Lady Brion – Starbucks is Coming for Me

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Lady Brion, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX

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My neighborhood isn't safe Anymore things are changing There are intruders invading these Borders i see them Setting up shop on every corner cafes Trying to corner the market Slicing up bread and dishing dough Delivering the morning fix like we Wouldn't notice well I'm putting on notice starbucks Is coming for us and the macchiatos Make me sick baristas Blow me coffee beans grinds my gears Cause i hear Starbucks is working for the man and Lattes are a part of the redevelopment Plan Cinnamon in the air daring me to swallow White lines dividing tar colored Communities today hollow Yesterday i smell cappuccinos in the air So Business suits are soon to follow men Writing in loose leaf drinking loosely Tea trying to erase me No love for the cocoa unless it comes From a third world country where they Got it for the lolo Organic chai in place of impoverished Eyes the wi-fi Is free a small fee while they gentrify Your community Trading in your mug shots for mug shots But

Who could be mad at pumpkin spice the Hood is at its boiling point and they Just want to put Us on ice the type that will milk a Mocha city white and sugar coat the Stripe Steam roll in the streets while steamed Milk foams on heat and espresso Soon you'll be black surrounded by white Domino or get delivered to a new postal Zone like dominoes They've come to cut off the competition And d cast the legs you standing on the Shorty in the logo Looks like white supremacy whipped cream On a brown brew is their idea of Diversity which is to say Whites will always come out on top and People of color forever At the bottom heated tell me why Our communities always dark dismal and Depleted yo for real them cups of joe and them five Dollar paninis with their tomato Mozzarella and pesto see there Is leverage there is Leverage in the beverages so beware of The caffeine because you see a starbucks Pop Up and you know the developers are [Applause] Coming You

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