To start off, the greatest rappers to have ever been bred have been appearing on the scene of the rap industry with a chain of hit songs that could captivate the hearts of a million Catholics, anger overweight people, and change people’s views on tying their shoes (note to self, put that in next rap song). Princeton Graduates Soulja Boy, Lil B, and Lil Wayne are resurrecting the ‘bling-bling’ ‘big-booty’ ‘money-over-everything’ era of Rap from the 1980s-1990s. Most songs stray from being lyrical and choose to be appealing to viewers with an IQ lower than a peanut-butter sandwich with down-syndrome.

            Second of all, certain lyrics that shouldn’t even be in a song are ‘bars’ such as; “Verse number 2 do the dang thang, keeps on my neck pocket's full of Ben Franks,” said by Young Joc, “When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet, Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets,” by LFO and “Sometime y'all get crimey crimey, grimy grimy, nut those with a tiny hiney they get whiny whiny” by Cam’Ron. It is too easy to become a rapper, throw some words, talk about intelligent topics only Harvard graduates can relate to, and watch as your cash inflow increases overtime.

             In conclusion, today’s youth are slower than people of our age way back when, and why people in other countries consider us a laughing stock and give them another reason to not see America as a serious competitor in music. We should keep it real in music and stick to topics the average person could relate to, such as Life or Love. I also agree that the songs are appealing and catching. Songs like these should come out more often; they can uplift a person’s day, ruin it, or make it even weirder than it already was. You need at least half a brain to come up with lyrics people would recite to their friends or willingly in their own home on their own time, you’re doing something right.


 
            Dear Diary….

What isn’t wrong with my sister(—)everything in my opinion! Including(:) she’s weird, makes people do weird things when they eat her food, tried to take MY MAN and was stupid enough to ruin the flowers my husband gave to her. It’s like just because she’s the youngest she can just act all out-of-place and carefree(;) perhaps she’s mentally retarded(….)No wonder Mama acts so hostile towards her no matter what she does! She can’t even kill a quail properly. All you have to do is twist the little things nasty little neck(--)which is very easy if you have no remorse and aren’t weak as her(—)and it should die almost instantly! I would pick it up and let my lover Pedro do it, unless he fails again(;) just add that to another one of my husband’s fails in the past month.

I really wish he wouldn’t disappoint me as much as he has been lately. That’s not something that is good is a marriage and I should address on him on that. Any who, my husband and I will hopefully have a great life together(….) Or else. I have no problem treating Pedro’s neck like that little quails, letting him run around helpless before I finish him off. If only if only, until next time, bye-bye diary.


 
 
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What to do? How much to take? What to choose?
The thoughts of an honest worker with nothing to lose
Chose to do what’s best and risked it all as it seems
It was a lot, and I could spread loot throughout the family

What was it supposed to be for? My own personal gain?
Stealing from criminals and causing them eternal pain
Scorching in flames, it gave a way for committing a sin
Given a reason to return to a cave again and again

Working a cold sweat for close to nothing checks
I need something or someone to reverse this debt
Even though hate in my heart is the only thing I lack
I’m cutting wood and doing good yet getting nothing back

A simple workingman, an intelligent lucid thinker
Saw my chance and went, hook line and sinker
Took a little at a time but I think time to think a-
Bout, with or without my mouth, and without a doubt

Technically my patience paved the way for greater days
Son married my worker, gold buried within a cave
Brother is in a rage over greed and materialistic
Items, fighting for riches that are close to realistic

Love overcomes everything when enough’s enough
If I take too much then I’ll surely push my luck
I’m an average man; I used my brain and solved a problem
A solemn promise to dig my family from rock bottom

Was it meant to be? Was I even meant to see?
Could I have not peaked throughout the trees a little moreclosely?
Posed’ to be make-believe, chose to embrace the greed
Trying to feed my seed and succeed for my family

Gold coins peeling the air shining in the light
Taking is bad but the timing was right
The chance was tempting and I wanted a piece
With compassion for my loved ones, thick as thieves

Those days my daughter was one of my only saviors
Who did what was right when her dad was in danger
Slave was in the kitchen, closely watched and listened
Took time to pay attention and to her marriage was given

Behind in thought because strangers stole the moment
Along with my attention but I never loaned it
With a loyal servant who has learned to serve her purpose
Saved everyone’s dermis, turned out to be far from worthless

Weak feeling from my spine jolting into my knees
A time for outlaws revolting against the king to bring
Stolen goods into a cave with a password that should
Be used by a misunderstood ‘Arabic robin hood’

May be under stress but going in was my best bet
My brother worked a sweat for another and ended that indeath
A sense of regret, shouldn't have been as curious
About the situation, could have not been as serious

Crooks probably ended up in a place full of lit torches
Because stealing sends you below with the flame and scorches
Moral of the story is don’t act out of the ordinary
Unless you’re helping loved ones even when it’s fairly scary
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