Bizzle - Dear Hip Hop lyrics

Dear Hip-Hop, it's me, your foster child
I'm writing this 'cause I feel we
Should sit and talk awhile
It may sound like I'm crazy
But I feel like your baby
Spend more time with you than my own folks
So it's just like you raised me
You taught me to walk
Said I should have swag
You taught me how to dress
That's why I let my pants sag
You taught me how to be a man
Like I ain't have a dad
You taught me how to talk
That's why my grammar bad
You taught me self-defense
A little rule of thumb
You said, "You never wanna fight, son
Use a gun" see, when you use a gun
You don't have to respect 'em
You can just talk to 'em how you want
Then pull out and check 'em
You told me "Women ain't ish
But hoes and tricks"
And never to love them just cut
'em move on and dip
You never told me what to do if
I slipped and had a kid
All I remember is "Move on and dip"
And make it rain when she get
On the pole and strip
But, if she respectable
I ain't supposed to trip
And if I see my brother
Get done wrong and just
Turn your back and let it happen
But "don't you snitch"
You had me thinking heart and
Real were the same thing
Like you're real if you have the heart
To kill in your gang bang
You never told me if I take his life
His pain is for a second
But it's ever present in his babies' life
You carried the spirit of
Banging across the nation
And they embraced it because you
Put it in song formation
You taught me I don't need school, I can rap
And while waiting for my music to move
I can trap (yeah)
I used to wanna be one
You told me to hate the cops
Now they can only beat and mistreat
Us 'cause we ain't the cops
I thought you had my best interest, maybe not
So I'm writing this letter to tell you
Thanks alot!

Dear Hip-Hop dear Hip-Hop
Dear Hip-Hop dear Hip-Hop

Dear Hip-Hop, I met my real Father
He said He loved me and He
Missed me and I'm not forgotten
He left me tons of messages but
I must not've got 'em
I guess you must've lost them, but, anyway
I found them when I was just a youngin'
You told me daddy left i ran and checked
And it says He's always been at that address
He said it's me who left Him
He just respected my choice
You showed me candy and toys and
I was just a boy he told me wait for sex
But we ain't wanna wait
Now it's abortion and broken homes
Plus a bunch of aids
He told me to love my woman
Protect and provide
You told me if I love her
Do it for only a night
He said, if you love her
Then wife her and go in for life
Like a lifer and man up
And make sure your family tight
I'll never withhold good from you
But it has to be right and, if it ain't
Then you may have to wait
Until after this life
He said to speak up when you see injustice
It's thinking you're weak when
You speak on evil
And these are what the streets are becoming
He told me our children were innocent
You teach 'em a sexual dances
Re tape it and place it on the internet
He told me love my brother
Almost like what you said
But, you said if he looked at me wrong
I could bust his head
He said His Son is over everything
You either serve God or money
You told me money over everything!
He said it's never to late to
Come and join the family
He said they all been waiting for me
They'd rejoice to have me
And that's the point of this letter
I wrote it so you know
That, as sure as you know it
I decided I'm going home

Dear Hip-Hop dear Hip-Hop
Dear Hip-Hop dear Hip-Hop