Creativity Quote by Kool Moe Dee

Kool Moe Dee drops this line like a casual aside, but it’s doing heavy historical work: it reminds you that a lot of what America later repackaged as neutral “social programs” was once radical, targeted, and treated as a threat. By saying free lunch programs were “still goin’ on,” he’s pointing to an afterlife - the way community survival projects outlast the headlines, the raids, and the moral panic.

The phrasing matters. “Some of” is a quiet qualifier, suggesting attrition: these efforts didn’t get celebrated, they got whittled down. “Still goin’ on” carries a street-level realism, not nostalgia. This isn’t a museum plaque about the Panthers; it’s a report from the ground about what kept kids fed when institutions didn’t. Then comes the kicker: “based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.” That’s not just credit, it’s a corrective. The Panthers are often flattened into the image of armed patrols, but Moe Dee pulls focus to their “survival programs” - especially the Free Breakfast for Children Program - and to how those initiatives pressured cities and the federal government to expand meals in schools.

“Last leg” is also a sly indictment of state power. It evokes a movement pushed into its final stretch by surveillance, infiltration, and policing, yet still productive. Subtext: the system will absorb the outputs (feed children) while criminalizing the producers (Black radical organizing). In a rap context, it’s lineage talk - hip-hop as civic memory, refusing to let “common sense” reforms erase the uncomfortable fact that they were once demands.