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The Hip Broke - The Hop Skips
They ask is Hip Hop dead ?..
and what’s happened to the days when dead Prez
could spread vibes that would dance in my head
when emcees said rhymes to challenge the mind
See times have changed, cos now money provides a game
where its pride VS fame-
either keep your soul or hear your record inside the raves
the real emcees are beginning to fade to black
Gimmicks for tracks, these 'hits' seep crap
and beneath that is the underground, hip hops heartbeat
where artists achieve feats, never reached
today commercially. Its hurting me
to see 'snap yo' fingers' converted into money
through the suburbs..
whilst metas and wordplay are a lost art and never heard
But that’s art these days..
realness is never noticed until its to late
The Hip Broke - The Hop Skips
Hip Hop is dead ? yes.. when controversy was fed ears bled.
Pac and Biggie went brain dead when media spoke with lead.
heads lost legends now no one is destined , hearts shot.
Hip Hop truly flopped when Pun's heart stop.
Culture cried around the globe , block to block.
Now we got limited depth from Kweli to Mos Def -is
perplex and that's def , still the Hip is bruised Hop skips,
when we mistake chics for talent, tits make scripts ,
instead of the Pun , metaphor , cultivating lyrics.
Or speaking from experience no fallacy ish.
Broken the hymen of Hip Hop to emcees,
with ridiculous rhyme schemes, no pure meaning.
craft deemed played and week , yet simplicity
sales ,most emcees are too illiterate to achieve
a high degree of content and vocabulary.
So beef is introduce to produce purchase of CD's.
Hip Hop you know is dead when we think dopeness is 50,
and Hip Hop is not getting shot , or rolling on twenties.
It's expressing yourself through the body,
Using yourself as art from poetry , break-dancing to Graffiti.
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