# Poet Performs The Riot Wasn't Plan A and Wins Four Yeses - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120460274687733884 - Source account: [@Sunflower15025](https://x.com/Sunflower15025) - Source language: English - Duration: 5:49 - Published: 2026-11-13 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses ## Transcript [0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=2) Hello. How are you? I'm all right. I ain't bad. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=6) Good. How's everything backstage? Good? Backstage is hilarious. Uh, uh, yes. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=11) I've seen a bit of it. How did you feel when you woke up this morning? [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=16) Um, hungry. Hungry? Okay. That's how it usually starts, but I felt, I felt good. I felt ready. [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=22) Cool. And where are you from? I was born in New York. Yeah. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=26) Raised in the South, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=28) Yeah. So, I'm America's baby, you know what I mean? [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=33) Yeah. Okay. And why did you decide to come on the show this year? [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=36) It's a great show. I've, I've seen it for years, and, um, it felt, felt right to do it this year. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=44) We love surprises, so I'm not gonna ask you anything else. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=47) You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. Okay. We're ready. Good luck. [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=54) Come on, be good. Very good for you. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=66) I'm a poet, and, um, this poem is called The Riot Wasn't Plan A. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=82) And if you loved anything that much, if you loved anything that much, that much, you'd fight too. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=89) You'd fight through who and whatever, bet you'd choose violence over silence every time. [1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=92) You might die, but you might live. You might give the last drop you couldn't stop if you loved anything that much. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=99) If you loved anything that much, the touch of patience would hit differently. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=102) You'd be forced to disagree, compelled to disobey, compelled even if afraid. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=107) God bless the day long with struggling, the night deep with loving and touching. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=111) Now imagine it disappearing into nothing. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=116) People, keep on learning, oh. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=125) Wow. Soldiers, yeah, they keep on warring. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=131) To feel love in your mouth again, I bet you would turn into a cussor, a disruptor, a disturber of the peace. [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=136) Your peace intact, exact precision of blunt instruments. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=139) It would make no difference however intuition or intonation might lead. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=142) You cry and swing and cry and swing for the fences. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=145) If you loved anything that much, you'd fight too. [2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=148) You'd fight back, no matter how weak they said you were. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=151) No matter how many days in a row you haven't eaten, ain't been sleeping, barely breathing, still wanting, still needing. [2:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=156) You keep on keeping, finding fresh paint for that picket sign. [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=159) You jump the line, regretting you only have one life to give for your babies and your lover. [2:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=163) Lying to your mother, who's still in denial about raising a fire starter, a flame fanner, son of man, not manna. [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=170) You laugh on the witness stand. The only hands you are in belong to the most high. [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=174) Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, them your first, second, and third cousins. [2:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=178) Nat Turner, William Wallace, them your brethren. [3:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=181) So glad he let me try it again. My last honor, I leave the whole world saying I, I keep on trying. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=194) Till I reach the highest ground. Yeah. Hey, Lord. [3:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=204) I can't let nobody, the highest ground. [3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=213) Mm, yeah. Thank God. [3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=234) Wow. That was very, very, very, very powerful. [4:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=240) Thank you. [4:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=245) You delivered inspiration and vocals and wisdom all wrapped up in a beautiful package. [4:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=253) I loved it. Sofia. Your voice is beautiful. [4:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=258) It feels like, you know, you really meant what you were saying, and I think that's what made it so special. [4:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=264) Thank you. Thank you. [4:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=267) You said, "I'm a poet," and you are a poet, but you know what? [4:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=271) You are so much more than just a poet. Took poetry and spoken word to a whole other level. [4:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=277) Thank you. I get it from my mother. I get it from my mom. [4:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=282) My mom's a poet. My grandfather was a poet. [4:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=284) My great-grandmother was a poet. A great audition, first of all, is a surprise. [4:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=291) Secondly, you gotta be original. And importantly, you gotta be remembered, and you're gonna be remembered for that. Thank you. [4:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=299) That was so good. That's a 10. That was an 11. [5:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=306) Howie. Yes. Mel. Yes. No-brainer, yes. Three yeses. [5:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=315) I really like you. Four yeses. Living in love. [5:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=320) Shining so bright. Shining so bright. Shining so bright. [5:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=328) Shining so bright. That was great. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. Okay, man. [5:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=333) I'm feeling good. That, listen, the standing O- Standing O was great, huh? [5:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=336) ... was, I didn't, I didn't expect a standing O. What are you gonna do next, my brother? [5:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=340) I'm going to use the bathroom because I really... [5:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8voOcKZ0GFdy/en/poet-performs-the-riot-wasn-t-plan-a-and-wins-four-yeses?t=343) Thank you. Thank you.