac, Biggie and Missy
Back to Common, Ludacris, Kanye and Jay-Z
Before they swallowed too many shots of electronic beats
and suffixed their names with -eezy
Back, back before hip hop meant cuss words, snap-backs and tattoos
and lessons in how to count back from 10, all at Soulja Boy's courtesy
Before the women and the queens of the industry
became the bitches and jezebels of a fallen ministry
Take me back, take me back, sugar, please
Take me back to the 90's
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