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Disobedience Academy

from Stable Fables by Khemmeta

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You should know that at our school, we're all about that equity!

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"That ain't even how you hold a picket sign!"
normies, on their couches, end days, acting like, "this is fine"
a couple freeways get delayed, haters invoking King?!
it's like y'all never got what marches were supposed to mean

it's like y'all thought these executions righteous sentences
it's like you wanna be the villains in the mission
with activists defending your rights as complacent citizens
first amendment nixed and comrades are getting renditioned

where you at? fixated on looters?
in a nationwide fucking depression, you wanna do this?
you DISGUST me, too BOUJEE to IMAGINE being STUCK
without a BUCK to give the RULERS that'll NEVER give a FUCK

if your luck, ran out, with shelter-in-place orders
and the unemployment funds barely buffed, are cut shorter
you’re gonna take a deal when you can get it, admit it
your landlord ain’t gon give out extensions for being timid

y'all out here with croc tears for Wendy's
snitching on state violence survivors over some kindling
aggressively assisting the grinder to turn its gears
some of y'all woulda gave away Tubman to overseers

like, "She's over here, boss! Can't you hear her singing?!"
with allies like y'all, thoughts of victory are fleeting
i still got hope, although pessimism's tempting
the threats are unforgiving, it's messy but we're winning.


at our school, we all about that equity
if you ain't talking that? then you ain't saying shit to me
stop repeating conventions and let the vision breathe
the People are leading this whole assembly

on our campus, the only focus getting free
you ain't talking that, then you ain't saying shit to me
climb up the shoulders of giants where Icarus could be and
shout the revolution til devils gotta jump ship and flee.


Harriet tatted on me screaming, "Must free others!"
with a stick, not a carrot, deserters can see the Otherside
early but there’s no going back, no second guesses
after starting up the quest there’s no crawling back or resetting

me? i’m 40 hours a week, for corporate overlords
back in '011 i swore, that we were gonna soar
shook, when my Occupy comrades readied for war with
a feral infestation of swine, a hoard of boar

now it’s, socially distant disobedience academy
freshman dropout but i act like i'm a campus dean
i'm no Fred Hampton i'm not out on these embattled streets
i ain't seen the front of a protest since Kaep still had a team

i'm giving backseat directions like issa taxi
mad at folks defending storefronts, probably their auntie’s
i just want the General Sherman tactics advancing
we could scorch a dozen earths over, and still be lacking

in justice as such, retribution, whose solution is
talking the matter through with folks clueless that they're abusive?
the billionaire looters keep choosing to keep their lootings and
if we can't take their heads let's cremate their institutions

this second great depression is the perfect time to do this
if my paycheck falters someone's paying for my roof and
these fascists ain't gon starve me in silence just wait and see
clocked in at '83 no plans to clock out gracefully
it's like that!


at our school, we all about that equity
if you ain't talking that? then you ain't saying shit to me
stop repeating conventions and let the vision breathe
the People are leading this whole assembly

on our campus, the only focus getting free
you ain't talking that, then you ain't saying shit to me
climb up the shoulders of giants where Icarus could be and
shout the revolution til devils gotta jump ship and flee.

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from Stable Fables, released August 7, 2020

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Khemmeta San Francisco, California

Khemmeta's music strives to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, or are shouted down when they do. His upcoming EP "When I Get To It" produced by Stephonathan (1/3 of both Pride City Purpose & Chedda Guap Boyz) is silly, nerdy, romantic, anti-nihilistic and defiant. He can't wait for you to get to it this [December]. ... more

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