Dear Hip Hop

Bane from the Dark Knight Rises:

Oh you think darkness is your ally?

You merely adopted the dark

I was born in it, molded by it

I didn't see the light until I was already a man

By then it was nothing to me but blinding...

After a long day

Making these songs pay

They bumpin' one direction nothing gets the wrong way

And I have a feeling like the lyrics that I write

Well they need to make sense

Like spirits taking flights

New heights

Yeah, that's where I'm trying to go

Real housewives the game's filled with drama so

Kevin Hart from the start, I find it comical

And I need change

So I got that Obama flow

Whoa, now is this game getting too strange

Niggas bumpin' waka flocka

Grammies go to 2-chainz

I ain't really that impressed

When it comes to new names

And that's just up and down

From my crown to my shoe strings

A veteran, but feeling like a rookie

About to take everything

They owe em like a bookie

And you made a bad bet

Want what I ain't had yet

Caught up in these issues, magnets

I dreamed I was missing

You were so scared

But no one would listen

Cause no one else cared

After my dreaming

I woke with this fear

What am I leaving

When I'm done here?

So if you're...

So if I leave here

Will hip hop even miss me?

We used to go together

Like Timbaland and Missy

These girls got the thirst

So now it's getting tipsy

And the point is for the capital

The key is getting shifty

They tell me that

I ain't making rap music

I say you stuck in the genre

I call it trap music

And I'm aware

That life, it isn't fair

Getting nothing in return

I'm just trying to bring it back to it

And hip hop confirmed all my fears

Plus my momma teaching kindergarten

About twenty years

Now I gotta go and worry

About her safety

Watching the news, so confused

Like really? this just can't be

And hip hop

I know I'll probably leave you

Cause some days, I feel like I need to

And now, I just pray you'll remember me

Can't tell if you're my friend or my enemy

...Time comes

Forget the wrong that I've done,

Help me leave behind some

Reasons to be missed.

Don't resent me,

When you're feeling empty

Keep me in your memory,

Leave out all the rest

Leave out all the rest...

Forgetting,

All the hurt inside

You've learned to hide so well.

Pretending,

Someone else can come and save me from myself.

I can't be who you are...

I can't be who you are.