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[blacknoise]

Hip Hop has become a pittiful excuse of itself. So-called "Heads" are lazy. Dont come to soundchecks, late for rehearsal, always looking for an eazy way to get quick cash, wanna do as little as they can, never support by paying to attend local hip hop but have cash for Dead Prez or some other US so-called heads. Heads are too knowledgable to learn from elders, so they make the same mistakes over and over again. They do gigs and perform to the converted (usually their buddies they get in for free), then wonder why no one wants to pay or buy a copy of their CD. They debate hip hops purity and non-commercialism, while they work some shitty job for the man or are signed to a major label and still live with the moms. Their point of reference to rhymes and concepts expose their SLAVERY to American music and the man. Heads are brainwashed into complaining and blaming everyone else but themselves for the state of hip hop. Heads, hang out with other heads and speak a language that is exclusive to their click. They mock those who want to learn, forgetting that they too were like these interested potential hip hop lovers they are driving away. Then wonder they always see the same faces at events. They read too little and when they do its the same prescribed rhetoric by some non African about Africans. Heads are ACTIONLESS, so hip hop has become stagnant. Heads want everyone to think like they do, when non of us can. Heads are afraid of the true potential of hip hop to liberate them and expose them to all that they could be, so they opt for this version of being right. Heads have no heart for Hip Hop. Heads learn only what they want about a culture that is EVERYTHING. Heads are decapitating HIP HOP ... Its time for heads to roll ...

[kast1]

THIS IS so true!!! seen it happen all 2 many times!!!i encourage people 2 read this and take note!!!

!P!E!A!C!E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1

[nii]

man dat ws some deep shit...really deep..

[Westwind]

damn.........this is too real.....i be vibin with sa for some time from now on

thot it was only in 9ja we get some of them heads that truly need to roll

[kwestion]

I feel you black noize; thats the same reason that made me to stop listening to some of the S.A cats and boycott their shows. They show us no luv when we come to their shows and instead they bring their lame a## crews, perform while drunk en buzy charmin groupies at the expense of our dow, kcuf dat.

Till cats realize dat we their bread en butter, start givin us great showws; they will perform will 20 fans en 19 of them are their weck a## crews.

WE SHALL OVERCUM!!!

[linkris]

blacknoise said:

Hip Hop has become a pittiful excuse of itself. So-called "Heads" are lazy. Dont come to soundchecks, late for rehearsal, always looking for an eazy way to get quick cash, wanna do as little as they can, never support by paying to attend local hip hop but have cash for Dead Prez or some other US so-called heads. Heads are too knowledgable to learn from elders, so they make the same mistakes over and over again. They do gigs and perform to the converted (usually their buddies they get in for free), then wonder why no one wants to pay or buy a copy of their CD. They debate hip hops purity and non-commercialism, while they work some shitty job for the man or are signed to a major label and still live with the moms. Their point of reference to rhymes and concepts expose their SLAVERY to American music and the man. Heads are brainwashed into complaining and blaming everyone else but themselves for the state of hip hop. Heads, hang out with other heads and speak a language that is exclusive to their click. They mock those who want to learn, forgetting that they too were like these interested potential hip hop lovers they are driving away. Then wonder they always see the same faces at events. They read too little and when they do its the same prescribed rhetoric by some non African about Africans. Heads are ACTIONLESS, so hip hop has become stagnant. Heads want everyone to think like they do, when non of us can. Heads are afraid of the true potential of hip hop to liberate them and expose them to all that they could be, so they opt for this version of being right. Heads have no heart for Hip Hop. Heads learn only what they want about a culture that is EVERYTHING. Heads are decapitating HIP HOP ... Its time for heads to roll ...

I feel you,but i got sum points to raize to this.
im leaving work now,ill hit this up 2moro,btw whose this(i mean Blacknoise is a crew)?
You probably Emile?

Peace.

[melanin]

So true...hip hop is steady preachin to the choir- turn to the congregation behind you!!!!

