Crooked I - If You Ever Hear Me lyrics

The world lost a luminary recently
It's name Hip Hop
And it drowned from to much and champagne
What the hell happened to you Hip Hop
Artist with names like, Terminator X and
Furious Five And Niggas With Attitude (NWA)
Once preached about social awareness
And political enlightenment
When did fight the power


I started off in this game
Heart full of high hopes
Young and naive, Notebook full of fly quotes
Critically acclaimed
They say Crooked I's dope
Doper than white coke, walking a tight rope
Trying not to fall
This industry you see it got traps
Record executives rape you with
Those paper contracts
Got my first deal and they
Pulled out my arteries
Shot me in the heart I mean they
Killed the best part of me
Ask me to be a gimmick
Shitting on my artistry
Ain't nobody hard as me! Fuck being RnB!
Told you crooked go hard
Told you it's a G thang
Told you fuck that auto tune
Shit unless it's T pain!
I like Lil Wayne, cause he's Lil Wayne
I like the game cause he's game
And we ain't the same
You need a little variety on your spice rack
AnR's want me to change so
I don't like RAP!
Ask me for ringtone song homey I might snap!
And treat my automatic weapon to life snack!
A lot of rappers let it
Slide but I fight back
Cause 99% of hip hop is quite wack!
So you can hate me or get
Back on the right track
Either way I don't give a
Fuck! and it's like that
Yeah it's like that, used to be a nice cat
Last year I was sick of this
Music now I'm twice that!

Do you remember the first time
You heard PE?, NWA and BDP?
Do you remember the last time
You heard Kool G, Big Daddy Kane
Rakim & Erik B
You ever hear
2Pac and BIG
You ever hear
Big Pun and DOC
You ever hear
Big L, Eazy and Ice T
That's Where we will be
If You Ever Here Me!

You like rappers in shoot-outs I
Really been through em
I swear to God I could have
Did the 50 cent to em!
A little guidance from Dre
Let Jimmy mentor em!
Instead my enemies witnessed my
Semi spit for em
I could have did the Snoop
I'm from the beach homey
I could have did the Eminem
I'm a beast homey!
Look at the word play I use in the chorus
The verse way
Over your head I confuse a thesaurus
I'm worth cake! Making moves in the torus
You smoke weed?
I got so many tree's you'll
Be abusing the forest
We serve weight
While executives in music ignore us
In the first place
Fuck! Fugitive warrants!
Id rather have a lucrative future in touring
On my first date stupid supporters
May I first state my news to reporters
Yo, I'll call a press conference
To say FUCK rap!
Then go to the radio station
And let the GUN clap!
I spit like a hundred
Kanye's and 3000 Andre's
Still I'm stuck HERE! Where the thugs at!
Magazine covers tell you were my buzz at
Everything you do to get a
Big deal I done that!

Do you remember the first time
You heard PE?, NWA and BDP?
Do you remember the last time
You heard Kool G, Big Daddy Kane
Rakim & Erik B
You ever hear
2Pac and BIG
You ever hear
Big Pun and DOC
You ever hear
Big L, Eazy and Ice T
That's Where we will be
If You Ever Here Me!

Yo
I give rap stars a blind folded cigarette
They kick me of they videos sets
Because I'm a bigger threat! (fuck em)
Hate it or love it I thought nothing of it
My nigga chuck tried to bring
Me to the mainstream public
But it's back on the block
Where the Glocks be poppin
Selling Orange county's ya'll call
Em oxy cottons
Selling purple syrup and kush
While the cops be watching
Hit the studio with guape we
Clocking off the boulevard
I wanna live legal buts it's so expensive
Being the leader of the underground!
Shine when I come around!
Standing in the VIP with Russell
And Jay- Z in Vegas
And didn't do it from selling a CD! (no)
Everywhere you rappers go, you gone see me!
(yo)
A hood star with or without the TV!
Play me in your whip I'm so
I'll you'll get car sick!
Now Id rather spill my
Pain over guitar licks!
Flying a mosh pit
Something like a star ship!
Rap till your heart skip a beat
But on some dark shit!
You AnR's wanna trap me in this hood life
Some say it's my past
Affiliation with Suge Knight
Me and Suge parted ways along time ago
Didn't think you labels would
React so vagina though!
I don't know
Maybe I'm a big flop
Maybe I should end this nightmare
With a quick shot
Maybe I should join Eazy-E, Pac! And Big Pop!
Maybe I should say FUCK HIP-HOP!

Do you remember the first time
You heard PE?, NWA and BDP?
Do you remember the last time
You heard Kool G, Big Daddy Kane
Rakim & Erik B
You ever hear
2Pac and BIG
You ever hear
Big Pun and DOC
You ever hear
Big L, Eazy and Ice T
That's Where we will be
If You Ever Here Me!