MY Heart is a Boombox
You hear that Bass Love?
Bumpin’ and Jumpin’
out my speakerboxx
to its favorite tune…
You.
My heart is the instrument
and you are its power chord,
drumming a Beat
with every breathe.
I LOVE YOU blast across
my lungs airwaves.
This aint just a love song
it’s OUR song
Won’t you sing-along?
-Righteous Teacher
(The inspiration from this poem comes from Langston Hughes from his piece entitled: Juke Box Love Song. He is one of my favorite writers and greatest influence.)
Here at wordsbyjcharmz we asked the people to respond to one question:
I personally grew up on Hip-Hop and R&B from my listening to my parents jam on the with their stereo blasting, but Hip-Hop hit me hard on my own in the mid-late 90’s. For me it was artists like Biggie Smalls (Juicy) , LL Cool J (I Can’t Live Without My Radio), The Lost Boyz (Renee) and Tupac (Keep Ya Head Up) that took me into its grasps forever…I even asked guest columnist B.P even responded via twitter to answer when did he Fall in Love with Hip-Hop...
The post did generate some buzz with some favorites, RT’s and replies from people across the world into Hip-Hop. We even got some mildly sarcastic suggestions like Soulja Boy. The rest of our readers have spoken given us various artists across different generations of Hip-Hop that we all can relate to. Lets take a look….
https://twitter.com/JoeyTurnpike/status/351124451678617600
https://twitter.com/Slapadelic/status/351481170380333056
https://twitter.com/blkdangerfield/status/351426856173580289
https://twitter.com/blkdangerfield/status/351426957373747200
For most of us Hip-Hop has always been apart of us. There will always be a song, an artist (old or new) that will remind us why we love the genre so much. It is who we are. It is a culture, it is apart of us. For me it is easy to say, “to hip hop. I loved you, I still do…and I always will” (Brown Sugar).
-Righteous Teacher
Deffered Potential 