Wtf am I doing here?

Shit on my mind...

In a world full of broken smiles on top of broken frowns,
It's hard to hear the truth on top of all these broken sounds,
The floor crumbles beneath our feet but we continue to walk,
Every word brings more destruction but we continue to talk,

Those who were here before us were overthrown by greed,
The darkness took advantage, went and planted its seed,
Watched it develop, imprisoned the land of the free,
They cornered themselves, is this what they were planning to be?

When the cannons are free, anyone can afford to fight,
So hop on, everyone else is boarding the flight,
Its backwards, we got princesses courting the knight,
Avoiding the light, we only move forward in the night,

It's not right, and that's why, I'm calling it out,
Fix it quickly or infinitely we'll be all in a shroud,
Calling for help, as the sound of bombs turns to sirens,
Keep following tyrants; the violence will be followed by silence.

Comments appreciated

Don't base your assumptions about rap on what plays on the radio 250 times a day. The shit that you hear all the time is the shit that the wannabe gangster white kids are listening to nonstop, and its the primary reason that it becomes the face of rap/hiphop. Commercialism has buried the deep, meaningful rap-artists and promoted the image of rappers who couldn't say something meaningful with their words if they were reading out of a poetry book.

Listen to some real rap before you decide that the genre is nothing but a bunch of people talking over a beat about their drugs, money, hoes, and guns. Listen to some of Nas's songs, listen to Eminem, listen to Jay-Z's old stuff, listen to Tupac, listen to Biggie, listen to the artists that actually produce art.

If you can appreciate poetry, you can appreciate rap. You just have to actually try to find the rappers who have something to say instead of turning on your local hip-hop station and hearing T-Pain's hundredth version of 'There's some girl in the club I wanna fuck'.

What you percieve as the stereotype of rap is equal to saying that all Americans are greedy arrogant bastards. The stuff that shows on the surface is what you're seeing, and you need to dig deeper to hear the heart and soul of what is an extremely powerful genre of music.

I'll leave you with one of my favorite few bars from Eminem's "Sing for the Moment":

"For anyone who's ever been through shit in their lives,
So they sit and they cry at night, wishing they die,
Till they throw on a rap record, and they sit and they vibe,
We're nothing to you, but we're the fuckin' shit in their eyes,
That's why we sieze the moment, and try to freeze it and own it,
Squeeze it and hold it, 'cos we consider these minutes golden,
And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone,
Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear in our songs,"

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