Pray

Lyrics

[Verse 1: [?]] What happens? Something new emerges Whether it be rock and roll or whether it be hip-hop It comes from the bottom And what happens The world gets ahold of it America gets ahold of it (And ruins it) They fall in love with it, they don't even know they're ruining it They got like, it's like Gotta be some story out there where everything somebody touches just like, just dies And that's the system Everytime the system touches it Every time the system gets ahold of it, it's over It gets commercialized, it gets pimped out We really think that this music represents what we are You know what I mean And it's like if you really take another listen To what is being played right now, what's being said It don't represent us anymore You know what I mean I don't know if it ever did Or if it just really represented what could be sold And what could be marketed, what could be pushed Does it represent the mentality of a small amount of people in this community Yeah, sure, an exaggerated version You know what I mean But it don't represent everybody But it's all you hear [Verse 2: [?]] Top five rappers dead or alive? It's hard to say that If I give you top five we'll still be in the eighties before I get to the nineties Spitting bars that actually have substance and meaning You know a lot of times Lot of these people be rapping They just say words that rhyme I'm talking about people that actually call themselves emcees [?] I've never been a fan of just gibberish You know what I'm saying, like Just 'cause you can make words rhyme and make a sentence Man look that don't mean shit My daughter can make words rhyme and make a sentence Man look that don't mean shit My daughter can make words rhyme [Verse 3: Nas] At this point of it I've seen so many of the purists who really love it Turn to struggling artists because they're not benefitting Whereas dudes that ain't got no talent is benefitting You know what I'm saying so It's just definitely a period where it's been dead I'm just bold enough to say it