I keep it all the way honest with you

I just be spitting a lot of those punch lines because

A lot of people tell me that's what they want to hear

And me, honestly I feel like I grew out of it

I honestly don't even like rap like I used to

You know? It's real easy to spit 160 bars about nothing



Uh, uh, uh

Don't hurt 'em Hammer

Uh, uh, uh

Don't hurt 'em Hammer





Let's get it, let's get it

Don't hurt 'em Hammer





Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so raw

Hold y'all, under contemporaries, I blow ya nose off

Most y'all, rappers be making me want to dose off

That's why I raised the bar just like the game of pole vault





Hold up, look at the game and appreciate it

Stop hating on all the artists, while albums even get rated

Tell you to be creative, and as soon as you be creative

The same people that say it don't like it, they like "I hate it"

They make a club song and the minute you do the same

The same people that said it, will say "You in need of change"

The music is getting lame, the people in it the same

The house, the car, the strip, are the only thing in the frame





Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so raw

Blow y'all, out of the box with a flow that go off

Money and fame done cost me a bunch of road dogs

Gotta keep that, iron near me but it ain't no golf





Looking it at the TV, I can't believe I'm hearing it

I can't understand ya, it's just like your speaking Arabic

In love with rap, so I made the mistake and married it

Now I'm feeling like, get away from me, you embarrassing

ITunes downloads and ringtones tearing it

Into smithereens, if you loving music then cherish it

Listening to music that's older than what my parents is

So beautiful like a model think her appearance is





Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so raw

Hold up, listen to Lil Weezy and Hova

Most of, rappers be having funny aromas

Know a, player gon' get it like I'm supposed ta





Let's get it, let's get it

Don't hurt 'em Hammer





I know I ain't gonna be a rapper forever

And not because I think I'm a fall off or anything

It's because, I just don't feel rap I used to man

I remember I used to just wake up in the morning

And I used to look at my pad, and it was empty

And I would fill it up with nothing but lyrics

You know what I'm saying? I know a lot of people talk

Like they don't write down their lyrics and they do it all in their head

But me, hey I take pride in writing down lyrics man

I used to scratch out everything on the paper

And change the whole rap, up until I felt it was perfect

I used to perfect my craft so much and just make each rap

Be the best one that I could possibly make it

And I try so hard to, you know

To get back to that feeling I used to have, but I just can't you know

I look at a piece of paper now and it just doesn't give me that same feeling it used to

No matter how hard I try, people say that the industry will burn you like that

And they say it's mainly because of the pressures in the record industry but

I don't know man, I don't know what it is but I just know

The same feeling I used to get from music, I just don't get anymore like

I remember the feeling I used to get when I heard them live instruments on Snoop Dogg's Gin & Juice

Or you know when 'Pac was going off on everyone in the industry or

Or when Scarface and 2Pac did a song for the first time

Or the first time I heard UGK's One Day

I was like "Maaaan", them boys real

Or even when I was bumping that east coast music

And I heard Canibus say a verse on The Firm album, he was like

"At a thousand degrees Celsius I make y'all iggans melt,

F' my record label, I appear courtesy of myself! "

I was like "Maaaaaaaan" hahaha, man that boy killed dat

And I even used to be bumping Wu-Tang Clan

I remember Method Man was like, you know it um

"I came to bring the pain, hard core from the brain"

I was like "Man them boy's throwed"

And I can't put the blame on nobody

You know I can't just say I don't like music all music

There's a lot of music I like, but I just don't like it the way I used to

And that goes for all of it, including me

Even when I'm in the studio, and I'm behind the mic

It just ain't the same man, you know

I like to talk man, that's the realest part of everything to me

But I don't get to speak what's on my mind like I am now

Like I do at the awards, you know?

I mean I guess life goes on though

Don't hurt 'em Hammer!