Media Hype lyrics

[Intro: D-Loc & Richie Rich]
D-Loc: Yo, Rich, man, what’s up?
RR: I can’t call it. What’s up?
D-Loc: Peep this, man. We done been so hyped on this teenage life, we ain’t been trippin’ off the real hype
RR: Well, it’s like this, man; every time I get ready to step out into the real world, the hype be so deep, I have to just step back off, you know?
D-Loc: Well, man, I got a little somethin’ I wanna tell these people
RR: Well, it’s like this: I got your back. Spit it when you ready
D-Loc: Ay, I’m ready

[Verse 1: D-Loc]
All I wanna know is what’s really happenin’
So put it to me straight and stop kickin’ it backwards
The paper takes things out of shape and proportion
So never trust the news or a TV reporter
We all heard the story of the young black soldiers
Missing in action is what the media told us
But think for a second, it’s your brain that they’re wreckin’
Who sent us on a mission so unpleasant?
Lookin’ down on a brotherman, the other man’s scam
To keep us in a daze, and never understand what’s really goin’ on
So me and Richie Rich wrote a song and we called it the Media Hype

[Verse 2: Richie Rich]
The Media Hype is a song, we composed it
Black for black, stay strong, we’ll expose it
Reporters only say what they are paid to say
So for the truth, we have find another way to play
The game that they are playing with minds of the nation
We have to slow the flow of the false information
A black man found dead? And it’s been stated if he’s carrying a pager, well, it’s drug-related
The news only televises black destruction
Turf wars, drugs and self-corruption
See, I ain’t really with that, ‘cause that ain’t all that’s goin’ on
You know what I’m sayin’, homes?
What about the brothas who stand for somethin’? And they are ample
Pause for a moment and peep the example
George Washington Carver, a brilliant black man
Martin Luther was a brotha with a plan
Tony Brown, who’s strong and in existence
Jesse Owens, athletic, he ran the distance
Too many to mention, and yo, they can’t handle, though
Strong people such as Maya Angelou
I’m tired of the way we’re being stereotyped
So that's why I’m kickin’, the Media Hype