I ignore a whore like an email from LinkedIn (Huh)
Four of the six lines are interviews, which makes this a page about attitude toward the genre more than lyrics. The most common theme is craft (3), then identity (2). Danny Brown tells Dazed and Highsnobiety that rappers should improve with age and shouldn't be bitter about what the kids are doing now. The two lyric lines, from 30 and Savage Nomid, cover the other side: coming up with borrowed power and a crack about LinkedIn.
Came a long way from extension cords in the window
Borrow neighbor's power just to plug up the Nintendo
People get so mad with what the kids is doing, the new hip-hop. It’s not for you — mind your business.
Rappers sometimes get older and fall off, but you should be getting better with age more than anything else. Rap isn’t a physical sport, it is a mental one, and your mind gets wiser when you get older.
But I never wanna be the butthurt rapper, always complaining in songs about where the culture gone. Nobody wanna hear that shit, man.
In kindergarten I'd say I wanted to be a rapper
And people'd just laugh at me. That's a pretty funny job, they'd say