Main Source - Hellavision lyrics

[Verse 1] Now I'm a flip the track and bring you back to reality I'm like Wesley Snipes, I act without a salary Cause I don't need nobody saying "Lights, Camera, Action!" I act on reaction f** what you see on television Cause nowadays all of us live in the hellavision On every single channel it's the same old same Brothers' poppin their brain Or gettin wrecked at a soccer game Six brothers fallin victim to the street Aftermath of the drive-by rolling in the black jeep Every other channel spent its money on the talk shows From Oprah to Geraldo, everybody in New York knows But when a brother gets real They make the story opposite And try to offer n***as raw deals [Hook] Television tells lies to the vision The world's a prison We're livin in hellavision [Verse 2] Every day your life to me is drama But not the type of drama that my T.V. shows Because it makes the drama calmer When a lady's caught cheatin She steps with the next man And doesn't even catch a a**-beatin Reality check - that's what the T.V. said Cause in real life it's two to the f**in head Yosemite Sam filling Bugs with slugs Wile E. Coyote always cooking up these deadly d** Bart Simpson is cursing up a storm And children love this sh** man, come on I see kids that say bringing guns to school Ten year old crack heads and that ain't cool My four year old daughter curses worse than Bart Straight from my heart, it's tearing me apart [Hook] [Verse 3] And now, hip hop is labelled as a violencer Like everyone who rhymes packs a Tec with the silencer Every other month a hip hopper goes to prison Over some dumb sh** or for the real life living But who's to know what we've been going through When all you see is one side of us The side the T.V. be showing you You never hear about the stress or the work Or the hard times we had or hip hop was getting jerked You only see us in the limelight But when the night comes, we're always linked to crime, right? Man - what I've been through is strife Yo - they could make fifty movies of my motherf**ing life And there's a million like me The people you don't see When you watch your everyday T.V [Hook]