{"id":541,"date":"2019-04-16T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=541"},"modified":"2019-04-09T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:33:38","slug":"change-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/16\/change-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government is pimpin&#8217; the\u00a0 Blaqman, Illuminati runs the world, so fuk pimpin&#8217; my pen. I&#8217;d rather help my community, Lil&#8217; Chico looks up to me. Disappointed with myself of how I abandoned the streets&#8230; Blinded by greed returned me back to slavery; it&#8217;s more than a G-thang. It&#8217;s bigger than you &amp; me. We need our cribs in our names; boss up our economical game, I hated to slang crack cocaine. I witnessed Momdukes lose everythang; plus I never gang-banged&#8230; What if I made 1 person smile today? I&#8217;ll set the trend here; because I&#8217;m told FAITH is contagious. It takes more muscles to frown, so I&#8217;ll smile away. I can&#8217;t predict tomorrow but I can save today. Give us back our country; not Amerika but the one you stole from me. Wanna kno&#8217; what I hate more than cops? A thief&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve studied the history and FREEDOM is owed to me. I just keep it BLAQ like we&#8217;s supposed to be&#8230; Shot outs to Lupe, Wale\u00a0 and Nasir Jones. Larry Hoover, Tookie Williams and James Brown. B.O.B., Big K.R.I.T. and Killer Mike. Kaepernick, Stacey Abrams, Condoleezza Rice. King Coe; and I&#8217;m prepping Amerika for her future. Our brothers are on the way and they gone be remembered like Malcolm and Luther&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why expose brains when I can expose truths! The proof is right between the pages of this book, young dude. I can&#8217;t believe I said no to school, rebelled and broke the rules. Smoked weed, cut class or even fought in school. But it&#8217;s what I was taught to do&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please become someone, become MORE than the average dude. Don&#8217;t get blinded by REALITY T.V. like most people do, and DYING is not worth putting our mom&#8217;s thru. And killing ain&#8217;t really worth living our lives like fools&#8230;\u00a0By O.G. King Coe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is pimpin&#8217; the\u00a0 Blaqman, Illuminati runs the world, so fuk pimpin&#8217; my pen. I&#8217;d rather help my community, Lil&#8217; Chico looks up to me. Disappointed with myself of how I abandoned the streets&#8230; Blinded by greed returned me back to slavery; it&#8217;s more than a G-thang. It&#8217;s bigger than you &amp; me. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/16\/change-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3,11,16],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gangs","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-poetry","category-social-commentary","tag-willie-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}