Portrait with midrash of israels favorite rapper by Kevin Coval Lyrics

If I see a cop chasing someone down the street, odds are,
you will see me running along to help out the cop.
subliminal, israeli minstrel

hat cocked in mimic. baggy jeans
some israeli team jersey two sizes too big
a costume after a Fu-Schnickens video.
a giant diamond-crusted star of david
hung on his neck everywhere he goes.

what privilege to parade
what was once hidden and stuffed
once branded on an armband
what a grotesque triumph
to emboss on one's neck.
how perfect-everything
stolen.

diamonds from south africa.
the adorned star perverted
by an imperialist state. the swastika
got corrupted at the ethnic cleaners
the star is no different.

his latest album is called jew-niversal
c+c music factory meets a minstrel show
meets a zionist separatist rally. he starts
his concerts with a call to the audience
who's proud to be a zionist in the state of israel
put your hands in the air      hell, yeah

he is trying to make zionism chic.
literally paid by the government, a snitch
a just-say-no-to-drugs nancy reagan rapper
who is critical of young people resisting
military service. he takes a culture
that originated in a war zone
a nonviolent public performance
strategy, a future-world maker
& African Diaspora maintainer & elevator
and uses it to promote colonialism.
how perfect! this fact, wack nebbish
co-opts Black music to big-
up the zionist landlord.
how typical! historical
how unimaginative and jew-venile, ha!
how perfect! israel's favorite
rapper is a wack fraud
another jew in Blackface
a bastard(ization) of history
a tragic joke
how ashamed the elders must be