What is Rap?

Is it a life style? or is it....
an attack on women..'bitch-this' an
attack on men? 'Bitch-ass-Nigga-that'
Is it where the struggle ends...
when the money is flowing in?
Or is it where the real problems begin...
living up to the 'style' you've written in?
Was it your life?..are you true to the core? or
Just trying to sell rhymes and nothing more...
Are you chasing that dollar or are you
Chasing your dreams or will you end up
like Micheal in 'scream' Do we have the right...
the right to question you... when the
Little boys are sagging their pants
and the girls have switched from 'double-dutch'
to a little ass................lap dance?
Can you explain yourself? Why is Rap ...Hip-hop..and sex
the only thing that sells? you in the studio....
mike to your mouth...all you....shall I say it?
Niggas...in the same boat...every other line talkn bout
A young girls 'deep throat'. Is this how you live your lives or
is it all just a smoke screen? Pen to paper to studio to stage...
Are those words of inherent rage?
Is this the life you live? For some...I'm sure...no doubt
your writing bout the only thing you know about.
You got his name..but know nothing about him...
Why would you? locked up since you were seven
What was that life you lived?
Little sister slept with you...cause she had no crib...
Mom workn that money...just tryn to survive...
Barely knowing where u were....walkn 'cake' street
in that tattered faux-fur...so I can understand that anger
that animosity...at the life you were dealt...
not the life you agreed...searching for a way to be free..
you turned it into creativity....But, you've left that life...it's been a little bit
have you progressed your lines...or is everything 'stilled' mirrored thru the
image of the same sh*t...is this a double standard? Using words
that you'd use...or is this the only way to get through to you?
Through my steel lenses...I know this is fu-tile...nothing will change
Would it even be worthwhile? So, for you invisible ink rappers...continue
your lies...and for you who've lived the other side.....
long live ....Rap...and Hip-hop....For it will never 'truly' die.