[Introduction] From an ugly scene to a sad song Soon I was singing phrases to myself Suddenly I had a whole song This is one song I can sing without failing any minute of it [Verse 1] Hip Hop's become a slipknot Tied around the necks of the destitute imprisoned in sick blocks They've stolen the voice of the streets From these zip locks Replaced it with Auto-Tune and lip gloss Synthesizers and shit drops Manufactured cyphers and R&B hooks All the majors have stripped real lyricists from their books CEO's are crooks The industry's calling grime emcees rappers and pop stars emcees This shit is like a fucking disease A cancerous cell which grew towards the end of the nineties when rap fell and it was stripped of its veil by corporate giants and capitalist titans When they first saw this music they were frightened They saw groups like Public Enemy call the government tyrants They feared an uprising The ghetto was wildin', but this music was plagued with gang culture and violence So they took this negative element and magnified it, isolated it and rewired it Switched it to autopilot Its ripple effect was seismic Now N.W.A. are telling niggers to go and fire clips and the dumb, death and blind seem to vibe it By '91 crack was destroying the hood and Rodney King got both his eyes split This was seen on TV even though they tried to hide it This is when Hip-Hop entered the crisis By '92 the trash was still balanced with the dope We had Tribe Called Quest, Tragedy Khadafi and De La Soul Still pushing major units and selling out shows, this age was gold By '96 we had Iron Man and Only Built For Cuban Links Both were heading for platinum discs By this time Tupac was at his highest zenith, and "All Eyez On Me" was as iconic as Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" But some say just before he perished, Pac was about to turn fully revolutionary On some Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis Give us back our freedom or get your face slit The industry knew his aunties were Black Panthers who studied Huey P Banging on the front line or handing out pamphlets When Pac died the world was plunged into anguish Sadness, it's like the game back slid and was left to languish He had a beautiful mind so they took it when the police delivered that bullet Biggies' death the following year was also suspicious They put it down to gang rivalry, but I know the FBI were the killers In '97 Wu-Tang Forever dropped, the greatest double-disc CD I ever rocked By '98 this shit began to dilate We had joints with more singing than bars, and 99.99% of content consisted of iced out jewellery and cars Over produced videos, celebrities and stars polluted this sacred art form of ours By 2000 record execs were only handing out checks if your music would reflect fake thug R&G bullshit and gratuitous sex All this club shit and faggots in tight tees flexing their pecs and middle-of-the-road niggas like Kanye West The only classics in this era are few and far between, they were Ghost Face's Supreme Clientele and Dead Prez's Lets Get Free By 2003 we had officially seen the death of a U.S. emcee, but by 2001 the rebirth of real Hip-Hop had begun When I first heard The Return of the High Planes Drifter by Jehst, and Task Force's MFTC I was impressed When I heard Lewis Parkers' Masquerades & Silhouettes I couldn't stop bopping my head When I first heard Ricochet Klashnekoff's The Sagas Man in the hood was wildin' out going bananas I became a U.K. rhyme fiend When I first heard Kyza's verse on "Nightbreed" I was amazed at such levels of technical rhyme schemes This inspired me to pick up the pen and write these street narratives and razor sharp darts I don't do this for the fame, I do this for the art
Read the complete lyrics to "Animal Circus" by Cyrus Malachi from the album "Ancient Future" in 2011. 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 Jazz Rap, Boom Bap, UK.
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