The Roots - Act Won (Things Fall Apart) Lyrics
You are all...We don't even come to see our own, manListen, Freddy, listen...If we had to depend upon black people to eatWe would starve to deathYou've been out thereYou on the bandstandYou look out there, What do you see?You see Japanese, you see... you see West GermansYou see Slobovic, you know, anything, except our people manIt makes no sense, it incenses me that our own peopleDon't realize our own heritage, our own cultureThis is our musicThat's bullshit!Why?That's all bullshit. Everything, everything you just said is bullshitYou're complaining about-I'm talking about the audienceThat's rightThe people don't come because you grandiose mother*****ers don't playShit that they like. If you played the shit that they likedThen the people would comeSimple as thatInevitably, hip-hop records are treated as though they are disposableThey are not maximized as product, not to mention as art