Homeland And Hip Hop lyrics

Artist  : Immortal Technique 
Song : Homeland And Hip Hop
 
To think about the origins of hip hop in this
culture and also about homeland security is to
see that there are at the very least two worlds
in America. One of the well-to-do and the
struggling. For if ever there was the absence of
homeland security it is seen in the gritty roots
of hip hop. For the music arises from a
generation that feels with some justice that they
have been betrayed by those who came before them.
That they are at best tolerated in schools,
feared on the streets, and almost inevitably
destined for the hell holes of prison. They grew
up hungry, hated and unloved. And this is the
psychic fuel that seems to generate the anger
that seems endemic in much of the music and
poetry. One senses very little hope above the
personal goals of wealth and the climb above the
pit of poverty. In the broader society the
opposite is true, for here more than any place on
earth wealth is more wide spread and so bountiful.
What passes for the middle class in America could
pass for the upper class in most of the rest of
the world. They're very opulent and relative
wealth makes the insecure. And homeland security
is a governmental phrase that is as oxymoronic,
as crazy as saying military intelligence, or the
U.S Department of Justice. They're just words
that have very little relationship to reality.
And do you feel safer now? Do you think you will
anytime soon? Do you think duck tape and Kleenex
and color codes will make you safer? From Death
row this is Mumia Abu Jamal