[00:02.08]So I'm at the barbershop
[00:03.58]And we talking about this new generation of hip-hop
[00:06.00]And how  how lost you all are man
[00:08.37]But y'all have no science
[00:10.74]So here you go
[00:11.61]The systematic knowledge of the physical world
[00:13.84]Gained through observation and experimentation
[00:15.09]
[00:16.64]Usually beginning with a hypothesis
[00:18.98]Or what some may call an estimation
[00:21.51]Record your results from a series of tests
[00:23.98]And what your left with is a theory at best
[00:26.63]Now let me give my hypothesis  an educated guess
[00:28.65]On why my people on the whole seem to be such a mess
[00:31.76]Genocide  the deliberate extermination of a race
[00:34.91]Culture  or an entire nation
[00:36.87]Centuries ago they brought us here on a boat
[00:39.38]Enslaved us  beat us til our spirit was broke
[00:41.95]Then they gave us freedom and a little bit of hope
[00:44.54]Then they killed our leaders and they gave us dope (crack)
[00:47.40]From the C I A  by way of Nicaragua
[00:49.61]Shipped to Rick Ross  he's the black godfather
[00:52.29]Now Oscar Blandon was his known supplier
[00:54.62]He snitched on Rick so he could retire
[00:57.27]Ratted on Ricky so he got out quickly
[00:59.91]Now this is where the situation gets a little sticky
[01:02.45]Not a citizen of the U S A
[01:04.70]He got released and got hired by the D E A
[01:07.21]Then he got his green card by the I N S
[01:09.73]But that should've never happened due to previous arrests
[01:12.54]See our government seems to think that there's a difference
[01:15.23]Between powdered cocaine and crack  for instance
[01:17.69]You get five years for five grams of crack
[01:20.15]But in the powdered form you have a hundred times that
[01:22.78]Now who has the rock  and who has the powder
[01:25.30]Who's the oppressed and who has the power
[01:27.76]They want you to fail so you wind up in jail
[01:30.38]You know how much they make while you sitti'n in that cell
[01:33.07]Billions of dollars for inmate facilities
[01:34.57]
[01:35.50]You sell yourself back into slavery willingly
[01:37.02]
[01:38.23]It's not black and white  it's so much more
[01:40.51]It's the rich stayin rich and the poor stayin poor
[01:43.21]The poor white's meth  the poor black's crack
[01:45.61]It's not about race and once you realize that
[01:48.28]We as a nation are free to move on
[01:50.67]And become one people  a movement  strong
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[02:13.86]Now black people weren't the first to be enslaved
[02:16.36]We were just the first to be treated this way
[02:18.88]No education you were killed if you could read
[02:21.51]So you hid your intellect if you wanted to succeed
[02:23.85]
[02:24.45]And what happens to a lie when you livin' it
[02:26.80]You lose sight of who you are and start forgettin' it
[02:29.25]So many of us to this day act ignorant
[02:31.63]A mere shadow of our form of magnificence
[02:34.30]Wellfare
[02:35.57]No independence we become victims dependin' on the system
[02:39.24]Looking for a handout waiting on some help
[02:41.75]Toiling on the past feeling sorry for your self
[02:44.24]But you do what you can to make it out the trap
[02:46.88]And that right there is the origin of rap
[02:49.35]It wasn't always played on every radio station
[02:51.87]It was us makin the best out of a bad situation
[02:54.67]Inner city schools stopped teaching us instruments
[02:56.65]
[02:57.40]We took turntables and started flippin' it
[02:59.68]Stole electricity from the street lights
[03:02.23]Plugged it into a system and made the beat hype
[03:04.84]There was a mic but MC's weren't rulin'
[03:07.39]It was more 'bout what the DJ was doin'
[03:09.85]He say a few words (GO GO) to keep the party movin'
[03:12.42]The beat boys dancin' to the breaks and the grooves
[03:15.04]An the break was the part where the record broke down
[03:17.55]Where it was just a drum and a couple of sounds
[03:20.09]You had two records you could go back and forth
[03:22.54]To keep the groove goin' cause the break was so short
[03:25.06]Now if that ain't' science I don't know what is
[03:27.56]The ingenuity of these young black kids
[03:30.06]The Bronx New York Central Recita
[03:32.81]Who hurt earth hip-hop true believers
[03:35.37](Theory) Adversity produces opportunity
[03:37.95]Anythings accomplished through strength and unity
[03:40.49]The fate of the world is in the hip-hop commuity
[03:43.09]The revolution is here and now with you and me
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[03:49.18](Murs is a Scientist)