Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Other People's Property , by - MC Lars. Song from the album The Digital Gangster LP, in the genre Рэп и хип-хопRelease date: 03.11.2008
Record label: Horris
Song language: English
Other People's Property |
| Who’s down with OPP? |
| Yeah you know me |
| Remixed pastiche of other people’s property |
| Because what do you do when your culture’s predicated |
| On a cut and paste identity, straight up appropriated? |
| Who’s back who’s tight who’s on tonight |
| Who’s black who’s white who’s wrong who’s right |
| Yeah I speak for a generation of lost kids |
| Who had stranger life than our parents ever did |
| We never had a Woodstock, Iraq is our Vietnam |
| So we colonized hip-hop, like Dutch dudes Suriname |
| A mullet on a b-boy, the flavor is intrinsic |
| If you’ve got the beat inside you, me feel me if you’re with it |
| From Rolling Stone love to MTV |
| The thin line between Eminem and Ali G |
| Guess who just aced this hip-hop pop quiz? |
| MC Lars posting up laying claim to what’s his |
| You down with OPP? |
| Yeah you know me |
| Remixed pastiche of other people’s property |
| Because what do you do when your culture’s predicated |
| On a cut and paste identity, straight up appropriated? |
| Racial politics every time I spit |
| Am I a colonist or am I legit? |
| Tip-toe the fine line, it’s ill-defined I’m |
| Implicated in this mess all the time |
| The high jack took place way back the Blues Act |
| Taken by this white cat, he made mad cash |
| Is it appropriation? |
| Or appreciation? |
| What kind of statement are we making? |
| are they mad at me? |
| assimilate the game like the borg |
| hatin' on me cuz i banged a couple keys on my korg |
| i twisted the paradigm took something and made it mine |
| but the way that i make 'em move they don’t seem to mind |
| i’m a hip-hopper respect the roots |
| i’m a show stopper and that’s the truth |
| i’ve been doing this rapping long enough to gain my tenure |
| get respect at my shows making legal tender |
| Let me introduce myself, my name is Beefy kid |
| I’m from the Northwest 509 number one Whitesican |
| Been known to grab a mic and kill all challengers just with the flows |
| And with these nerdy lyrics got kids heads all up all at my shows |
| So because my lack of pigment makes my skin all light |
| Mean I can’t grab a microphone and rip apart your face tonight? |
| That sounds ridiculous, you surly can’t be serious |
| Cause Beefy is so magical I should just be called Severus |
| Judge me not by the way I appear |
| Be in your ear, striking fear into all of those insincere |
| Rap about pop culture, that’s experimentation |
| But there are those that wanna strike me down for my pigmentation, what? |
| Don’t you know that I’ve been hanging around |
| Going to town on these fellas by simply making a sound |
| But add my visual and audio becomes less important |
| You’ve got a stupid argument, I’d like to see ya support it |
| Not trying to put anyone down, not sayin' your not amazing |
| But when you just reverse the roles you see the trouble we’re facing |
| People hatin', people saying I’m disgracing the form |
| I’m trying to elevate the culture, roll it out and transform |