Ok so I'm driving home from work today listening to Pandora and I happen to catch a lyric in this song that Ive never noticed, but I've been noticing more and more in hiphop lyrics that too many of these 'artists' have IQ's less than their age.
[Verse - Kanye West]
I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em
We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom
We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em
Things we buy to cover up what's inside
Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth
That's why shortys hollering "where the ballas' at?"
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off of all of that
But I ain't even gon act holier than thou
Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with 25 thou
Before I had a house and I'd do it again
Cause I wanna be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz
I wanna act ballerific like it's all terrific
I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific
I got a problem with spending before I get it
We all self conscious I'm just the first to admit it
[Chorus - to fade (w/ Kanye ad-libs)]
One realization that has changed me in recent years is the fairly simple notion that you must identify a problem in order to fix it, not just the symptoms, but the cause of the problem itself. When people constantly blame others for their problems, they will never change because they feel the problem lies outside of their control which is a lazy deafeatist crybaby attitude
[Verse - Kanye West]
I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em
We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom
We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em
Things we buy to cover up what's inside
Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth
That's why shortys hollering "where the ballas' at?"
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off of all of that
But I ain't even gon act holier than thou
Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with 25 thou
Before I had a house and I'd do it again
Cause I wanna be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz
I wanna act ballerific like it's all terrific
I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific
I got a problem with spending before I get it
We all self conscious I'm just the first to admit it
[Chorus - to fade (w/ Kanye ad-libs)]
One realization that has changed me in recent years is the fairly simple notion that you must identify a problem in order to fix it, not just the symptoms, but the cause of the problem itself. When people constantly blame others for their problems, they will never change because they feel the problem lies outside of their control which is a lazy deafeatist crybaby attitude