Saviour of Hip-Hop

[Ibtisam]

I’ve been meaning to post about this guy for a while, but my memory is bad. In case you aint heard it yet, both his albums are off the hook. On his second album, there are 16tracks, I love 15 of them. Lyrically deep, I suppresses Nas and Tupac. And he can express himself without profanity, so you can listen to it with children around.

 

 

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I’m sure you have heard of Superstar

 

Switch, Coldblooded...Just check out his album as a whole, no point me posting every song.

 

I hope he gets an award this year, although he may have dropped his album too late in the year.

 

 

Hip-hop music, once a platform for creative expression and friendly competition, has, sadly, become a popularity contest. With record sales down and ringtone dollars up, rookies searching for that "one big hit" seem solely concerned with being deemed "cool." Lyrics have side-stepped, giving way to dance-instructing "rappers" more concerned with sparking the new "Macarena" than being hailed as an MC.

 

On the outside looking in at such followers is Lupe Fiasco. Rather than conform to music industry standards, Fiasco (born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco) has trail-blazed his own path to critical acclaim. Possessing head-spinning wordplay and a topical range more akin to the underground than the mainstream, the 25-year-old lyricist has proven that talent can still make waves in the rap game.

[MZanzi]

Awootho billahee min shaytaan nirrajeeme bismillah hir Rahman neer raheem

 

(Athaan)

 

This is one's for all my brothers and sisters who died in Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan and right here in America

(Jesus Walks)

 

Abraham Talked

Muhammad Talked

And Moses split the sea

(Jesus Walk with me)

I ain't tryin to profit of the prophets so this one's for free

 

G's up along with Muhammad and Jesus

In the Quran they call him Isa

Don't think Osama and sadaam are is our leada

We pray for peace, but the drama intrigues us

All, so we fall for the illusions of the beast

So instead of tryin to teach we show our teeth

Saying God, different beliefs

Hijabs, Sunday clothes, yamika, kufi, same mission beneath

We all tryin to get to where the sufferin ends

In front of the Most High bein judged for our sins

Can front for the Most High, so the struggle

Continues

You, every bird, bird and tree, me, her and me

We virtually on the same boat

With the same goats, on the same sea

Tryin to stay afloat, and put the devil in the yolk

With a couple of God's quotes

(CHORUS)

 

ATHAN

(astaghfriullah)

 

And to the sisters and the mothers of ours

Who cover theyselves cause they're lovers of God

The Creator of the worlds, Sculptor of the stars,

During Hajj we walk, through Ramadaan we starve

Though you not eatin, there's a feedin of the mind

A defeatin of the demons, a seein’ of the signs

A leanin on the lines from the surahs

Getting purer, God deemed it unclean

(Ther's no eatin of the swine)

Nor drinkin' of the wine

We all been to the wind, so I send out a message to my kind

I'm Cordial to Mr Norfull, Mrs. Adam you're the theme song when I'm battling*

Creb flow, player whats happenin

I can hear the truth in your rappins'

(No)

Sex before you marry

No grudges

You should be carry no lyin

Not supposed to be gamblin'

 

CHORUS

( I know it sounds familiar)

We all the same man

It's all a game

The devil hate each and every one of us exactly the same

( I wanna walk like Jesus, talk like jesus SAW)

 

 

You know

(uh)

And To my Akh's tryin to stay on their deen

It gets mean especially when u stay on the scene

And at the same try to stay out of trouble

But don't forget the blessing's in the struggle

The Most Forgiving will forgive it if you stay repentant

And hustle

You gotta stay on your salats, your zakats, your Quran

To my homies and miskeen

Astagfurallah,

Allah forgive us all

For we all are sinners

Bless us to be among the winners

When it ends

But until then please strengthen the mission within our hearts

All praise is due to God

(Amen)

Tellin it how it was taught me

I ain't tryin to sell it can be brought for free

This is how it is

Now how it ought to be

Muhammad talk to me

Jesus walk with me

I hope….

(CHORUS)

 

 

I really admire Muhammad-Walks

[Jacaylbaro]

Awootho billahee min shaytaan nirrajeeme bismillah hir Rahman neer raheem

[MZanzi]

what's so funny?

[chubacka]

that is a cool song Je Jey.

[Blessed]

Funny you post this Sweets,

 

For some strange reason, I had Commons' 'I used to love her' doing the rounds in my head all day.. haven't heard it for ages.

 

He's good. Thanks for sharing.

[Miriam1]

He is good ! I heard him first with the song Kick Push, his new song "Fighter" is very good too...whoever Mathew Santos is...he can sing!

[Ibtisam]

^^^You I thought that as well, I found this other song mathew santos is on, will find link for you inshallah.

 

JB maaxad laa qoosli???

 

Jejey: thanks.

 

Blessed:

Your welcome, you can now stop abusing Commons.

