Real Hip-Hop (feat. KRS-One)

I wanna leave this place I can't believe this place My father, he's a waste My mother, she's on base My brother, he caught him a case My sister, got cut in her face My auntie, she's a disgrace My cousins, the paper they chase No love and just hate Two hour hospital waits Even when you vomit and shake It's gotta be fake Man, the cops clock us Like them things on our wrist I'm supposed to live like this? It's getting thick I'm thinking about taking a trip Where? Anywhere but here Prison, army, anywhere but there I want some new shoes to wear I wanna walk past all these cats Asking what you doing here You know what I'm doing here I'm taking my last look at what I don't ever ever wanna become Yeah On the block everyday I fuss Guns Bust I need to hop that greyhound bus Cause when everyone you say you trust Turns on you You know what to do Me and Krs got it locked for sho All that other fake frontin shit gots to go I don't give a care if they think your hot You ain't real, you ain't hip hop I said Me and Krs got it locked for sho All that other fake frontin shit gots to go I don't give a care if they think your hot You ain't real, you ain't hip hop I feel like Lil Dirk, singing all my life Ain't nothing been promised but the thought I might die If you feel that way, I'm here to help you find Yourself and how to have clarity of mind Cops are beating the needy Killing and bigotry Now it's a tragedy For it to happen in the city It used to be just blacks Now it's the entire middle class Where housing is in crisis Healthcare is a life sentence Of debt like tuition For college for your children I'm here for the people You gots to listen Tell me it's not the system When the money's been given To the richest while blaming The poor for the way it went And I know I'll make it Cuz I won't give up They gon live with what they did to us The people, we ain't gonna stand for lies We stand for rights We just wanna live before we die Me and Krs got it locked for sho All that other fake frontin shit gots to go I don't give a care if they think your hot You ain't real, you ain't hip hop Me and Krs got it locked for sho All that other fake frontin shit gots to go I don't give a care if they think your hot You ain't real, you ain't hip hop No one will save you, look within Pray to the sun and the earth to bring your wish If you need a god, look to yourself Command your environment, use science to help I'll tell you what they don't teach in school And all the learning you need to do You need three things to think for you First the scientific method will lead you to the truth Second, learn how to tectonically troubleshoot It's important to develop skills with tools And the third is learning to run a business good Capitalism creates scarcity though there's abundance if you look So this for the wealthy who been robbing the soil From housing to the chemicals being forever deployed Your creating a world that will hate your voice And make you pay for your selfish choice Whatcha gonna do when they're not proud of where they came from? Whatcha gonna do when they make you pay for the pollution? What you gonna do when they take away your agency? What you gonna do when they make you pay for all your greed? Use tort law, make restitutions Rightly view you as a nuisance Take your property And make it an annuity That changes to sustainably Paying for our pertinent needs Me and Krs got it locked for sho All that other fake frontin shit gots to go I don't give a care if they think your hot You ain't real, you ain't hip hop