Dear Hip Hop

Bane from the Dark Knight Rises:
Oh you think darkness is your ally?
You merely adopted the dark
I was born in it, molded by it
I didn't see the light until I was already a man
By then it was nothing to me but blinding...

After a long day
Making these songs pay
They bumpin' one direction nothing gets the wrong way
And I have a feeling like the lyrics that I write
Well they need to make sense
Like spirits taking flights
New heights
Yeah, that's where I'm trying to go
Real housewives the game's filled with drama so
Kevin Hart from the start, I find it comical
And I need change
So I got that Obama flow
Whoa, now is this game getting too strange
Niggas bumpin' waka flocka
Grammies go to 2-chainz
I ain't really that impressed
When it comes to new names
And that's just up and down
From my crown to my shoe strings
A veteran, but feeling like a rookie
About to take everything
They owe em like a bookie
And you made a bad bet
Want what I ain't had yet
Caught up in these issues, magnets

I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here?
So if you're...

So if I leave here
Will hip hop even miss me?
We used to go together
Like Timbaland and Missy
These girls got the thirst
So now it's getting tipsy
And the point is for the capital
The key is getting shifty
They tell me that
I ain't making rap music
I say you stuck in the genre
I call it trap music
And I'm aware
That life, it isn't fair
Getting nothing in return
I'm just trying to bring it back to it
And hip hop confirmed all my fears
Plus my momma teaching kindergarten
About twenty years
Now I gotta go and worry
About her safety
Watching the news, so confused
Like really? this just can't be
And hip hop
I know I'll probably leave you
Cause some days, I feel like I need to
And now, I just pray you'll remember me
Can't tell if you're my friend or my enemy

...Time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done,
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed.
Don't resent me,
When you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory,
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest...

Forgetting,
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well.
Pretending,
Someone else can come and save me from myself.
I can't be who you are...
I can't be who you are.