Thank God he can read good, and writes great, run the whole entire state with the right bass. Thank God he’s not a chess player, over-thinking (expletive) keep it player, mayonnaise and mustard with the slowed-up sound. Thank God he’s poet now. Poster child you flagrant fouls. Thank God he can run fast and he can jump high . or else he’d be a dead man. Deezie Brown, “Sumn to Say”
Growing up in rural Texas, Deezie Brown observed what he thinks of as “small-town syndrome.”
Young Black men would either play sports or fall into crime, he said on a recent episode of Austin360’s streaming show, the Monday Music Mashup.