| Some tell me I’m corny and couldn’t call this hip-hop,
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| that I bought my whole style at the tourist gift shop.
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| Would I score and get props if I babbled about guns,
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| if I went «Eminem» I’d get platinum albulms.
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| If I had baggy pants and a fat sweater
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| and put black paint on my face, would cats claim that I rap better?
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| Some say whites can’t be part of the cause,
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| speak of colour… my lungs are probably darker than yours.
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| Hip-(hip)hop (hop) tourist, they call me the hip (hip)-hop (hop) tourist
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| they call me the hip, the hip-hop (hop) tourist,
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| they call me the hip-hop tourist, the hip-hop tourist.
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| Pardon me, but your palms are surely darker than mines,
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| see it’s absurd to think «skin» is your licence to rhyme.
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| Don’t limit yourself, it’s all about a dope lyric
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| 'cause when a mic gets ripped, who gives a fuck who’s holdin’it.
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| Just let your mind travel to unexplorable spots,
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| forget them black and white movies, set forward your clocks.
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| I’m hip-hop, and if it takes shouting and yelling,
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| I’ma yell it louder until my fucking album is selling!
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| Hip-hop's a ghetto with the gates that they keep barred,
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| and I’m the immigrant that can’t get me a green card.
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| I’ve tried to prove I’m worthy and loyal,
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| my step brothers treat me like a worm in the soil.
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| I’ve had my hand coiled on mics and tried to get respect,
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| sweated at shows, perfected my flows, but they won’t accept me yet!
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| I’ve walked around, on hand on my balls, bragging and flossing,
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| fat chain and a gangster-cross dangling off it…
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| Hip-(hip)hop (hop) tourist, they call me the hip (hip)-hop (hop) tourist
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| they call me the hip, the hip-hop (hop) tourist,
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| they call me the hip-hop tourist, the hip-hop tourist.
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| I’ve battled 'til forfeit, but I’m banned like the tourist,
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| yet I find pastoral peace exiled in the forest.
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| Alienated, they won’t hear me today,
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| but I’ll get my stripes at the end of this shakespearian play!
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| Ain’t a border I can not get round, they can lock me out,
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| but I’ma fuck my step-mother 'til she loves her adopted child!
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| Recognize when it comes to the flow,
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| and just keep it in mind like a fucking slug in your skull!
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| the hip-hop tourist, the hip-hop tourist. |