The revolution is being televised
The revolution is being televised
It’s on eastern time and centralized
In camera rolls- immortalized
From street to jagged sidewalk
From the White House to trump tower
From preschools to Howard grads
Every Second, minute, hour
The revolution is being brought to us by
“their proud sponsors”
The revolution is being televised
The revolution is being musi-sized
Brought to us by beyonce bumping with bass and jubilation every time my girl with the aux blasts formation
The revolution is being spit and spat by the hip hoppers hoppin on the track to tell us “We gon Be alright”
The revolution is being televised
The revolution is being commercialized
How would you like your revolution served to you?
You want it with a side of fries?
You got it, cuz the revolution’s been supersized
Suddenly everybody’s woke
Suddenly everybody’s in the struggle
Suddenly, history’s being rewritten
slaves were immigrants, not forced servants
And no man’s struggle is greater than another’s
Hashtag “we shall overcome”
Hashtag “All lives matter”
The revolution is being televised
This revolution is on instant replay
Did you see what she just said
See what she just said
This revolution is on instant replay
The revolution has been smashed down into 6 second snippets because our attention spans can’t handle any more
This revolution has fan art
The revolution just facetimed me, it wanted to negotiate its company terms and conditions
wanted to know if there was room to squeeze in little supremacy in article 3, subsection C, part B
It wanted to know if some rights were more marketable than others
Which rights would make more people like it, which rights it could censor, which rights were spelled out in it’s contract to speak about
The revolution is confused
The revolution asked “what’s it’s motivation”
The revolution is asking who is it fighting for
Wait…which revolution is being televised exactly?
Cuz the one I see ain’t the one where Black Panthers pounced on injustice
It’s not the raw revolution which landed black boy and girl in jail
Revolution hosed down and drowned in the holy water of oppressed tears
Revolution sprinkled with the sin of yearning to breathe free
That revolution’s struggles are to be washed away with the new, crocodile tears of those who just wanna be in everything
Who can’t realize maybe revolution wasn’t made for the girl and boy who had everything, and need more
The revolution is being compromised
Because the revolution wasn’t made to be televised
Or.. not like this anyway
A revolution isn’t sensationalism
Revolutions aren’t what you see on preview screens
In walmart or sears
To sell tv;s
REVOLUTION
REBELLION
REVOLT
Is what happens when rooms of pissed of people
Gather
And use their words as pitchforks
Use their heartbeats as drums
Boom boomin on the mic
Through rap, song, spoken word
You put that up on the screen
And then I’ll tell my friends to tune in
