"What's in the Stew if the Flu's in the Chicken?" -Dead Prez

Access to healthy food for the poor, black and brown is and issue here in America. I have posted about healthy eating before, but with the recent coverage of the N.Y. Times report on the science of junk food and the criminals behind it, I figured it was a good time to highlight songs, verses and lines about just that topic.

"What's in the stew if the flu's in the chicken?" will become a reoccurring post, and this is the first.

Dead Prez often remark on healthy eating in their music. This one is hidden at the end of a bonus track from their most recent album. It's more about healthy habits in general. Dope still. The quotes below are from the first verse and the second verse is posted in full. 

"Raised in the ghetto, singing songs – called survival
But eating soul food to have you dead on arrival"

"Break out of jail but can you break out a sickle cell?
We say we livin well, but we living in hell"

 

"We glued to the TV screen, commercials in-between
Crack Donalds, Murda King
What happened to eat your greens?
Eatin some or anything, abusing Mary Jane
Chinese chicken wings, everyday hood thing
5 Hour Energy, Red Bull and Hennessey
Head bobbin but the organs full of toxicity
Pack a Kool menthol, nicotine pit fall
They have the nerve to put "Kool" on the pack so they can trick y’all
Slave to the Dutch Master, colon cancer victim
Tell you on the  package but we still blame the system
No squares in my circle, screw all that sippin purple
I’m tryina live to my potential, age is just a number
A G preserve his temple, a G control his temper
No discipline, you slippin, no toxins in my kitchen
Slavery is over cousin, but then at lunch it wasn’t
If food is the last plantation then I’m Harriet Tubman
Advocating colonics, saving my lungs from chronic
But you can’t free a slave unless he knows he’s in bondage
(You wanna get freaky? Let’s go)
You can’t free a slave unless he knows he’s in bondage"