Remember when rappers weren't salesmen

[deftron]

For Cristal, Gucci, Cadillac, etc ...


Those were the good days


I'm trying to figure what fell more dramatically first ...
rap (the streets to Wall Street) or country ( good story songs
to songs that would be a good story written by a 7 yeat old)

 

[MikeMike]

that honkey tonk, badonkadonk.

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
that honkey tonk, badonkadonk.

When I first heard that song .. I seriously thought the
sign of the apocalypse had arrived

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: deftron

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
that honkey tonk, badonkadonk.

When I first heard that song .. I seriously thought the
sign of the apocalypse had arrived

i was like, omg, wtf, white chicks in rap video?

o wait, im on CMT? ******.

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: deftron

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
that honkey tonk, badonkadonk.

When I first heard that song .. I seriously thought the
sign of the apocalypse had arrived

i was like, omg, wtf, white chicks in rap video?

o wait, im on CMT? ******.

Yeah ... Lee's and Wranglers ridin up above the belly button just aint
the same as hot pants

 

[acemcmac]

Ya'll know me still the same ol' G
But I been low key
Hated on by most these niggas
Wit no cheese, no deals and no G's, no wheels and no keys
No boats, no snowmobiles and no ski's
Mad at me cause
I can finally afford to provide my family wit groceries
Got a crib wit a studio and it's all full of tracks
To add to the wall full of plaques
Hangin up in the office in back of my house like trophies
But ya'll think I'm gonna let my dough freeze
Ho Please
You better bow down on both knees
Who you think taught you to smoke trees
Who you think brought you the o' G's
Eazy-E's Ice Cube's and D.O.C's and Snoop D O double G's
And a group that said muthafuck the police
Gave you a tape full of dope beats
To bump when stroll through in your hood
And when your album sales wasn't doin too good
Who's the doc that he told you to go see
Ya'll better listen up closely
All you niggas that said that I turned pop
Or the Firm flop
ya'll are the reason Dre ain't been getting no sleep
So ****** ya'll all of ya'll
If ya'll don't like me blow me
Ya'll are gonna keep ****** around wit me
And turn me back to the old me

 

[Mo0o]

Come on come on
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a ****** he's a hero
Give crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less ugly mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers
give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that's the way it is

[Bridge w/ changing ad libs]
Come on come on
That's just the way it is
Things'll never be the same
That's just the way it is
aww yeah
[Repeat]

I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
and only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do
bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
"I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way
sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid,"
Well hey, well that's the way it is

[Bridge]

[Talking: ]
We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.

And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,
crack you up and pimp smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
my mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
& I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
some buck that I roughed up way back
comin' back after all these years
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Ya'll know me still the same ol' G
But I been low key
Hated on by most these niggas
Wit no cheese, no deals and no G's, no wheels and no keys
No boats, no snowmobiles and no ski's
Mad at me cause
I can finally afford to provide my family wit groceries
Got a crib wit a studio and it's all full of tracks
To add to the wall full of plaques
Hangin up in the office in back of my house like trophies
But ya'll think I'm gonna let my dough freeze
Ho Please
You better bow down on both knees
Who you think taught you to smoke trees
Who you think brought you the o' G's
Eazy-E's Ice Cube's and D.O.C's and Snoop D O double G's
And a group that said muthafuck the police
Gave you a tape full of dope beats
To bump when stroll through in your hood
And when your album sales wasn't doin too good
Who's the doc that he told you to go see
Ya'll better listen up closely
All you niggas that said that I turned pop
Or the Firm flop
ya'll are the reason Dre ain't been getting no sleep
So ****** ya'll all of ya'll
If ya'll don't like me blow me
Ya'll are gonna keep ****** around wit me
And turn me back to the old me

Forgot About DRE, right? 😛

That rap was the sh1t: DRE, NWA, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem (before he was famous), Cypress Hill, etc.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Remember when there weren't rappers? Boy those were the days.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: ZOOYUKA
Remember when there weren't rappers? Boy those were the days.

Wasn't that when you had idiots on every street corner spinning around on their butts on a dirty piece of cardboard to bad disco crap spewing from a gigantic ghetto blaster?