Dang, it seems everything is a throwback,

Old suits, high heels, 5-button blazers, and gangster rims,

True to the game 40 something old playas showing new school just how it's done, Pumas flying through the roof landing on my shelltop Adidas

Moses Malone stares me in the eyes as i put on my Dr. Jay and slam to the tune of afro-puff hair-do's and all sorts of so-called naturals.

Pickanini is now hot again, even though you don't yet see picks up in em...

Heck, I'm just waiting for the slightest incling of jerry curl juice to bust out next...

Yes... It does seem like everything is a throwback...

I sit in the park wondering how just when pride in negro baseball teams in the form of hats and jerseys hit the streets and rise to great heights, we have decided go back to all the "has-been" of mainstream rejectionist threads... all the while, highlighting the ignorance for which we are so often blamed...

Bet you didn't know everything is getting to be a throwback...

Gentrification takes over every major city, while those of us fortunate enough, relish in our new found good sleepism, get it, "sleepism"...

Open your eyes and realize that this is not new, but just an anti-progressive past, We mimic, yet again, the old ways and the social movements of the people that occurred just after the riots...

Except, now the heart of the people isn't left alone in the city, it is getting pushed back to the trees, open fields, huts, and farm houses of rural life, get it, those open fields and houses of rural life...

Is it true that things are getting thrown back...

Signals of vietnam impressions in the air while we lash out at each other and the system for the lack of economic freedom and the current state of political affairs and political representation, that once again has take us back...

My weight gains by the 20s and 40s each day as I walk forward, seems as if my heels, not my toes, are the only things moving forward, while my eyes see a lingering, teasing, and daunting preferred future that moves farther away...

Just imagine jumping up and jamming with your back to the rim...

Are yall really ready to get with the throwback or can you face throwing everything you now cherish, back from whence it came...

Dang, seems everything is a throwback...

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