Take me to another place with music
Mess with my eardrum but don't abuse it
Each element can make you intelligent
Or as dumb as an elephant
Glad that I grew up when I did
These toxic traited tracks get airplay
I can see right through it
There will never be another 2pac or DMX
Cardi B talks drugging and robbing men
Lil Nas X shows Satan and gay sex
Actually insulted and what do I say next?
If hip-hop started out in the park
Why does every new MC look like a government narc?
Rap has been going for 50 years
Legacies ending in flames and tears
I think I'll need some more beers
Diddy and Jay-Z are really closet queers?
Ask Travis Scott and Drake what deep lyrics they've had their whole careers
Nothing original in the land of dronebots
I reach for my pad and begin to slowly jot
More complex rhymes than all the albums some dropped
The real lyrics didn't ever stop
They were just taken away from industry favourites
At the very top who turned rap music pop
Execs dictating the future and it shows
They've ruined the culture and replaced raw flows
We now have low vibration repetition
Soulless 808 beats
I thought this was meant to be the sound of the streets?
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when all the noise started this year
I was waiting, I knew you would deliver
off the fcking charts!
dear Rap-God poet, bars for days
best open a chain!
'If hip-hop started out in the park
Why does every new MC look like a government narc?'
'I reach for my pad and begin to slowly jot
More complex rhymes than all the albums some dropped'
'At the very top who turned rap music pop
Execs dictating the future and it shows'
still, while KRS, Talib, Raekwon, Nas
and the rest of Rap's true legits
draw breath, we can hope
they'll inspire a renaissance resurgence
cost contra 'esque'!
Thank you for your kind words, indeed. Even Killer Mike's new album has Future and Young Thug on it, trying to appeal to the kids instead of staying on the rough and ready path.
We have to keep the flames alive: thanks for giving props to some of the legends of the past hip-hop-‘mess with it … but don’t abuse it’ indeed, poet friend-I’m afraid most of the art form is ‘bougie’ now-I wonder what you think of what you think of my new publish here named Midlife Rap
Indeed, right I will get right on it and take a look.
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