country twang meets harlem swing—an old town road to the world we begin…marinating and meditating—fornicating and innovating…enjoying the beat driving hard and synched—summoning the will to nurture and the will to resist…this poem is an ode to the dynamo known as lil NasX—he spits rhymes that inspire us to flip our wrists and raise our fists…he is a vessel for the fusion of genres beginning to coexist—he is a super-fly black queer arising like a phoenix in our midst…its time for a holiday: its time for a celebration—its time to probe the undercurrents in our polarized nation…the matrix of pop culture gives birth to new creations—this country hip hop fusion cultivates an antidote to white supremacy that writhes in gestation
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2020
