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Diamonds In My DANG Chain
Tanisha Lee
AkA
Phenomenally
Dang, Am I sick of hearing about Diamonds
Every Rapper got diamond
Teeth
Chains
Socks
Shirts
Glasses
Negro what about a 401K
IRA
What about a College Fund
For your children
What about paying your bills on time
Tell me about that
But Naw, Somebody gave Yo stupid ass a mic
And you use it
To boost about how much money
You make
Seems a little fake
Stop telling me what type of rims I need
And how I should shake my booty
To your beats
If you got a mic
Can you at least
try to
Uplift our community
Instead of trying to teach our youth
How to waste their money on
A whole lot of Bling
Jacob the jeweler
Is laughing all the way to the bank
Because he knows
We’ll be anything shiny
So why don’t you
Tell us
About how hard you had to work
In order to get your status
Tell us
About how important our credit scores are
Tell us
How important it is to keep our backgrounds clean
And not how you got shot 9 times
Wanting to be glorified
Can someone please
Tell me who gave these rappers a mic
Please?
See they multi-million dollar
Caucasian owned rap label
Got you promoting
African American
Propaganda
I’m tired
So tired
Of the same ol videos
With the same ol hoes
And I’m not talking about the girls
The industry is pimping
Our hip-hop artists
Trying to make them cross over
With generic hip hop lyrics
Got us all wondering
About what Nas said
Yo is Hip Hop really dead?
Well, Did u notice that Hip Hop is dying?
Loosing its life to diamonds?
Or were you too busy
Bobbing your head
To “Diamonds in my Damn Chain”
Naw Hip hop isn’t totally dead
It’s just doesn’t breathe it’s life
In
Fabulous
Young Jeezy
Or
Trick Daddy’s
Club beats
Some hip-hop artist
Have just turned into
Rap artist
That are marketed like a product
Advertising
Ignorance
With a glossy cover
For their bull shit CD
So keep bobbing your head to beats
That holds empty words
And turn up the volume
On that new
Hit
DIAMONDS IN MY DAMN CHAIN
Because that’s what the hell I call a chain reaction
