Coolio is teh rox0r post.

[TheEschaton]

Now I've seen places and faces
and things you ain't never thought about thinking
if you ain't peek then you must be drinking
and smokin'
pretending that your locin' but you're brokin'
let me get you open
now little Timmy got his diploma and
little Jimmy got life
and Tamika around the corner just took her first hit off the pipe
the other homie shot the other homie and ran off with his money
and when the other homies heard about it they thought that it was funny.
But who's the dummy
now you done lost the hustler
my down-ass brother gonna be replaced by a bustler
and though I got love for you
I know I can't trust you
coz my crew is rollin' hummers and your crew is rollin' dusters
and just because of that you act you don't like the brother no more
I guess that's just the way it goes
I ain't tryin ta preach
I believe I can reach
but your mind ain't prepared
I C U when you get there

Chorus:
I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there
I'll see you when you get there
if you ever get there
see you when you get there

More temptation than faith
I guess we livin' for the day
I seen a man get swept off his feet
by a boy with an AK
the situation so twisted everybody gettin lifted
I'm just tryin to take care of my kids and handle my business
coz it way too serious so you gotta pay close attention
so you don't get caught sittin' when they come and do all the gettin'
life is a big game so you gotta play it with a big voice
some of us gotta run a little faster coz we gotta lay the struggle
I'd be a fool to surrender when I know I can be a contender
and if everybody's a sinner then everybody could be a winner
no matter you rag colour deep down we all brothers
and regardless of the time somebody up there still love us
I'm a scuff and struggle till i'm breathless and weak
I just strived my whole life to make it to the mountain peak
always keep reachin' sure to grab on to something
I'll be there when you get there when you wit the sound pumpin'

Chorus

You need to loosen up
and live a little
and if you got kids let them know how you feel
and for your own sake give a little
oh, you don't want to hear that
you busy tryina stack
and keep them from the Jones's is taking advantage of your own
the realist homies that you been knowin for the longest
but some ain't missing a good thing until it's gone
could have built an empire if not for the jealousy that divides us
we prefer to keep our eyes shut to describe when
it's something wrong and we desire
so hold your head up high if your poor and righteous
aint no time seems right
the problems seem endless
but in times of despair we gotta pull ourselves together
and if you feel you're out the game then you need to get back in it
coz nothing worse than a quitter
you gotta face responsibility one day, my brother
so gather up your pity and turn it to ambition
and put your vehicle in drive and stop by my side

Chorus:

As we walk down the road of our destiny
and the time comes to choose which shall it be
the wide and crooked or the straight and narrow
we got one push to give and one life to live
so stand up for something or lay down in your game
listen to the song that we sing
it's up to you to make it be
I guess I'll see you when you see me

[Edaarin]

Lay off the crack pipe.

The thought of you listening to Coolio makes me chuckle.

[TheEschaton]

Socio-political rap/hip hop is the best. Almost as good as RATM.

-TeHE-

Is that new?

[Latrinsorm]

The last time I saw Coolio was when I was flipping through channels and landed on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I'm pretty sure it was pre-millenium.

Coolio can't compete with Rage because Rage's guitar guy is awesome (although he still sux for making that new band).

[Snapp]

Originally posted by RangerD1
Is that new?

No, pretty sure that's at least 5 years old.. I think I have the album (or had?) somewhere.

[Hulkein]

<<Socio-political rap/hip hop>>


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I just find it funny that someone who categorizes rap like that listens to it.

[TheEschaton]

I don't qualify all rap like that. BEP, Coolio (at times), Chuck D, Nas (sometimes), even DMX had that one song - in other words, people who talk about shit other than the bitches they've fucked, the bling bling they wear, the rims they roll on....those are good rappers.

On another note, WTF is up with the stealing of the Indian backbeat???? I've been hearing bangra beats on hip hop/pop soundtracks for a coupla years now, Missy Elliot does it quite a bit, there was that Truth Hurts song awhile back, and today I heard Brittney's song that had frickin' sitars in the background.

Is the Indian revolution in music of the 60s, making a comeback?

-TheE-

[peam]

If you're going to listen to 'socio-political' rap, at least do it right.

Dead Prez, El-P, and Cannibal Ox are the only three I can pull from the top of my head, because I don't listen to much.

Rappers that throw in one political song, amongst 12 others talking about how much platinum, diamons, and bitches they have, are laughable, at best.

[TheEschaton]

I can't say I'm a big enough fan to know the real political types, peam, what can I say, I'm a reformed whatever-the-fuck-is-not-rap/hiphop.

But hell, if Nas wants to sing One Mic, or I can, and release them as two singles off his latest album, I can give him props for that.

-TheE-

[Latrinsorm]

If Zach wasn't such a goddman idiot for breaking them up, Rage would be teh k00lest right now.

[Knights Templar]

I think we are forgetting the greatest political/social rapper of all time... Tupac