Act Won (Things Fall Apart) - The Roots
Written by:Ahmir Thompson
You are all
We don't even come to see our own man
Listen Freddy listen
I said
You know we had to depend upon black people to eat
We would starve to death
Everybody listen up
You've been out there
You on the bandstand
You look out there
What do you see
You see Japanese you see you see
West Germans
You see Slobovic you know anything except our people man
It makes no sense it incenses me that our own people
Don't realize our own heritage our own culture
This is our music
That's bullsh*t
Why
That's all bullsh*t
Everything
Everything you just said is bullsh*t
You're complaining about
I'm talking about the audience
That's right
The people don't come because you grandiose motherf**kers don't play
Sh*t that they like If you played the sh*t that they liked
Then the people would come
Simple as that
Inevitably
Hip hop records
Are treated as though they are disposable
They are not maximized as product in a
In a not to mention as art