[00:00.00](Hook: Kanye West & The Game)
[00:02.38]That's that crack music nigga
[00:05.12]That real black music nigga
[00:06.60](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[00:13.77]That's that crack music nigga
[00:16.50]That real black music nigga
[00:18.04](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[00:23.44](Verse 1: Kanye West)
[00:23.64]How we stop the Black Panthers?
[00:26.44]Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer
[00:29.07]You hear that? What Gil Scott was hearing
[00:32.30]When our heroes or heroines got hooked on heroin
[00:35.36]Crack raised the murder rate in D.C. and Maryland
[00:38.14]We invested in that, it's like we got Merrill lynched
[00:41.13]And we been hangin' from the same tree ever since
[00:44.19]Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine
[00:46.76]So we, cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it
[00:49.37]Sell it, the fiends cop it, nowadays they can't tell if
[00:52.85]That's that good shit, we ain't sure man
[00:55.34]Put the CD on your tongue, yeah that's pure man
[00:58.47](Hook: Kanye West & The Game)
[00:58.77]That's that crack music nigga
[01:01.96]That real black music nigga
[01:03.43](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[01:10.82]That's that crack music nigga
[01:13.56]That real black music nigga
[01:14.91](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[01:20.70](Verse 2: Kanye West)
[01:20.95]From the place where the father's gone
[01:22.49]The mothers is hardly home
[01:23.90]And the Madigan's lock us up in the Audy Home
[01:26.60]How the Mexicans say, we just tryin to party homes
[01:29.50]They wanna pack us all in a box like styrofoam
[01:32.31]Who gave Saddam anthrax?
[01:34.57]George Bush got the answers
[01:37.66]Back in the hood it's a different type of chemical
[01:40.39]Arm & Hammer baking soda raised they own quota
[01:43.90]Right when our soldiers, ran for the stove cause
[01:47.00]Cause, dreams of being Hova
[01:49.53]Went from bein a broke man to bein a dopeman
[01:52.45]To bein the President, look there's hope man
[01:55.41]This that inspiration for the Moes and the Folks man
[01:58.26]Shorty come and see his momma straight overdosin
[02:02.58]And this is the soundtrack
[02:04.04]This the type of music that you make when you 'round that
[02:06.95](Hook: Kanye West & The Game)
[02:08.50]That's that crack music nigga
[02:10.67]That real black music nigga
[02:11.95](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[02:19.34]That's that crack music nigga
[02:22.06]That real black music nigga
[02:23.81](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[02:29.02](Kanye West)
[02:29.22]God, how could you let this happen (*echoes*)
[02:34.38](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[02:42.87](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[02:52.99](Hook: Kanye West & The Game)
[02:53.83]That's that crack music, crack music
[02:56.31]That real black music, black music
[02:58.55](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[03:04.99]That's that crack music nigga
[03:07.75]That real black music nigga
[03:09.19](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[03:20.32](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[03:31.43](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[03:39.34]That's that crack music, crack music
[03:42.04]That real black music, black music
[03:44.05](La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah)
[03:45.21](Outro: Malik Yusef)
[03:45.41]Our Father, give us this day, our daily bread
[03:48.94]Before the feds give us these days and take our daily bread
[03:53.28]See I done did all this ol' bullshit
[03:55.75]And to atone, I throw a lil' somethin somethin on the pulpit
[03:59.30]We took that shit, measured it and then cooked that shit
[04:03.92]And what we gave back was crack music
[04:07.10]And now we ooze it through they nooks and crannies
[04:10.13]So our mommas ain't got to be they cooks and nannies
[04:13.44]And we gon' repo everything they ever took from granny
[04:17.55]Now the former slaves trade hooks for Grammys
[04:21.28]This dark diction has become America's addiction
[04:24.73]Those who ain't even black use it
[04:27.19]We gon' keep baggin up this here crack music