This is for my back-packers who hate the crap they play on the (radio)/ all of it is garbage they callinâ it (entertainment though)/ boobs, booties and booze, fools spewinâ the (lamest flows)/ no respect or etiquette ethics are (situational)// I remember listeninâ mimickinâ in the (age of gold)/ hip hoppers who taught and brought me back to the (days of old)/ it was retrospective respectinâ the heads who (came before)/ cats who battled for status rappinâ before their (names were known)// started in the parks in the Bronx with parties and (crazy shows)/ crowds wowed by the styles wilâinâ shoutinâ and (sayinâ âHo!â)/ innovators made it amazinâ changinâ the (way we flow)/ turninâ turntables from players to something (playable)// now a days weâre labeled as haters because we (hate the flows)/ skills have takinâ a chill to make a mill for some (shady folk)/ djs are eliminated from the (equation so)/ mix-tapes are mistakes a generation has (labeled wrong)// rappers battle without a track to back it or (make it dope)/ moâ like poet with jokes you know they wrote it some (days ago)/ if youâre spittinâ a written just admit it and (make it known)/ donât mislabel or fake it take it the way you (take it homes)// I am sure thereâs more deplorable horrible (ways to show)/ disrespect and disconnection from heads that have (made the culture)/ givinâ into the industry in the name of (makinâ doe)/ ditchinâ definitions traditions gave us to (make your own)// folks who donât even know the culture control the (way itâs goinâ)/ sayinâ school is for fools and do the music the (way youâre told)/ make absurdity circulate and (perpetuate the clones)/ all the slaves are afraid they wonât get paid if they (break the mold)// all thatâs under the sun has been done a bunch of (ways befoâe)/ history is repeated frequently you can (trace it bro)/ young bucks who buck against wisdom written in (ancient scrolls)/ one in particular we should consider is (Rehoboam)//
Scratch: â(Reject) the rebellion of the youth and the stubborness...â // âstop the trend of spiritual fatherless-ness we got us inâ
Followinâ his father Solomon in line to (take the throne)/ heads met him in Shechem requesting rest for their (achinâ bones)/ didnât listen to the wisdom heâs given (forsake the old)/ traded it to obey the peers he played with at (eight years old)/36/ instead of blessinâ âem heâs threateninâ âem with a (weighty load)/ scorpions for the insubordinate or the (lazy folk)/ they retort reportinâ they have no portion in (Davidâs home)/ after that they attack the task master whoâs (slain with stones)// they divide like Ahijah prophesied in the (reign before)/ Jeroboam is over most of âem heâs a (hater though)/ every kid that sits in his throne is wicked and (canât be told)/ one rebellion begets a plethora (separatinâ homes)// these are the dangers that our generation is (facinâ bro)/ a legacy can be spread or end w/ me if I (make it so)/ we be makinâ the same mistakes and say we can (change the globe)/ change it probâly our biggest problem that needs to (change the most)// make the bigger decision quicker than we can (change our clothes)/ peers cheerinâ us on steer us wrong (what you waitinâ foâ?)/ old heads who know better tell us to (take it slow)/ we dismiss what theyâre pitchinâ trippinâ sayinâ (they ainât Jehovah)// we be tryinâ to justify our defiance with (names and quotes)/ even blaminâ Lecrae when that ainât what he was (sayinâ though)/ even I with âto die is gainâ I feel like I (played a roll)/ fuelinâ revolutionist with a truth they had (taken wrong)// the commission depends on the submission of (baby souls)/ how you gonna train up a child thatâs not even (trainable)/ just a couple years in the faith and babies will (say theyâ grown)/ just because they studied a bunch of books they would (say they know)// but maturityâs more than readinâ more of these (saints of old)/ itâs puttinâ to practice the stuff you scratch when youâre (takinâ notes)/ livinâ it consistantly with some length beinâ (faithful bro)/ when someone who is gives you wisdom, remember (Rehoboam)//
Scratch: â(Reject) the rebellion of the youth and the stubborness...â // âstop the trend of spiritual fatherless-ness we got us inâ