[me]

Now I ain't tryna be the greatest

I used to hate hip-hop... yup, because the women degraded

But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it

A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half

Omittin the word "b!tch," cursin I wouldn't say it

Me and dog couldn't relate, til a b!tch I dated

Forgive my favorite word for hers and hers alike

But I learnt it from a song I heard and sorta liked

 

Or my favorite bit.

 

by my 30th watchin of "Streets is Watchin"

I was back to givin props again and that was botherin

Bout as uncomfortable as an untouchable touchin you

The theme songs that niggas hustle to seem wrong but these songs was comin true

And it was all becoming cool

I found a condom on the ground that Johns would cum into and thought

What constitutes a prostitute is the pursuit of profit then they drop it

The homie in a suit pat her on the butt, then rock it

It seems I was seein the same scene adopted

Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it

 

ps. Lupe's second album is weak!

This years rap album of the year is Common's finding forever.

[me]

BS the saviors of Hiphop were Blackstarrrrrrrr!

 

So in the words of Tupac.

 

we wouldn't be here today if the old skool didn't pave the way!

[Ibtisam]

^^^I'm speaking about the current saviours. The old Skool paved the way, only for trash to pile up on the paved way.

[me]

^Lupe ain't saving nuffin!

[MZanzi]

Diz is the craziest freestyle that i ever heard in my intire life

 

 

Yo once again it's the Big L, that kid who got much props

from killin corrupt cops, with mother****in buck shots

So don't step to this, cause I got a live crew

You might be kinda big but they make coffins yo' size too

I was taught wise, I'm known to extort guys

This ain't Cali, it's Harlem nigga we do walkbys

No one can match me, tax me or wax me

If you want me to write you some raps G just ask me

Cause on the shelf is where your LP cold stood

Because it was no good, that shit ain't even go wood

I'm not the type to take sluts out, I just **** they guts out

Get my nuts out, then break the **** out

Me being a virgin, that's idiotic

Cause if Big L got the AIDS every cutie in the city got it

Once a nigga tried to stick me for six G's

and I put more holes in his *** than swiss cheese (Ducks better scat when the gat goes click-clack)

Or I'ma have your family dressed in all black

 

I steal lives like a stone thief, so leave me alone chief

or catch a buck shot to your domepiece

I must warn, I got it goin on, word is bond

Ducks be gettin thrown off platforms like P.M. Dawn

I'm catchin bodies like a villain's supposed to

And I squeeze triggers, not just on niggaz but hoes too

So don't try to test me, cause I can't stand test-es

**** around, I'll introduce you to your ancestors

Step to this and get left with a face full of tears, pal

but man you've been rappin for years now

and ain't made a hit yet, you flop in a split sec

In the shower's the only time you get your dick wet

I roll with scary crews, I come out of wars barely bruised

I'm puttin mother******s on the Daily News

I was a gangsta from the git-go

Leavin fags in bodybags with tags on they big toe

 

 

Yo ever since I was young, I ripped mics and I killed beats

And I'm known to milk freaks and hit em on silk sheets

No dame can give me a bad name, I got mad fame

I'm quick to put a slug in a fag brain

I be placin snitches inside lakes and ditches

And if I catch AIDS, then I'ma start rapin *****es

I'm all about makin papes kid

I killed my mother with a shovel just like Norman Bates did

My old man in the past, stuck me up without a mask

Then his *** cold dashed with my cash fast

Fifty G's is what the creep stole; so the next day

knocked on his door and shot his granny through the peephole

That's the type of shit I'm on, word is bond

Got it goin on, from the break of dawns to the early morn'

You know my style I'm wild, comin straight out of Harlem pal

It's Big L, the mother****in Problem Child

This goes out to all y'all *****-*** niggaz

So if your mother ain't ready for a funeral, don't **** with me

Cause I know a good way to get your family together

and I ain't talkin bout a reunion mother******

Yo, I'm bout to sign out, but before I go

I gotta say peace to the NFL crew, you know who you are

And all y'all niggaz talkin that gun shit

and won't bust a rhyme, stop fakin the funk!

Word, I'm bout to get up out of here

Yo I'm out B, yo peace man

I gotta get this money

So all y'all niggaz on my hitlist get your suits ready

Hahahaha!

[Ibtisam]

Me Baal bring forward a current recording ...(here is the catch) mainstream artist that is not dance-instructing "rapper" or rhyming meaningless words. Someone who is lyrical sound and aware of world surroundings. Immortal technique iyo blackstone etc is not mainstream.

 

Both hip hop and reggae have been down graded, diluted and generally messed up by emerging so called “artist” in an effort to boost sales and make it a cool yet meaningless culture.

[me]

Afro...BIG L

Your ice don't shine and your chain hollow

While you front in clubs for hours with the same bottle

Takin midget sips, I run with the richest clicks

Tap the thickest chicks, plus drop the slickest hits

You know nuttin about L, so don't doubt L

What's this mother****in rap game without L?

Yo, that's like jewels without ice

That's like china without rice

Or the Holy Bible without Christ

Or the Bulls without Mike

Or crackheads without pipes

The Village without dykes

 

 

Ibti: Common