Black Poetry : you know.

baller

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i sat down to write one disturbing day
my mental was fuddled...didn't know what to say

i thought of the mass appeal
the young ones feel
toward hip hop...and keeping it real

"back in the day" seems so long ago
when heartfelt emotions were the way to flow
Smokey Robinson sent me cruisin' down a thirty feet cove
while Marvin Gaye made me dig real deep into my soul

although you get a stirring of that, today
hip hop speaks from the streets
that's just not my way

talk'n ******* and ho's
and nines to the dome
they're just in it to win it
...had to leave it alone

li'l kiddies on the block
living up to the hype
hard core on the streets
selling death by moon light

inglewood wasn't Da Hood
'til rap made it so
walked the streets of long beach
'til Snoop started yelling, YO'.

got generation next growing up to be hard
becoming chalk outlines on concrete shards

bling bling is the game
the only one they know
street knowledge makes them HOLLA
when they're loaded with gold
white
yellow
platinum
doesn't matter to them
fresh gear and a hoopdy
on twenty inch rims

it all spells success
coz they can't see none betta
2-Pac is their idol
in them...he'll live foreva

i sat down to write
and whadaya know
started smelling the river
so, i continued the flow.

you know.
 

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