Search results for 'appropriated'

the same shit
I learned sadness from you
I learned sadness from you
Appropriated that too
I learned sadness from you
Appropriated that too
I learned sadness

Nominated
One Day I'll be Grammy Nominated
Grammy Nominated
Appropriated, motivated, Grammy nominated
Accelerated going fast and that’s still understated
I

Feng Shui

Gnarls Barkley

St. Elsewhere

2006

gives and receives 
And everything I say is 
Calculated appropriated 
Written and arranged in Feng Shui

collaborating
It’s agitating we battle demons we co-created
Since the day yo’ mama procreated
How appropriated
They misappropriated
I was so dissociated til’ I

mystique is somewhere between renaissance and love jones
She is imitated, under-appreciated, appropriated but never truly owned
They cannot hone
They cannot

Or maybe even putting them in prisons
Again
Appropriated culture
Like a weapon against us
When we gonna learn how to rise up
And fix this
I know you always

You're tolerated and secretly hated by the culture you've appropriated
Private school educated, you were hungry as "a form of rebellion"
And is

Look, lemme tell you bout my regimen
Wake up...then it's all about the Benjamins
They think I appropriated they think I'm a Jenner mom
Killing First

ostracized appropriated privatized
Disrespected, dramatized
This is not right
I just want pay to my people
And pray for my people
Just cause we not equal
I

Saturday
I'm black everyday
I'm black everyday
I'm black everyday

The most imitated
But least appreciated
The most appropriated
But rarely compensated
Black

melter
Doesn't even sus out the basics
Pop culture, appropriated
Free thought, not demonstrated
Paranoid, that's understated
Hypocrisy, incorporated

I

stand as one, but move by thousands
Appropriated civilians living under
Tyranny and fear, you brought this upon yourself

A storm of black clouds
Hangs

We are taught to be passive consumers buying up culture designed by a marketing team. When we do create something original it is quickly appropriated

rigorous
Heed, appropriated, Scheduling, For task, Efficience
Trying, To achieve, Apex feet
Twelve, Months distance, Steady persistence
On this, Mission, Got

But the symbols of horror and pain 
Are re-appropriated for your enemies gain 
All the while your memory 
Slowly fades 

They'll use your face

know we get faded, hated, and appropriated 
And i'm so sorry to say this
But your the fucking lamest

Walk up in this bitch with a mink, yea i'm coming

nigga
Times like this I wish I had a nickel
For the times culture been appropriated
Shit, that's how you know we made it
A nigga been motivated
Taking

show
If feel appropriated let your fans know
You ain’t a failure til you quit and let your plans go.
Having Nothing ain’t your fate, nigga generate
First

misery
A fate well deserved

Solicited deviant
Disgusting intent
Appropriated vessel
Rendering judgement

Exterminate putrid scum
Who violate innocence

we just started
Appropriated flow & accent ain't deported
Rap from the outside to get in guarded
Pissed off locals I'm begging your pardon
Artist from

appropriated
Cultivated devoted baby she know I'm crazy
But broke the chains that controlled me and now we holdin aces
She knows the game and the codes to playin

feet, myself
I will bear the marks of punishment
Of the superfluous that I appropriated eternal
Time under ground my feet
Dig into the sleepy sore

me
Hydroelectric
System of power
Man made lakes
Cover up sepulchers of our
Cultural achievements
Appropriated by Robber Barons
Nathan made it greater

the shortcomings we got appeal
The culture we created the white man appropriated
Like why the fuck you give creatives limitations
Like life ain't already dangerous