Song Description

This song shows the frustration that many talented indie artists have. It seems the industry complains that there is no innovative material on the airwavs, but when an indie artist presents their innovative material, it gets passed over because it doesn't sound like everything else on the air.

Lyrics

Last Stance by C. Abrokwah (Thaahum)
Copywrite 2003


VERSE 1

I leave the scene everybody will be missing me,
I don?t fuck with local, they too contradictory,
Quick to back stab, grab, and take what you have,
You can?t expand talent in a barrel or crabs.
In Phoenix, but don?t? trust an Arizona nigga,
Beat ain?t like Stixx, then I ain?t gonna phone a nigga,
Never been a cloner nigga, always a loner nigga,
But come with truth, and they won?t even condone a nigga.
Radios and A&R?s don?t want to rise above this,
In one breath complain music has no substance,
So I give ?em substance, uplifting substance,
They listen and like ?What?s this??
So I?m like FUCK THIS!
Hip hop had beauty then got her a facelift,
Appealing vanity, now she lovin? the fake shit,
I rap and they like ?not here don?t say shit.?
So as far as I?m concerned, hip hop can stay sick
Fuck that bitch I quit!

CHORUS
This my last stance,
Conform to what I do or get pussy and hold hands
Talkin? to someone that done traveled this whole land,
Got his own plan, nigga I?m a grown man!
Put it out one more time the last stance . . .
VERSE 2
A Eloheem Annunaki, non of this is new to me,
I?ll take the mic to hyperspace and rip a nigga fluently,
You new to this, grab the mic don?t know what to do with it,
Unborn emcees that belong up in the uterus.
True to this, ?cause I got daughters to feed.
I think I?ll call it quits ?cause I got daughters to feed.
Think I?ll waste my time and be a product of these,
Industry savages, that are products of greed?
Shit-never needed to be stunted.
Just like to give my baby mothers more than $200.
So Nekaybaw and Tephareth a have all they wanted.
Like to make money in rap and still love it.
Hard breakin? in but rap is too easy.
I could get a law degree and pimp rappers, it?s too easy.
Time?s running short right now, my kids need me.
I?m hungry as fuck for this shit, C?mon feed me!
Ain?t greedy but . . .
REPEAT CHORUS
VERSE 3

I used to think gangsta rap was annoying, just poison,
Take impressionable minds, and just destroying.
But true gangsters more conscious any day,
Them other niggas only studio conscious anyway.
You talk a good game of uplifting the cause,
But don?t know a fucking thing of the universe law,
Take the innocent got ?em by the back with your claws,
I look at your flaw, most pitiful sight I done saw.
Don?t need to be with mill to know I?m divine.
Just want these A&Rs to see my vision up in the rhyme.
Essence of AZ hip hop, that?s what you called me.
Let me take this essence here beyond a hobby,
I come from a line of an exceptional few,
They take those like me out except for a few
That survive what they dish out, move with the dance,
Give it my all one more time the last stance.
Don?t miss the vast glance . . .
REPEAT CHORUS
CHORUS NARRATIONS
Intro: ?Shit. Hip hop don?t bring life to me. I bring life to it. So if y?all don?t want me here, fuck it. The black sheep of the west coast.?

Before Verse 2: ?I don?t need hip hop. It doesn?t make me who I am. Y?all just realize who the fuck I am.?

Before Verse 3: ?If one thing don?t work out. I?ll go to something else. Either way I survive.?

Outro: ?I existed before hip hop was even a thought. And I?m a still be here when hip hop becomes a dead art due to poison. I ain?t wasting energy trying to convince y?all of a mutha fucking thang. Y?all mortal ass niggas can have this shit. Some people just don?t get it. Wait up hold up Alex stop this shit, I don?t know what the fuck I?m thinking about, I?m about to resuscitate this mutha fucka!?


More info on me (due to the word limitation in the "bio" section: You can check out 2 online features of me at these links
http://www.grind-mode.com/thaahum.htm
http://www.insomniacmagazine.com/albums.htm

I also write poetry and one of my poems have been selected by the International Library of Poetry (poetry.com) to be published in a book comming out next year. One of my songs, "Last Stance" is featured on a compilation CD called Ditry South Ballin' (http://stores.ebay.com/JLM-CDs-and-DVDs), and can be purchashed at any Wharehouse. ALL SONGS CAN BE SENT TV/RADIO READY UPON REQUEST!