Self Construction (ft. Nelly, Styles P, Redman, The Game, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Method Man, Ne-Yo, Talib Kweli & More)
(The Rock) Today’s topic self construction We all came together just to tell y’all something Guns in school ain’t right to me You gotta be the peace you’d like to see See yourself free I use my mind beyond time to talk to the future me See yourself wealthy It’s time to settle all these beefs Yo Nelly help me
(Nelly) It’s like we livin’ in that you can’t stop me era Like man when I see you ima pop you era Like we ain’t learned nothing from the 2pac era From the B I Terror Take a look in the mirror Gets your hands out your pockets like man It’s time we get up get out and get sumin’ get a plan You know a plan not a scam I’m talkin’ sumin’ beneficial in helpin’ the next man
(Styles P.) From self destruction to self construction Really depends on self production Our family’s dysfunctional But we cud function To make our next generation option something Better than we had which was close to nothing Come from the ages of minimum wages Brothers is outrages millennium slave tips Put it in the book But we ain’t go through pages
(Redman) What I like to see is MCs get along If you gotta buck a shot Do it in a song Get your lyrics up It all sound raw When I drop I rock till the cows come home
(The Game) I never thought I’d tell anybody to put a gun down Till last week I saw a 12 year old kid gunned down This ain’t what life’s about All this shoot ‘em up bang bang you never think twice about That’s somebody’s son you shot somebody’s daughter you slaughtered I shed tears for our dearly departed And the shooters get X’d like Malcolm One dead in the grave, one behind bars is the out come
(Chorus Ne-Yo) Self construction I said what we doin’ to each other what we need Self construction Cryin’ mothers, dying brothers what we need Self construction Never ever ran from the Klu Klux Klan Shouldn’t have to run from a black man We need self construction Hey self construction hey
(Method Man) Look at the pot callin’ the kettle black I’m in the ghetto black And I ain’t tryin’ to be where delao and shawn bell is at I show these people where hell is at It’s right around the corner from no hope where the dope be sellin’ at
(Busta Rhymes) Ayo I’d like to see us open the lines of communication Prioritizing and dealing with self preservation Being constructive is something I’m completing endorsing Cuz the mind state of the youth kinda needed some reinforcing
(Talib Kweli) Hip-hop’s responsibility goes far beyond rappin’ We can talk about the happens Sing songs without action Activist activism must enforce your lyricism This is how you gunna add vilolence and lying politicians
(David Banner) Cut throat Americana Powder keg California Big business wu shaolin Hip hop is out to warn ya Black or brown Brown and black North and south beef Self construction now These rockers all about peace
(Chorus Ne-Yo) Self construction I said what we doin’ to each other what we need Self construction Cryin’ mothers, dying brothers what we need Self construction Never ever ran from the Klu Klux Klan Shouldn’t have to run from a black man We need self construction Hey self construction hey
I ain’t cosigning none of that I’m not just rhyming We losin’ babies to the streets So we could not be silent Together we could stop the violence We listen to music Even bullets be whistlin’ when the shots is firin’
Chicks ain’t even exempt now Even Got us goin’ in and out of the pen now Years in the game Think its goin’ on ten now Must be mad think I’m putting the pen down
I wasn’t here for the first move I’m thirteen let me put in my 2 cents A nation divided equals silence So let’s join together and stop the violence