My Culture to gain... Dream/\Keeper/M Dogg colabo

[M Dogg™]

Dream/\Keeper:
What do you want?  You got a casino, you don’t have to pay taxes, so why you saying you got it harder than everyone else?  I want to know!!!

Fine Here It Is:

In the past the white man invade ours land and called us savages//
Now a days it’s a struggle for our culture the pain it ravages//
They took my life, my language, my whole identity was taken//
Now the souls of my grandfathers must be reawaken//
It’s not right to put people on land and call it reservations//
President Bush running the world shit he should try to run a nation//
A nation of people that where beating for speaking their owns words//
Contained in a way that would make us cattle cause we’re kept in herds//
Taught the ways of destruction, instead of learning to respect things great and small//
I’ll stand and fight for my past no matter what hardship befall//
As long as I pass on the stories that were told to me we will remain//
I have nothing to lose but everything and my culture to gain//

M Dogg:
I have visions in my sleep and the spirits haunt me, the killing of my grandfathers the Paiutche//
3 families left and a culture is gone, fuck the Jews what about out muthaphukkin holocast//
We were played as clowns, buffalo soldiers ran us out, from our land spring water was found//
Put it bottles and sold it out and it's all over now, 'cause Arrowhead water was from our sacred ground//
Quit talking about the past is what I'm told now, but my land is gone and polluted now//
Calling us savages, my people never knew how to fight, you perfected it war and committed genocide//
Now tell me why, kill us 'cause your skin is white, purity is in the heart not in the color of your flag//
My grandfathers speak and I listen with love, 'cause when I'm down they pick me back up//
There's a battle to fight and not a single bullet will be shot, do as you might land can't be bought//
God owns the trees we borrow from he, and this is the belief of the old Paiutche//
Spoken in my ear are the stories to maintain, I had to hear though they left me in pain//
The grandfathers told me I can't be slain, 'cause my culture I have to gain//

[Jimmy Cash2120]

this is dope. being native american i can really feel this

[Sikotic™]

I'm feelin that a lot, no bullshit. Social conscious rhymes that actually flow together and tell a story. Y'all should go on Def Poetry Jam with that for real. Dope history lesson right there.

[·SiNiStEr·]

i thought the unity was what made this piece great, yall stayed on topic and came with a really strong product.. dope

[Dreamz]

Thank You..................Hopefully M Dogg is up for some more Colabos with me...lor any at that

[white Boy]

phat shit..

[Real American]

That was incredibly wack.....

[bez]

I aint never been one to lie.  I didn't really feel it either.

I thought Dream's verse was nice but M's had no flow or nothing.  It was ok but as Sik said it was more Poetry than lyrics really.

[infinite59]

I aint never been one to lie.  I didn't really feel it either.

I thought Dream's verse was nice but M's had no flow or nothing.  It was ok but as Sik said it was more Poetry than lyrics really.

I kind of disagree, although the rhyme scheme was a little weak, the song permeated with the tension and angst that can make for some great rap music.  Infact, I've heard that hip-hop is really popular on the reservations now, so we may see a native American hip-hop group blow up on the underground scene. 

Anyway, these were tight lyrics, the kind of social commentary I like in music, I think they could work either way, poetry or rap.

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

CLEAN !!!!

[.:TimeLock:.]

that was on point man props to both of u

[Dreamz]

thank you all for your input

[M Dogg™]

just want to up this... I still like this post

[Dreamz]

same let's do sumthing else with some other natives on this site

[hope glimmers]

im not native, but i sure do like them lots.....   

id like to read another one... so east coast and dream... do it, itd be great, go for it