Top nots and dreadlocks on white kids just fuck off
The wooks have invaded Appropriating a culture
Some say I'm the Same by doing this record
I never forget I'm a guest In this method
that came From the street was repeated world over
from Kool Herc To Keith, chuck d and 5 Boroughs
came under the grounds and over the oceans
A thousand translations One language keeps flowing
A Million tongues just spitting A lingo,
a billion Ingesting the message That lingers
fluent in bars poured over The rhythm
Not just on the rocks but all mixed and all different
And just like the blues and right thru to 2step
These movements of music were started by black men
and women of colour stylised their own secrets
sharing their love In some public meetups
from sock-hops to cyphers, dance halls and block parties
To raves in a basement With hot sweating bodies
We're are in it now but the Roots of the Culture
Should not be dismissed or just taken over
Like playing at gigs with only white faces
I'm looking about seeing only white faces
It happened to jazz with only white faces
The drum and a bass with only white faces
and I can't understand The fans who are racist
They claim they are Hiphop, they are complacent
Saying all lives matter condemning the riots
Twas happening to them, would they not just fight it
They're critical of blacks standing up to the system
Who’ve been tasered, enslaved and put in to prisons
Shot in the face, Killed when in custody
Last to get picked for job opportunities
Those polis are stopping them searching most often
not just in the US, UK its a problem
Do lives only matter when scoring a hattrick?
Droppin' some bars or making you laugh?
Did you not hear the message receive edutainment?
They've been fighting the power since put into slave ships
This music they grew to used rhyming as protest
with living in struggle or did you not notice?
Didn't happen to you so don't care for their story?
You only listen for bling, the guns and the glory
The Belittling of women needs rid from the scene
cos when ignorant listen only message they gleam
is b words and n words so okay for them
To repeat as a term To blurt with their friends
Just cos rappers are using it don't give you carte blanche
to shoot with a slur don’t effect you first hand
can’t reclaim the privilege you already have
cos context is lost on a Caucasian man
in a world designed in the rise of his benefit
lifestyle comprised of other tribes heritage
Like sound systems given to Britain from Kingston
brought by the Windrush on promise of citizen
gave us the deejay, the selector the riddims
from dub to nightclubs in many hole pigeons
Heating up beats with microphone toasting
Gave birth to m.c's and battle rap boasting
Helped with the rise of night time economy
by Sharing their sound but here is the robbery-
From Brixton to Brookyln, the hipster is moving
In to the hoods where they got a shoo-in
Accruing the last of the best of the venues
hiking up prices with artisan menus
Rent rises locals unable to live,
Evicted from ends where they started the gigs
Organically approved this definitely ain't
middle class cashing on what others made
like Graf fonts on restaurants to make them seem radical
gift rapped as urban to make it more palatable
as Hip-hop stays pop and highly homogeneous
Street beats get eaten by greedy Metropolis
like Ed Sheeran featuring with Grime pioneers
I'm Sick of the shape of his weird ginger beard
Cos whitewashing pays, using black as backdrop
for Shifting a product but where is the love gone?
So don't let this last stanza be like Grandmaster Caz
with styles plagiarized all the way to the bank
fuck off imposters don't listen to that
and acknowledge the scholars who taught us to rap.