[blacknoise]

I often write to get feedback about where the hip hop community is at and what they are willing to do for change to come ... The results are interesting and too often they are sad. In all that I have done through Black Noise, the African Hip Hop Indaba, African Battle Cry, Pop Glide Crew, Conquering Lions, releasing others CDs, DVDs, books, Our Hip Hop, Heal the Hood, Da Juice,Hip Hop Mag, etc. It seems that only when you making money for the status quo, our people and community is the happiest. We celebrate those who work for them and do their advertising and we praise that. I never suggested that we buy whats not "good enough", just ask ourselves the question ... how did we come by the concept of what good enough is and what is the measuring stick for that and what are our points of reference??? How do we make things better for us as Africans, if we always looking at working for them. Its a question we should all ask ourselves first before pointing fingers at each other. Learning is about always wanting new information and thats how they have stolen everything we have created and made money off our creations. We make music, the Japanese and Europeans make the equipment and the technology that our music gets recorded and played on. We talk about how we gonna blow up, while others make billions off the process that is needed for the masses to hear you so that you can blow up BRIEFLY. All we do is the music, they make the samplers, the computer programs, the hard disks, the CDs, the DVDs, the machinery that create that, the machinery that gets printed on, the ink for the machine, the plastic rapping around the CD, the barcode and all the machines that make that process possible. Then we wonder why our families dont get out of the poverty we find ourselves in. At the same time these people find us laughable with our big talk gangster crap, when they make so much from our ignorance. We are allowed to flash the scraps they leave us in music videos to distract our people and next generation from the real wealth that is in the creation of the machinery that makes the real money. Heres another example. You made the CD and have to market it ... who owns the radio, magazine, TV, bookstores, record stores, websites, internet, phone-tones, tour busses, sound systems, venues, security companies, limos, lighting, ticket outlets, etc ... do you get my point of "how deep the rabbit hole runs "??? We are blind and need to see ... ja, that what that biblical line actually means.

If we celebrate those who work for the system, our kids will pay the ultimate price. They will be "cannon fodder" for capitalists mind-control and be disposable casualties of greed ... it is already happening. So you're rich, so what ??? We should ask ARE YOU A DESCENT PERSON that has concerned for the PLANET? We want to buy new commodities, when our home (THE PLANET) is burning down, OUR ONLY HOME is being destroyed by these greedy bastards making us believe being rich will somehow give back our clean air, our rain-forrests, our oceans, our extinct animal species, our silence, OUR HUMANITY ... Hell, No ... so I am speaking of the bigger picture, than just buying whats good enough or a specific car or signing a deal ... Im speaking about REAL HIP HOP, bigger than LIFE ITSELF ...

We are at war ... its mental ... think or sink
Emile YX?

[blacknoise]

Im so tired of all the big talk from MCs. Dont Mcs feel stupid when they always talking about how they are gonna get a deal and what they planning and never just having a decent conversation that shows that they actually OVERSTAND the state of reality that artists are faced with in South Africa. Maybe it too much watching Cahnnel O or some other kak that gave them that unrealistic gedagte that they were gonna blow up on an international lelvl sounding like ther favourite MC.

Who wants to hire or sign someone from South Africa sounding like Jay Z or Busta or Kanye???? Are they actually thinking about this. Then you find these ouens that you hire for a gig and they dont show for the soundcheck. They ask if you cant fetch them or if they can just quickly drop a verse, NO FOOL, its not how shows are done. You have to make the rehearsal or you will not get the gig. What about professionalism or even just resect for the event organiser and other acts that would like to see what you have to offer, so they can see how their set will fit in with yours. How about learning how to perform for a crowd and not talk dowen to people who are paying for you to give them and show and actually entertain them. Aslo, how about not blaming your kak show on sound, when you never bothered to soundcheck or learn how to use a microphone. Another interesting thing was seeing an MC argue with the sound man ... mmmm I quess you now know why your sound was so k#k. Then these "artists" think that they are too good to consider the people they are performing for and OH! they come to the gig drunk or smoked up ... now maybe its just me, but you are not fooling any event manager that you are cool by doing that, all you showing is how nervous you actually are and thus you gesuip because you cant face this crowd sober. OK, now they on stage and you have to fight to get them to stick to the time you asked them to perform. Why will you try to stay on the MIC as long as you can. You have to read the crowd and see what songs work and how long they can handle seeing your show. You see unlike you, others are not able to listen to something they have never before heard and you 5 friends in front of the stage do not count and a refletion of the crowd response. Be realistic. Be honest with yourself about your show and mostly about doing what will work to get them to hire you again. Your last performance is your last business card. EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY ... your last perfromance was a shjowcase of HIP HOP in South Africa. You represent all of us and if you suck, next time we will all have to work so much harder to get work. Stop just talking about what you see oversea ... make your show the best it can be and do hi hop proud. TYalk is Cheap ... learn your craft ...

Peace

[Beesting]

@Blacknoise: I think that you got valuable expirience in hip hop that catz, who practise hip hop (doing gigs, shows, recoding shit and so on. Yes I say practise as in LAW) need to learn from.

Catz stand up. Come in and read some of this stuff and go apply. I think this deserves a sticky. It's like a bible of hip hop practice, a bible that can work for the underdagws, cos, seemingly they are the only ones complaining.

