Thread: The Hip-Hop Matrix

Trying to get some feedback on this one.
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The Hip-Hop Matrix


Morpheus:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy.
When you're inside, look around. What do you see?
Businessmen...teachers...lawyers...carpenters.
The very minds of the people we are trying to save.
But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy.
You have to understand. Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.
And many of them are so unnerved, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

Sentient beings corral the masses. Deviant schemes
Devised and reprised to enslave through the sleaziest means.
For the love of money, we let bigots pilot our dreams.
Strive for the green turns puppets blind to what’s behind the scenes.
Truth be told, but people just ignore who’s expressed it.
Blissfully directed, are those kept eternally desperate. Check it:
Promise the starved a meal, they’ll circle like vultures.
Even if part of the deal is they must betray their culture.
Soulless as sculpture, contracts make them agents, for closure.
Sign a record deal and earn rank as “unphasable soldiers.”
Faces on posters, billboards. Esoteric opportunity,
For the low-low price of your souls and those of your community.
But I won’t jack in to that bullshit you be spoonin’ me.
Forever strong, I promote Revolutionary Unity.
And speak it fluently, through me, the truth can Not be bartered.
Despite how all those who try more-or-less end up as martyrs.

Hook:
Yo take a look around, our lives have been encrypted.
Promise of higher ground keeps all our people scripted.
Stripped from our foundations, chasin’ exponential payment.
Gripped in the Matrix, pawns for mass mental enslavement.

(repeat)

Morpheus:
You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage.
Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison....for your mind.


Hip-Hop was at a peak, but recently the game’s Reloaded.
Corrupted from the top, through CEO’s and brains encoded
With messages of hate, money, racism, drugs and violence.
While those enlightened minds are pushed aside to trudge in silence.
“It’s what the people want! Be Gangster!” That’s what labels tell you.
You’re in it for the profit, yet you Buy the Lies they sell you.
So you claim to be “real” and rap about steel and dub the ladies “ho’s.”
When, on the real, you’re fake as wide-screen radios.
It should be easy for folks to see, but fuck it, maybe-it’s-me.
It’s just I find it hard to take you puppets seriously.
The time has come to take the truth up off the choppin’ block.
I’m droppin’ rhymes to crush the lies and liberate the Copper-Tops.
The innocents caught in-the-midst of propaganda.
How do they find salvation in a culture that don’t understand-the
Master plan to keep us from Free-Thinking? So our brains-are-trapped
By luring us to be good for nothing more than sports and gangster rap.

Hook:
Yo take a look around, our lives have been encrypted.
Promise of higher ground keeps all our people scripted.
Stripped from our foundations, chasin’ exponential payment.
Gripped in the Matrix, pawns for mass mental enslavement.

(repeat)

Morpheus:
I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door.
You're the one that needs to walk through it.

This trilogy of verses exists for a single purpose:
To help you see beyond the lifestyles of the rich and worthless.
The road to enlightenment is packed with those who’ll try to stop-ya.
Crabs in the barrel. If you ascend, en masse, they’ll strive to drop-ya.
Some Copper-Tops won’t understand your dream to be a doctor.
Start reading books, they’ll start to look at you like you’re “too proper.”
An all important rule is: NEVER let ignorance shock ya.
Extend your vocab and just laugh as the boyz on your block all mock ya.
And never blame them all, they’re sheep. Don’t even bother.
Brave the labyrinth alone while all the flock is led to slaughter.
What they don’t know is they’re playing by the rules, although they missed-em.
They help degenerate their race and still think they’re fighting the system!
Brainwashed are those who mistake ignorance for resistance.
Only those not blinded by the paper chase can know the difference.
Materialism’s designed to undermine our evolution.
Get off the grind and free your mind to stop these Matrix Revolutions.

Hook:
Yo take a look around, our lives have been encrypted.
Promise of higher ground keeps all our people scripted.
Stripped from our foundations, chasin’ exponential payment.
Gripped in the Matrix, pawns for mass mental enslavement.

(repeat)