Lyrics Black Men and Monster Movies - Gil Scott-Heron

Let's see
I'm gonna break some people out here shaking hands right
How's everybody? Everybody alright? Yeah good good showing up till two
We are all glad to be here I'm glad to see you and everything like uh
British Airways got me here uh scared the shit out of me
My hair look like Don King that's why
They said we are having a little problem with the landing gear
I said we'll fuck it don't land it
Don't do anything wrong
We are, we've been going around trying to tell people
Recruiting is what we're doing yeah
I like everybody mess with my accent man
We've been trying to recruit people because we need some more volunteers for Bluesology
And in order to get people in the Bluesology, folks have been saying well tell me a little bit about it
And maybe I can join us so we have come out to tell you a little bit about Bluesology
First of all you can't get no job put an -ology on the end of the sentences you like to do
And open up an office and people will come in and consult you on that sentence
You see this is how Bluesology started
Couldn't get no job, I had the blues I said shit that's the job
But we have developed it into a science and they give us some projects to do
And you may be able to help me with this one
The question was why I didn't know black people in monster movies
You see Bluesology is the science of how things feel
So they asked me to find out how black you felt but not
Because we like how our movies, we go to all of them but we're not in them
So I went to speak to a well-known producer of horror movies and I came at him straight up
I said looking, "Man what's happening? How come we can pay to be in the monster movie?"
"And see it but ain't livin' on us on the screen?"
"Mr. Gil, what we have is a credibility problem"
I said oh shit he ain't gonna tell me
I said, "What... what does that mean?"
"Mister everybody knows monsters cannot catch black people"
Honestly what do you mean? You see you go to a horror movie, you see a bunch of people
And you're trying to figure out who's gonna live
Well if there's a monster movie, we're gonna live
The monster go doo-doo-doo-doo
Ain't gonna catch no brother
On 14th Street in the neighborhood, you can whisper the word junkie
They won't say nothing but if you whisper the word monster, a junkie will turn into Jesse Owens
The only problem with this is that white people can't run because soon as they see the monster they go
Oooh shit! And they fall on the ground and we'd be emotional about this and we would say
"Get up motherfucker! Get up!" Tell somebody get up
They'd be laying there doo-doo-doo-doo
Hardly couldn't got up, go and get some eat late getting back doo-doo
So I say well look at man all the monsters ain't slow
So why you'd put us in a movie where the monsters quick
He said, "You know Gil, what we were going to do was put a black person in the movie, Jaws"
I said, "Oh shit that would have been wild"
"Why didn't it work?"
He said, "Let me show you on the screen here"
Pull out the screen, I saw me on his little director's head he said
He turned around he said, "Willy" that was the brother
"Mr. Willy, I want to climb down here long inside here"
"I want you to scoot over here and then I want you to jump in the water"
Willy just ran on the back
Willy just heard the first part, just slide down here then go over here and then do what jump in the water
Do what over here? Jaws in the motherfucking water
Why would I do that shit? Jaws in the water, didn't you see that in the water?
So the director had a problem, he had a credibility problem because once black people know jaws is in the water the movies over
We're not going in the motherfucking water for no reason
So he said, "Then I had a clever idea I decided to make a black person the first victim"
This was before you knew that jaws was in the water
I said oh shit that will work
"What happened?"
He said, "Black people can hear the music"
We don't hear doo-doo-doo
There were loads of Jaws in the motherfucking water
So here comes that shark with his band
You see movies are all about whose side you're on, who you want to win
When I went to see the movie Jaws, I was on jaws side
Yeah I was rooting for jaws because as a black man I can understand being fucked with where you're supposed to be
Jaws was in the water
Where the fuck you want him?
You see if jaws pull up on shore, you're in a car, come over to fuck with you we got a problem
But jaws was in the water
They rented a boat and went out there to fuck with jaws
I say eat of them some bitches no problem
You got your root for the things is in the right