Murs - And This Is For... Lyrics
Damn time's done changed these thugs do what they like
Some of them be your friends to try and find a new wife
And still hit the block and slang rocks at night
But you could be dead wrong with your pockets right
Contrary to what the legendary B.I.G. had to say
It's easy to get a grant and get an MBA
To achieve one goal there's more than one way
Young people on the whole we have lost our way
I don't care what it cost I'm not impressed my nigga
That throwback jersey is a dress my nigga
I remember diamonds used to be girl's best friend
Enslaving Black children with them third world gems
I don't care about your rims, kids ride Big Wheels
Up until they learn balance and it's obvious you haven't
With way more ego than you have true talent
Any white boy who thinks he knows my struggle
Cause he listens to Pac and his adrenaline doubles
Now I ain't got problems with you being yourself
But when you front and use the N word, it just don't help
I might not trip, and your friends'll laugh at you
But I know some real niggaz that'll straight up slap you
Now you could be down, but let's act growed up
Cause we ain't the same color when police show up
My culture's not a trend, being Black is not in
But for you it's just a phase you're gonna have to transcend
While even if I tried, I could never blend in
To society's mainstream, American dream
Yeah, it's all one love, but remember one thing
This music is my life, not a cultural fling
It's an expression of the soul when we dance and sing
And you are blessed to have a chance to even glance the scene
Man I do the same music, they stop coming to shows
It's like they scared of the white boys in the front row
First I was like "so?" I'mma get my dough
But the numbers kept falling as my fan base would grow
And now I'm concerned so I gotta speak up
First the money was the only thing shutting me up
But now I don't care, don't support me, get mad
Why wouldn't you abort me, my own people have
I feel I should have the scans white rappers have
It's sad but that's the way it is
What's the reason that my album doesn't sell like his?
And don't front like you don't why the hell that is
It's because he's white, you can relate to his face
Through the years you've been taught that Black is unsafe
Plus it's only natural for your own to be embraced
Conscious or subconscious you can't say that ain't the case
Only reason it took so long to take place
Was up until now your only choice was 3rd Bass
Or others like Ice, wasn't really that tight
Now you got some white dudes who can truly rock the mic
You relate to their stories cause you share that past
Question is, why would you listen to MURS' Black ass?
I asked myself for a while but now I finally get it
Good music transcends all physical limits
It's more than something that you hear, it's something that you feel
When the author and experience and passion is real
Used to feel I should be silent, I was scared to do this song
But I want everyone aware of what is going on
Yes it is jazz and yes it is the blues
And yes it is the exact same way they did rock
But I refuse to watch the same thing happen to hip-hop
I refuse to watch that bullshit...
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Murs And This Is For... Comments
'With way more ego than you have true talent.' What a line
Well ummm... why aren't you as big as snoop, tech n9ne, or really anyone that is black and above you? are you just blacker then them or something? I really was into your sound until this song. Nah I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
fuck eminem
Wow. This is officially old enough to take me back.
That throwback Jersey is a Dress my nigga! 😂😂😂 Gotta love MURS
i love rims thoe smh
Good music transcends all physical limits!!!
Franklin Benjamin 2 years ago
Still too fly...
and still to fly 2017
Not even a mil views. . Fucc bois missing out
This song jams
salute to dash radio for putting me on to this joint
brings back memories
Did my version to this beat back in 2014. Feel free to check it out on my channel and give feedback! Thanks, I'd appreciate it.
Damn, that 2nd verse has to be the realest shit I've heard ever. Period.
Murs has gotta understand that if we truly want racial profiling to stop and for us to be more equal we cant expect our culture to be confined to us and for it to be private. Ain't no integration gone happen when you complain about white boys at your shows uncle.
Imagine a super talented brother had a country voice like no other. would it be okay for anyone to say that because of his race he can't sing? Nah man that's the problem, don't be the people holding this country back uncle.
Still... murs is great
It's a double sided coin
I totally understand what your saying for all intensive purposes in regards to progression. However what most black hip hop artist fear is hip hop Genocide and the total take over like what once happened with rock and roll. Amongst other black pioneered things/inventions that were stripped and claimed. 😐
@qtarleton you're right man. But it's shit you have to deal with. Murs put it right saying that white audiences can't relate to his black ass but he shouldn't be expressing anger, that's not the way to go...
best comment heard. music is music and if its nice im listening dont matter whos singing it.
+basterific "he be expressing anger" I DISAGREE 100% this his music its all about SELF EXPRESSION even HIP HOP was about minorities backlash to White Dominant Culture
Doesn't even matter that much if you can relate to an artists struggles...I mean it does but I can still have a great appreciation and totally feel the music of an artist like Murs even if I've had a very different life growing up
Thank You...
First verse kills !
just like peanut butter and jelly murss n 9th
With Doritos in the middle...
@pSmurf954 No just No smh
@Joeel Gaucin what, i cant be fat
@pSmurf954 Yeah you can I'm just saying no for myself to that nasty sammich XD
I'm a white boy
Ten years ago…hard to believe
Crazy to believe its been ten years.... But the catalog between 9th and Murs... #Classic
dopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
this song still goes hard
This song is dope as fuck
there was a study put out by my old high school about why the highest percentage of students being suspended were black students. the resulting answer was obvious racism inherent in the system. is it racist of me to totally disagree with that? am i a racist for saying they get suspended more often because they tend to be worse behaved than any other group of children?
