[Intro: C. Tucker] It is obscene, it is obscene, it is In 1992 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that it was more important to ban speech that is dehumanizing to women than to protect free speech. Now we see the direct and indirect effects. We see the rise in murder, in abuse, in battles, teen prostitution, and teen suicide. We hear the wailing mothers, the grieving sisters, the tormented brothers and fathers, and children planning their own funeral with pink dresses and pink caskets. If the filth that is portrayed in these gangsta rap videos and art is not then I submit that nothing is obscene
1: Royce da 5'9"] We started off as We had the Congress mad at the whole get rid of us Now it's like we not even trying to be It's like we just sitting ducks in the of evil I open windows with hopes that the wind [?] blessings Set my Timbo's next to my dresser the Nintendo, and yes The extendo's on the AK 47 and its [?] are It's time, it's to move something I guess we missed our window to try to prove Spot a whack producer from across the Walk up to him, his hookah across the moon a platinum plaque over a rapper back Go and toss that bitch into a dark Go the heart of the art form with a harpoon They ain't skilled to stand the field with us You gon' have to me only like four or five of you rappers who can actually inspire me I be out telling the truth I should sign my with a polygraph I in silence Tryna get to you 'fore you could yourself Cause I'm tryna put yo' ass in a body Y'all lollygag --- not me This evening I'm with the biggest spenders having the most prestigious You eating Church's Chicken with fictitious sinners I'm a living legend, you a fidget I'm getting cheddar, they tryna up to my past M's And I'm getting better, tryna up and pass Em' I be blacking out, you could ask Everything I spit be sick, gag Everything I wear be tailor-made to fit, trim Huh, it seem like everybody out right now wanna be 'Pac I'm zoning, stirring the pot I'm to go so motherfucking Lamont Coleman This to be disturbing to watch I'm out here swerving the drop Your rapper 'bout to get cleaned up, served in a box Like laundry detergent, pushing 'round birds with a mop Tryna in a genius, creative state of mind Tryna sharper than straight sharks in a 'gator pond Grate her down, all for the greater good and the grind While they denying now, all heathens be crying 'bout Taking care of two, three dudes but these be lying We it G, we keeping the iron out They negativity, we eating vagina while Keeping it Zion, we the streets of Detroit to a D zoo Eating while we people to lions The did eyeball, with me psycho and schizo He think he Luke, he like to lift you and make you skywalk You don't play with none of his make-believe truth They'll make the speak too He'll do the R2D2 to art it's parts of a easel Threw a piece of heart in a jar for the people To dissect at I'm the best at who we are, that's fucking food for Nobody else been thinking like me far though Subpar
[Interlude: C. Delores For 400 years, profit came before principle. We marched for our right to at Selma, I was there with Dr. King. Music that and promotes violence with guns, knives, and drugs and that includes all this gangsta rap, that's it. We march again and we're gonna keep on marching
2: Royce da 5'9"] I make mouthpiece obese like Delores While I'm flipping pies Patti LaBelle, Sara Lee Eating all the bark with Gargamel off of the cherry King of the dark art, all is compared to me Let the hail from the word flip hath fury hip-hop stay colorful fruity like RiFF RaFF jewelry I enter a different intuitiveness on instruments I whiplash new beats You just the next wave to a crazy catchphrase I'm just a neck brace to the crazy contestant who should step to me, net pay Tell paparazzi I'm sales tax to media In order to picture these digits, press will to capture Loch Ness On the back of a hellcat or capture a Me, I from the frying pan like the Devil's last ingredient While Jesus wept I made boss music relate to each time I came through like I held back the previous Look, I'm the thang These niggas here to provide dangerous detail If any of y'all MCM's is any than me here These niggas listen to sign language, probably speak Me, I'm just to stick my dick in the dirt Either that or a model, these Ether are the Bible I'm gon' relapse for a bottle or a [?] for a throttle One of the living rap forefathers who wouldn't ask for a dollar My style lethal Streaming out your when your single drop Like a single drop of blood off the of a vulture Uh, I my key off in the car door as I was on my way to score a quarter key off [?] I'm an angel at My threshold for pain goes farther a marine who's been ordered to war So at 3:45, which, by the way, is a a to four Somebody ask me for change for a While I spray your ass with four fours More than 44 [?] Vocabulary sicker than Herbie's recording thesaurus The Virgin Mary took a pill the morning before fornicating the Lord They gave birth to me 44 days later drinking a 40 at the coroner's Therefore, this is than just my dormitory is the safe place I come to look Benjamin in the face So when you end up getting ate? Like four and four Icicles is made of water alluring gore I'm here to combine all Bar Exams for a fourth While I shoot the shit as deep as [?] though, so it's four to While a Ford wondering why guys look at me foreign for