I really enjoyed this Anthology not Just because they respect my work:) and pains and joys.But because it gives Woman like me and other Artist more of a voice!! and levels the playin feild for us to make a few chips on our craft and not have to do it all just ''for the love''.

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   Ella Baker, who was involved in both civil and women's rights ... He encouraged the importance of education to the hip hop generation. ... My name is Carolyn Baxter a writer who just completed here second book platinum Dreams Lead reality her second book.on Harlem Dawn Press, a fine collection of short stories,some material which was smuggled out of Prison. The Press ...
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This CD is a poetry jam in space — created across and despite razor wire, prison bars and censored phone lines. It is a gathering of poets to celebrate the work of sister poet Marilyn Buck, who has spent more than 20 years in US prisons for her anti-imperialist politics and actions.
In the eyes of the government, Marilyn is an enemy of the state, despised for her role in freeing Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, hated for her willingness to risk her life and freedom for a world imaginable only to a revolutionary—or a poet.
Yet for the poets who rushed to lend their voices and their words to this collection, Marilyn is someone very different – a woman who lives for transformation. Through her political activism and writing, she creates the possibility of a world of social justice and peace. Through her approach to prison, she transforms the repression and censorship of imprisonment and, in the process, has become a poet.

The poetsThe poet contributors read Marilyn's poems and their own. They include Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Baxter/Nottiehead Bosco, Dennis Brutus, Aya De Leon, Fanny Howe, Uchechi Kalu, Elana Levy, Genny Lim, Deborah Major, Sara Menefee, Kiilu Nyasha, Maria Poblet, Presente!, Carlos Quiles, Samsara, Sonia Sanchez, Staajabu, Jean Stewart, Piri Thomas, Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, and Mitsuye Yamada.
The musiciansFraming the poetry is music contributed by India Cooke, Eugenio Maldonado “El Viejo Mago," Fred Ho & the Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet, Copper Wimmin, Idris Ackamoor, and the musicians and activists of Shame the Devil.

Political prisonersMarilyn is one of more than 100 political prisoners in this country. As you listen to her poems and those of the other extraordinary poets here, let the ideals, the vision, the sacrifice of those political prisoners reverbate in your ears and your heart.
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Empty Barrels (PT.1) Rap Song

They say an empty barrel makes the most noise

But that’s when you playin with Childs toys

Wit 8 in the clip an
1 in the chamber

Body-parts is what’s left
no denomination
Jus the remainder.

don’t have to be bad
jus a good aimer.

An I spit on it first
So when you get hit
You know I’m the one who gave you that lead kiss..

I don’t care what you say ,,I have to survive,,,
If you don’t believe me then call it a lie.

But watch ya back
an look in in my eye’s
No lie’s
No disguise
Cause when I was Born GOD covered his eye’s.


I was born an enemy of the state on a dead dark day
I reached for my mama
an she pulled away

The hood dysfunctional
An displaced I learned to
destroy whoever got in my way…

Then the system created an enemy state
An everyone that looked like me
got locked away..

Now it looks like I’m a bad
without a solution

with Holocaustic numbers
Of my people dying in institutions.

The most talented people they say are dead or in Jail
Guess thas what they said to Jesus before they slammed him
with nails..

Instead of play ground's
Prison's
where children of color
become men in women
…a misdemeanor becomes a felony Conviction.

Poor people were programmed to Fail
All we needed was white powder an a Digital Scale.

Next thing you know its 10 to 15 for a Drug sale!

They say we were a Detriment
then they created Syphilis
An used us as experiments..

Some say it’s fate
Some say Hate..
but shot 42 times I call a police state.

I wanted my kids to have better than I did
Kinda hard after a 10 year bid

You loose your so called rights
That this youth never found

The Revaluation wasn’t televised ..
it was a merry go round..

Now the youth walk with heads down
Staring at the ground
History lost
Identity never found
cause babies putting babies
in the cold ground.

Now nothing inspires them is a U.S. World
that’s the outcome of a hood boy an girl.

Thas how they livin in an out they home

Cause every time you duck down they killin they own…

Rap Words and the People who Follow them

Most people that re concerned with ''Rap''Lyrics . Do not Create them for the most part

and hold Rap accountable for being their Kid's perverted X Rated, Cussing Baby sitter.Heaping a Great Responsibility,and the task of Raising their kid's to a large extent on Rap, and the ''Culture of Hip Hop.

