so once I was getting scowled by a white
woman who asked do you know what kind of
turmoil our country is going through
right now for you to even say that after
I said the phrase blow some shit up
and I promise y’all I even mean it like
that I was just getting hyped up by my
home girl who said damn girl you hide
and I said girl stop it don’t hike me up
like that if she was like girl and I
said girl stop before I blow some shit
up but you know her and her privilege
don’t allow me to that space to explain
myself my skin does not give me
permission to speak malinka on the metro
transit 18 downtown a cramped seat
between a window and a man who would be
quick to react keeps my voice low and
English proper as possible my home ain’t
really my home my money counterfeit or
everyone else’s tax dollars I ain’t got
no permission to be here my religion
does not give me permission to wear a
bottie abaya niqab even if I wanted to
and folks think it’s a costume like it’s
that easy like not everything I wear
holes wait man once I was at school with
the headscarf for the first time and
suddenly I’m in the behavior office
suddenly there’s caution tape at the
door
then a teacher apologizing sending a
mass email to all my other teachers that
I am in fact Muslim like they just
realized the nigga was Muslim as if I
wasn’t the same person last quarter you
know last quarter I was just black last
quarter I was just loud now I’m that
ghetto girl with bullets heat voice like
glass stomach made of metal I can’t be
allowed to yell my religion makes my
breath smell too much like gunpowder
can’t be quick to anger for the ground
will give in then send buildings
crashing down by people still got the
audacity to be like Muslims don’t come
in black like I’m not allowed to be both
it ain’t something you understand can’t
speak slang and no the Quran too can’t
get my nails done and still pray to my
god like I can’t rap Nicki Minaj is
itty-bitty piggy all be melon
and I was on the plane with the way you
can call me Whitney I’ll go to hell man
listen on the baddest in the school
baddest in the game like I can’t spit a
16 and think I belong here right
but isn’t I don’t fuck with pigs like uh
Salam alaykoum
for niggas like me in the first place
didn’t Nicky write that line just for me
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