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Some Kanye West lyrics from 2003 (well-used):
[Direct cut-&-paste, with spelling intact, with only a few judicioujs "##"s and highlighting added...]
[Verse 4: Common]
Get em high like noon, or the moon or room filled with smoke
A high filled with dope
Y'all assumed I was doomed, out of tune, but I still feel the notes
The real nigga quotes
Real rappers is hard to find, like a remonte, control rap is not a
Used too but still got love, that's why I abuse you who are not thugs
Rock clubs, it's like Tiger, Woods in the hood, to have my own reality show
Called Soul Survivor, I stole all liver, niggaz in you
You'se a b##ch I got ones that are thicker than you
How could I ever let your words affect me, they say Hip-Hop is dead
I'm here to resurrect me, mosh is to sexy to even make songs like these
That's why the braud don't know your name, like Alicia Keys
To many featured emcees, and pro-ducers is populer
Twelve thousand spins, nobody got to coppin the
Album, how come, you the hot garbager
The years clear your image and snooped up
Label got you souped up, tellin you you sick
Man you a d##k with a loose nut
Video hard to watch like Medusa
Even your club record need a booster
Chimped up, with a pimp cup, "illeaterate" nigga
Read the infa, red across your head I'm bread king like Simba
Bolder then Denver, I ain't a Madd Rapper just a MC with a temper
You dansin for money like honey, I did this my way
So when the industry crash, I survive like Kanye
Spittin through wires and fires, MC retirin
Got yo hands up, get them motherf##kers higher then[Chorus: Kanye West]
N-now, th-th-through ya motherf##kin hands
GET EM HIGH
All the girls pass the weed to ya motherf##kin man
GET EM HIGH
Now I ain't never tell you to put down ya hands
KEEP EM HIGH
And if ya losin yo high than smoke again
KEEP EM HIGH
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So, Kanyidiot -- it's OK by you if the rest of us use those red words now?
...just so long as we don't use totally unrelated Old English words like "niggardly", huh...?
Oh...what's that you say about, "illeaterate"...?
Kanye West:"So as long as the slang is a little played out, you're all good."
So much for the front page of Time...
But, with [c]rap like that being pounded (literally -- "THUMP! THUMP!") into the the skulls of "the cultcha", is any wonder that savagery erupts from those so afflicted when society's controls are relaxed a bit?