Baba Brinkman - Conversation Civilized lyrics

Okay, let's open up this can of worms What's a Caucasian from Canada doin' rapping? That's damn absurd! Maybe we should rephrase the question And switch up the races and see if it even changes the message It's all stereotypes but hey, maybe you're right And maybe Asian people shouldn't play the bagpipes And Scandinavians shouldn't Salsa dance Foreign flavours should be banned from the South of France Let's keep the art forms and groups of humans separate What's up with all these Eastern Europeans Sumo wrestlin'? But at the risk of offering a simple solution Let's just skip the racial prejudice and stick to basic execution ‘Cause Caucasians accomplished at rappin' Isn't half as impressive as half the sh** you never thought would've happened So can we please rock the mic now? Or is it still an issue even with Barack in the White House? Right So if a black kid with a book isn't acting white Then what's a white kid acting like every time he grabs the mic? I'll tell it the same to every person I meet Hip-hop was birthed in the streets, but it's just words and beat It's a game we all get to play just like politics Just like science, or like sports, or like arguments And integration is breakin' the racial barriers down With innovations from different areas split to various styles But only the South Bronx really invented the game And then when the fame spread that's when the benefits came But every CD sold was a seed bein' sowed From MCs speakin' Creole to Swedes with the sweetest flows And racial prejudice is just narrow hypocrisy It has no place in a modern state of meritocracy At least that's the belief by which we live our lives Just keepin' our minds open and the conversation civilized