Legacy

You beautiful thing you,

How they’ve whored you out

Tortured and warped you now

At first they hated and degraded you

Until they realized what they could do

Pervert and taint the mood,

Make you switch up your cadence too

They don’t want us to revisit your youth

Slowly they’re erasing your history too

It’s a sickening fluke,

That your foundation’s getting ripped from the roots

There was a time where I’d relax and listen to you

Imagining how I’d see your vision improve,

But lately I’ve felt like your mission is doomed,

Because of this elephant that sits in the room

Everyone wants a piece of the cake

They just eat from your plate and cheapen the taste

Promises to fulfill dreams are so great,

Pretending like their seasoning steaks

For the small price of hot grease in your face

Reheat and then wait, it’s deceitful and fake

A deadly game filled with cretins and snakes,

Looking to suck the blood from your lesions and scrapes

Leaving your faith, in hands where odds are uneven of late

Never thought I’d be keeping the gate with a reason to hate

I know it’s impossible to speak in your place

This has just been on my mind for me to create

Hip-hop I love you and I weep at your fate

My heart was hollowed and weakened in state,

But you found your way and crawled deep in the space

I just don’t want you to die and fall asleep with no grace