[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 and the violence So the selling safe At the time snitching to the Jake Is the quickest way to be found at the bottom of a But the problem we face so great That we escape so we accept our fate So the sex and the money and the murder and the pictures we If an artist is a of a community And got an to get that cake Would come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga that so fake No different from a Nothing left to give you always wanna take If you using all the talents God provided you with Would a better minuteman you ain't nothing but a waste? Look into the face of a young Raising up like a flag when it's Got game listening to her mother's And she love cause she run the world Her mama to run this city Way back the nigga Puff was Diddy When it came to the music she got real picky From New York, but preferred 2Pac Biggie No to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the knowledge And she felt Pac was more lyrical she never went to college But she called herself 'Earth' found rhythm with the more spiritual She God in the And only natural to pray for a little you Musical so she the umbilical chords So her daughter was it was a miracle Music is the light when dark And the way you spit your dart is a big part She up loving hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" niggas turn up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, never up for the movement Ratchet reality stars that be looking so Getting in the at reunions She used to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the No desire for the and the violence That's inflicted on the body in a so-called party Her is politics count of how many whores she was called today She won't do it no more, all her faith say she exaggerate when she holler 'Rape' But only so much she can tolerate
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[Verse 2: Talib She wanna to be the in her family with a higher education Her entire was a dire situation Did a paper on the state of the hip hop But no longer felt a part of the to be I'm a ''ride or die'' chick B.I.G. the ''Me And My Bitch'' No objections, an object Major label a profit She never been a bitch or a ho But she used to along when she heard it in a song She used to be front row at the shows 'til she on the testosterone Her favorite invited her backstage would have stayed But she felt she really ain't belong When she wouldn't let him hit, this nigga her a bitch She erased all her songs from the You are who you fuck with, so the guy she stuck with You can bump it or dump it, the artist she Just broke her heart, so misogynistic and She tried not to him In her heart she loved him And the way that he a part of his suffering And this young man clearly not ready for the discussion Female emcees acting like a dude than a dude do, only if you knew I know a few who flow crazier than if you flew over the of the cuckoo But she never gonna them in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues from the playing that doodoo She on D'Angelo station playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Talib In the face of 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 you could switch the way that you look And nose was smaller and your hair was straight When you got no When you hate yourself, when you your race get to the core Our sisters worth more grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a And you rich and you on the poor In all of records and ask 'em to buy it Why I support music that constantly disrespects me? And you dismissive of the efforts of those who get left With the charge of repping it it's free online or in a cloud Ain't no reason to touch the dial You wonder why you don't hear no on the air And it's clear that your sales going Down by law you found the raw On a message board and you off niggas get the whole world, but what's the cause? No wonder why niggas be sounding lost Rhyming is a The assembly line rap niggas is designed by the Stop them 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 spent listening to that Now you never gon' get back
[Outro: Talib She love it, no She love it no more