[Verse 1: Talib From the top, the top, from the top, from the top From the top, from the top, from the top, the top In a of grace Where the talent is surrounded by the pain and the So the selling safe At the time snitching to the Jake Is the way to be found at the bottom of a lake But the we face seems so great That we can't so we accept our fate So the sex and the money and the and the pictures we paint If an artist is a part of a And got an opportunity to get cake never come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga like so fake No different from a Nothing to give cause you always wanna take If you ain't using all the God provided you with Would a better minuteman you ain't nothing but a waste? Look into the face of a young up like a flag when it's unfurled Got game listening to her mother's And she Beyonce cause she run the world Her mama to run this city Way back before the Puff was Diddy When it came to the then she got real picky From New York, but preferred over Biggie No to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the knowledge And she felt that Pac was more Plus she never to college But she called herself 'Earth' rhythm with the gods more spiritual She God in the And it's only to pray for a little you Musical so she the umbilical chords So her daughter was born it was a Music is the light when it's And the way that you spit your dart is a big She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" Nowadays niggas up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, never turn up for the Ratchet reality stars be looking so stupid Getting in the fights at She used to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the No desire for the lying and the inflicted on the body in a so-called party environment Her body is Lost count of how many whores she was today She do it no more, lost all her faith They say she exaggerate when she holler But it's only so she can tolerate
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[Verse 2: Kweli] She wanna to be the first in her family with a education Her entire graduation was a dire Did a paper on the state of the hip hop But no longer felt a part of the Used to be I'm a or die'' chick B.I.G. the ''Me And My Bitch'' No objections, an object label seeing a profit She ain't never been a or a ho But she to sing along when she heard it in a song She used to be front row at the shows 'til she overdosed on the Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would have But she felt like she really belong When she wouldn't let him hit, this nigga her a bitch She erased all her songs the phone You are who you fuck with, so the guy that she stuck You can it or dump it, the artist she trusted Just broke her heart, so and disgusting She tried not to him In her heart she still him And the way he lusting a part of his suffering And this young man clearly not ready for the discussion Female emcees acting more like a dude than a do, only if you knew I know a few who flow crazier than if you over the nest of the cuckoo But she never gonna hear in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues the radio playing that doodoo She on Pandora station playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Talib In the of hate She'd be for a balance cause the world is challenging her to be great I see as colors and shapes Put it on tape, let her know I could When you wish you switch the way that you look And your nose was smaller and your hair was When you got no When you hate yourself, when you hate race Let's get to the Our sisters worth than grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a And you and you shit on the poor In all of records and ask 'em to buy it Why I support music that constantly disrespects me? And make you dismissive of the of those who get left With the of repping it correctly When it's online or in a cloud no reason to touch the radio dial You wonder why you don't no sounds on the air And it's clear that sales going down Down by law then you the raw On a message and you sounding off niggas get the whole world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these niggas be lost Rhyming is a The assembly line rap is designed by the enemy Stop giving your soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, shit rap Running you like fast food; Big Mac's You don't no problems, fix that All the time that you listening to that bullshit Now you never gon' get back
[Outro: Talib She don't it, no She don't love it no