[00:07.57]Now nod your head and wake up.
[00:22.13]I see so many people lost who really try to pretend
[00:25.08]But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend
[00:28.02]When I take a step to the mic is hiphop closer to the end?
[00:31.06]'Cause when I go to shows the majority have white skin
[00:34.00]They marketed the windmill, the air flair and head spin
[00:36.72]and white rappers albums really get the most spins
[00:39.53]the face of hip hop has changed a lot since Eminem
[00:42.04]and if he's taking away black artists' profits I look just like him
[00:45.11]claimed a culture that wasn't mine, the way of the american
[00:48.06]hip hop is gentrified and where will all the people live
[00:50.85]it's like the central district, beacon hill to the south end
[00:53.40]being pushed farther away because of what white people did, now
[00:56.80]where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race
[00:59.75]cultural appropriated by the white face
[01:02.43]and we don't want to admit that this is existing
[01:05.00]so scared to acknowledge the benefits of our white privilege
[01:07.73]cause it's human nature to want to be part of something different
[01:10.65]especially when your ancestors are European Christians
[01:13.41]and most whites don't want to acknowledge this is occurring
[01:16.07]cause we got the best deal, the music without the burden
[01:19.00]of being black in a system that really wants you to rock
[01:21.48]cause all you need is a program and you can go and make hiphop
[01:24.72]and we hate the mainstream cause we're the ones that took it
[01:27.41]now we listen to Aesop Rock and wear t-shirts that say Brooklyn
[01:30.94]but it's not about black and white right
[01:33.00]I mean good music is good music regardless of what you look like
[01:35.99]but when you don't give them props isn't that selfish?
[01:39.07]that's like saying rock was actually started by Elvis
[01:41.93]so where does this leave me?
[01:43.66]I feel like I pay dues but I'll always be a white MC
[01:47.50]I give everything I have when I write a rhyme
[01:50.02]but that doesn't change the fact that this culture's not mine
[01:53.37]But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
[01:55.50]this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
[01:58.21]I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
[02:01.08]but we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars
[02:04.45]hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
[02:07.12]to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
[02:10.23]if I think I understand just because I flow too
[02:13.02]that means I'm not keeping it true, nope
[02:15.71]hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
[02:18.47]to counter act a struggle that I've never even been through
[02:21.48]if I think I understand just because I flow too
[02:24.07]that means I'm not keeping it true, I'm not keeping it true
[02:26.71]now I don't rap about guns so they label me conscious
[02:29.55]but I don't rap about guns cause I wasn't forced into the projects
[02:32.53]see I was put in the position where I could chose my options
[02:35.55]blessed with the privilege that my parent's could send me to college
[02:38.02]now who's going to shows the kids on the block starving
[02:41.28]or the white people with dough that can relate to my content?
[02:43.91]marketed the music now adapted to the lifestyle
[02:46.45]what happened to jazz and rock and roll is happening right now
[02:49.79]where's my place in the music that's been taken by the media
[02:52.68]with white corperations controlling what their feeding ya
[02:55.49]I brought up aesop rock but Im not even dissing dude
[02:58.02]we love hiphop and what do you think caucasians are listening to
[03:00.94]and I speak freely when I write this
[03:03.00]if a black emcee examined race there goes half their fan base, white kids
[03:06.86]and this is so true. and we didn't even have to fight the system
[03:10.25]we just went and picked up the microphone too
[03:12.28]and we got good at it so we should be rapping
[03:14.49]but only supporting them is like burning Jimmy and buying Clapton
[03:17.53]now Clapton's incredible. but no Jimmy no foundation
[03:20.28]so here comes history and the cultural appropriation
[03:23.43]white kids with do rags trying to practice their accents
[03:26.03]from the suburbs to the upperclass mastering a language
[03:29.24]but hiphop is not just memorizing words
[03:31.68]it's rooted in authenticity something you literally can't learn
[03:34.88]But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
[03:37.04]this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
[03:40.06]I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
[03:42.73]but as I'm blessed with the privilege, they're still left with the scars
[03:57.10]hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
[04:00.19]to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
[04:03.16]if I think I understand just because I flow too
[04:06.04]that means im not keeping it true, nope
[04:08.59]hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
[04:11.43]to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
[04:14.39]if I think I understand just because I flow too
[04:17.14]that means im not keeping it true, Im not keeping it true