Grandmaster Flash - The Message

NeverEnoughMoneyNeverEnoughMoney 300 Posts
edited June 2006 in Strut Central
I'm at work and I really need to hear this song for the good of my heart. Can anyone post it up for me?It would be truly appreciated.

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  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,896 Posts
    checko y0 pmO

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    A child was born, with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling on you but hes frowning too
    Cause only God knows what you go through
    You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
    And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
    The places you play and where you stay
    Looks like one great big alley way
    Youll admire all the number book takers
    Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
    Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
    And you wanna grow up to be just like them
    Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
    Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
    You say Im cool, Im no fool
    But then you wind up dropping out of high school
    Now youre unemployed, all null n void
    Walking around like youre pretty boy floyd
    Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
    Got send up for a eight year bid
    Now your man is took and youre a may tag
    Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
    Being used and abused, and served like hell
    Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
    It was plain to see that your life was lost
    You was cold and your body swung back and forth
    But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
    Of how you lived so fast and died so young


  • Dor,

    Not sure if you got my PM (not getting a confirmation page), but if not, needless to say, thank you for this.

    Batmon,

    This is exactly what I was after. I've long held that this might just be the greatest verse in in hip hop.
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