K'naan - The Dustyfoot Philosopher

Usually I don't tell to people that I'm into music. Even thought most of the time I have headphones on, if somebody asks me it's mostly, well, I listen to hiphop and I already know, that even if there is a slight scrap of idea in the others head, it's not what I think about. So mostly its, ah Yo! Yo! (and I feel the pain inside), sometimes its Yeah, Yeah (and I feel the pain inside) or worst comes to worst they ask about somebody or start to tell me something vaguely rap related something (and.... I feel the pain inside).

Anyway this is hiphop. I could go on and on about the voice of the underprivilidged, about how this is something worth culturally, as in pop culturally... this is 21st century, post colonialism, at the middle of culture colonialism, what do you do when "popular music" gets political, it's real, as in reality - as in art reflacting on reality; what makes somebody's creativity's product a work of art, but just read the bellow, watch the video, google it, if you feel you wudn't mind getting a bit more of this stuff, whatever, you know what i mean... I hope more than one of you will think its not a completely worthless idea sacrificing 120 minutes of your life on this stuff...

I'm a spit these verses cause I feel annoyed, and I'm not gonna quit till I fill the void, if I rhyme about home and got descriptive, I'd make Fifty Cent look like Limp Biskit, it's true, and don't make me rhyme about you, I'm from where the kids is addicted to glue, get ready, he got a good grip on the machete, make rappers say they do it for love like R-Kelly, it's HARD, harder than Harlem and Compton intertwined, harder than harboring Bin Laden and rewind, "to that earlier part when I was kinda like" we begin our day by the way of the gun, rocket propelled grenades blow you away if you front, we got no police ambulances or fire fighters, we start riots by burning car tires, they looting, and everybody starting shooting... So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore?Hmm. So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.

K'naan, What's Hardcore ?







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