Kanye West — Crack Music Live at Abbey Road Studios

[Intro: Kanye West & Choir] La la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah That's that crack music, crack music That real black music La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah Uh, yeah [Verse 1: Kanye West] How we stop the Black Panthers? Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer You hear that? What Gil Scott was hearin' When our heroes or heroines got hooked on heroin Crack raised the murder rate in D.C. and Maryland We invested in that, it's like we got Merrill lynched And we been hangin' from the same tree ever since Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine So we cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it Sell it, the fiends cop it, nowadays they can't tell if That's that good shit, we ain't sure, man Put the CD on your tongue, yeah, that's pure, man [Chorus: Kanye West & Choir] Uh, that's that crack music, crack music Yeah, that real black music La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah Yeah, uh, yeah, that's that crack music, crack music Yeah, that real black music, black music La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah Yeah, yeah, uh, uh [Verse 2: Kanye West] From the place where the father's gone The mothers is hardly home And the Madigan's lock us up in the Audy Home How the Mexicans say, we just tryin' to party holmes They wanna pack us all in a box like styrofoam Who gave Saddam anthrax? George Bush got the answers Back in the hood it's a different type of chemical Arm & Hammer baking soda raised they whole quota Right when our soldiers, ran for the stove 'cause 'Cause, dreams of being Hova Went from bein' a broke man to bein' a dopeman To bein' a President, look there's hope, man This that inspiration for the Moes and the Folks, man Shorty come and see his momma straight overdosin' Yeah, and this is the soundtrack This the type of music that you make when you 'round that [Chorus: Kanye West & Choir] Uh, crack music, crack music Yeah, that real black music, black music La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah Yeah, uh, uh, listen, that's that crack music, crack music Yeah, that real black music La la la la la la la lah, la la la la la lah [Post-Chorus: Kanye West] You know, man, how good it feels to have strings for that chorus? [Outro: Kanye West] How could you let this happen? Happen? Happen? Happen? Happen?