[Verse 1: Kweli] From the top, from the top, the top, from the top the top, from the top, from the top, from the top In a state of the talent is surrounded by the pain and the violence 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 That we can't escape so we our fate So the sex and the money and the murder and the pictures we If an artist is a part of a And got an opportunity to get cake Would never come to the hood, no immunity a nigga like that so fake No different a snake left to give cause you always wanna take If you ain't all the talents God provided you with Would a minuteman understand you ain't nothing but a waste? Look into the face of a young Raising up like a 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 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 found rhythm with the gods more spiritual She God in the And it's only to pray for a little you Musical so she played the chords So her daughter was it was a miracle Music is the light it's dark And the way you spit your dart is a big part She grew up hip hop Now all her got is "Love & Hip Hop" Nowadays turn up for the sex Niggas turn up for the money, never up for the movement reality stars 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 and the violence inflicted 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 when she holler But only so much she can tolerate
[Hook: Abby Help me find my way to a state of Stir my heart, my soul Feed me freedom sounds you Help me find my way to a of grace Lift me up with your me to the grace
[Verse 2: Talib She wanna to be the first in her family with a higher Her entire was a dire situation Did a on the state of the hip hop generation But no longer felt a of the conversation to be I'm a ''ride or die'' chick B.I.G. the ''Me And My Bitch'' No objections, an object 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 row at the shows 'til she overdosed on the testosterone Her favorite rapper invited her backstage would have 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 it, the artist she trusted Just her heart, so misogynistic and disgusting She not to judge him In her she still loved 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 dude do, if you knew I know a few who crazier than if you flew over the nest of the cuckoo But she never gonna hear in the mix so the new attitude Taking cues from the radio playing that She on D'Angelo Pandora station that Voodoo, who knew?
[Verse 3: Kweli] In the of hate She'd be lucky for a balance the world is challenging her to be great I see lyrics as colors and Put it on tape, let her know I could When you wish you could switch the way that you And your nose was and your hair was straight you got no faith When you hate yourself, you hate your race Let's get to the Our sisters worth more than grinding on the wall She a bitch, she a And you rich and you shit on the In all of your and ask 'em to buy it Why should I support music that disrespects me? And make you dismissive of the of those who get left With the charge of repping it it's free online or in a cloud Ain't no to touch the radio dial You why you don't hear no sounds on the air And it's clear that your going down by law then you found the raw On a board and you sounding off These niggas get the world, but what's the cause? No wonder why these niggas be sounding is a memory The line rap niggas is designed by the enemy Stop giving them your soul, gift Prepackaged, fabricated rap Running through you like food; Big Mac's You want no problems, fix that All the time that you spent to that bullshit Now you ain't never gon' get
[Outro: Kweli] She don't it, no She don't love it no