Luyện nghe bài hát Message to the Rappers

Hey, yeah, we the same brothas a long time ago
We was talkin television and doin it on the radio
we did was to help our generation realize
They had to get out there and get busy cause it gonna be televised
We got respect for you and the way they be free-weighin
But if youre gon be teachin folks things, make sure you know youre sayin
Older folks in our got plenty of know-how
Remember if it wasnt for them, you be out here now
And I comin at you with no disrespect
All Im sayin is that you well got to be correct
Because if youre gonna be speakin for a whole
And you know enough to try and handle their
Make sure you know the real deal about past
It aint just repeatin you heard on the local TV stations
Sometimes they tell and put em in a truthful disguise
But the is thats why we said it wouldnt be televised
They dont know what to say to our young folks, but they that you do
And if they really knew the would they tell you?
The first is peace, tell all them gun totin young brothas
That the man is glad to see us out there one another
We raised too hell when they was shootin us down
So they started poisoning our tryin to jerk us all around
And they tell us they got to in and control our situation
They want of us on dope and the other half in incarceration
If the ones they dead aint killed by what they instigated
They put some dope on a brothas body and claim it was drug
Tell them drug related means there dont need to be no
Or at least thats the way theyre gon play it on the TV stations
All your 9-millimeter brothasgive somthin to think about
them you heard that this is the new word, they got to work that stuff out
But somehow they feel in the wrong way with a gun in their
They feel real independentbut just pullin contracts for the man
and five will tell you its hopeless out there on the avenue
But if they really knew the would they tell you?
And if they at you like youre insane
And they start callin you and say you aint got no brain
Or start folks that you suddenly gone lame
Or white folks had finally co-opted your game
Or worse yet implying that you dont really
Thats the same thing said about usa long time ago
Young rappers, one more suggestion before I get out of way
But I appreciate the you give me and what you got to say
Im sayin your community and spread that respect around
Tell brothas and sistas they gotta that bullshit down
Cause were our old folks and brought fear into our homes
And they aint got to hang out with the senior
Just tell them, Dammitleave the old folks
And we know who rippin off the neighborhood, tell them, BS has got to stop!
Tell them sorry they cant handle it out there
But they got to the crime off the block
And if they look at you like youre
And they start you scarecrow and say you aint got no brain
Or start tellin folks that you gone lame
Or that white folks had co-opted your game
Or worse yet that you really dont know
Thats the same thing they about me a long time ago
And if they folks that you finally lost your nerve
Thats the thing they said about us, when we said, Johannesburg
But I think the young folks need to know, that dont go both ways
You cant talk respect of every song or just every other day
Im speakin on now is the raps about the women folks
On one song shes your African Queen on the next one a joke
And you aint said no words that I havent heard, but aint no compliment
It only insults eight people out of ten and questions your
Four letter words or four syllable wont make you important
Itll only magnify how shallow you are and let everybody it
And if they look at you they think you insane
Or they call you scarecrow thinkin you aint got no
Or start tellin that you suddenly gone lame
Or that white folks have finally your game
Or you really knowThey said that about me a long time ago
If finally start to tell people that you lost your nerve
Thats what they said Johannesburg
You aint insaneyou got a brain
You gone lame; you have got your game
Rememberkeep the
the nerve
Keep the
the nerve
Im talkin peace