Blame the Rappers

Yeah, yeah, I'm rapper but I'm losing my respect for the genre
 How many songs about Xanax and alcohol are we dropping?
 How many kids we gonna kill 'for we admit it's a problem?
 Probably stop if was one of our sons or one of our daughters
 We know our demographic is primarily youth
 We glorify breaking the law to children in school
 Kids copy what we say and imitate what we do
 They'll go to jail for doing the things you told 'em was cool
 We put women in our videos, exploiting their bodies
 While little girls around the world
 Grab their phone and they watch it
 They need a realistic role model, not just a Barbie
 They see strippers and escorts but no lawyers or doctors
 Hey Hip-Hop, what the hell happened?
 It was power to the people, and we liked that stuff
 These days you're promoting thats it's fun to be an addict
 So I'm askin, how could y'all write that bruh?
 You can blame the rappers
 That you blow up
 But your favourite songs are about doing drugs
 So what happens after
 These kids grow up?
 And who's to blame for who they've become?
 They made it look so cool
 To shoot those guns
 And hate the cops
 And to get too drunk
 You can't blame the rappers
 When you show up
 And love the songs
 That make you dumb
 You can't blame the rappers
 Making music is a privilege and achoice and if you ever get to be successful
 You must understand the people that you influence are
 Swayed by what you say and that melodies you sing
 Make wings, build dreams, and fill voids
 We are medication straight through
 Voice, some give life, and some destroy
 And even though this money seems nice it can't come so we must
 Take that as hint that there's other things in life you should enjoy
 We move mountains
 We cross states
 We play roles in presidential debates
 So don't you try and tell me making music is for fun and
 You don't care about the things that our music help make
 Man I know I'm not perfect
 But I'll change
 I'm the outcome of this world and my pain
 And this music is pills and I promise
 This dose that you take won't make you say
 You can blame the rappers
 That you blow up
 But your favourite songs are about doing drugs
 So what happens after
 These kids grow up?
 And who's to blame for who they've become?
 They made it look so cool
 To shoot those guns
 And hate the cops
 And to get too drunk
 You can't blame the rappers
 When you show up
 And love the songs
 That make you dumb
 You can't blame the rappers
 Yeah, I'm a rapper but I swear that I'm embarrassed
 Half of these artists can't even talk, they just mumble the lyrics
 And the teenagers listen while they rebel from their parents
 While the rappers tell 'em pop a pill, buy Gucci and wear it
 They say screw the police, break the rules, smoke weed
 Buy some shoes you don't need, rep the hood and yo street
 All these rappers holdin' guns and now the kids want some
 Mess around and kill they homie, you can't clean that blood
 We encourage being stupid with our music
 And we're normalizing poor morals standards while do it
 Little boys see the way that women look in our videos
 And assume it's real-life, project that image on little girls
 It's un-realistic, if you're young and you listen
 You are one in a million, you are loved, you are different
 Hey Hip-Hop, I know life moves on
 But while I'm here, how could you write that, dawg?
 You can blame the rappers
 That you blow up
 But your favourite songs are about doing drugs
 So what happens after
 These kids grow up?
 And who's to blame for who they've become?
 They made it look so cool
 To shoot those guns
 And hate the cops
 And to get too drunk
 You can't blame the rappers
 When you show up
 And love the songs
 That make you dumb
 You can't blame the rappers
 Dollar bills and poppin' pulls like party songs
 It's not cool in real life
 Cheap thrills and goin' 'til the morning comes
 See what that feels like
 You can blame the rappers
 That you blow up
 But your favourite songs are about doing drugs
 So what happens after
 These kids grow up?
 And who's to blame for who they've become?
 They made it look so cool
 To shoot those guns
 And hate the cops
 And to get too drunk
 You can't blame the rappers
 When you show up
 And love the songs
 That make you dumb
 You can't blame the rappers