Lyrics by MC Lars, YTCracker, K.Flay, Beefy, and MC Router Music by the Dust Collector [Verse 1 MC Lars] Whos down with OPP? Yeah you know me Remixed pastiche of other peoples property Because what do you do when your cultures predicated On a cut and paste identity, straight up appropriated? Whos back, whos tight, whos on tonight Whos black, whos white, whos wrong, whos 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 hiphop, like Dutch dudes Suriname A mullet on a bboy, the flavor is intrinsic If youve got the beat inside you, me feel me if youre with it From Rolling Stone love to MTV The thin line between Eminem and Ali G Guess who just aced this hiphop pop quiz? MC Lars posting up laying claim to whats his [Hook YTCracker]x2 You down with OPP? Yeah you know me Remixed pastiche of other peoples property Because what do you do when your cultures predicated On a cut and paste identity, straight up appropriated? [Verse 2 K. Flay] Racial politics every time I spit Am I a colonist or am I legit? Tiptoe the fine line, its illdefined Im 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 appreciation, or appropriation? What kind of statement are we making? [Verse 3 YTCracker] 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 dont seem to mind Im a hiphopper respect the roots Im a show stopper and thats the truth Ive been doing this rapping long enough to gain my tenure Get respect at my shows making legal tender [Hook YTCracker]x2 [Verse 4 Beefy] Let me introduce myself, my name is Beefy kid Im 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 cant grab a microphone and rip apart your face tonight? That sounds ridiculous, you surly cant 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, thats experimentation Now they wanna strike me down for my pigmentation, like what? Dont you know that Ive been hanging around Going to town on these fellas by simply making a sound But add my visual and audio becomes less important Youve got a stupid argument, Id like to see ya support it Now Im not putting you down, not saying your not amazing But when you just reverse the roles you see the trouble were facing People hating, people saying Im disgracing the form Im trying to elevate the culture, roll it out and transform [Hook YTCracker]x2 [Verse 5 MC Router] Is it proper of me to be a nerdy MC To take a different approach at lyrical memes? Where does hiphop belong if it came from the streets? Can only hard dudes put a rhyme to these beats? Hiphop wasnt made to be kept [?] So move it off a mic and MC Router intervenes Never been aimed at, shot up, or bitch slapped But I been shot down, beat up, and laughed at Ive been torn down, [?] past, shrugged off, and called fat No Im not a gangsta but Im tough and you can trust that Dont wanna change the roots, but Im quick To jump up in a track [?] that YTCracker spits From the streets or from the desk It doesnt matter whos the best We come from different hoods But we all fall out the nest You could choose to cry about it Put your anger in a track Use a boombox to spit at Use these beats to attack
ytcracker, beefy, who, mc, router