Beautiful rap songs?

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edit: i'm removing the video because I wasn't sure if it is considered offensive (had 2 curse words in it).

This is my first topic to start yay! edit: and I messed it up (see above)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Y6DNfBgiY[/youtube]

"Beautiful" by Enemin Not just because of the title but the lyrics:

"Lately I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone
Are you calling me, are you trying to get through
Are you reaching out for me, I'm reaching out for you

I'm just so f****n' depressed
I just can seem to get out this slump
If I could just get over this hump
But I need something to pull me out this dump
I took my bruises, took my lumps
Fell down and I got right back up
But I need that spark to get psyched back up
In order for me to pick that mic back up
I don't know how I pry away
And I ended up in this position I'm in
I starting to feel distant again
So I decided just to pick this pen
Up and tried to make an attempt to vent
But I just can't admit
Or come to grips, with the fact that
I may be done with rap
I need a new outlet
I know some s**ts so hard to swallow
And I just can't sit back and wallow
In my own sorrow
But I know one fact
I'll be one tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
Here today, gone tomorrow
But you have to walk a thousand miles

Chorus
In my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
I'll be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Look at s**t through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah
They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you sO
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah
They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you

I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor
Everything is so tense and gloom
I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature in the room
Just as soon as I walk in
It's like all eyes on me
So I try to avoid any eye contact
Cause if I do that then it opens a door to conversation
Like I want that...
I'm not looking for extra attention
I just want to be just like you
Blend in with the rest of the room
Maybe just point me to the closest restroom
I don't need f*****g man servant
Tryin to follow me around, and wipe my ass
Laugh at every single joke I crack
And half of them ain't even funny like
Ahh Marshall, you're so funny man, you should be a comedian, god damn
Unfortunately I am, but I just hide behind the tears of a clown
So why don't you all sit down
Listen to the tale I'm about to tell
Hell, we don't have to trade our shoes
And you don't have to walk no thousand miles

Chorus
In my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
All be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Look at s**t through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah
They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you so
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah
They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you

Nobody asked for life to deal us
With these BS hands they've delt
We have to take these cards ourselves
And flip them, don't expect no help
Now I could have either just
Sat on my ass and pissed and moaned
But take this situation in which I'm placed in
And get up and get my own
I was never the type of kid
To wait but I know to unpack his bags
Never sat on the porch and hoped and prayed
For a dad to show up who never did
I just wanted to fit in
Every single place
Every school I went
I dreamed of being that cool kid
Even if it meant acting stupid
Aunt Edna always told me
Keep making that face till it gets stuck like that
Meanwhile I'm just standing there
Holding my tongue up trying to talk like this
Till I stuck my tongue on the frozen stop sign poll at 8 years old
I learned my lesson and cause I wasn't tryin to impress my friends no more
But I already told you my whole life story
Not just based on my description
Cause where you see it from where you're sitting
Is probably 110% different
I guess we would have to walk a mile
In each other's shoes, at least
What size you where?
I wear tens
Let's see if you can fit your feet

Chorus
In my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
All be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to

Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Look at s**t through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah
They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you so
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful woah

They can all get f****d. Just stay true to you
Lately I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone...
Are you calling me, are you trying to get through woah
Are you reaching out for me, I'm reaching out for you so

Yea... To my babies. Stay strong. Daddy will be home soon
And to the rest of the world, god gave you the shoes
That fit you, so put em on and wear em
And be yourself man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny,
Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful"

A song for all the herd-haters, and people who like to do what they want, not caring about social pressure...
It's in Hebrew - I added translation:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzhHrBfInKk[/youtube]

"In every generation, a person must see himself..." (part of a Jewish quote)

The way is long and winding
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
I'll never stop walking
I fall and get up, fall and get up
I pass a bridge and another one
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
How long is the way?
I'm standing firm with my head lifted up (Hebrew expression - hard to translate)

They say that love comes one in a million
They say there's no chance that the sun will rise up on me
They say I'll fall, they say I'll run away
They say I'll stay alone
They say I'm not suited for life
Because I don't have the desire for gold and diamonds, I don't have the right cards
Maybe it's society that's collapsing, if it's not a suitable place for the searchers of the rainbow
To the the ignorers of the signal of time - and my star, where is it? People, I exist
In your eyes, I might have no value
But I have soul, I have a song, I have the way

The way is long and winding
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
I'll never stop walking
I fall and get up, fall and get up
I pass a bridge and another one
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
How long is the way?
I'm standing firm with my head lifted up

In front of me - a pillar of fire, behind me - a cloud of smoke
I left a city of steel behind, going - where to?
A place where the sun is not covered by building
Beyond the mountains, towards the green fields
Because there is a place that's sweeter than this one
A place where there's a longer time, as much as we just want
A moment comes, that's the moment in which there's need to think
To spread a wing, to say goodbye, to get up and leave
To the place where in which I can be myself
After 2000 years of exile, I want to be free
Beyond the horizon, there the birds are singing
There I will get, and meanwhile I'll sing songs

As much as the way is long and winding
I don't stop moving, I can't stop
Leaving behind the fears and the sorrow
The voice is all, I must continue
Everything that happens - I know that needs to happen
I am the fire that you won't be able to put out
The music will take me up and to the depth
The way is long, to walk in it is to live

The way is long and winding
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
I'll never stop walking
I fall and get up, fall and get up
I pass a bridge and another one
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
How long is the way?
I'm standing firm with my head lifted up

Every end is a new beginning
The sadness is a sign that soon happiness will come
I'm not in the race, and not in the war
The head's up in the sky, the feet are on the ground

How long is the way?
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
I'll never stop walking
I fall and get up, fall and get up
I pass a bridge and another one
I fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up
I'll never stop walking
I'm standing firm with my head lifted up

Because I
Will never stop walking
Will never stop walking

RATM - Take the Power Back

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkMsXcHQYg[/youtube]

With a bright light study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us teaches how to read and write
So-called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their God
Lost the culture - the culture lost
Spun our minds, and throught time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back
Bam, here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam, step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beat and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change and to counteract
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum - I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric, every last one of them
See right through the red-white-and-blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in spirits causing tears and fears
One-sided stories for years, and years, and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?!
Yeah, you need to check the interior
Of a system who cares about only one culture, and that
Is why we gotta take the power back

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The students eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every f*****g wall
His composure is well-kept
I guess he fears playing the fool...
The complacent students sit
And listen to the same BS that he learned in school!

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it
Gotta get, gotta get it together, then
Like the motherfucking weathermen
To expose and close the doors of those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

No more lies, no more lies, no more lies, no more lies
No more lies, no more lies, no more lies, no more lies

Take it back y'all, take it back, a-take it back, a-take back, y'all, come on!
Take it back y'all, take it back, a-take it back, a-take back, y'all, come on!

I really listen to any rap but I these songs help me better when I'm down especially when society gets to me:

Drop the world ft. Eminem- Lil Wayne

Dead and Gone- T.I.

My Life ft. Lil Wayne- Game

Better Days- Game

Sing for the Moment- Eminem

When I'm Gone- Eminem

Cleanin' Out My Closet- Eminem

Heard 'Em Say- Kanye West

Hey Mama- Kanye West

Homecoming- Kanye West

Jesus Walks- Kanye West

Live Your Life ft. Rihanna- T.I.

Stronger- Kanye West

And there are others just can't think off the top of m head lol

"Without Me" by Eminem

It's so Aspie!

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