i'm real with the whole hip hop shyt... that's why a lot of kats don't agree with a lot of the shyt i say about the lyrics being dropped in here... i been analyzing rhymes for years and i know a good rhyme when i see and hear one... kats be up in here yelling about nelly and kats like 50 like they lyrical... them kats ain't lyricists! there's a difference between a lyricist and a rapper-dude... lyricist take they time with they shyt... they think outside the box... they come original and ain't scared to take chances... they come with the complex styles and can usually drop about anything from partying to politics to hanging on the block or just being silly... rapper-dudes only know what the radio say is hot... ya nelly's and ya 50's... rapper-dudes only know how to rhyme about being hard or packing gats and selling drugs, fucking ho's, bling-blinging and pimpin out they rides... that's bullshyt rap and i don't cater to that shyt... how about a real message every now and then... KRS-One said it best... "Anybody can write rhymes about fame and glory/Writing something that'll wake up ya people's another story!" what's realer than that?!... then ya got the wannabe gangstas that ain't never been in a fistfight hollering about who they shot and how much weight they push just cuz they know people who do it... and wanna talk about they keeping it real? what's real is #1 I ain't never been in no gang and #2 i ain't never sold drugs or #3 shot nobody... how da fuck am i supposed to rhyme about some shyt like that and still say i'm keeping it real? .... Be real to yaself and stop all the fronting... real for me is making sure my family don't starve... being in the military and serving in iraq... half the kats claiming thug life wouldn't make it out here 1 week without bitching out... real for me is being a father to my kids and making sure they ain't gotta want for nothing... setting the example for them to live their lives by... dealing with the fact that my father just died and never got to meet his granddaughter... or that my mom was in an abusive relationship and still bears the scars emotionally from that shyt even though it was more than 1o years ago... i may not be a thug but i deal with real issues that the everday kat deals with and that's what i rhyme about... damn everything else... Be Real To Yaselves... keep hip hop rooted in its heritage... and stop listening and catering to bullshyt... and if ya boy is trash don't be afraid to say, "hey man, you sound like every other cat on the radio... or i know like 15 kats who wrote about that same shyt... or just be blunt and tell him his shyt was wack! if they really ya man 50 grand then they'll know you only looking out for them and trying to help them improve... if they brush you off fuck it...let them learn the hard way... and on another note... there might be a "stretched" line here in text... but if you can't here the flow and how a nigga spitting and flipping his shyt then you have no idea if it really is stretched or not... there's plenty of different styles out there and just cuz a brother shyt ain't the same length when he type it don't mean the shyt don't fit when he spit... and for the record... Gangsta Net rhymes... especially in text... ain't gangsta..werd... actually got a lot more i could say but i'll save some for later... i could talk about this shyt forever

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