Dear Hip Hop

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[Verse 1] Dear Hip-Hop, it's me, your foster child I'm writing this 'cause I feel we should sit and talk awhile It may sound like I'm crazy, but I feel like your baby Spend more time with you than my own folks, so it's just like you raised me You taught me to walk, said I should have swag You taught me how to dress, that's why I let my pants sag You taught me how to be a man like I ain't have a dad You taught me how to talk, that's why my grammar bad You taught me self-defense, a little rule of thumb You said, "You never wanna fight, son, use a gun" See, when you use a gun, you don't have to respect 'em You can just talk to 'em how you want, then pull out and check 'em You told me "Women ain't ish but hoes and tricks" And never to love them just cut 'em move on and dip You never told me what to do if I slipped and had a kid All I remember is "Move on and dip" And make it rain when she get on the pole and strip But if she respectable, I ain't supposed to trip And if I see my brother get done wrong and just Turn your back and let it happen, but "don't you snitch" You had me thinking heart and real were the same thing Like you're real if you have the heart to kill in your gang bang You never told me if I take his life His pain is for a second, but it's ever present in his babies' life You carried the spirit of banging across the nation And they embraced it because you put it in song formation You taught me I don't need school, I can rap And while waiting for my music to move, I can trap (Yeah!) I used to wanna be one, you told me to hate the cops Now they can only beat and mistreat us 'cause we ain't the cops I thought you had my best interest, maybe not So I'm writing this letter to tell you, thanks alot! [Hook] Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop [Verse 2] Dear Hip-Hop, I met my real Father He said He loved me and He missed me and I'm not forgotten He left me tons of messages but I must not've got 'em I guess you must've lost them, but, anyway, I found them When I was just a youngin', you told me daddy left I ran and checked, and it says He's always been at that address He said it's me who left Him, He just respected my choice You showed me candy and toys and I was just a boy He told me wait for sex, but we ain't wanna wait Now it's abortion and broken homes, plus a bunch of aids He told me to love my woman, protect and provide You told me if I love her, do it for only a night He said, if you love her, then wife her and go in for life Like a lifer and man up, and make sure your family tight I'll never withhold good from you, but it has to be right And, if it ain't, then you may have to wait until after this life He said to speak up when you see injustice It's thinking you're weak when you speak on evil, and these are what the streets are becoming He told me our children were innocent You teach 'em a sexual dances, re-tape it and place it on the internet He told me love my brother, almost like what you said But you said if he looked at me wrong, I could bust his head He said His Son is over everything You either serve God or money, you told me money over everything! He said it's never to late to come and join the family He said they all been waiting for me, they'd rejoice to have me And that's the point of this letter, I wrote it so you know That, as sure as you know it, I decided I'm going home [Hook] Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop Dear Hip-Hop