For all of you haters of Hip Hop or R&B

[LASFAN209]

Listen to these two songs
Lyfe Jennings-S.E.X. Arguably the best mainstream song of the year, with beautiful production, and a very good message for young females.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/09hewd

Ghetto Story-Lupe Fiasco
Before you judge the song by the title, give it a listen. It is a very uplifting song about making it and not falling to the streets.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/iiohhr

Chorus

I got questions to ask, and Im waiting for some answers
Like, why do the good die young? why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dictate my glory
Cuz there's something out there for me
But ima keep my territory
So I won't end up just a ghetto story

Verse

Thinking bout the black panthers and the babies
that were born in the late eighties
that now have babies that lack pampers
No Kwanzaas and they lack Santas
And the father who thinks shoe shopping is the answer
Skipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle her
And never learned from her grandmother
One day got high, couldnt take it, dropped her in a vacant lot
Album of life now condensed to a sampler


Please give these songs a chance...it'll definetely be worth ur time

I made this for NLO forums...but I want u guys to see this too

[klang]

A social comment on the society the artist lives in.

Does not apply to me. (fine songs that are easy to forget after 5 minutes)

[germuhknee]

Originally Posted by klang

A social comment on the society the artist lives in.

Does not apply to me. (fine songs that are easy to forget after 5 minutes)

So you only listen to Danish music, I take it?

[klang]

Originally Posted by germuhknee

So you only listen to Danish music, I take it?

No, and I don't care for German music either!

[germuhknee]

Originally Posted by klang

No, and I don't care for German music either!

That makes two of us.

[klang]

Originally Posted by germuhknee

That makes two of us.

Sorry, I know .. that was a low blow

[da_ticklah]

Maybe I'm old '32' but I'll take Marvin Gaye first but that's me and oh ummh yeah power fist in the Air


anyways you put that on NLO forums now that's big fuckinq moose ballz kneegro I like that shit.

Originally Posted by LASFAN209

Listen to these two songs
Lyfe Jennings-S.E.X. Arguably the best mainstream song of the year, with beautiful production, and a very good message for young females.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/09hewd

Ghetto Story-Lupe Fiasco
Before you judge the song by the title, give it a listen. It is a very uplifting song about making it and not falling to the streets.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/iiohhr

Chorus

I got questions to ask, and Im waiting for some answers
Like, why do the good die young? why ain't there no cure for cancer?
Won't let the streets dictate my glory
Cuz there's something out there for me
But ima keep my territory
So I won't end up just a ghetto story

Verse

Thinking bout the black panthers and the babies
that were born in the late eighties
that now have babies that lack pampers
No Kwanzaas and they lack Santas
And the father who thinks shoe shopping is the answer
Skipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle her
And never learned from her grandmother
One day got high, couldnt take it, dropped her in a vacant lot
Album of life now condensed to a sampler


Please give these songs a chance...it'll definetely be worth ur time

I made this for NLO forums...but I want u guys to see this too

[william]

Hopefully this doesn't represent the best of hip-hop lyrics.

[be leaves]

Originally Posted by william

Hopefully this doesn't represent the best of hip-hop lyrics.

it most certainly does not...
here are some more that don't!




A car pulled up, a fixed up Cutlass
A woman and a child climbed out and left it running
They went inside of the deli, placed an order
With the extra dollar fifty bottled water 'cuz the daughters picky
When they came out mommy gave me a glance
That said, "Man can love an angel but he's got to take the chance"
Already knew the deal, I lit one up and walk
So they got back in the Oldsmobile, belted up, and took off

Thug love on the corner by the Walgreens
Lookin' at me like I'm just another square saltine
As I get closer I notice that they showin' each other sketches
Out of their notebooks, reminded me of my old roots

I walk past with a nod and a reminisce
Swear to god hip hop and comic books was my genesis
Respect the life and the fashions of the children
It's the only culture I've got, exactly what we've been buildin'

All of a sudden I'm in front of some man
No he's a youngin' but he's got a gun in his hand
He looks fifteen, he looks frantic, no he looks afraid
Immediately apprehensive til I heard him say
"Do you want this? It's not mine I promise
I found it on my block in between a couple garages
Didn't wanna leave it for a child to stumble over
I don't even know how to hold it."

It was a thirty-ight, the poor man's machete
Held it in my hand, thinking damn man it's heavier then expected,
wedged it behind my belt buckle
knowin' that its evil, even thought that I could smell trouble
the extra strength felt weak,
but over there on the corner saw what I needed and proceeded to cross the
street
put the heat in the mail box to loose it
figured that the post office knows whats best to do with it

Mosey down the road thinkin' 'bout the old
I use to roam this zone with two feet of snow
Right here, this use to be a record shop
I've gotten love, I've gotten drunk, I've gotten beat up in that parking lot
I've had my Lake Street pride for three decades
These alleyways, and these streetlights have seen my best days
Before I was a germ learnin how to misbehave,
All the way to the grave, south side is my resting place

Took a right on Lyndale I'm getting near
But then the road became empty and the people disappear'd
The clowds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standin in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, starin at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

No matter where I am, no matter what I do
I'm always coming back home to you
-atmosphere (always coming back home to you)

[da_ticklah]

Good Hip Hop would be like Talib Kweli, Mos Def, or Common people who can rap about stuff other than jewelry, weed, $$, spinning rims and fat asses.

Originally Posted by be leaves

it most certainly does not...
here are some more that don't!