[Verse 1: Talib From the top, from the top, the top, from the top the top, from the top, from the top, from the top In a of grace Where the talent is surrounded by the pain and the So the never safe At the same snitching to the Jake Is the quickest way to be found at the bottom of a But the problem we face seems so we can't escape 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 that never come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga that so fake No different from a Nothing left to cause you always wanna take If you ain't using all the talents God you with Would a better minuteman understand you ain't nothing but a into the face of a young girl Raising up like a flag it's unfurled Got game listening to her mother's And she love cause she run the world Her used to run this city Way back before the Puff was Diddy When it came to the music she got real picky From New York, but preferred 2Pac Biggie No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she liked to do the And she felt Pac was more lyrical she never went to college But she herself 'Earth' found rhythm with the gods more spiritual She God in the And it's natural to pray for a little you so she played the umbilical chords So her daughter was it was a miracle Music is the light when dark And the way that you spit your dart is a big She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" niggas turn up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, never turn up for the Ratchet reality stars that be so stupid Getting in the at reunions She to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the biters No for the lying and the violence That's inflicted on the body in a so-called party Her is politics Lost count of how many whores she was called She won't do it no more, lost all her They say she exaggerate when she 'Rape' But it's so much she can tolerate
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2: Talib Kweli] She wanna to be the first in her family with a education Her entire graduation was a dire Did a paper on the of the hip hop generation But no longer felt a of the conversation Used to be I'm a ''ride or die'' B.I.G. with the And My Bitch'' No objections, an object Major label seeing a She ain't never been a or a ho But she used to sing along when she heard it in a She used to be front row at the 'til she overdosed on the testosterone Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would have But she felt like she really belong When she wouldn't let him hit, this nigga called her a She erased all her from the phone You are who you fuck with, so the guy that she with You can bump it or 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 that he lusting a of his suffering And this young man clearly not for the harder discussion Female emcees acting more like a dude a dude 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 them in the mix so the new Taking cues from the playing that doodoo She on Pandora station playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Kweli] In the of hate She'd be lucky for a balance cause the world is challenging her to be I see lyrics as and shapes Put it on tape, let her I could relate When you you could switch the way that you look And your nose was and your hair was straight When you got no When you hate yourself, when you your race Let's get to the Our sisters worth than grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a And you rich and you shit on the In all of your 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 the charge of repping it correctly When it's online or in a cloud Ain't no reason to touch the 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 board and you sounding off niggas get the whole world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these niggas be sounding Rhyming is a The line rap niggas is designed by the enemy Stop giving your soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, fabricated rap Running through you fast food; Big Mac's You don't want no problems, fix All the time that you spent listening to bullshit Now you never gon' get back
[Outro: Kweli] She love it, no She don't it no more