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The Cost of Education
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momowilly's take on the education system in Amerikkka
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momowilly, the best thing smoking, heard that hip-hop was dead and that they were looking for her. She's been known to slay beats and beasts with a vengeance. With a voice like cognac sprinkled with gravel, momowilly grabs and holds your attention. More than a spoken word artist, rapper, lyricist, or femcee, she is a philosopher with aphorisms frequently in rhyme. Crafting pieces that infuse traditional hip-hop, performance poetry, and comedy, she offers a style unlike any other. With sex appeal rivaling any in the game, momowilly eschews the tired "lick me to like me" brand of rhyme that her contemporaries used to shoot up the charts and, ultimately, drop out of America's consciousness just as quickly. "I can be the baddest with the phattest, but what else after that? Chicks need to step their game up," momowilly offers with an eye roll.
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Genre
Hip-Hop Spoken Word
Charts
#94,328 today Peak #733
#1,415 in subgenre Peak #10
Author
momowilly
Rights
2007
Uploaded
October 30, 2007
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MP3 2.0 MB 128 kbps 2:09
Story behind the song
momowilly attacks the system once again in this entertaining and informative diatribe on education in Amerikkka.
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The Cost of Education An education is crucial to improvement they say To secure your future, ensure you can make a way Spend time and energy, pay attention, it’s an investment Early withdrawal with no interest is to your detriment Got kids in the ghetto buying this story wholesale Pay dues in school, without scholar-chips, it’s no sale They set the mark high, kids are marks in high school Targeted by “guidance,” rushing the dumb and shy fool Trying to rope you in with the branch of the Ivy League Thinking it’s olive, like a degree gives you peace Our story lectured by the oppressor so very regularly But Black Panthers don’t teach Klan babies Integration’s assimilation of the fallen angels with wing Segregation of our new nation proposed by Dr.’s, King’s Begging for another’s acceptance means you feel less worthy Crying to stay with dad, hubby, or massa after “he hurt me” Continued abuse, victimizer’s your object of adulation This who you cling to for self-preservation and education? Teaching your kids that they’re nothing without paper Money, diplomas, deeds, you need or they hate ya The government’s schools aren’t the only evil preachers Got pop culture offering kernels of “truth,” mass media Commercials tell you what you want, need to have You buy the story, the product, overpriced or for half Letting elementary-type songs influence fiscal decisions Instead of showing ‘em business, you watchin’ show business TV telling you exactly what ails you so they can sales you Offering simple biology lessons, FDA never fails you Hate on ya paper, you on papers, locked for nothing Passed a driving test on paper, but not in the streets southern So when your children ask you the importance of learning Tell ya seeds they need to read, consciousness they’re earning Contracts and history should their attention demand Let’s teach each other, inform, unite to create a plan. copyright 2007
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