Redd Bull - What Happened to Hip-Hop? lyrics

(Intro) (hook) Lets talk about life.. life (repeat) Lets talk about life.. life (repeat) (verses) What it is, What it does/ Live it fast or you'll be talking bout what it was/ When you hear me spit the music, its For the love/ Nowadays most cats, they do it for the bucks/ Remember days i couldn't even afford a lunch/ But somehow I always had some Mary for the lungs/ Had dreams of big stacks and Tommy Guns/ Doing it big like Sincere & Tommy Bunz/ Now who say that the South ain't Hip-Hop/ Grew up Listening to Suave House, Rap-a-lot, No Limit, Oh yeah I can't forget Pac/ Now I spit with a flow that make your A&R jaw & bottom lip drop/ Quick to try to get me to sign a 360/ Shows every weekend, Account still empty/ No sir, my mind think too swiftly/ Never let a stone from the pyramid tempt me/ Walking through the valley of the shadow of d**h/ Never have no fear cause The Lord shadow my steps/ Never look back to days of cooked crack, I'm way past that/ Honestly you can keep your BMI, & ASCAP/ I do it for the Underground/ I just want to rock a show, Ill let the Mayor run the town/ My thoughts as the homies pa** the blunt around/ If you see us, its probably a gun around/ Trying to keep the peace, but all the while got to keep a piece/ Cause you and I know ain't nothing sweet in the streets/ (Hook) And that's life.. life.. life.. (repeat) Just talk about life, no hoes, no talking bout ice/ I want to tell these rappers just talk about life/ Who the hell cares, stop talking bout price/ N***** living so wrong, can't even talk about right/ Quick to pick a fight, shooting pistols every night/ Send another young black soul floating to the light/ Quick to throw away their life, with no hesitation/ Welcome to the final generation/ Real life, recreating scenes from PlayStation/ Lil kids mating and procreating before grade 10/ Lets take it back to the basics/ Think we living free but our mind still on the slave ship/ Its time to get my people out the matrix/ Take the keys from the guard and open up the cages/ A pocket full of money, and riding on Daytons/ If that's enough to put each other in the grave then/ You might as well nuke the planet because we can't save it/ But what about the good people and the babies?/ But all the politicians see is hooligans and racists/ We keep thinking like this, we won't make it/ Watch your step on the checkerboard/ One wrong move will have you face to face with The Lord/ And though your family will mourn you/ They don't decide where you're going to/ You better have your soul right with the Most High/ Not perfect but I try harder than most try/ Been through situations so hard it'll make most cry/ I'm burning marijuana while watching the days coast by/ (hook) I'm burning marijuana while watching the days coast by.. I'm burning marijuana while watching the days coast by.. Just talk about life.. life.. (repeat)