Core Audience

[talking/scratching]<br><br>Quiet down, quiet down..<br>Now listen, now listen..<br><br>[Verse 1]<br><br>Hip Hop!<br>?? to the bop perputratin` Left Eye<br>and the .22`s, .45`s, uzis, techs and 9`s<br>but can you rhyme though?<br>Cuz niggaz went overboard with straps and just subtract that<br>most of `em can barely rap worth jack shiiiit!<br>We all lick shots wit` unregistered burners<br>and at one time or another played Ike Turner<br>Ain`t shit to be braggin` for ass backwards actors pack gats for show and tell<br>So they can sell and certify gold, chart billboard claimin` they killed more niggaz<br>Underground hardcore. But far more mainstream than Hammer<br>poppin` trunks, stuffin` pumps<br>and smokin` blunts sells more records than "Pumps & a Bump"<br>Violence is a new platinum gimmick<br>Call it the double cross crossover<br>A rose by any other name is "Seal"<br>you claimin` that you "represent the real niggaz life"<br>but only represent it for a price<br>Cuz if next week the new fad was hiphop fags<br>you`d find a lot of hardcore niggaz in DRAG<br>Shit is bad and we acknowledge this but at a certain point you only perpetuate it<br>So NEXT TIME you rhyme about physically buckin` somebody<br>[POW!] instead of "nigga" say "whiteboy"<br>and see how quick the devil PROTEST it<br>wanna see yo` ass ARRESTED, your label wouldn`t SUGGEST it<br>They say it`s BEST if you stick to killin` niggaz <br>o some 10-year old can claim he pimps ho`s<br>find his daddy`s glock 9 and give his sister a 2 inch hole<br>between the eyes -- the influence is obvious<br>Music ain`t supposed to be raisin` your kids but in 1995 it is<br>I know it is -- ?? goes from ghetto to gettin` mo` dough<br>but silly ass niggaz need to know [need to know]<br>That before it makes dollars it must make sense<br>I kick my shit for the core audience<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>For the core audience I kick the artform shit (Repeated 6X)<br><br>(Cut of speaker talking)<br>"We ARE the music industry and we have to take control<br> You strip the BLOOD of the Black community<br> and you feel we have now right now to say something about it?!"<br><br>[Verse 2]<br><br>Now niggaz always reminisce about the old school days in the park<br>you have to realize hiphop was fucked from the start<br>When Sugar Hill got major distribution threatned existence<br>we didn`t control our shit once rap became a music business<br>Music: the art of expression, combinations of tones<br>Business: the explotation for profit of an artform<br>Conflict of interest, two seperate entities<br>Niggaz pretend to be real but still sleeping with the enemy<br>and not to diss Rick Rubin but who let the jews in?<br>Our only solution create our own institution<br>Manufacturing, marketing, production and distribution cuz Blacks are 99% consumers<br>[For example]<br>Now "rapper X" got skills his band "producer of the year"<br>got a distribution deal with "Real Records"<br>"Real Records" is a subsidiary of "Ruben Tony Inc."<br>"Ruben Tony" is owned by "Poly/Sony"<br>"Poly/Sony" distributes to the record store<br>the record store receives the product from the manufacturer<br>[but wait there`s more]<br>Now the manufacturer fucks the record store<br>who was fuckin` "Poly/Sony" who was fuckin` "Ruben Tony"<br>"Ruben`s" robbin` "Real" who`s fuckin` "producer of the year"<br>and "rapper X" is still broke, so who got fucked the most?<br>The artist creates the market but receives the least profits<br>it started in the streets but got FUCKED by the office<br>So that`s why I remain anonymous<br>symbolic of cuttin` out the middle man and keepin` mine autonomous<br>I`d rather be major on a minor than minor on a major label<br>I`m willin` and able to put your label on my choppin` table<br>recycle Black dollars but not go pop and if I flop<br>at least I stayed true to hip-hop<br><br>[Chorus]