I’m the hot stuff man,
From the devil’s land,
I’m a greasy streak o’ lightning,
Don’t you see, don’t you see?
has plenty of action and imagery in it. And it is characteristic of much of the Negro workaday style of talk, imagination, and thought.
Many of the pictures are vivid because of the action concept and the rhyming metaphors.
In come a nigger named Slippery Jim,
None of de gals would dance wid him,
He rech in his pocket an’ drew his thirty-two,
Dem niggers didn’t run, good Gawd, dey flew.