Queen Helene Finesse

In the tradition of my favorite street poets, when laying down my cultural history, I wrote what I saw and lived on the block, with little embellishment needed. I grew up in the South Bronx and spent my teen years on Fordham Road. It was a colorful if impoverished existence. The words "layaway" and "hand me downs" made up a vital part of my upbringing. I always made it look good.
Back then, walking the block was like the illest catwalk you could flex on. You had to bring style and attitude to survive.

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written August 14, 2016 at 9:12 am

If ya collar was dry you wasn't poppin in the 90s
Fellas had it popped hood rats had it soakin
Finesse with the Queen Helene plus the Aqua Net (maybe barrettes)
If you a true hood bitch
90s Bronx bitch
You still got your scrunchies in
Herbin scrub kids
Wiping mad water off your neck right now
You was rushin on CPT
but still look fly straight out the shower
This is my love letter to my Latinas
The real ones
Not the fake ones on the cover of Latina

Stop airbrushing us
Whitewashing us
You want a poppin magazine cover?
Show a Dominican mother in her rolos b,
friendo platano b)
Boricua mamita with her pedicure gold anklet b
She spending dollars biweekly
At the chinos nail salon Tweety on the acrylic nail fly Bronx shit b
All up and down Fordham
Yo Whaddup pa mami!
Niggaz lied said they ran trains on me
Your bitch scandalous calling me
I'm like Bitch please
Come to my door at 2265 like I'm Denise
did you fuck was it good please tell me
Get some fuckin self respect
(95 I was 15)
It was a low point for me
I had no guidance basic bitch with daddy issues
til i graduated checked myself
went on a supa dupa ego trip on my way back airline lost it
It's all good now I'm bare bones
Jade Shakur she my Spirit
All as one united like flames
And best believe I'm never going back to Sedgwick again...

J.S