Rap Game's Hijacked (Explicit)-ICE-T

[ti:Rap Game's Hijacked] [ar:Ice T] [al:Ice T VI: Return Of The Real] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rap Game's Hijacked (Explicit) - ICE-T [00:05.71]Too many hardcore muthaf**kas out here in this business [00:08.25]Ain't gettin their proper loot [00:09.80]You know what I'm sayin [00:10.84](Right) [00:11.57]Check the technique [00:12.21] [00:13.30](Aha) [00:13.59] [00:14.49]Everybody talkin 'bout the way hip-hop ain't the same [00:17.48]Suckers kidnapped the game [00:18.71]I know the biggest in the business and no joke [00:21.16]Half of em broke - and none of em smoke [00:23.38](Bust the facts loc) [00:24.22] [00:24.74]I got into this hip-hop game [00:26.22]Just to try to get a girl and get some light-weight fame [00:28.72] [00:29.61]There'd never been no cash made in it [00:31.31] [00:31.97]So who thought you could get paid with it [00:33.99]Just crash the club with my crew and then I'm outta there [00:36.49]Hit some skins act bugged that was a rap career [00:38.75] [00:39.55]Then Run-D M C jumped the f**k off [00:41.28]Got mad paid word kicked the bucks off [00:43.80] [00:44.34]There wasn't many rappers out there rockin the streets [00:46.52]When hip-hop was just cuts and beats [00:48.53]I seen _Wildstyle_ dug the scene [00:50.68]I wanna be an MC rock rock on - know what I mean [00:54.34]I started crashin rap contests [00:55.94]Shootin hardcore rhymes through wack MC's chests [00:57.84] [00:58.94]I signed on the lines of a wack contract [01:01.36]Didn't even read it f**k that [01:02.89] [01:04.19]They gonna put my record out [01:06.05]I'm gonna be large know what I'm talkin about [01:08.81]In the first 2 years I made about 300 bucks [01:11.81]Yo this business sucks [01:13.25]But I got another chance and I came correct [01:15.62]Got a lawyer and accountant now my sh*t's legit [01:17.82] [01:19.06]But many won't get no second chance [01:20.45]And get f**ked in this biz without a kiss or a dance [01:23.30] [01:23.90]The game is to exploit young ghetto kids [01:25.57]A straight pimp game and there ain't no shame [01:27.88] [01:28.67]And the sh*t's gone too far [01:29.86] [01:30.46]100 hip-hop labels with all white A&R's [01:32.88]The game's hijacked [01:33.59] [01:37.67]The rap game's hijacked [01:38.40] [01:39.68]Let me tell you how it happened [01:40.82] [01:42.83]Now while every MC in the game [01:44.53] [01:45.43]Was worryin about a white boy gettin the fame [01:47.32] [01:48.60]They dug out the foundation [01:49.64] [01:50.69]Now let me give a demonstration [01:51.87] [01:52.97]Say you got a d**e group from the hood [01:54.83] [01:55.42]Talkin mad sh*t like they're up to no good [01:57.32] [01:58.42]You take em to a label [01:59.50] [02:00.53]Now who sits behind the table [02:01.80] [02:02.53]Some jewish muthaf**ka that don't know sh*t [02:04.50] [02:05.26]Tryin to tell y'all what's a f**kin street hit [02:07.14] [02:08.27]The sh*t's way off course [02:09.30] [02:09.87]It's like me tellin Johnny Cash how to sing about his horse [02:12.93]You go on tour the white agency says you're wild [02:15.76]Tone down your style [02:16.77] [02:18.13]The radio jocks are all pop [02:19.88]So how the f**k this ni**a know what sh*t to rock [02:21.96] [02:23.10]The sh*t that make your face turn green [02:24.65]Is when you get dissed by a kidnap magazine [02:26.69] [02:28.01]I give a f**k about these muthaf**kas [02:29.76]I'm doin this jam to save my hip-hop brothers [02:31.67] [02:32.25]Get your paperwork straight kid [02:34.37]Get a lawyer and accountant just like I did [02:37.30]Don't blow your dough cause you will see g's [02:39.68]But this game has no guarantees [02:41.41] [02:42.18]Learn about publishing points so you won't be blind [02:45.05]Learn to read everything you sign [02:46.45] [02:47.25]Then you might have a chance [02:48.55] [02:49.34]If not bend over pull down your pants [02:51.79]The game's hijacked [02:52.43] [02:53.83]Yeah [02:54.26] [02:54.97]I don't they hear you brother [02:56.10]Yo the rap game's hijacked [02:57.21] [03:00.02](Word) [03:00.36] [03:01.34]I'm talkin 'bout a hijack [03:02.29] [03:04.10](Say it one more time baby) [03:05.41] [03:06.26]The rap game's hijacked [03:07.13] [03:08.61]Check it [03:09.11] [03:09.76](Break it down for these niggas) [03:10.83] [03:11.84]You can go gold and still owe the record label cash [03:14.09] [03:14.93]Yo kid check the math [03:16.02] [03:16.75]Learn about the word 'recoup' troop [03:18.69]And stop walkin round all hyped and souped [03:21.35]You ain't nothin but somethin to be used and worked [03:23.71]You ain't nothin but a sucker to be duped and jerked [03:26.25]Cause the f**kin record label don't love ya pal [03:28.45]They didn't love ya on the street and don't love ya now [03:30.83] [03:32.00]They're out to make an end friend [03:33.35]Cause every dollar you make they damn near make 10 [03:35.85] [03:36.98]They'll take you for everything you got [03:38.28]Or else they'll sign you and they put on the shelf to rot [03:40.97] [03:41.93]I'm tryin to tell you what's up [03:43.26]You best to listen to this record [03:44.82]Even if you hate my f**king guts [03:46.63]Cause I just can't stand around and watch rap get done [03:49.54]And my brothers ain't gettin none [03:51.05] [03:51.79]A ni**a like me has gotta spit game [03:53.61]Ni**a get that cash flow f**k that muthaf**kin fame [03:55.84] [03:56.52]Cause the white man's rippin us off once again [03:59.03]Real hip-hop my man [04:00.74] [04:04.44]Fool the rap game's hijacked [04:06.23] [04:08.27]You need to listen ni**a [04:09.38] [04:10.27]The rap game's hijacked [04:11.10] [04:12.43]Need to play this record about ten times [04:13.92] [04:15.19]The rap game's hijacked [04:16.50] [04:17.73]Black people don't own sh*t [04:18.86] [04:20.27]The rap game's hijacked [04:21.09] [04:22.95]Check it [04:23.43] [04:25.15]R&B's hijacked [04:25.88] [04:29.77]Black acting is hijacked [04:30.74] [04:34.51]Just being black is hijacked [04:35.62] [04:37.89](Build my ni**a build my ni**a) [04:39.98]Ni**a [04:40.33] [04:41.36]Stupid muthaf**kas they rippin us off [04:43.34]You better get a end [04:44.58]While the money's there boy [04:45.97] [04:46.63]Silly-a** b**ch runnin around with a gold chain [04:49.43]All niggas gotta get some real estate [04:50.82]Muthaf**ka [04:51.25] [04:53.24]Come up [04:53.69] [04:54.51]F**k a b**ch [04:55.26] [04:58.16]Better get somethin you can own asshole [04:59.53] [05:01.42]White man ain't givin up sh*t [05:03.01]Word o' life [05:03.67] [05:05.56]Although I got a white engineer [05:07.01]But he's gettin minimum wage [05:08.10] [05:09.04]So it's cool [05:09.63] [05:12.37]Yeah [05:12.79] [05:14.36]Sh*t's been hijacked