[blacknoise]

Heads ??? ... The South African Hip Hop Community ... I hope you realise that I am speaking to all involved in hip hop culture. Thats the DJs, the MCs, the writers/ graff artists, b-boys/girls, lovers, etc ... This is Hip Hop. I speak to all of them because it was the b-boys and writers that kept the MCs alive back in the day when people just wated to see the dancers and MCs/ rappers were the background music that the dancers just danced to. South African hip hop was silent for so long and the dancer kept the scene alive in each town throughout South Africa. We taught the next generation nationawide and yet MCs seldom speak of the whole culture, yet use the word hip hop to only explain them.

Lets check this out. It is ironically the same that happened in the USA. The DJ was the backbone of the scene and played the local stuff to break it to the masses ... mmmm It is ironic that South Africas best Hip Hop DJs spend more of their time playing American Rap instead of local ... even though they are in rap groups themselves??? What the hell is that. They break the latest USA hip hop to the masses and then wonder why we are in the situation that we find ourselves in. The scene is in this situation because we dont even dance to what is from here. DJs dont play local and the radio never play what is from here. At the core of this is the connection between the record labels and the radio stations and how much money is made off tracks that are owned by record labels instead of individuals in other music genres. You see they back ach other because they make money from each other and the artists that they own. Hip hop does not have that much dance as kwaito, let alone sell its soul as often, so what do you expect ... yes we will struggle.

Hip Hop heads seldom use their heads and breakdown the reasons behind the scenes struggle and how what it will really take to get the masses interested ... THINK ... What do the people want, more imprtantly .. what do the people need when it comes to hip hops voice in South Africa. I was at a hip hop new skool dance competition in JHB and I realised the deeper problem. They call their dance Hip Hop like rappers call themselves hip hop when it is not the whole culture or they dont even know what the culture is actually about and insist on using that name to explain what they do. It suddenly hit me that if we had all these kids dancing to local hip hop and realising the real culture as a whole and how they are part of that great powerful culture, we would get so much more out of it as a country. Check this out ... my opservations were how they only danced on USA hip hop dance songs, so the rehearsed on USA hip hop and know all the lyrics and love the videos where they learned the moves from or how they dress what they saw on these videos. Then I saw that if we worked together in mass the culture in South Africa would become South African. If b-boys danced on South African music, they would know South African lyrics and how can that happen when our best DJs are promoting them and not us. Then I saw how these kids parens were paying thousands for shoes and clothing that also came from overseas and how that did not help South Africa and how this was all connected. A kid is an amazing MC, but his folks say get a real job because she buys him USA hip hop and know that you cant live off that here ... We killing wees creativity ... then I see the dance steps all belong to other people from oversea and its the same in b-boying today as well and in MCing as well as graffiti artists and as well as clothing styles and everything else South African hip hop creates ... even if its in Native tongue, its in overseas style of rhyming ... we have lost our creativity WHICH IS WHAT HIP HOP IS ALL ABOUT.

OUR OWN CLOTHING STYLES< OUR OWN DJ STYLES< OUR OWN MC STYLES< OUR OWN B-BOY MOVES< OUR OWN WRITERS STYLE

[Black Noise]

DAMN!!!! blah blah blah blah blah .... jy praat en praat en praat, doen nou iets en maak klaar

Rappers are like politcians that make empty promises of shit tey never really gonna do. They living in fanasy and then pass that shit on to the masses as if we all wanna hear that crap. No wonder people are listenin to something else. You like the boy that cried wolf ... after a while people are tired of hearing what you saying, because your words are meaningless, they have no meaning yes, yes sis, like Tokyos the apprentice to their richess, while the spear of the nation is is reduced to a shovel and the masses reduced to grovel ... mr bee as greedy as you can bee ... sorry about that !!!! (Back to my point)

Dont rappers think that people are gonna wonder if they do the shit they talk about in their songs. Then again, its South Africa and rappers dont sell that much, so its just not that big an interest in the fact that you are not doing what you speaking about. Or maybe people have become use to believing people in the media and on CD, so they dont have to be telling the truth or even live up to their promises ... mmmmm. Maybe, but then all we gonna have is a whole lot of talk alot MCs that never do what they are rhyming about or even taking action on the words that they speak ... or even taking the next step beyond the dream of success and actually take the steps that are needed to make the dream a reality. WORDS MUST BE ACTED ON, that what ACTION IS, ACT-I-ON ... I have to take action on the words that I speak ... In the beginning was the word and the word was made man, see even GOD took action on the words in his plan .... from a song Im writing for my next solo CD called "These Babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on, the battle it be over even before its begun" " Now you can chant down babylon, when all you have is an empty song, Now you cant cantdown babylon, when your words are not acted on" ...

