Nelson Madela: A Biography

[P. Mortuus]

November 1962
Through discourse & rebellion, you have bought malign
Ideals into the black community; unneeded pretence
Will only serve as a just reason for you to form & design
Another rebellion, I convict you & give a life sentence

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

Robben Island Prison
There sits Mr.46664; basking upon dried nettles
And moving to the music of tortured screams
He opens his eyes but to only see darkness
And wakes only to reminisce fondly of his dreams
Sweat beads hydrate his soul whilst waves crash
Against the seas; surrounding the fortress abode
He counts bodies of his allies to bring forth slumber
Waking every morning to watch the night as code
Of the island’s law; He is labelled as another number
The Officers whip drums to alert the already dumb
But he lays, lays upon embers beaten and numb

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

April 1984
How about an emission of your sentence Nelson
Recognise Transkei and settle there away from here
Your time at Robben you must’ve taught you a lesson
What say? Leave your views; is your wife to you not dear?

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

Pollsmoor Prison
He sits in a better environment but one embroiled
In inner violence, turfs segregated an internal apartheid
Spreading solace towards belligerent beings that beat
To the rhythm of invisible octaves & wash in the heat
Of the white sun gracing the white communities around
Cape Town; he watches the rain & droplets ground bound
Leather harnesses harness the black horses contained
In stabled cells; once known as men whom were detained
Officers rejoice and mock visitors point at the animals
There he sits alone, amidst the crowd of these cannibals

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

December 1988
I have nothing to say as you have nothing to say
You are irremovable & dream something impossible
Though never threat i can promise hell from this day
Live to remember the offer & what could’ve been possible

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

Victor Verster Prison
Rustling leaves wither up his weathered soles
Abolished & banned, panned by social stooges
He toils at nights to lay awake & recite his goals
In the morn he bandages his hands, blood oozes
Tomorrow brings another tomorrow, writing away
Misbegotten to this sinful world, untainted he wakes
Sway the government violence was the last card in play
Now he sits recounting his deeds & revising mistakes
For he sees a light which shines true and bright
Maybe a better tomorrow will be born to this night

“Tomorrow will be better,
I wish for the better day”

Tomorrow’s Facts

• Mandela has honorary degrees
  From more than 50 international
  Universities.

• He was inaugurated as the first
  democratically elected State President of
  South Africa on 10.

[P. Mortuus]

http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310252
http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=309533

[Josey™]

This was a pretty good and well put together piece, man. I liked how you just chose to portray life experiences of Nelson Mandela, even though you spelled Mandela wrong in the title, but all in all the concept idea just reminded me of a kind of piece that Brixton would write, and how he would write it though. I liked everything from the emotion, and the vocabulary, and it was a pretty good piece. Nothing that really touched me, but it was never the less awesome in the ethic of the default writing. Good job.

[P. Mortuus]

Thanks...i noticed the missing n lol..preciate the comments na mean.

[Tragedian.]

Nice om...i must say looks like you put alot into this drop...very difficult to write a peice like this...i know cause i have tried and failed badly lol...but none less this was very good...flow was right on...didnt fall much...stayed up though the whole drop...multies we're kinda weak..i dont know what it was but the rhyming and multies we're off at times..but maybe i'm not used to the way you write...very creative..not seen a drop like this on any forum...and i think this is deffintly worth hof..but im not gonna nominate it..cause i always get ignored...links in sig.

[P. Mortuus]

Thanks for the comments, i appreciate them-Checked sig.

[soulstice.]

good piece.... this was interesting, you have a lot of knowledge about black histroy.. the vocabulary was pretty good, and the rhyme scheme was a poetic-type kind... made a well way for the emotion to come through, which definitely suceeded, the word usage was pretty nice as well... the piece flowed pretty well for poetic rhyme scheme.. the internal rhymes werent as good as some of your other pieces, but it didnt really effect the picece.... god job

[P. Mortuus]

Thanks, i appreciate your comments.

[The Vortex]

yeah nice write f'real pak. delivery was crisp.... vocab and wording was rollin 1.
went quite in depth for the length of the piece. mettas and visuals was on point.
format was dope as well...... dude got like 50 degrees. he a clever mo'fuka f'real
yeah big up Nelson. . dope display of poetry veli

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http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310524

[P. Mortuus]

Thanks, i'll check your linkage by tommorow na mean.

[P. Mortuus]

bump.

[Prince Escobar]

lol @ you writing a topical biography on someone and misspelling their name.

[P. Mortuus]

lol @ you writing a topical biography on someone and misspelling their name.

It wasn't wrong in the actual piece i fucked it up on the title lol.

[T.O.N.Y.]

i know u was up all nite writin this nigga, writin a biograhpy with good details nd actual facts, u did ur HW, weird tho, why u chose him?

da piece itself was well writen, good vocab, good ryhme skeme
it seems like u knew how long to put it
even shorter or longer woulda been wack, good job

[Bilayer]

This here was really nicely put pak but you always seem to amaze wit you lifelike writings mann i really enjoyed this piece and how your vocab could roll off my tongue and still make the piece sound as great as it did you have a gift mann in the near future i would love to see a book from you in stores onthe top sellers list or some shit you great imagery in this piece like always your struture never changes and you always seem to amaze the reader you stayed on topic the whole way through your breakdown was excellent to this piece and played a major role in my eyes you did this piece great as fuck i loved readin it