Music is defined as doses of freedom from our stressful days/
Hip-Hop is responsible for molding our future, I can't stress the ways/
So the politicians wanna know what attracts the youth to this music/
But it's the youth's choice of whether we're gonna use hip-hop or abuse it/
Blame hip-hop for columbine and cussing in schools/
Look closer into the white house and realize the government are the fools/
No man can define hip-hop, it's a culture and a religion to the hood/
It represents the things we do now and the things we wish we could/
The experiences touch us, we can feel their pain through a beat and some verses/
Their sanity is still lost somewhere between some notebook paper and countless searches/
Poetry at it's finest, a tail of triumphs and low times/
The FCC don't like the lyrics but hip-hop is useless with no rhymes/
These fools don't listen to music, all they do is skim through it/
So we gotta keep hip-hop alive forever so we don't lose it/
Something special happens everytime that hip-hop is blarrin through my speakers/
Makes my mind go through a series of lyrical seizures/
We locked in our own cell, we need some music to escape from this hell/
So we listen to hip-hop to get a new perspective on the world outside where we live/
Where the world forces us to follow the system even though we got so much more to give/
Yea we're the troublesome youth so we need some guidance and direction/
But society makes hip-hop look more like a lethal weapon/

Picture yourself in another man's shoes, hurt and brusied from your past life/
Livin life to the fullest like every night your last night/
But you zoned out, lost in thought in front of a red light/
Hear some homie pull up to next you but you don't catch a glimpse of his face/
He busts a few shots and then he's gone without a trace/
Feelin your chest, blood stains on the leather seats/
The car door opens up like this is where death meets/
Sitten in that hospital bed as you slowly slip out of reality, past space and time/
All those rap battles like, "I could kill you with one line"/
But you will be remembered, a legend in the game/
When people talk about hip-hop they're always gonna bring up your name/
You died for hip-hop, in the name of all it's glory/
But your life stopped at that red light, your biography a short story/
So the question remains, would you take a bullet for hip-hop or would hip-hop inspire you to give the bullet?/
So when your asked why did you pull the trigger you can say hip-hop pulled it

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"Those who know don't talk,
and those who talk don't know a thing"
-Nas

"I swim but I wish I never learned, the water's too polluted with germs"
-Bradly Nowell

All my real niggaz stand Up.