How They Killed Black Spiritual Music
by Sabrina Dawkins
In “Higher” you can see DJ Khaled
pretending to play the piano at 2:11,
the date of Moses Hogan’s ascension.
DJ Khaled is Childish Gambino
in “This is America.”
He killed the true black musician,
John Legend, or was it Moses Hogan?
The Moses Hogan Singers were gunned down also
to make room for rap.
“I’m So Hood,” and “This is America,” where thugs rise “Higher”
than New Orleans Saints can.
And zombie sounds from John Legend’s hands
now lend instrumentals to gangsters and thugs called artists.
And DJ Khaled, dressed in black leather,
does the Childish Gambino “This is America” blackface dance,
which you pay for
with your time, mind, and soul.
And Jay-Z was put on MTV
to mainstream this death sound by Esau,
the drug dealer spitting nihilistic words
over catchy Rick Rubin beats
so the fake white Jews could steal our identity
and no one would ever think
that a race that had fallen so low
could be the people of the Old Testament.
And when Nipsey took off the grayish-black leather suit,
on the back corners of his and Khaled’s pockets
were sewn, in a dream by God or Moses I was shown,
not blue, but green tassels
behind the back, on the far sides of cash pocket corners,
hidden,
on the black leather jacket in blackface
that he can put on and take off, and his Ten Commandments
all say obey mammon,
Numbers 15:38-39,
as he says a fake prayer in “Higher,”
pretending,
like his doppelgänger Nipsey,
who throws up the 666 sign
when he says it was “God’s grace.”
Then he used the gospel sound
from the zombie playing the piano
whom he killed
to affect a faux church service
so the spiritually dead corpses could twitch
to Khaled’s black minstrel show.
Church music is now a commodity,
and it’s no longer blasphemous to mix
it with worldly music
because you died also
when rap killed spiritual music
and you forgot about Moses Hogan
and Franklin Delano Williams.
And you put weave cornrows in your hair
like Megan Thee broken Stallion
and married “Notorious Thugs”
who shoot you in the feet,
psychopaths who won’t protect you, mercenaries
who work for fake white Jews,
sent out to kill music that reminds you
that we are God’s people.
But the devil is clever:
he put the zombies out for you
to sing gospel without the soul,
sold out to secular music,
John Legend,
Aretha Franklin,
Whitney Houston,
so corpses would continue to twitch
to a vaguely familiar sound
now tangled with secular music
dead water
without Holy Spirit infusion.