What's Hip Hop - Crooked I

I know you don’t like what we got to say on this, uh, so called gangsta rap.

But it’s all hip hop

OBAMA

Yeah.

I’m tired of y’all separating everything.

I’m bringing change, hope,

unity (hahahaha)

You can’t put backpack rappers in one corner, gangsta rappers in the other one.

Everybody need to unite, let’s get this money together

OBAMA

Crook is the Block Obama, cause I’m a change the drama

Hip Hop ain’t dead it’s gettin head from his baby momma

That means its somewhere in the Bahamas chillin up in a sauna

But at any given minute it could become a pirahna

It could hit you with llamas

It could send you through trauma

It could turn back into Big Daddy Kane and Giancana

It could turn into Dr. Dre when he dropped The Marijuana

I mean The Chronic, it can do what the fuck it wanna

That means lean wit it

That means snap wit it

That means backpack wit it

Clap gats wit it

That means rappin bout trappin in your black fitted

Hate it when you act as if we really that different

I call it separation, musical segregation

A tickin time bomb, get ready for that detonation

Hatin can dead a nation, you on some elevation

I’m on some cheddar chasin', let’s have a conversation

Socially conscience lyrics they keep my heart warm

But what if that was all we got out of this art form

I need far more, I need some hardcore

And what you think I bought this stereo in my car for

So that 808 bass can blow away my car doors

I know, all of my experiences aren’t yours

And yours aren’t mine, may be you just fine

Listenin to one kind of music all the time

I need variety, that spice is fly to me

Like Spice 1 and MC Eiht way back in '93

That old Suave House, that Mr. Mike a G

I need some Scarface to help deal with society

I see apartheid I think we need to holla

I rep the darkside vote for the Block Obama

I see apartheid I think we need to holla

I rep the darkside vote for the Block Obama

Yeah, know what I mean man, I mean I think we need a change.

Change our

attitudes towards each other, know what I’m talkin about?

Why couldn’t we sit

down and have a conversation without, uh, putting it in the press and makin it

all a mess.

Know what I’m talkin about?

I mean, I like all types of music man

and I make all types of music.

Block Obama.

Sometimes, sometimes y’all nigga’s

is eavesdroppin on a gangsta’s conversation

(Fades out)