One of my Poems/rap on Indigenous Issues

Dirty water
Hook:
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Poisoning how we think.
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Gotta be careful what ya drink.

Verse 1:
Uh, Seems like we always in a state of emergency,
In a land of democracy,
Things don’t seem free to me.
It’s like trying to wash our hands in dirty water, g.
Everything has a cost, so tell who going to pay the fee?
It certainly not going to be the dominant society.
For the system was build by and for white people to have superiority.
That demonizes anyone that doesn’t conform to their authority.
Spreading a sense of inferiority over natives and minorities.
And I’m not just talking historically, because these issues persist presently.
Change can’t happen unless one is willing to suck the teet of the majority.
For we live in world that separates based off of hierarchy.
That strips down and overgeneralizes our identities.
Then when one overcomes these disparities they are seen as the unordinary.
The exception to the rule,
Like Wtf is that supposed to mean?
Think I’m about to lose my sanity, dealing with an uneducated narrow minded humanity.
In a state bombarded with atrocity after atrocity,
Yet people have the audacity to tell us to get over it instantly.
Living in a democracy that doesn’t have time to listen to me,
Living in a world where history repeats,
Perhaps I guess we just can’t get enough of insanity.
It just doesn’t make sense to me?
I thought we were supposed to be evolved,
Yet be so devolved mentally.
Like how can indigenous people asking for clean water cause so much controversy?
For if your province or city didn’t have access to clean water, wouldn’t you worry?
Wouldn’t you start protesting firmly?
All I ask is that yawl start checking your privilege homie.

Hook:
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Poisoning how we think.
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Gotta be careful what ya drink.

Verse 2:
Water is the foundation to survival,
Water can also be a philosophical symbol,
For we all thirst for something,
It’s like we are cursed or something.
Being immersed into desensitization,
Becoming numb to everything.
Needing to wash away what is obstructing.
Blocking the path towards transformation.
As established norms perpetuates discrimination.
Whilst also justifying racism and condemnation.
I didn’t choose to born,
But yet that some how qualifies me for damnation.
Because my skin colour is seen as being sinful, that needs to be put through sanitation.
Becoming guilty on the basis of association.
Which makes it harder to find the equation.
As everyone has different values, beliefs and expectations for how to fix this situation.
Dirty water sure is a contamination,
Thats been leaking out since creation.
That has divided not just people but also nations.
If only people could be mature when having these debates and conversations.
Instead of suffocating on our offence,
Or wallowing within a sense of victimization.
Damn, this dirty water sure has damaged how we function.

Hook:
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Poisoning how we think.
Dirty water all through these streets,
Dirty water poisoning what we eat,
Dirty water flooding the mind,
Gotta be careful what ya drink.

Thank you for sharing your art. I appreciate how you expressed this topic with this genre, very insightful.

Nice job Josh! Love how you used music and in particular rap to create poetry highlighting a variety of issues surronding Indigenous communities. (Unclean drinking water, colonial racism, lack of food etc.)