Yo, I'm sure that everbody out listenin agree...

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

That everything you see ain't really how it be

A lot of jokers out runnin in place, chasin the style

Be a lot goin on beneath the empty smile

Most cats in my area be lovin the hysteria

Synthesized surface conceals the interior

America, land of opportunity, mirages and camoflauges

More than usually -- speakin loudly, sayin nothin

You confusin me, you losin me

Your game is twisted, want me enlisted -- in your usary

Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly

Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception

Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the lookin glass

Walkin the street, wonderin who they be lookin past

Lookin gassed with them imported designer shades on

Stars shine bright, but the light -- rarely stays on

Same song, just remixed, different arrangement

Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slaveship

Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this

Screamin brand new, when they just sanitized the old shit

Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick

That they been runnin across stars through all the time with

I find it's distressin, there's never no in-between

We either niggaz or Kings

We either bitches or Queens

The deadly ritual seems immersed, in the perverse

Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts

Long barrel automatics released in short bursts

The length of black life is treated with short worth

Get yours first, them other niggaz secondary

That type of illin that be fillin up the cemetary

This life is temporary but the soul is eternal

Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you

Not strong, only aggressive, cause the power ain't directed

That's why, we are subjected to the will of the oppressive

Not free, we only licensed

Not live, we just excitin

Cause the captors.. own the masters.. to what we writin

Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained

Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game

Not good, but well behaved cause the ca-me-ra survey

most of the things that we think, do, or say

We chasin after death just to call ourselves brave

But everyday, next man meet with the grave

I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy

I'm tryin to live life in the sight of God's memory


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[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

bet

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

wow, where are my good hip-hop heads at?

 

[DSMW 10+ year member]

who is it. cant quite tell by the verse style

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Mos Def

Black Star - Thieves in the Night

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

meh

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Black star+Common-Respiration

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

meh

Are you more of a newer rap fan, or not a fan at all?

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Black star+Common-Respiration

Indeed, on the same album. So is Definition and the remix, which I like as well.

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

Are you more of a newer rap fan, or not a fan at all?

Most of the hip hop/rap that I listen to is from the 90s...

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Most of the hip hop/rap that I listen to is from the 90s...

I believe the BlackStar album came out in 2000, too new? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif What do you listen to from the 90's? The BackStar album had a 90's feel to it anyways, with respiration and a dirty, real kind of feel to the songs.

edit: came out in 1998

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

I believe the BlackStar album came out in 2000, too new? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif What do you listen to from the 90's? The BackStar album had a 90's feel to it anyways, with respiration and a dirty, real kind of feel to the songs.
edit: came out in 1998

I still listen to the old Death Row stuff, NWA, Ice Cube, Eazy E, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, etc. Just the mainstream stuff that was popular back in the day. I've heard Mos Def perform live and I've seen some of his freestyle stuff, but I don't recall ever listening to one of his albums.

I'm a little older and whiter than most on this forum, so I feel goofy when I listen to a lot of the new stuff. Some of it does sound excellent, but I can't get into the materialistic aspect of hip hop/rap from the last decade or so...

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

I still listen to the old Death Row stuff, NWA, Ice Cube, Eazy E, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, etc. Just the mainstream stuff that was popular back in the day. I've heard Mos Def perform live and I've seen some of his freestyle stuff, but I don't recall ever listening to one of his albums.
I'm a little older and whiter than most on this forum, so I feel goofy when I listen to a lot of the new stuff. Some of it does sound excellent, but I can't get into the materialistic aspect of hip hop/rap from the last decade or so...

I hate the new stuff with a passion...and I mean really, really hate it. Filled with senseless, self glorifying, meaningless bullshit...that for some reason is popular? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I have Biggie's albums, some NWA and Wu-Tang as well as Mobb Deep's Infamous album...I never got into Tupac though, his voice/flow just never appealed to me.

 

[manny1337 10+ year member]

blackstar is the shittt. not as good as rakim though. but very good

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

Indeed, on the same album. So is Definition and the remix, which I like as well.

Definitely 2 of my fav. songs.