[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 and the violence So the never safe At the same time to the Jake Is the quickest way to be found at the of a lake But the problem we face seems so we can't escape so we accept our fate So the sex and the and the murder and the pictures we paint If an is a part of a community And got an opportunity to get cake Would come back to the hood, no immunity Usually a nigga like so fake No from a snake Nothing left to give cause you always take If you ain't all the talents God provided you with Would a better minuteman you ain't nothing but a waste? into the face of a young girl Raising up like a when it's unfurled Got game to her mother's pearls And she Beyonce cause she run the world Her mama used to run this Way back before the nigga Puff was When it came to the music then she got picky From New York, but 2Pac over Biggie No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she to do the knowledge And she felt that Pac was more she never went to college But she called herself 'Earth' found rhythm with the gods more She God in the And it's 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 it's And the way that you spit your is a big part She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" niggas turn up for the sex Niggas up for the money, never turn up for the movement Ratchet reality that be looking so stupid Getting in the fights at She to be inspired by the writers, now she's tired of the biters No desire for the lying and the That's on the body in a so-called party environment Her body is Lost count of how whores she was called today She won't do it no more, lost all her They say she exaggerate she holler 'Rape' But it's only so she can tolerate
Abby Dobson] Help me my way to a state of grace Stir my heart, my soul Feed me freedom sounds you Help me my way to a state of grace Lift me up your weight me to the grace
[Verse 2: Kweli] She wanna to be the first in her family a higher education Her graduation was a dire situation Did a on the state of the hip hop generation But no felt a part of the conversation Used to be I'm a ''ride or chick B.I.G. with the And My Bitch'' No objections, being an Major seeing a profit She ain't been a bitch or a ho But she used to sing when she heard it in a song She used to be front row at the shows 'til she on the testosterone Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would stayed But she felt she really ain't belong When she let him hit, this nigga called her a bitch She erased all her songs the phone You are who you fuck with, so the guy that she with You can bump it or dump it, the artist she broke her heart, so misogynistic and disgusting She tried not to him In her heart she loved him And the way that he lusting a of his suffering And young man clearly not ready for the harder discussion Female emcees acting more a dude than a dude do, only if you knew I know a few who flow crazier than if you flew the nest of the cuckoo But she never gonna them in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues the radio playing that doodoo She on D'Angelo Pandora playing that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Kweli] In the of hate She'd be lucky for a balance cause the world is her to be great I see lyrics as colors and Put it on tape, let her know I relate When you wish you could switch the way that you And your nose was and your hair was straight When you got no When you hate yourself, when you hate race get to the core Our sisters more than grinding on the wall half-naked She a bitch, she a And you rich and you shit on the In all of records and ask 'em to buy it Why should I support 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 no reason to touch the radio dial You wonder why you hear no sounds on the air And it's clear that your going down Down by law you found the raw On a message board and you off These niggas get the whole world, but what's the No wonder why these niggas be sounding is a memory The assembly rap niggas is designed by the enemy Stop them your soul, gift wrap Prepackaged, shit rap Running through you fast food; Big Mac's You want no problems, fix that All the that you spent listening to that bullshit Now you ain't never get back
[Outro: Kweli] She don't it, no She don't it no more