Self Destruction
Chorus: Self-Destruction, ya headed for Self-Destruction 2X
[KRS-One]
Well, today`s topic, self destruction
It really ain`t the rap audience that`s buggin
It`s one or two suckas, ignorant brothers
Trying to rob and steal from one another
You get caught in the mid
So to crush the stereotype here`s what we did
We got ourselves together
so that you could unite and fight for what`s right
Not negative `cause the way we live is positive
We don`t kill our relatives
[MC Delight (Stetsasonic)]
Pop pop pop
when it`s shot who`s to blame?
Headlines, front page, and rap`s the name
MC Delight here to state the bottom line
That black-on-black crime was way before our time
[Kool Moe Dee]
Took a brother`s life with a knife as his wife
Cried cause he died a trifling death
When he left his very last breath
Was I slept so watch your step
Back in the sixties our brothers and sisters were hanged
How could you gang-bang?
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan
and I shouldn`t have to run from a black man
cause that`s
Chorus
[MC Lyte]
Funky Fresh dressed to impress ready to party
Money in your pocket, dying to move your body
To get inside you paid the whole ten dollars
Scotch taped with a razor blade taped to your collar
Leave the guns and the crack and the knives alone
MC Lyte`s on the microphone
Bum rushin and crushin, snatchin and taxin
I cram to understand why brother`s don`t be maxin
There`s only one disco, they`ll close one more
You ain`t guarding the door
so what you got a gun for?
Do you rob the rich and give to the poor?
Yo Daddy-O, school em some more
[Daddy-O, Wise (Stetsasonic)]
Straight from the mouth of Wise and Daddy-o
Do a crime end up in jail and gotta go
Cause you could do crime and get paid today
And tomorrow you`re behind bars in the worst way
Far from your family, cause you`re locked away
Now tell me, do you really think crime pays?
Scheming on taking what your brother has?
You little suckers.. you talkin` all that jazz.
[D-Nice]
It`s time to stand together in a unity
Cause if not then we`re soon to be
Self-destroyed, unemployed
The rap race will be lost without a trace
Or a clue but what to do
Is stop the violence and kick the science
Down the road that we call eternity
Where knowledge is formed and you`ll learn to be
Self-sufficient, independent
To teach to each is what rap intended
But society wants to invade
So do not walk this path they laid.
It`s
Chorus
[Ms. Melodie]
I`m Ms. Melodie and I`m a born again rebel
The violence in rap must cease and seckle
If we want to develop and grow to another level
We can`t be guinea pigs for the devil
The enemy knows, they`re no fools
Because everyone knows that hip-hop rules
So we gotta get a grip and grab what`s wrong
The opposition is weak and rap is strong
[Doug E. Fresh]
This is all about, no doubt, to stop violence
But first let`s have a moment of silence
*Fresh beatboxes*... swing
Things been stated re-educated, evaluated
THoughts of the past have faded
The only thing left is the memories of our belated
and I hate it, when
Someone dies and gets all hurt up
