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gangsta rap - naila keleta-mae and jason promesse lyrics

[part 1]
‘cuz dem wan tek black fi joke
tink say all we do is smoke
dem wan wear dem baggy jeans
and finish ever talk wit ‘seen’
cuz black is in
black is in
a fi we culture cool now
but, who ah really run it now?

[part 2]
gangsta rap gets the bad rap
it can’t seem to escape the scapegoat’s fate
demonized
as black youths rise
make loot and talk about their reality
lived
because the real minority dwells in high*class, privileged society
white collar crime
suave intellectual robbery
blue (black) collar crime motivated by warning and stretched thin thread lines
no clothes to clothe a baby’s back
chronically escaping life’s, rock*hard realities
so gangsta rap gets the bad rap
because white, middle*class youths are buying it up, soaking it in
subconsciously or consciously realising the results of having a messed*up history
and there’s steadily realising that their ancestors were the oppressors who enslaved the brave
guilt plays funny tricks and manifest itself in many ways
[part 3]
you must learn krs*one rhymed many years ago
and i did
not from a tax*paid teacher
but from a real mc about my history
black man invented the traffic light
stop dead in your tracks, this ain’t no flashing red light
don’t proceed with caution when you’re condemning an art form
rapping gangstas couldn’t rap what they didn’t know
who sowed those seeds of poverty in black communities?
i colonize thee
and now pr*nounce the less than human
laws we’ll enact to state you’re less than one eighth of a man
and then quote bible scriptures to justify slavery
can i get an amen?
or better yet a witness
to attest to the fact that with the quickness
we were branded as beasts
‘cuz triple sixes were getting their fixes by eating out their hearts
light’s green so now try to squeal clean with your hypocrisies
gangsta rap was ghetto music for brown*skinned ghetto youths called black
and as long as the violence stayed in that zone
and as long as the crime only affected those with that tone of skin
n0body was trying to legislate or drop parental advisories on cd’s or tapes
there were no advisories or warning signs for the africans who were ripped from all regions
the sticker should have read
warning
explicit, inhumane treatment for the next five hundred years
followed by a few hundred years of psychological enslavement
during which you will be chastised for mourning and retribution will be dismissed
all for three easy instalments of $19.99
has come and gone and not much has changed
metal chains exchanged for complexes of inferiority
ancestors, once lynched, chained, pummelled and raped
to build the caribbean and every last one of the american states
the same economy that canadians now rely on
[part 4]
and still
and still the real minority is living privileged off of dry black blood
once red, but now caked on brown skin
twenty lashes ‘cuz she look massah in the eyes
now turn the other cheek
they’ll give you a god to worship
but will only teach you scriptures that will have you thinking
god wants you to be weak
eye for an eye, my bible says
and the scriptures tell no lie
right?
nor do the ten crack commandments
those were not notoriously long tales or biggie stories
but suave, intellectual, business plans by a businessman
and still gangsta rap gets the bad rap
for truth*telling to a continent founded on lies and stealing
now trying to reprimand those trying to do the same
inevitably you reap what you sow
who bit the hand that fed them initially?
“sign this treaty chief”
who’s been the real thief throughout this history?
who’s been
gangsta living
gangsta k!lling
gangsta colonizing
throughout this history?
and gangsta rap gets the bad rap?

[part 5]
‘cuz dem wan tek black fi joke
tink say all we do is smoke
dem wan wear dem baggy jeans
and finish ever talk wit ‘seen’
cuz black is in
black is in
ah fi we culture cool now
but, you think se we can rule now?

- naila keleta mae and jason promesse lyrics

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