Dalek

Culture For Dollars

Dalek


Written word held weight 
Now honor at best recessive trait 
The sound and shape to come succumbed to Malignant maelstrom 
Malformed mentals stained expected outcome 
And not to be outdone 
Some speak in half phrases 
No definition to brush strokes already out of phase with these statements 
Raise children off pavement... 
Pulse on frauds hasten 
When confronted with styles from gutter basements 
Set to build like Freemasons, on three angles 
All I see are Minstrel MC's on these channels 
Perceived battles only held to sell albums 
Propagate stereotypes that bleed out us 
Our own doubt us 
But I remain devout scholar of skills of forefathers 
Ignorance was forced on us 
Define honest, if we all breath diseased lies 
Define the MC if all he spits are weak lines. 

Who trades his culture for dollars? 
The fool or the scholar? 
Griot? Poet? Or White collared? 

If my written words slurs 
Then my speech correct 
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect 
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect 
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek 

Spoken word held meaning 
Hostile acts provoked 
Formed metaphors 
Created urban folklore 
Never meant for these upper echelon aurals 
That bought and stripped morals 
From art that's gift for us 
At heart I'm strict purist 
Spit thoughts for poorest 
5'6'' Honduran sights set on own ruin 
Rugged cadence meant to capture essence 
Ancestor's wrath festers under surface of uttered sentence. 

Who trades his culture for dollars? 
The fool or the scholar? 
Griot? Poet? Or White collared? 

If my written words slurs 
Then my speech correct 
Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect 
If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect 
Deadverse spoken with broken dalek