Verse 1: I beat myself up ‘cause rap We cuss, I don’t care about that Coping mechanism, coping medicine so obsession will hook me since I was in high school, I listened to rappers buzzing I moved myself too because then I didn’t get where I should have been What? What will I become of, man? Rap taught me to go for what I can For critics, it’s good encouragement This is not what they would’ve seen A mic booth they are not working in so stop, go and listen in I for one can’t stop listening and look past the negatives It’s all music, there are no exceptions
*Ya can’t kill rap or hip hop, ever*
Verse 2: Hip hop, what a rich history Since the seventies rap gave us celebrities Celebrate the knowledge they kick to we Span the globe, kids get it instinctively If it’s clean and it’s not explicit, these fans will listen to it regardlessly Hip hop head, I fed on rap I’m fed up with anti-rap ideas like it doesn’t help man but when cats can’t get jobs they jump on the rap bandwagon Born in “Poorville,” poured over here I need this music to breathe I see this music is me This music is harmless so don’t you go saying that it harms us
*Wait, I’m not done yet*
Verse 3: From poverty to consciousness to positive from gangsta shit to the greatest hits from A to Z we’ve come a long way from NYC I’m keeping it up, don’t you start hating me They’ll keep saying the N-word forevermore It ain’t nasty, I said it bad, there’s plenty more where that came from, I need a microphone Hearing my voice heals the scabs on my back from lashes, I don’t bat eyelashes Rap shatters wine glasses on impact What hurts me is thinking that I’m bad for making rap, it’s how I react I tell a story, my feelings, I don’t want approval I don’t care if you disapprove, it is not wrong I will listen to rap until the end tell you it matters, I know it for certain
*So if ya don’t like rap, don’t say anything bad about it Just leave it be*