Well, lets see how much action we can take until next time I write to you ok
Peace
Emile

[Black Noise]

These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2
Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon,
when you dont know whats going on
Verse 1
Ohmmmm !!!!!
In the beginning was the word and the word was made man
See even God took actions on the words in his plan
Can you understand when our words were our bond
Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds
Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your wordsworth
When your words never ever into action even give birth
Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless
Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes
The meaninglessness of words has now escalated
Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated
Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke
Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke
Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page
At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage
Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest
Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best
Chorus
Verse 2
Babblers babble 'bout blowing up as an MC
But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery
Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property
Promptly, promoting commodities a priority
See these slaves endorse products aplenty
Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90
Empty MCs on Empty TV's
Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze
Please - I never thought that I'd see the day
Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say
Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for
So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore
Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity
No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free
Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty
Empty like the beers they consume after entry
Chorus
Break
Drums come and call on the son
To return the meaning to where word came from
Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain
When all fades away only the word will remain
Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!

Verse 3
These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun
They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one
Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue
On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung
Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies
These global capitalist media monopolies
Empty promises from politicians to economists
The conning list, they insist silences pessimist
Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists
Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches
B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization
Our nation sold to foreign economic occupation
Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom
See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...
Their battles won if the words meanings gone
On your words be impeccable and true change will come

Masses minds won when medias brainwashing gets done
These sons of capitalism control the sales of the gun

[kast1]

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

this is a powerful piece!!! really inspiring!!! thanks so much for the piece!!! its inspired me to write something of my own!!!


truly a african pioneer!!!

peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[G Hova]

Black noise has officially schooled me (nuff said)

[Black Noise]

I thought I would share the lyrics with you after this discussion helped to form a song that dealt with the issue of talking vs doing in hip hop and just generally in South Africa and politics:-

Babblers from Babylon - Talk is Cheap
Chorus
These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2
Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon,
when you dont know whats going on
Verse 1
Ohmmmm !!!!!
In the beginning was the word and the word was made man
See even God took actions on the words in his plan
Can you understand when our words were our bond
Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds
Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your words worth
When your words never ever into action even give birth
Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless
Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes
The meaninglessness of words has now escalated
Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated
Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke
Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke
Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page
At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage
Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest
Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best
Chorus
Verse 2
Babblers babble 'bout blowing up as an MC
But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery
Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property
Promptly, promoting commodities a priority
See these slaves endorse products aplenty
Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90
Empty MCs on Empty TV's
Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze
Please - I never thought that I'd see the day
Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say
Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for
So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore
Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity
No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free
Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty
Empty like the beers they consume after entry
Chorus
Break
Drums come and call on the son
To return the meaning to where word came from
Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain
When all fades away only the word will remain
Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!

Verse 3
These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun
They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one
Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue
On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung
Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies
These global capitalist media monopolies
Empty promises from politicians to economists
The conning list, they insist silences pessimist
Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists
Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches
B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization
Our nation sold to foreign economic occupation
Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom
See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...
Their battles won if the words meanings gone
On your words be impeccable and true change will come

[Black Noise]

I thought I would share the lyrics with you after this discussion helped to form a song that dealt with the issue of talking vs doing in hip hop and just generally in South Africa and politics:-

Babblers from Babylon - Talk is Cheap
Chorus
These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2
Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon,
when you dont know whats going on
Verse 1
Ohmmmm !!!!!
In the beginning was the word and the word was made man
See even God took actions on the words in his plan
Can you understand when our words were our bond
Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds
Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your words worth
When your words never ever into action even give birth
Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless
Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes
The meaninglessness of words has now escalated
Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated
Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke
Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke
Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page
At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage
Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest
Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best
Chorus
Verse 2
Babblers babble 'bout blowing up as an MC
But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery
Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property
Promptly, promoting commodities a priority
See these slaves endorse products aplenty
Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90
Empty MCs on Empty TV's
Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze
Please - I never thought that I'd see the day
Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say
Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for
So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore
Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity
No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free
Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty
Empty like the beers they consume after entry
Chorus
Break
Drums come and call on the son
To return the meaning to where word came from
Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain
When all fades away only the word will remain
Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!

