what Mos Def spit on the Rape Over is correct
Nas was a prophet spittin on Hip Hop is dead
Young Thug got caught up with RICO charge, yet God said
Sure, why not, let's put him on every project!
Future feature on every record this decade
The reason Donda 2 was trash, besides the backlash
DS2 was ten years ago, his flow is slapdash
You wanna keep it burning until your respect is black ash
Round out every album with Drake and his bestie Travis
Utopia was rehash for cash, but it's platinum status
Drake's had no respect since Adidon, and that's not him rappin
He put out one new album in ten years, and it was his trashiest
Same four guys on every hip hop song
And the mainstream mainstays been here too long
Insano was embarrassing, Vultures was made on iPhone
I don't know where hip hop has been, but I know it's long gone
[Chorus] If hip hop should die before I wake,
At least we got some classics back in, like, 98
And if the same four guys play at the gym each day
It's still the same four playing for the last decade
I love Jay! He never should've used BIG's verse
cuz now they're looting bodies like grave robbers with thieves' purses
At least Dream had a reason, cuz it was about him
But X and Cud just copied a verse from his first album, On Jah
I flipped One Minute, but Skins was such a cash grab
Those songs were cut for a reason, why bring that trash back?
True Love was thrown together with the drums off of Runaway
And Juice wrld and em put a new song out the other day
Pop Smoke was flanderized to give him softer image
Then Kanye used a splitter AI on Tell The Vision
Blink's rent was due recording Bad Vibes Forever
and Juice WRLD has been on every Young Thug Record
Wayne put X on Funeral next to.... Adam Levine?
probably why they put a Nipsey Hussle verse on Memories
We try and tell ourselves our heroes aren't long gone
And put the same four ghosts on every hip hop song
[Chorus] If hip hop should die before I wake
I've got four dead men that used to be great
And if the same 4 graves are what we desecrate
It's still the same 4 graves for the next decade
Some white bums figured this out and tried to save it
But no online neocon is gonna be our salvation
They only decry the bad, and propose nothing good to replace it
But you can't just take away and think you're gonna make rap great again
They always praise the greats, but those greats were destroying our nation
In the 90s, except Eminem, so they imitate him
But their God admits he wouldn't have gotten big as a black man
He hates white rap, he gives them the finger like prostate exam
Tom MacDonald's topping the charts by being racist
He hates your identity politics unless you're an Israeli
So if you're white and rapping real fast, then you're the greatest
And I'm part of the problem, so all that I'm trying to say is,
Can we get hits from dudes who have something new to say?
Can we get JPEGMAFIA, listen to They Hate Change?
Get Brownsville Ka on the charts and on the radio?
Or grouptherapy.- I was mature for my age?
[Chorus] If hip hop should die before I wake
It's cuz of white dudes who think that they're too good to play
it's cuz ghosts haunt every album out today
and the same four guys who oversaturate
and no one wants to find stuff that can make real change
listeners aren't curious to broaden their tastes
we've got the same hit makers since 2008
the mainstream's dead, and I'm sorry to say
credits
released March 23, 2024
Samples "Thief's Theme" by Nas.
