What Do Y'all Know About Shakespeare?

He thought he was about to get the come up

But Venetian Bugs Bunny got the one up

Now he's calling out her daddy before the sun up

Then he gonna trick a black brotha til he done up

And the Times said Kenny got it wrong

But the play's the thing that was wrong all along

So what y'all know about what's at stake here?

And what do y'all know about Shakespeare?

Same day, different play, I'm tryna check it

Cuz I know Steppenwolf ain't gonna step and fetch it

I'm diggin' blackamoors and soft conversation

With only one degree of separation

A few good footloose hollow men in the darkness

But I'm still six degrees away from D'Urville Martin

I found my purpose from Phylicia in two acts, baby

And the closer laughs along like she's a black lady

And I'm tryna figure out what it meant to me

And what I would have done differently

I could tell y'all who was sittin next to me

But I'm tryna respect a couple's privacy

So what do y'all know about what's at stake here?

And what do y'all know about Shakespeare?

After waiting for the future with David

And the big found art he created

They told me practice practice practice for admittance

But all I had to do was buy a ticket

And sit up straight in the balcony and act right (white)

But Jimmy Baldwin knew the ticket had a black price

I been tryna write another song about the Waste Land

But Paul is paying reparations for Graceland

Cecile be killing his American rewrite

She be weary to the bone but she gonna be all right

And Orson did Macbeth with the voodoo

But Langston ain't impressed with that hoodoo

Olivier gonna do it up in blackface

And everybody's apologizing for his poor taste

Jive talking pillow talk ain't okay

Screw driver vodka Bronco dranking OJ

So what do you know about Othello?

And what you know about the so-called "ghetto"?

And what you know about Iago?

Or Red Summer 1919 Chicago?