Where did rap go?
We all talk about instruction, corruption, lyrical dysfunction
But what ever happened to the classics?
The tracks that inspired the masses
The Shadys of the world that revived rap tactics
Rap is dead
It went off to bed
Where did it go though?
It's undeniable flow, yo?
It's trapped it's head and snapped it's neck in the era of trap instead
The atomic warhead
Left for dead
Where are the classics that represent?
How hard a dude gotta go?
To revive that classical flow
The past is the past yeah I know
But are the issues why I rhyme though?
Its disaster, education’s miscaptured
Learn to type this
Literary devices
Aren't where the hype is
I allude to shit without realizing it
I foreshadowed this uselessness
I mishandled this cheerful bliss
Because they told me it was ignorance
But I told them you get different seasoning
When you put rhyming and reasoning in the picture, its knowledge
It forms a solid
That's soluble in the icy hot
Cultural melting pot
We're preserved to rot
Where corruptions taught
But lessons are not
The battle’s been fought
We lost it
Intense I know, but at least we fought it
Now release the political hypnotics
Cause what's next is
The tyranny of the show biz
Hollywood's gold fist
Their attention span of goldfish
Now peace is an old wish
Accompanied by satirical bliss
Although I'm encouraged not to speak, I still leak
Unleash my modesty
My endless hypocrisy
Cause rap still talks to me
And I wanna save it
Find the man who made it
Destroy those who changed it
They said it's youthful innocence
But in a sense, I'm not tamed by my exuberance
So this isn't over, you foolish hooligans
I haven't severed ties
Because there is no compromise, rap will soon rise
We'll see it with youthful eyes
And with it will come reggae, R&B, and soul
Each playing their own role
We don't need that big hit
From that lyrical misfit
It's closing
The window of opportunity, raps immunity, is weak that's why we
Can't miss this
Cause peace is still an unattainable fantasy on my wishlist
And music's a part of it, in stressful times to timeless rap I resort
Sometimes I build a lyrical fort
To shield me from all the crap they distort
My life's been mission abort
Now my heart is torn
It craves reform
An impactful storm
When rap’s reborn
But i'm willing to sacrifice
My bread and rice
If it means prosperity, then twice
But I've gotten used to the pain
It's an annexation like Ukraine
Not Crimea, but still I cry me a
River
Cause these songs are bitter
They're bashing at my liver
Why can't death be quicker
The pains updating like it's twitter
All I wanted to know though
Is where did rap go?
And who killed it, yo?
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