Madonna may have capitalized on "voguing," but she didn't create it.
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Watch us get down to this groove
With the Afro-funk feel
While we get high to a rhythm with spiritual appeal
Expressions of freedom from the descendents of slaves
GOD gives us the strength for new horizons we must brave
First bondage, then mental, now financially oppressed
With this beat we dance we know we pass the test
So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet
Ask yourself
Can you dance to my beat?
The Rhythm…the rhythm…the rhythm- is -our –power
The freedom we feel in our soul
We dance to learn those lessons as our story continues to unfold
Our beat our words our melodies are gifts from the givers of those gifts
We’re merely the terminals through which they have passed
So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet
ask yourself
Can you REALLY dance to my beat?
As we dance to a beat that seems out of time
to the one you feel in the metronome of your mind
Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange?
Or causes your thinking to be re-arranged?
Could it be that you would understand this beat to which we dance
more clearly had you been given a chance.
So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet.
Ask yourself….
Can you really, really, dance to my beat?
See my grainy interview below with the founder of the House of Mizrahi, Andre Mizrahi, in Atlanta after the 2006 Clik Magazine Elite 25 awards.
Dedicated to the legendary Willie Ninja.
Thank you.
Joe
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