Most people who are even a teenie bit Socially and Politically aware, know The American System was not Created for Black People, and least concerned with Black Art. No not the Great African Art in the Museum thousand of Year's old..I mean ''Urban'' Art, in all it's Variations. Racism, Covert, overt and all the other Bitter Flavas, are at an all time High. It's ''So''Comfortable that when It slips,slides and Slithers out of the Mouth of the user...Their Ultimately Shocked!

The ‘’Amerikkkan Way is The Dollar Way. And To Try and Brainwash Distract and Dominate any race of people, it Can for Personal Gain. Since People of Color Black and Hispanic People who ‘’are Citizens’’ in Particular in the Rap game have become Successful, Money is ’’Power’’ They have become a Huge Threat to the status Quo, The Economy.

And the Influence on the Caucasian Kids in a ‘’Undesirable way‘’. So Combining those two elements Rap is to be Dismantled via it’s’’ poetic License.’’ As it’s ’’Legit’’ no other way to attack it. First of all the People who so called want to Curb Rap of it’s ‘’Cuss’’ words don’t Listen to it nor do they create it. Before It ‘’Popular’’ follower stance that is Writers have had Poetic License since the beginning of Time.

It reminds me of the same a similar story of the Drug Game. As long as The Ghettos had it and it was black and brown kids dieing in the street and being thrown in Prison, It was ‘’Ok’’ but when Politicians kid’s and white kids started Puking from Heroin,OD’ing and robbing their Homes for a Hit of Crack. there was ‘’a Drug Problem’’. Caucasians have Created the most Hateful Horrific atrocity’s towards people of Color and fashioned names that have Put a tag of Inferiority on Black Generations since they were brought here as Slaves.And Now there concerned with ‘’Cuss’’ words? A Distraction and a joke. Black Folks must remain True to their ‘’Self’’ expression. As well as ’’Our Identity. That is all we have that is truly ‘’our own’’. We don’t have time to worry about what ‘’others think’’ because the ‘’Others ‘’are not the ones that help us ‘’Get ahead’’ we help ourselves. It’s not Just a Color piece either.

The Russell Simmons’’ Types’’ are paid Businessmen. Capitalists, with their eyes on Politics As well,… most of them.When you see them on the street Like Mr. .Simmons they cower and hold their hand over their face, Like I was going to go running and screaming at him like a Teen smitten with a Rock Group. I looked him in the eye as I passed him on Lafayette St . in Greenwich Village, Like Man you don’t put food on my table you aint nothing to me.

And One must realize that ‘’Gangsta’’Rap is a Billion Dollar Bizz and The ‘’Keepers of the Youth’’ who ever that are.. or think they are. Should ask themselves a question Would you rather your kid hear about the street or go live in the street, or find out by going to Prison.?

If I had someone street Savvy to Pull my coat It would have made a Hell of a Difference and Possibly save me a 6 year sent. In Prison. And Kids are going to hear Cuss words in the Home, In School, at a Basketball game, when in the Car with Grandma, and someone get’s’’ Road rage.’’ Who knows… But the distraction of the way a writer sees the world and expresses it won’t make a difference. Be side’s when it comes to Rap Caucasians’’ Copy’’ us the clothes, the talk(and badly I might add) the Life style. It’s a take thing not a give thing when It comes to the Craft. When slim Shady Rapped he had skills lived the genre and Loved it. And ’’Copied no one’’ Like 2Poc Shakur said He (Poc)Just ’’Diagnosed’’ what he saw.

So when The street is less Violent, cop’s stop killing Black folks, Racism has taken a dirt nap, The same Money maker’s who tried to stop rap in It’s infancy stops making a HUGE Profit from Billion’s they sunk in Product’s that support Hip-Hop Culture, Racism is Gone, and Drug’s are not being sold at the school’s …..Then I’ll stop Cussing.

Carolyn Baxter is an author/Natl. Endowment of the Arts Recipient her books are used in Colleges to teach Various subjects, she performs at HS./University’s Her new Book Platinum Dreams Lead reality at Amazon.com is non Fiction Short stories, and poetry of street Hustlers,playas and Rappers that lost their live's in the street game.