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So I'm at the barbershop |
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And we talking about this new generation of hip-hop |
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And how how lost you all are man |
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But y'all have no science |
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So here you go |
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The systematic knowledge of the physical world |
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Gained through observation and experimentation |
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Usually beginning with a hypothesis |
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Or what some may call an estimation |
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Record your results from a series of tests |
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And what your left with is a theory at best |
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Now let me give my hypothesis an educated guess |
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On why my people on the whole seem to be such a mess |
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Genocide the deliberate extermination of a race |
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Culture or an entire nation |
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Centuries ago they brought us here on a boat |
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Enslaved us beat us til our spirit was broke |
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Then they gave us freedom and a little bit of hope |
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Then they killed our leaders and they gave us dope (crack) |
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From the C I A by way of Nicaragua |
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Shipped to Rick Ross he's the black godfather |
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Now Oscar Blandon was his known supplier |
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He snitched on Rick so he could retire |
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Ratted on Ricky so he got out quickly |
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Now this is where the situation gets a little sticky |
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Not a citizen of the U S A |
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He got released and got hired by the D E A |
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Then he got his green card by the I N S |
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But that should've never happened due to previous arrests |
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See our government seems to think that there's a difference |
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Between powdered cocaine and crack for instance |
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You get five years for five grams of crack |
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But in the powdered form you have a hundred times that |
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Now who has the rock and who has the powder |
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Who's the oppressed and who has the power |
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They want you to fail so you wind up in jail |
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You know how much they make while you sitti'n in that cell |
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Billions of dollars for inmate facilities |
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You sell yourself back into slavery willingly |
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It's not black and white it's so much more |
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It's the rich stayin rich and the poor stayin poor |
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The poor white's meth the poor black's crack |
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It's not about race and once you realize that |
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We as a nation are free to move on |
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And become one people a movement strong |
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Now black people weren't the first to be enslaved |
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We were just the first to be treated this way |
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No education you were killed if you could read |
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So you hid your intellect if you wanted to succeed |
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And what happens to a lie when you livin' it |
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You lose sight of who you are and start forgettin' it |
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So many of us to this day act ignorant |
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A mere shadow of our form of magnificence |
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Wellfare |
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No independence we become victims dependin' on the system |
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Looking for a handout waiting on some help |
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Toiling on the past feeling sorry for your self |
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But you do what you can to make it out the trap |
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And that right there is the origin of rap |
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It wasn't always played on every radio station |
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It was us makin the best out of a bad situation |
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Inner city schools stopped teaching us instruments |
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We took turntables and started flippin' it |
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Stole electricity from the street lights |
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Plugged it into a system and made the beat hype |
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There was a mic but MC's weren't rulin' |
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It was more 'bout what the DJ was doin' |
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He say a few words (GO GO) to keep the party movin' |
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The beat boys dancin' to the breaks and the grooves |
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An the break was the part where the record broke down |
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Where it was just a drum and a couple of sounds |
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You had two records you could go back and forth |
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To keep the groove goin' cause the break was so short |
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Now if that ain't' science I don't know what is |
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The ingenuity of these young black kids |
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The Bronx New York Central Recita |
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Who hurt earth hip-hop true believers |
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(Theory) Adversity produces opportunity |
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Anythings accomplished through strength and unity |
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The fate of the world is in the hip-hop commuity |
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The revolution is here and now with you and me |
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(Murs is a Scientist) |
