When I was a kid I would go to the show and see
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the rock star I'd play my records and look at
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the album cover at the rock star Sometimes I'd
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check out the R&B But the polka, salsa
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classical scene just was not me. I wanted to be
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like Bootsy Dr. Funkenstein or Jimi the rock star
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Color meant nothing to me Everything was equal
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as far as I could see. Ignorant to the racist
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music industry music industry music industry
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Music industry...white rock star
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Everywhere I look...white rock star Read it in the
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paper...white rock star Watch it on TV...white
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rock star Only just a little...black rock star
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Only for a token...black rock star
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Sing no controversy...black rock star
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Sometimes for the flavor of Japanese
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No communication but it's overseas. Unaware of
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how propaganda works I soon became a victim,
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a trick at work With my black brotha's playin'
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rock & roll signed and ho'in for a major label
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selling my soul as a rock star.
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Do the rock star ohh Do the rock star yeah
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Break a window, smash a TV We're some hott
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mother fucka's It's no doubt about, we do the
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rock star Ohh do the rock star, yeah
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Get real drunk, fuck, fuck, fuck Kick in the radio,
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smash up a chair Do the rock star, wooh
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Do the rock star, yeah Wreck your hotel room
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Catch a Lear jet Stay in debt, manic depressed
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Sweat & jerk to the best Smoke a cig, fuck,
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fuck, fuck, Lie fry loosin' your mind like a rock
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star Loose it! I got supposed fortune & fame
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with existential potential Of runnin' the game,
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but it the greedy of the whitey at the top of my
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frame that's Blurrin' my art piece, makin' it
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Weak see makin' it watered down Dilutin' my
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funky sound But it's all you need to be in this
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weak society Powder puffy rock star dumb
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Keepin' people stupid and dumb Do the rock
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star ooh Do the rock star hey Shoot up some
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heroin Snort some cocaine Smash your guitar
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Wreck a jet plane With a short gun to your brain
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For the price of fame like Kurt Cobain Doin' the
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rock star main Color meant nothing to me
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But now I just can't escape From the rains that
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drive me ape of their white fear through the
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television in my eyes in my ears Racism!
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Separation! Media! So I guess you can say I'm an
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angry brotha Can't play my music 'cause of
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barrier of color Deep in debt with a seven record
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set Videos and funky shows but no one knows
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The major pain and misery of bein' radical
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Speakin' of what you feel in a world that's sad and
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dull But the rock star got the money
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and the fuck fuck right action lights and plane
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flights Drugs and press but in reality
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it's a lot less when you're the rock star oooh.
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Rock Star
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