Let's keep it real, I'll get straight to the point I'm sick of everything I hear, this shit is honestly noise I used to look up to the rappers back when I was a boy Now I'm a man and all these rappers fucking got me annoyed I take it personal, my favorite emcees were always surgical Verbally reversing words you'd think were irreversable On your souls the rap gods will not be merciful And they won't give a fuck about your cash or your convertible And that's real, don't give a damn bout how you feel Bragging bout your wheels when half your hood ain't got a meal Yeah that's real, don't understand all the appeal You'd rather rob and steel Than have respectable ideals, man it's twisted It's sad cuz in the end I really get it Sounds cool to be ghetto until you're in it, man it's vicious Cuz the rappers who was winning Rapped about the way they did it Cuz they had to for a minute Just so they could keep living But now the image gets interpreted in all the wrong ways The kids all emulate it except that it's all fake They meet up with their friends in little groups they call gangs And mumble rhymes about their drugs and call it "rap", it's all lame They saw the path and they made it a trophy But they're all acting, they're fake and they're phony They've got no passion but drinking and smoking That's why they keep missing the mark, they're nowhere near it remotely This shit's ridiculous I know I'm not the only one who's hearing this What happened to the days when rappers had to be meticulous The standard that we set for rappers seems to be diminishing And Imma raise the bar, just gotta do my due dilligence I guess in a sea of morons I've gotta be conspicuous The anger that it brings me has me almost turning villainous I'm sick of all their mollys and their xannies and their percocets It's almost like they pride themselves on wrecklessness and ignorance And that's true, ain't no telling what they'll do For fifteen fucking minutes or a couple hundred views Yeah that's true, I don't know how that shit's cool Maybe I'm too old and all they shit is just too new To me it's funny how y'all hype up some wack shit Get big off shock value, y'all just riding reactions Since it did numbers they all call it a classic But Imma be real, most shit is way below average To put it all together you ain't gotta be smart If you make someone a leader of a genre of art Who doesn't really have it's better interests in heart You cannot act surprised when things start falling apart I said to put it all together you ain't gotta be smart But if you make someone a leader of a genre of art Who doesn't really have it's better interests in heart You cannot act surprised when things start falling apart
Read the complete lyrics to "Standard" by Aaron California from the album "The 2 Straps Chronicles: Chapter 1" in 2020. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Boom Bap, Conscious Hip-Hop, Rap.
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"Standard" appears on "The 2 Straps Chronicles: Chapter 1" in 2020.
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