Lowkey – The Essence Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- I don't know exactly when it started going downhill
- Let's take it back to the days it was about skill
- Before it was sweet boys parading as tough geeza's
- Educated men naming themselves after drug dealers
- When it was a way to vent a mans pain
- Before it became a tool for presidential campaigns
- Before the 50's, Lil' Wayne's and Rick Ross's
- I'm about to show you the essence of what Hip-Hop is
- Before it was about street credibility
- When it was he's alright but he's better lyrically
- Think about the zombies your bad words influence
- Before Hip-Hop became an advert for ignorance
- Before it became Kamikaze
- I'm half Gil Scott-Heron and half Talib Kwelli
- You think getting shot makes you the next best thing
- For every 50 cent there's at least 50 MF Grimms
- And that's grim
Verse 2
- I know you think that this is easier
- But don't believe the flippin' media
- Or what you read on Wikipedia
- It used to be all for the love
- Now pricks are greedier
- This business is sicker than an infant with leukaemia
- I live Hip-Hop, don't disrespect my household
- I'm about to kill these rappers sales like internet downloads
- We've come a long way from the old timers
- Now it's all 360, deals and fucking ghost writers
- Am I controversial cause I'm not commercial?
- Or cause I don't rap like a rapper that wants to hurt you?
- Every man's bragging, making anthems with gang-banging
- I'm like a man standing, over the Grand Canyon
- Hip-Hop broke down barriers like skin tone
- Hip-Hop 2008 is selling ring tones
- Hip-Hop even had your son dressing up in pink clothes
- Is Hip-Hop responsible for your kids soul?
- I think so!