Rich man blues by poet Marvin X

Marvin X attended a conference on Islam at Duke University. Some say Islam ain't the blues. Some say Muslims shouldn't recite poetry, but Marvin X says ain't Al Qur'an poetry, unless you are deaf, dumb and blind?

Africans came as slaves into the American slave system from Mali and Senegal playing and singing Blues, but you have never heard of  Ali Farka of Mali who performed with BB King and the Rolling Stones. Ali Farka said, "My people have been playing music you call Blues ten thousand years." He knew it as the sacred music of his people. Okay, Muslims from Mali arrived as slaves in the Mississippi Delta and their music became known as Blues. Other Muslims arrived from Senegal with their version of what we know as Blues. They also brought rice into the Americas, specifically into Gullahland, South Carolina. The lyrics of the Blues may have changed but the sound, cries, shouts and wails remain true to the aboriginal sounds of the adhan created by Bilal, the first muezzin or caller to prayer. His voice was so beautiful and his devotion to Allah so adamant that the Prophet Muhammad said, "In Paradise I heard the footsteps of Bilal ahead of mine!" Bilal was tortured for his belief in the One God Allah, yet he called out Allah even as he was tortured, "Al Ahad, Al Ahad, Al Ahad,  The One, The One, The One!"

Art by Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas

Rich man blues

Rich man told me
don't no bitch love you
bitch love what you got nigga
don't no bitch love you
romance dat bitch all over da world
don't mean a thing
bitch love what ya did
but she love dat diamond ring

think you got her heart and soul
a goddamn lie
think you got her heart and soul
a goddamn lie
when you in your coffin
see if baby cry

rich man told me
don't no bitch love you
bitch love what you got nigga
that's a love dat's true



You ain't got nothin' nigga
how a bitch go love you
can't pay yo pussy bill nigga
think baby is true

baby lookin fa a long big black dick
stretch that pussy and asshole wide
She lookin fa a long big black dick
stretch that pussy and asshole wide
she want a nigga satisfy her pussy and
asshole walls side to side.

Take her to the Dollar Store
buy $20.00 of everything
she come out happy
like she got diamond ring

Rich man told me
don't no bitch love you
bitch love what ya got nigga
that's a love dat's true!
--Marvin X
4/1/2020