Whatever Happened To Originality?

Not one original thought or experience

Cloudy reflections from that mirror kiss

I appreciate you probably do enjoy getting your fingers in

And there’s so much money you’re bringing in

But the last seven songs on this LP told me that story

I’ve heard you rapping, speaking, farting and singing it

The twenty other man you’ve featured

Have said the same thing

Not even in new lexicon, fresh verbiage

But identical simile and twin slang

All grew up on road, love to hear a gal moan and loyal to the gang

Using the same colloquialisms whether cockney or manc

Same threats of violence and dilemmas at hand

Duplicate Logic presets replicating a band

But dribbling over a mic in your bedroom with your collaborator not even in England

But I’ve watched your interviews

I’ve seen you on the box

Forged that kaleidoscope, connected dot to dot

All those things that occupy your rhymes

Are maybe what you wish, but what you’re not

I know the back pats, tipped snap backs, are hot

The bingo spin of streams come flooding; there’s a lot

That formula mixed smooth, therefor it proves

It’s the right unfiddle of the knot

But tepid adoration don’t keep around the kids that flock

It don’t lock in those radio plays, and eventually it’ll all stop

There’ll be a few accusations, some headlines that you’ll star

A few clubs you’ll VIP

But no one gives a shit about your latest release

You’ll get friendly with the parents of your fans

With a recent stint on reality TV

That’s all I know you from, and now I’ve had a poke at your discography

It’s exactly what I prophesied

I’m not saying you got it wrong, no, you’re in the charts, not me

But how much creativity do you bleed in pursuit of the fruits of greed?

Gimme something purer, a drop that runs more deep

Because you’re just another rapper in a puffer coat, zoot to smoke, mostly blokes, don’t mean what you wrote, rely on gloat, try keep afloat, sea…



By Lyric Deep.

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