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Now nod your head and wake up. |
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I see so many people lost who really try to pretend |
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But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend |
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When I take a step to the mic is hiphop closer to the end? |
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'Cause when I go to shows the majority have white skin |
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They marketed the windmill, the air flair and head spin |
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and white rappers albums really get the most spins |
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the face of hip hop has changed a lot since Eminem |
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and if he's taking away black artists' profits I look just like him |
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claimed a culture that wasn't mine, the way of the american |
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hip hop is gentrified and where will all the people live |
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it's like the central district, beacon hill to the south end |
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being pushed farther away because of what white people did, now |
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where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race |
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cultural appropriated by the white face |
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and we don't want to admit that this is existing |
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so scared to acknowledge the benefits of our white privilege |
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cause it's human nature to want to be part of something different |
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especially when your ancestors are European Christians |
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and most whites don't want to acknowledge this is occurring |
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cause we got the best deal, the music without the burden |
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of being black in a system that really wants you to rock |
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cause all you need is a program and you can go and make hiphop |
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and we hate the mainstream cause we're the ones that took it |
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now we listen to Aesop Rock and wear t-shirts that say Brooklyn |
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but it's not about black and white right |
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I mean good music is good music regardless of what you look like |
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but when you don't give them props isn't that selfish? |
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that's like saying rock was actually started by Elvis |
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so where does this leave me? |
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I feel like I pay dues but I'll always be a white MC |
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I give everything I have when I write a rhyme |
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but that doesn't change the fact that this culture's not mine |
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But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are |
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this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard |
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I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are |
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but we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars |
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hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to |
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to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through |
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if I think I understand just because I flow too |
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that means I'm not keeping it true, nope |
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hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to |
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to counter act a struggle that I've never even been through |
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if I think I understand just because I flow too |
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that means I'm not keeping it true, I'm not keeping it true |
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now I don't rap about guns so they label me conscious |
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but I don't rap about guns cause I wasn't forced into the projects |
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see I was put in the position where I could chose my options |
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blessed with the privilege that my parent's could send me to college |
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now who's going to shows the kids on the block starving |
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or the white people with dough that can relate to my content? |
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marketed the music now adapted to the lifestyle |
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what happened to jazz and rock and roll is happening right now |
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where's my place in the music that's been taken by the media |
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with white corperations controlling what their feeding ya |
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I brought up aesop rock but Im not even dissing dude |
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we love hiphop and what do you think caucasians are listening to |
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and I speak freely when I write this |
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if a black emcee examined race there goes half their fan base, white kids |
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and this is so true. and we didn't even have to fight the system |
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we just went and picked up the microphone too |
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and we got good at it so we should be rapping |
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but only supporting them is like burning Jimmy and buying Clapton |
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now Clapton's incredible. but no Jimmy no foundation |
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so here comes history and the cultural appropriation |
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white kids with do rags trying to practice their accents |
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from the suburbs to the upperclass mastering a language |
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but hiphop is not just memorizing words |
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it's rooted in authenticity something you literally can't learn |
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But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are |
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this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard |
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I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are |
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but as I'm blessed with the privilege, they're still left with the scars |
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hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to |
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to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through |
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if I think I understand just because I flow too |
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that means im not keeping it true, nope |
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hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to |
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to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through |
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if I think I understand just because I flow too |
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that means im not keeping it true, Im not keeping it true |
