Tenth of ten poems written by the late and great Nigerian Poet Ikeogu Oke

Oke, Ikeogu

English

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  Go Tell It on the Mountain Ikeogu Oke  Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Special Issue If I Ruled the World:  Putting Hip Hop on the Atlas Volume 6, Issue 2, Winter 2019, pp. 242 – 243 DOI: https://doi.org/10.34718/75r5-3n88  1Oke: Go Tell It on the MountainPublished by VCU Scholars Compass, 2019   242 Journal of Hip Hop Studies The Tupac Shakur Memorial Poems/Songs   Ikeogu Oke A Sequence  No. 10: Go Tell It on the Mountain  (For Rap Music, to the Memory of Tupac Shakur)  I wasn’t gone forever; I wasn’t gone for good; Your dude had always known He’d always be with you.  Chorus: Go tell in on the mountain;            To be sung,   Come sing it in the streets;            the other     Go shout it down the valley,            stanzas rapped   That Tupac lives!  I’m back, I’m back, I’m back; I’m back to be with you; And though I leave again, I’ll ever stick around.  Repeat chorus.  Those that killed my body Had set my spirit free To ever seek to be With those I love like you.  Repeat chorus.  And so it’ll always be Between my fate and yours: United they will be In good times and in bad.  Repeat chorus.  And let your faith be strong,  2Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Vol. 6 [2019], Iss. 2, Art. 21https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jhhs/vol6/iss2/21    243 Journal of Hip Hop Studies Though you live in fear; And never cease to strive For better days ahead.  Repeat chorus.  Our suns shall rise together Towards that future time When they’ll cease to set  But ever shine and shine  Repeat chorus.  And so our moons will glow And light our every night And with their gentle beams Caress our dreams with hope.  Repeat chorus.  Now you may raise your hands And make the sign of love Towards their hearts that make us The target of their hate.  Repeat chorus.  And those who fear and tremble That you and I may rise, And therefore use their power To keep us low or down.  Repeat chorus.  March 1, 2018  3Oke: Go Tell It on the MountainPublished by VCU Scholars Compass, 2019

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