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The New Black Bourgeoisie is a prophetic rap ballad rooted in Edward Franklin Frazier’s pivotal 1957 sociological critique, The Black Bourgeoisie. The song exposes the spiritual and cultural decline that followed the migration of freedmen from Southern fields to Northern cities. Trading church pews for penthouses and sanctification for social status, the freedmen abandoned the moral compass of their ancestors in pursuit of prestige. The lyrics parallel biblical warnings from 1 Timothy 6:10.