So I'm at the barbershop
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And we talking about this new generation of hip-hop
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And how, how lost you all are man
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But y'all have no science
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So here you go
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The systematic knowledge of the physical world
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Gained through observation and experimentation
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Usually beginning with a hypothesis
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Or what some may call an estimation
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Record your results from a series of tests
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And what your left with is a theory at best
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Now let me give my hypothesis, an educated guess
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On why my people on the whole seem to be such a mess
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Genocide, the deliberate extermination of a race, culture, or an entire nation
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Centuries ago they brought us here on a boat
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Enslaved us, beat us til our spirit was broke
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Then they gave us freedom and a little bit of hope
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Then they killed our leaders and they gave us dope (crack)
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From the C.I.A. by way of Nicaragua, shipped to Rick Ross, he¡¯s the black godfather
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Now Oscar Blandon was his known supplier, he snitched on Rick so he could retire
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Ratted on Ricky so he got out quickly, now this is where the situation gets a little sticky
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Not a citizen of the U.S.A. he got released and got hired by the D.E.A.
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Then he got his green card by the I.N.S.
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But that should¡¯ve never happened due to previous arrests
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See our government seems to think that there¡¯s a difference
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Between powdered cocaine and crack, for instance
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You get five years for five grams of crack
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But in the powdered form you have a hundred times that
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Now who has the rock, and who has the powder?
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Who¡¯s the oppressed and who has the power?
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They want you to fail so you wind up in jail
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You know how much they make while you sitti'n in that cell?
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Billions of dollars for inmate facilities
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You sell yourself back into slavery willingly
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It's not black and white, it¡¯s so much more
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It¡¯s the rich stayin rich and the poor stayin poor
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The poor white¡¯s meth, the poor black¡¯s crack
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It¡¯s not about race and once you realize that, we as a nation are free to move on
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And become one people, a movement, strong
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Now black people weren't the first to be enslaved
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We were just the first to be treated this way
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No education you were killed if you could read
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So you hid your intellect if you wanted to succeed
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And what happens to a lie when you livin' it
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You lose sight of who you are and start forgettin' it
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So many of us to this day act ignorant
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A mere shadow of our former magnificence
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Wellfare
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No independence we become victims dependin' on the system
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Looking for a handout waiting on some help
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Toiling on the past feeling sorry for your self
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But you do what you can to make it out the trap
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And that right there is the origin of rap
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It wasn't always played on every radio station
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It was us makin the best out of a bad situation
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Inner city schools stopped teaching us instruments
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We took turntables and started flippin' it
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Stole electricity from the street lights
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Plugged it into a system and made the beat hype
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There was a mic but MC's weren't rulin'
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It was more 'bout what the DJ was doin'
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He say a few words (GO GO) to keep the party movin'
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The beat boys dancin' to the breaks and the grooves
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An the break was the part where the record broke down
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Where it was just a drum and a couple of sounds
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You had two records you could go back and forth
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To keep the groove goin' cause the break was so short
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Now if that aint' science I don't know what is
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The ingenuity of these young black kids
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The Bronx New York Central Recita
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Kool Herc earth hip-hop true believers
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(Theory) Adversity produces opportunity
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Anythings accomplished through strength and unity
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The fate of the world is in the hip-hop commuity
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The revolution is here and now with you and me
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(Murs is a Scientist)
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The Science
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Murs |