Hip Hop Ain’t Hurt Nobody

Yeah

Talk to ’em

I was that kid on the front-room floor

Hand-me-down shoes, holes in the door

Mom yelling bills, dad out late

Only peace I had came off a tape

Turn the volume up, sit close, just zone

Every clever bar felt like my own

Taught me how to stand when the world said “quit”

Gave a broke little heart something solid to spit

They blame every rhyme for the pain they see

But never blame the cuts or the empty fridge, gee

It ain’t these tracks that made us cold

It’s growing up hungry with nowhere to go

Hip hop ain’t hurt nobody

We just turned scars into something that knock, yeah

They point fingers at the kids in the lobby

But we just learn truth from the tales they drop, yeah

Hip hop ain’t hurt nobody

We just paint life on the spot when it’s rough, yeah

If the world really cared ’bout the bodies

They would fix what’s broke, not silence us (uh)

They see a cypher, think crime on sight

I see cousins staying out of that fight

Pen on a page, tryna clear that rage

Better in a verse than a locked-up cage

Every bar, therapy

Every hook, memory

Every chant, remedy

For the weight they never see

Politicians talk like they know our block

Quote two lines then cut the rest of the song

If they heard the tears buried deep in the rhyme

They’d know we just tryna keep breathing on time

Hip hop ain’t hurt nobody

We just turned scars into something that knock, yeah

They point fingers at the kids in the lobby

But we just learn truth from the tales they drop, yeah

Hip hop ain’t hurt nobody

We just paint life on the spot when it’s rough, yeah

If the world really cared ’bout the bodies

They would fix what’s broke, not silence us (hip hop, hip hop)