@Chris Turek
I agree, but @ the same time I love that it's not. I feel like if u don't know about artists like these then u don't deserve to. I know it sounds weird but a friend of mine once told me something when I was younger that stuck with me, "Don't Burn the Underground".
i wont even get into how white slavery was goin on for centuries, or how the word slave actually comes from the root 'slavic' (a european race), but a lot of people need to be reminded that hiphop took off the way it did cuz the message it speaks to (or used to anyways) is one that's related to around the globe. hard times wasnt born in no american ghetto, it's been goin on for a long time all over the world. hiphop just happened to capture the essence of that discontent. its not yours tho
this is the type of shit that kinda annoys me. i know full well what he's sayin about kids who turn hiphop into a fad, but at the same time, you cant say white people dont understand oppression or suffering. what you call hoods we call trailer parks, ya dig? at the end of the day, it's all about money. im not sayin there isn't racism out there cuz there definitely is, but us lower class white people (inner city or burbs) aint & never have lived lovely. & its the same way for every race in the US
One of the best hip hop tracks ever. We need to be hearing this kind of stuff on the radio.
knowledge man, they dont want people to be wise, coz we would rebel, that's why its all about lil wayne and his dumb songs
"I dont care about ya rims, kids ride big wheels / Up until they learn balance and its obvious you havent / With way more ego than you have true talent." them grown folk lyrics right there!!!!!!!!
If you are white, how would you really know? Another sociopath who thinks it knows everything.
Music trancends all physical limits. Which is why they stole rock n roll blues and soul. Black folks ppened certain white folkz eyes to the bigger picture of the "world". They dont wish to invoke thought. Tney promote ignorance cuz society is most valuable if they're confused as to wjats goin on. Only thing left to do is conform. I.e the growth of mainstream music and multimedia corporations like Universal and Clear Channel.
so smoooooth
@MrLurkk Yup, the best of the best.
the whole racial thing reminds me of "White Privilege" by Macklemore. same concept, only from the perspective of a white guy. including the references to what happened to rock, and how the same thing is happening to hip hop.
@lu3mm3l Like murs says,
Cause the beat is real heavy and the hook is real catchy
Make you nod your head steady, and you don't feel sketchy
'Til you're all by yourself, and you ridin' around
And realize to yourself how stupid it sounds
@staleyman13 i totally agree man
big upz 2 Dj premier, damn i love this
Wilaaaaaay this is 9th wonder
don´t matter if you understand english, you know what he´s saying! real hiphop. props outta switzerland, one love
this guy is tha illest !!
i know what he's saying...
there is no race, mannn even saying black or white is ignorant. for real. get that shit out of your head guys
@tab1293 Because it is. Rock was,jazz was, Blues was.
don't black people like this realize that them rapping about how much worse they have it than white people is a double standard and they are only adding more to the race controversy? just because your black and i'm white does not mean that you have gone through more struggle than I have. why do we even have to classify rap as black people music why cant it just be music?
@Supernatowns what the hell are u babblin about? My post has nothing to do with yours.
This is real music....not all blacks are ignorant
@Supernatowns i agree with you, ,for the people who are getting their feelings hurt, u guys need to listen to the whole and and the very last verse before u WHITE PEOPLE start CRYING OMG HES BAGGING ON WHITE PEOPLE OOOOMG.
murs and 9th . wow.
GOO MURS TAS REAL HIP HOP RIP LILWAYNE
A white boy put me on to Murs.
@lu3mm3l Why does it seem every real track I hear somebody gotta bring up wayne. Keep the good stuff on ya mind and don't think about anything else.
i'm white and i listen to murs's music...
when the police show up
none of his background history matter
you'll neva understand
gotta try xtra hard tho
no, go listen to murs' "dark skinned white girl"
im sure tge same logic can be applied to a white male raised in the hood.
All i was saying is it makes you think about why you like hip hop.. im not saying that it should make you stop liking hip hop or start liking it or whatever... just mkae you think about it. Regardles... it's a deep line from a deep song. But THAT line, i think should really make people reconsider why they like hip hop, and what they like about it, and to what extent they can appreciate certain songs and artists.
Actually if you listen to the song its not about that, he starts off with one idea the amends his thoughts at the end. If you think that peopel should rethink their opinions then your completely wrong about this song.
I hate it when a hip hop artist tries to make out that hip hop is exclusively for the black community. So I loved the lines Murs put in bout the subject.
Oh, and the production was sick.
Murs is definately one of my favorite rappers of this generation him and T.W.I.L.I.G.H.T. Check out his music too type in twilight - 7-17-93 or twilight - discovered me
This song speaks such truth.. more people need to listen to it !!!!
This is for any white boy who thinks he knows my struggle cause he listens to Pac and his adrenaline doubles.... an intense line.... INTENSE.... thats gotta make people of every race reconsider why they like rap.
True Expression!!!!!!!!!!
damn man...murs is that dude
first of all...how in the world did your teacher get ahold of some murs and then think "i bet the kids would enjoy this"...please explain...
While even if I tried, I could never blend in
To society's mainstream, American dream
....i can totally relate to that....cosign murs
"KIDS RIDE BIG-WHEELS, THAT'S UNTIL THEY LEARN BALANCE"...WOW!!
homie goin' hard on this joint right here!!!
the 1st verse is sooooo cold!!!!
hahahahaa you damn right
and i cant believe there are fucking cats out there talk shit about underground music.
souljah boy and lil wayne ..they arent just my style.
9th and Murs, Hip Hop at its best
hey man living legends are good an all, but thier voices dont match to the style of murs. keep listening to your stuff we'll keep listening to ours..
I don't know why people gave negative feedback. Living Legends are off the hook. And Murs is a part of Living Legends so I don't know why people are hatin.
hip hop at its finest
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