Roots - Act Won.. Things Fall Apart lyrics

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You are all...<br />

We don't even come to see our own, man.<br />

Listen, Freddy, listen...<br />

If we had to depend upon black people to eat,<br />

We would starve to death.<br />

You've been out there,<br />

You on the bandstand,<br />

You look out there, What do you see?<br />

You see Japanese, you see... you see West Germans, <br />

You see Slobovic, you know, anything, except our people man.<br />

It makes no sense, it incenses me that our own people<br />

Don't realize our own heritage, our own culture.<br />

This is our music.<br />

That's bullshit!<br />

Why?<br />

That's all bullshit. Everything, everything you just said is bullshit.<br />

You're complaining about-<br />

I'm talking about the audience.<br />

That's right.<br />

The people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play<br />

Shit that they like. If you played the shit that they liked, <br />

Then the people would come.<br />

Simple as that.<br />

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Inevitably, hip-hop records are treated as though they are disposable.<br />

They are not maximized as product, not to mention as art.<br />

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First section is a scene from "Mo'Better Blues" by Spike Lee.<br />

Second section is an unknown comment.