Conversations In Hip Hop

Baby Boomers bawk when they hear Hip Hoppers spinning

old tales of woe or of recent rich and 

new glamour while rapping,

Hip Hoppers squawk when they hear 'It's My Party and I'll

Cry If I Want To' happening.

They say that they don't understand this new generation's lingo,

But Hip Hoppers don't understand their persistent need to play BINGO!

Boomers walk around reciting Elvis songs,

Hip Hoppers walk around singing Sisqo's Thong

Thong Thong!

But I don't want to harp on various differences,

In my time here with these few sentences.

I will say that because of the way that we were brought to these shores,

Our history has had to be told in verbal scores.

Hip Hop is keeping with that tradition and telling those that come

after us that our history is not entirely rooted in misery.

Because Hip Hop has told us Bedtime Stories,