born on the wrong side of the tracks in one of new york s less salubrious shacks playing outside with a chum or two up on sedgwick avenue made up a game a duel of sorts beats and rhymes and then retorts word spread in months so fast that it seemed that everyone was at it it rather took off and so it went we all knew one of the five elements then a shiny suit thought wait a minute there might just be something in it packed it sold it let it rot blamed it for society s lot now it s all hard to defend the whole thing s gone quite round the bend so hip hop was to blame after all it appears everything s entirely hip hop s fault hip hop decided to homogenise itself and base itself in violence and wealth hip hop decided to become its lowest traits and sell them to the public over everything that s great hip hop decided that misogyny and greed would be the sort of thing that america would need hip hop worshiped the cult of me hip hop chose to ignore chuck d hip hop s a 40 billion industry so now all the ghettos live in prosperity traded power for visibility let hip hop become a new colony these are the choices that hip hop made all by itself no one tried to dissuade it hip hop decided to put money first yet kool herc can t afford a nurse see hip hop was to blame after all i thought i d say it as no one else has the gall yes it s all hip hop s fault you see and not the three companies that decide what you hear and see