Rhymefest - Mike the Mentor (Interlude) lyrics

RHYMEFEST: Ay, Mike
I got something on my mind
That it's really been bugging
Me, and I need some advice can
You just like, just, sit
And just mentor me for a second?

MICHAEL JACKSON: Sure!

R: Well, you know, I I'm tryna
Come up in the rap game, and- I
Wanna be like you!
Iconically, music-wise, but, you
Know, with Hip-Hop, it's kinda like, if you
Ain't shootin' people, or sellin' a
Lotta dope, it's like, "You not hood you not
Black enough you not" And it's like- And
I don't know what to do
You knahmsayin'? I don't know what to-

MJ: That's the most ridiculous
Horrifying story I've heard it's crazy!
The more often a
Person tell a lie, the more times
You hear a lie i mean
You begin to believe it

R: You know what, that's true
G but, it's like, when radio plays
It all the time, and the TV
Plays it all the time, and
They tell you, "You're not black" You
Know, "If you don't do this"
Like how did you overcome everything
People said about you? Like
Not being "urban enough" or
Not being "black enough"

MJ: I'm a black American i'm proud to be a
Black American i am proud of my race
I am proud of who I am i have
A lot of pride of who I am, and dignity
R: yeah, that's cool
But sometimes I feel embarrassed to
Be black, G like, I'm ashamed to say it
But how do other cultures look at us? How
Do other races perceive how
We treat ourselves?

MJ: Well, let's reverse it what about
All the millions of
People who sit out in the sun, become darker
To become other than what they are?
Nobody says nothing about that

R: yeah, I mean, you right i can't even argue
With you you got a point on that
Man well I'ma kick it like this

Uh, uh, are we animals? Some suggest
We was better as slaves with
Chains on our chest
Nothin' on our brains, no A's on the test
Yo Mike, can we make it out the ghetto man?
(Yes)
Uh, what it do? What you do if it's you?
They gave us hot water we
Learned to make stew
We had no money we learned to make due
Yo Mike, was you born poor like me?
(It's true)
I bet you should, come back to the hood
See everything we built out of what we could
Limited resources but from where I stood
You would still look at it and say
(Good! That's good)
Look, you from Gary, I'm from Chicago
We both should go back two days from tomorrow
I don't care how we get there
Plane or trolly
They need money Mike, c'mon man (I'm sorry)
This can't just be words, gotta be action
We love the people and they need satisfaction
We on the road but we gotta get some traction
I'm Rhymefest and his name is
(Michael Jackson)