Internationally known Spoken Word Performance Poet Kamal breaks down real life with real talk for today's young people.<br /><br />Lyrics/Poem (edited edition)<br /><br />Blast Off Youth Message by Kamal Imani<br /><br />You blasted off from the infatuation<br />To be the first to reach the ovum<br />miraculous conception<br />you are now here for a purpose and a cause<br />the world is in your hands bredren<br />it's yours<br />you are a spiritual being<br />descendent of the most high supreme<br />so step up<br />take your place on the world scene<br />blast off<br /><br />Now sister, don't let him blast off in ya<br />unless he got a ring on your finger<br />education<br />a degree or certification<br />or else you gonna end up in a tight situation<br />blast off<br /><br />now brother don't blast of and step off<br />be a man with yours<br />don't leave your shorty and your seeds alone to fight these wars<br />blast off<br />I see some of yall need clarification<br />the real blast off is the jump off and that's education<br /><br />cause yo, cats gonna bling, blaze, bang and do they thang<br /><br />but you gotta innerstand understand and overstand the unseen hand<br /><br />Cause there's a war going on outside no man is safe from<br /><br />to get you out of school into the prison industrial system<br />to make you just a number in the beast computer arteries<br />or just a tombstone in the cemetary<br /><br />either way the system gets paid you just a matrix battery<br /><br />so don't let them stop you<br />and get out your own way<br /><br />you keeping real?<br /><br />Keepin it real is good credit and straight A's<br />and the world will bow to you and write you a blank check<br /><br />You'll be too big for pimpin rides and mtv cribs<br />you'll be rulin the world like Nas and Lauren Hill talked about<br />and you'll be like yo "that cat kamal was the truth no doubt<br /><br />Blast off.<br /><br />Focus on a goal take control and role<br />let the whole cipher know that you got soul<br />like the atom in the womb of the universe that grew into the sun<br />be determined and rise like helium<br /><br />blast off!<br />Purchase on Bandcamp for only $.99 cent!<br />kamalimani.bandcamp.com/track/blast-off-youth-message <br />From the spoken word album "The Mic Is Calling Me" cdbaby.com/cd/kamalimani
