I want things to change
Re-arrange this mans game
These are ya sista's lets all stop calling names,
Were all bitches according to stupid rap, personally I think that's wack!
Gullible kids staying behind the lines
Dictated to by shameless minds, mixed up in matrix plans
Laddies still holding the pans
Kids confused by these crazy roll modals,
everyone beating down on each other,
come on, reach out brother,
there is a teacher, we got more to discover.
Even the president needs to fix up, yeah you big bucks!
An eye for an eye, every bodies blind
Stop all this war, is it to much to be nice?
Were all killing are own kind!
World in recession and there's people dieing
Turn these tables, who wants all this mayhem
Redistribute the wealth or peeps will find away, an jus keep takin
No one wants to slave forever, chasing somebody else's papper
Climb the ladder, then suddenly its all taken
No surly someones mistaken!
This struggle keeps folding us in!
Keep fighting, fuel the soul., don't cave in
Societies need to pull together
Figure out, behave clever
Work hard, fight this stormy weather
Before mankind is gone for ever
We wont have peace if you kill the soldja's
just more pain and this will never be ova!
Comments
Big Bucks
Again, a powerful piece! I particularly like the whole urban, hip-hop style going on here, which I think works really well in the context of the subject. As I was reading it, I could hear the voice of a rapper spitting this on stage. Have you ever thought about rapping? You'd be really good at it!
Aww thanx hun! This is a
Aww thanx hun! This is a whole new world to me, would love to do something like that though! x
rap and Nadia's hip hop blogs
Hi Karla, this links nicely with some of Nadia's comments in her hip hip blog series on misogyny and media-power manipulation of young people. It rolls along at a fair speed. I liked 'mixed up in matrix plans'. I thought the line: 'We wont have peace if you kill the soldja's' was a bit contradictory: to call them soldiers is maybe to invite them to be killed- they are not actually soldiers I presume but young men/women acting out these images they are beguiled by? But maybe I misunderstood - i long ago stopped qualifying as a 'youth'!
This is written similrly to m other piece, R.I.P. To The Fallen
Yeah it is looking at the issue of misogyny, and other issues disscussed in hip hop/rap! As it can be very political, and covers a wide spectrum. I tried to make it flow, and I find this easier using simplier language. I tend to look at the youth and socity as it frightens me the kind of world my daughter and niece are growing up in, and the options which are available. I fnd they are subjected to a lot of sex threw the meadia, which is difficult to avoid, and is resulting in them becoming sexualised younger and younger! I have tried to use a bit of a play on words , as I find you tend to take on certain rolls in life, and early actions can leave you sometimes stuck under certain labels, which I think is unfair, as people grow and learn all the time. "Gullible kids staying behind the lines" is referring to this, it's about girls conforming the way lads want them to, or think they should, boys behaving in a way certain people are portraying approriate, acting manly as in perhaps joining along wth the grang crime culture, and then the front line with all these young lads who have signed up for a career in the army, opting for a safer and leagal option, whereby there sent to kill soldiers of other countries, and in return the other soldiers are protectingther land and killing back, as to most people, the war makes no sense to me, "An eye for an eye, every bodies blind" Therefore, lines referring to what ever is being dictated to the "Gullible kids", the mojority of people tend to stay with in boundaries of behavior which is learnt from another, which can some time be missguided! Which then leads on to your question about the "Soldja's" its use as a kind of adjective, as were all sodiers on our own mission in life, what ever form that takes. It is in basic, a generalisation of the way I see the world taking shape, I object to the war, "Societies need to pull together" That again means people and counties" I hate all this bullying and killings that are going on! I am a parent! All the money spent on the war could of been put to better use, the world is resession, have experianced myself working my way up in a job, to be made redundant at the same time my brother was killed in this war, to become poorly, and let my credit slip, to then find I am unemployable in that area due to this. To then be expected to just start the struggle again "This struggle keeps folding us in!" As in we all have certain knocks in life, some of which are out of our control, now if you have the stability and resourses in place, as in a strong support structure, it's easier not to be rail roaded, but if you are not that fortunate, and find your self in the midst of everybody fighting there own struggle, grasping at what they can, it kind of puts you in an every man for himself situation, and can make a society quite bitter and selfish. And last but not least, as Iv wafled on enough, it's a kind of rant, as in I can't believe the way some systems work, and what a mess the gorernment seem to be making, though this is intensified threw the loss of my brother due to inadequate equipment sent to fight in my eyes, an illegal war, there was never any weapons of mass distruction found!