Verse 3
These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun
They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one
Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue
On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung
Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies
These global capitalist media monopolies
Empty promises from politicians to economists
The conning list, they insist silences pessimist
Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists
Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches
B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization
Our nation sold to foreign economic occupation
Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom
See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...
Their battles won if the words meanings gone
On your words be impeccable and true change will come

[Black Noise]

I was at my nephews party last night and they all were into hip hop ... American Hip Hop that is and they knew all the words and I heard some of them say that they are into hip hop ... I was tempted to ask if they were into RAP or hip hop, but you see their dont know the difference. Heads are plenty, but activists are few. Heads spitl venom verbally inflicting pain to the minds in other heads, while both are actionless.

I saw the future of Cape Town hip hop last night and it is a sad version of what it could be and hip hops real power. i kept wondering how we could change this when all their parents see is the negative affect that hip hop is having on their children and its backed by the radio stations and the powers that be in South Africa. Rich white and BEE black people deciding what the masses get to hear, while they make money off the same exploitation of the masses minds and the future of this democratic South Africa. You see now the exploitation is via the greed of these people in capitalistic masks selling capitalism as a solution to our once proud socialistic and communistic leaders, who have switched on their agenda and fill their pockets. I dont care what colour you are , if you an abusive greedy person putting nothing back into Africa, then you are the peoples enemy. Many did not die so that you could change South Africa to the exploitive platform for international interests at this the planets 11th hour.

ACTION is needed to change this trend of thought that is happening. We need to act collectively for more than just sharing our punchlines and egos through rhymes that miss the point and are directed in the wrong enemy.

MENTAL WAR!!!!
e

[mr rehd]

TRUE TALK!!!!!

I dont know how it is i over looked this thread.
the power and strenght of hiphop will only be felt if and only when channelled and directed towards the right causes.
this is the founding philosophy of me and my crew members;to use our hiphop not only expose the creeping rot in our society but to also disabuse the minds of the teeming disenchanted youth that not only do they do have a stake in comtemporary society but to propel them to state and protect that stake.

...so help us God

[Beesting]

Black Noise said:

I thought I would share the lyrics with you after this discussion helped to form a song that dealt with the issue of talking vs doing in hip hop and just generally in South Africa and politics:-

Babblers from Babylon - Talk is Cheap
Chorus
These babblers from babylon, I hear them babbling on and on/ The battle it be over even before its begun X 2
Now you can't chant down babylon/ If all you have is an empty song/ Now you cant chant down babylon,
when you dont know whats going on
Verse 1
Ohmmmm !!!!!
In the beginning was the word and the word was made man
See even God took actions on the words in his plan
Can you understand when our words were our bond
Now rappers speew words like their mouths are magic wonds
Conned from wordsworth, tell me whats your words worth
When your words never ever into action even give birth
Words be like Oh No, now Im meaningless
Before these empty MCs, you see I had meaning yes
The meaninglessness of words has now escalated
Self-hatred paraded on poster poles are under-rated
Sacred was the word when we thought before we spoke
Its a joke when freestyle MCs freely on their words choke
Poke it with a stick, words meanings sticking to the page
At this stage we've forgotten how to use our words to rage
Uncage the words meaning, let your words manifest
Lest saying isn't doing, so on your words do your best
Chorus
Verse 2
Babblers babble 'bout blowing up as an MC
But cant see the industries still run by mental Slavery
Artists are an apostrophe, owned they're their property
Promptly, promoting commodities a priority
See these slaves endorse products aplenty
Where MCs get 10% while industry gets 90
Empty MCs on Empty TV's
Words are empty thanks to the corporate squeeze
Please - I never thought that I'd see the day
Where your flow is more important than acting on what you say
Hey ! big word spitters, who do you actually rhyme for
So hardcore that the masses of listeners you ignore
Im sure MCs an acronym for mental captivity
No sustainability cause everyone gets in for free
Put them on your guest list, you guest yes pockets empty
Empty like the beers they consume after entry
Chorus
Break
Drums come and call on the son
To return the meaning to where word came from
Some spit venom verbally inflicting pain
When all fades away only the word will remain
Ohmmmmmmm !!!!!

Verse 3
These babblers babble on and with forked tongue spit at the sun
They've come to cruxify the revolutionary one
Beware of these ones who speak with forked tongue
On a cross in Calvary, they the word hung
Spun Democracies falacies and free-trade policies
These global capitalist media monopolies
Empty promises from politicians to economists
The conning list, they insist silences pessimist
Make passivists from activists, opportunists capitalists
Capital YES SIS, Tokyos the apprentice to their riches
B.E.E greedy , legitimize privitization
Our nation sold to foreign economic occupation
Gone are our revolutionary youth who fought for freedom
See them in the malls acting like dumb ass Hilton ...
Their battles won if the words meanings gone
On your words be impeccable and true change will come

Respek man. Let the truth be told.

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Now I see why they say revolution will never be televised.