Nah Guh In

A song performed by Skeng in Brooklyn

Donauta Watson 

Morning broad back views flipped upside down hit different at day break. See, the night still young and sun ever a shine

Me know is 90tz even before me see Skeng a dap up Rowdy Rebel the speckle inna 90tz road asphalt shine too bright, concrete crack dem inna 90tz sidewalk too distinct

look like is ninety fifth this. See the man dem deh, outside, nah guh in. Dem a watch the way yuh walk, talk, a perform the thing

What give it way is the sparseness of the leaves on the trees

dem always look force ripe, no? No such thing as a tree line block in nah the 90tz yet

and still shade ever deh bout; yah suh hiding is only done in plain sight

Gweh, a really the unseen lives in the rows of red brick houses

3 windows pon top, 4 windows down below whole heap of front porch with colorful awnings that give it way, a set a combined houses weh a peculiar people call home

intertwined chords wrapped round in between spaces, driveways tun back yards, tun dancehalls dividing one dwelling from the next

Summer in the 90tz hot, floods of flashing blues and reds, smoke, food & merriment  bad mind music a beat the place,  feet a move in nah the good good shoes

some will see and think a party when is art and life tek center stage

Is it true seh business ever a gawhn?

Well if a suh, a something me a try, a something me wah see, if me nuh get this right, the young girls dem a guh think, a guh think, is only man and badness get yuh through and pass the 90tz, that is if yuh a try get through and pass the 90tz. Cause man and badness can only get yuh through and pass those things that require nuff force enuh. Everybody who know anything at all, know seh, for those of us who born lucky we nuh need nuh pass. All from a distance we know seh every ghetto youth is a star