Armed and Dangerous
"I thought you boys understood it's business that's all it is. You still don't get it do you boys? No more good guys, they're running the whole show, they own everything the whole damn planet they can do whatever they want. What's wrong with having it good for a change and they're gonna let us have it good if we just help 'em they're gonna leave us alone, let us make some money you can have a little taste of the good life too now, I know you want it hell everybody does."
"you'd do it to your own kind?"
"What's the threat, we all sell out everyday it might as well be on the winning team." -Binary Star, Masters of the universe.
Decompose of Binary Star wrote, "We need to try to keep this music to ourselves we sellin out this art for some money to a guy who don't care nothin about this music, we gotta keep it to ourselves. I'm trying to win the indie 500.
I'm trying to figure out why we, the people, my people, are letting white boys run this rap shit. The music industry, the distribution and promotion, the record stores, the concerts. Yeah they have a four hundred year head start of resources and visionary-ism, but damn. This kid Bill sharp/Fat Beats records, said to me "don't pretend that white people aren't apart of the evolution of hip hop." I'm still trying to figure out what tha fuck he's talking about. But I realized he doesn't know what the fuck I'm talking about either. I'm a descendent of the (en)slave(d). That history causes me to scrutinize the motive behind his altruistic sentiment. When a white boy likes the beat and the intensity of the lyrics surrounding a hip hop track maybe he doesn't realize that we are not making that for his listening pleasure. When that white boy hears an emcee breaking down how fucked up white people cause our situation in Amerikka to be maybe he thinks we are not talking to him. He got it all twisted in (k)nots and needs to get a fucking late pass cause he over slept. What we are saying, although he may think it's all cool and he's hard core down, is a whole different rhyme from what he's hearing AND he should realize that his contribution (gaining control of Hip Hop) is yet another oppressive move. My real point is I'm done having to go through a white boy to get my brother's music. I'm sick with watching their 'appreciation' of my music on a level that causes them to feel compelled to decide what's hot and gain the majority of profit that it produces. I'm tierd of their so called 'contribution', which is basically the capitalization and the exploitation of my music and culture. Can you find something of your own to be on?? Yeah, I'm talking to you white boy. It's been time to shut all that down.
"you'd do it to your own kind?"
"What's the threat, we all sell out everyday it might as well be on the winning team." -Binary Star, Masters of the universe.
Decompose of Binary Star wrote, "We need to try to keep this music to ourselves we sellin out this art for some money to a guy who don't care nothin about this music, we gotta keep it to ourselves. I'm trying to win the indie 500.
I'm trying to figure out why we, the people, my people, are letting white boys run this rap shit. The music industry, the distribution and promotion, the record stores, the concerts. Yeah they have a four hundred year head start of resources and visionary-ism, but damn. This kid Bill sharp/Fat Beats records, said to me "don't pretend that white people aren't apart of the evolution of hip hop." I'm still trying to figure out what tha fuck he's talking about. But I realized he doesn't know what the fuck I'm talking about either. I'm a descendent of the (en)slave(d). That history causes me to scrutinize the motive behind his altruistic sentiment. When a white boy likes the beat and the intensity of the lyrics surrounding a hip hop track maybe he doesn't realize that we are not making that for his listening pleasure. When that white boy hears an emcee breaking down how fucked up white people cause our situation in Amerikka to be maybe he thinks we are not talking to him. He got it all twisted in (k)nots and needs to get a fucking late pass cause he over slept. What we are saying, although he may think it's all cool and he's hard core down, is a whole different rhyme from what he's hearing AND he should realize that his contribution (gaining control of Hip Hop) is yet another oppressive move. My real point is I'm done having to go through a white boy to get my brother's music. I'm sick with watching their 'appreciation' of my music on a level that causes them to feel compelled to decide what's hot and gain the majority of profit that it produces. I'm tierd of their so called 'contribution', which is basically the capitalization and the exploitation of my music and culture. Can you find something of your own to be on?? Yeah, I'm talking to you white boy. It's been time to shut all that down.
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