# Rap and Hip-Hop--most clever lyricists?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-and-hip-hop-most-clever-lyricists/435661 "2008-01-31T01:05:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-and-hip-hop-most-clever-lyricists/435661/61 "2008-02-01T01:21:26Z")

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I know very little about rap, but I did enjoy 90% of the stuff put out by Public Enemy, both lyrically and musically, and I also used to love The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy ages ago.

> [@](#):
>
> T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our  
> Nation reads books daily  
> Why most people think Central Amerika  
> means Kansas  
> Socialism means unamerican  
> and Apartheid is a new headache remedy  
> absorbed in it’s world it’s so hard to find us  
> It shapes our mind the most  
> maybe the mother of our Nation  
> should remind us  
> that we’re sitting too close to…  
> [Chorus:]  
> Television, the drug of the Nation  
> Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation  
> (2x)  
> T.V. is  
> the stomping ground for political candidates  
> Where bears in the woods  
> are chased by Grecian Formula’d  
> bald eagles  
> T.V. is mechanized politic’s  
> remote control over the masses  
> co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases  
> watch for the PBS special  
> It’s the perpetuation of the two party system  
> where image takes precedence over wisdom  
> Where sound bite politics are served to  
> the fastfood culture  
> Where straight teeth in your mouth  
> are more important than the words  
> that come out of it

Full lyrics [here.](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/disposable-heroes-of-hiphoprisy-television-the-drug-of-the-nation-lyrics.html)

Now that I think about, both groups remind me of Gil-Scott Heron who was a great lyriccal rap-preceder.

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