The song Stop The Violence is performed by KRS-One .
(The Rock)
Todays topic self construction
We all came together just to tell yall something
Guns in school aint right to me
You gotta be the peace youd like to see
See yourself free
I use my mind beyond time to talk to the future me
See yourself wealthy
Its time to settle all these beefs
Yo Nelly help me
(Nelly)
Its like we livin in that you cant stop me era
Like man when I see you ima pop you era
Like we aint learned nothing from the 2pac era
From the B I Terror
Take a look in the mirror
Gets your hands out your pockets like man
Its time we get up get out and get sumin get a plan
You know a plan not a scam
Im talkin sumin beneficial in helpin the next man
(Styles P.)
From self destruction to self construction
Really depends on self production
Our familys dysfunctional
But we cud function
To make our next generation option something
Better than we had which was close to nothing
Come from the ages of minimum wages
Brothers is outrages millennium slave tips
Put it in the book
But we aint go through pages
(Redman)
What I like to see is MCs get along
If you gotta buck a shot
Do it in a song
Get your lyrics up
It all sound raw
When I drop I rock till the cows come home
(The Game)
I never thought Id tell anybody to put a gun down
Till last week I saw a 12 year old kid gunned down
This aint what lifes about
All this shoot em up bang bang you never think twice about
Thats somebodys son you shot somebodys daughter you slaughtered
I shed tears for our dearly departed
And the shooters get Xd like Malcolm
One dead in the grave, one behind bars is the out come
(Chorus Ne-Yo)
Self construction
I said what we doin to each other what we need
Self construction
Cryin mothers, dying brothers what we need
Self construction
Never ever ran from the Klu Klux Klan
Shouldnt have to run from a black man
We need self construction
Hey self construction hey
(Method Man)
Look at the pot callin the kettle black
Im in the ghetto black
And I aint tryin to be where delao and shawn bell is at
I show these people where hell is at
Its right around the corner from no hope where the dope be sellin at
(Busta Rhymes)
Ayo Id like to see us open the lines of communication
Prioritizing and dealing with self preservation
Being constructive is something Im completing endorsing
Cuz the mind state of the youth kinda needed some reinforcing
(Talib Kweli)
Hip-hops responsibility goes far beyond rappin
We can talk about the happens
Sing songs without action
Activist activism must enforce your lyricism
This is how you gunna add vilolence and lying politicians
(David Banner)
Cut throat Americana
Powder keg California
Big business wu shaolin
Hip hop is out to warn ya
Black or brown
Brown and black
North and south beef
Self construction now
These rockers all about peace
(Chorus Ne-Yo)
Self construction
I said what we doin to each other what we need
Self construction
Cryin mothers, dying brothers what we need
Self construction
Never ever ran from the Klu Klux Klan
Shouldnt have to run from a black man
We need self construction
Hey self construction hey
I aint cosigning none of that
Im not just rhyming
We losin babies to the streets
So we could not be silent
Together we could stop the violence
We listen to music
Even bullets be whistlin when the shots is firin
Chicks aint even exempt now
Even Got us goin in and out of the pen now
Years in the game
Think its goin on ten now
Must be mad think Im putting the pen down
I wasnt here for the first move
Im thirteen let me put in my 2 cents
A nation divided equals silence
So lets join together and stop the violence