Sitting around my apartment on 127th st... my wife was out of town... i had a pile of drugs and nowhere to be... we were around the corner from the apollo theater... and i was doing a lot of late night walking... babbling to bodega workers and unbelievably not getting killed.
My good friends lex and joey had come over to install ceiling fans as i was finishing the song, so... what else to rhyme with malcom x, but lex? you can′t take a subway to arthur ave in the bronx, but the bus ride's worth it for the mexican guys selling raw cherry stones on the half shell in front of the fish markets... a friend laughed and said this is my redemption song... he was probably high.
Three in the morning
Think I′ll walk down to Marcus Garvey and get some air
Shake off the warning
A couple of ghosts we could rustle and wake 'round here