[00:00:00] Rap Game's Hijacked - Ice T [00:00:05] Too many hardcore muthaf**kas out here in this business [00:00:08] Ain't gettin their proper loot [00:00:09] You know what I'm sayin [00:00:10] (Right) [00:00:11] Check the technique [00:00:13] (Aha) [00:00:14] Everybody talkin 'bout the way hip-hop ain't the same [00:00:17] Suckers kidnapped the game [00:00:18] I know the biggest in the business and no joke [00:00:21] Half of em broke - and none of em smoke [00:00:23] (Bust the facts loc) [00:00:24] I got into this hip-hop game [00:00:26] Just to try to get a girl and get some light-weight fame [00:00:29] There'd never been no cash made in it [00:00:31] So who thought you could get paid with it [00:00:33] Just crash the club with my crew and then I'm outta there [00:00:36] Hit some skins act bugged that was a rap career [00:00:39] Then Run-D M C jumped the f**k off [00:00:41] Got mad paid word kicked the bucks off [00:00:44] There wasn't many rappers out there rockin the streets [00:00:46] When hip-hop was just cuts and beats [00:00:48] I seen _Wildstyle_ dug the scene [00:00:50] I wanna be an MC rock rock on - know what I mean [00:00:54] I started crashin rap contests [00:00:55] Shootin hardcore rhymes through wack MC's chests [00:00:58] I signed on the lines of a wack contract [00:01:01] Didn't even read it f**k that [00:01:04] They gonna put my record out [00:01:06] I'm gonna be large know what I'm talkin about [00:01:08] In the first 2 years I made about 300 bucks [00:01:11] Yo this business sucks [00:01:13] But I got another chance and I came correct [00:01:15] Got a lawyer and accountant now my shit's legit [00:01:19] But many won't get no second chance [00:01:20] And get f**ked in this biz without a kiss or a dance [00:01:23] The game is to exploit young ghetto kids [00:01:25] A straight pimp game and there ain't no shame [00:01:28] And the shit's gone too far [00:01:30] 100 hip-hop labels with all white A&R's [00:01:32] The game's hijacked [00:01:37] The rap game's hijacked [00:01:39] Let me tell you how it happened [00:01:42] Now while every MC in the game [00:01:45] Was worryin about a white boy gettin the fame [00:01:48] They dug out the foundation [00:01:50] Now let me give a demonstration [00:01:52] Say you got a dope group from the hood [00:01:55] Talkin mad shit like they're up to no good [00:01:58] You take em to a label [00:02:00] Now who sits behind the table [00:02:02] Some jewish muthaf**ka that don't know shit [00:02:05] Tryin to tell y'all what's a f**kin street hit [00:02:08] The shit's way off course [00:02:09] It's like me tellin Johnny Cash how to sing about his horse [00:02:12] You go on tour the white agency says you're wild [00:02:15] Tone down your style [00:02:18] The radio jocks are all pop [00:02:19] So how the f**k this nigga know what shit to rock [00:02:23] The shit that make your face turn green [00:02:24] Is when you get dissed by a kidnap magazine [00:02:28] I give a f**k about these muthaf**kas [00:02:29] I'm doin this jam to save my hip-hop brothers [00:02:32] Get your paperwork straight kid [00:02:34] Get a lawyer and accountant just like I did [00:02:37] Don't blow your dough cause you will see g's [00:02:39] But this game has no guarantees [00:02:42] Learn about publishing points so you won't be blind [00:02:45] Learn to read everything you sign [00:02:47] Then you might have a chance [00:02:49] If not bend over pull down your pants [00:02:51] The game's hijacked [00:02:53] (Yeah [00:02:54] I don't they hear you brother) [00:02:56] Yo the rap game's hijacked [00:03:00] (Word) [00:03:01] I'm talkin 'bout a hijack [00:03:04] (Say it one more time baby) [00:03:06] The rap game's hijacked [00:03:08] Check it [00:03:09] (Break it down for these niggas) [00:03:11] You can go gold and still owe the record label cash [00:03:14] Yo kid check the math [00:03:16] Learn about the word 'recoup' troop [00:03:18] And stop walkin round all hyped and souped [00:03:21] You ain't nothin but somethin to be used and worked [00:03:23] You ain't nothin but a sucker to be duped and jerked