My people are many and few
Subdivisions of me and you
Substantial people sometimes called subhuman
Negroes, faggots and all the youts dem
Don’t think your rights came overnight
So many people had to fight
To gain anything like equality
We ain’t there yet but we’re gonna be
Institutions instigate internal indignation
We, brought up and betrayed by this nation
Isms and schisms of my Babylon home
Have held this king back from his throne
But you can fight the system from within
Yes you can befriend sinners and still not sin
See me, I went to university
Not even the first in my family
I’m from a long line of scholars
Trace me back to Greece and Africa
Through Cyprus and Jamaica
I don’t write to be pretentious
But my vocab and vision leave you defenceless
Trying hard to avoid the clichés
But everything worth saying’s been said these days
I’m ironic and yet I’m so on it
So if you wanna test me, let me hear your phonics
I’m not a battle emcee; I’m a community defender
Young, black and gay, you best remember.