Gangsta Crap
28 April, 2003
Author: Justus Isaiah Richardson
Why must there always be,
Some punk who writes profanity?
Is he an Eminem wannabe,
Throwin’ his gangsta crap at me?
Don't these troublemakers see,
That they're not writing poetry?
It's just a bunch of vulgarity,
Line after line of obscenity.
I'm sure most poets will agree,
That if ever their names we see.
On an album or a marquee,
We wouldn't listen if it were free.
They write nothing but debris,
Then give a warning sign for me,
Adult content they say with glee.
But let's talk about reality,
They're just kids in truth you see,
Barely into puberty.
Punks who thinks it's comedy,
To use so much profanity!
And if their parents hear you plea,
Could they stop this insanity?
Or would they call the authorities,
Say my parents are abusing me?
Is this how the world will be,
With punks who spew obscenity,
With no regard for humanity,
At war with our morality,
Chipping away at our sanity?
A generation like these wannabe's,
Throwin' their gangsta crap at me.
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Comments on this poem/writing:
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Friday, May 2 2003, 03:15 am this was cool because in my opinion, RAP IS CRAp. anyways, great poem! |
| Loes_amez (80.201.25.23) -- Friday, August 15 2003, 08:24 pm i'm gonna rap this sh*t if y'all don't like it,bite me i don't rap for her i don't rap for you i don't rap for tha people except for myself rap is what i do best all tha other stuff is just to normal i don't wanna skate i don't wanna hate i just wanna do what i'm doing at this moment rent a nice film just sit back and chill no wurries on my mind a video you can rewind and with you're life you can't do that that's so sad if i could rewind i wouldn't be born cause this life is worser then hell you're better in a cell then on tha street girls playing with you're mind fake ass nigga's kissing you're behind i aint no fool i know what life is about money and power tha bosses don't care if you work an extra hour because they've got the money and they've got tha power you can't rearange it but maybe i can change it i'll try to do my best i've got people who hate me people who fake me people who like me but at tha end we're all gonna have to fight our own battle i'll stay tha same mc don't become a fake ass g i represent myself and nobody else cause they're all tha same |
| Gangta Boo (69.140.120.29) -- Wednesday, September 10 2003, 01:18 am f*** all yall rap is tite rap will NEVA die that juss means u dont unda stand it u dont undastand da sturggles cuz u white folks alwaiz get it e-z naaa us black folks do shyt da hard way and we rite down our feelins so if u dont like DONT F***ING LISTEN TO IT no1s telling u 2 so go listen to ya country sh*it.....im out (snipped) |
| Seizure (68.19.81.10) -- Wednesday, September 10 2003, 05:17 am Shouldn't that be Gangsta Boo? And why are you bringing race into this... yes, all of us while people listen to country... I mean, what else would we listen to? Afterall, everyone knows the color of your skin determines what you like to listen to, how hard your life has been, etc. Shit, I listen to rap, as do a lot of other white people.. By the same token, there's also a lot of black people that listen to country... I also see how one sided you are by saying white people have it easy... you've never walked in my shoes and you've never seen the things I've seen. I can name just as many troubled white people as I can black, and hispanic, and indian... poverty, violence, and descrimination is no kinder to one than the other. You couldn't just post a message saying you didn't agree with Justus' vision here could you? No, you had to categorize a huge percentage of the population... Where in Justus' poem did he say anything about the blacks? Where did he say anything about the whites? He didn't... it has nothing to do with race there. The only racial content of the poem was created in your head. No where else. |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (68.120.198.96) -- Thursday, September 11 2003, 01:38 am Little brother, who said I was white? Read my poem THE DEBATE. Justus |
| Da Chik Hu Finx Dis IS Sh*t (203.96.100.22) -- Wednesday, September 17 2003, 09:11 am U shudnt bring race into poetry Maybe ur just blind take at luk around u and u'll c blak ppl white ppl working togetha gess da dnt apply to u coz u aint here 4 eva So pleze dnt com bak Gangsta Boo coz ill tell u dis dat stuff u wrote its all sh*t in utha words it sounds lyk POO Im wif justus on dis one so go bak to ur toilet and go wipe ur BUM so keep race out of all dis sh*t and realise im da one hu is down wif it |
| Mexican (68.88.94.13) -- Tuesday, September 23 2003, 11:32 pm Im mexican and i listen to rap, as a matter a fact I RAP and to any one that doesnt like it **** YOU! everyone has likes and dislikes and if you dont like somethin dont hate on it. Rap is just like poetry except we rap it with a beat in the background. I rap about my life and the s**t I've been through. justus Richardson you dont like some poetry so why hate i bet you dont appreciate me hatin on you do you? you aint nothin... that doesnt understand something so goes and hates on it... (snip snip and snip again why must rap=cuss) |
| Mexican (68.88.94.13) -- Tuesday, September 23 2003, 11:38 pm I agree w/ gangsta boo, see people express themselves through different things like art, music,and poetry but dont use this to hate on the way other people express themselves.it doesnt matter what color you are where ur from were all da same just LIKE DIFFERENT THINGS..justus |
| Gangsta_ma (66.4.15.129) -- Monday, November 24 2003, 09:46 pm fLaCa yo i feel yuh on wut you sayin.i wuz jus blazin thru and i saw wut u put..im 0ut..... |
| NuM1_PiMp (205.188.209.51) -- Friday, November 28 2003, 04:15 pm Look pplz itz tru dat justus didnt say shyt about race but he talked bout a big group of ppl...rap is poetry and is a way to express urself just lyk country music and etc....Justus u made me think about sumthing in ur poem, profanity isnt a comedy but a way to express urself, w/everz yo pplz rap aint gonna stop..Tupac Shakur died 7 yearz ago and his muzic i still heard everywhere...im out.. |
| J_Anderson (205.188.209.51) -- Friday, November 28 2003, 04:20 pm Hey num_1 pimp i agree with what u said and i understand that there is different ways people can express themselves so i think that you proved a point |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (67.127.184.222) -- Saturday, November 29 2003, 05:12 am Profanity’s purpose is for offending people and stirring up trouble. It is used out of anger to incite anger in others. If you have an argument with someone and you want to get a point across, it ain't gonna happen when you're calling him every name in the book! If you use it to make a political statement and you find the only ones listening are people already on your side, it’s because you offended the people you wanted to hear your message. At which point, anything you say is going to go in one ear and out the other, because they don’t like you. To them, you’re just a disrespectful little piece of garbage who deserves their angst, and nothing else. By the way, angst means anger. Just wanted to explain that for the illiterate among you. And of course, illiterate means uneducated or simply, stupid. Which is how profanity makes you sound. If you can’t argue your point intelligently, then you’re nothing but dandruff to be brushed off. Intelligent people run this world, while uneducated, trash talking, gutter mouthed illiterates run the next order at McDonalds. Which one are you gonna be? |
| dOwN~wIt~dA~bRoWn (68.185.180.166) -- Monday, December 1 2003, 02:56 am everybody gotz they own style, me I listen to erything, mostly underground, rap, and hip-hop! I work at McDonalds, well peace. |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (67.127.52.61) -- Tuesday, December 2 2003, 08:13 pm I rest my case. |
| Beto AKA ELMO (12.247.148.110) -- Friday, December 5 2003, 04:28 am man u a str8 up trip u hatin cuz u cant flow like a real G or make sense like we do man u aint nothin cuz *(we gonna ride till we die ball till we fall )* u aint poetic u just a lil hoe being all dramatic lyrics that u dont understand are things we have to live u say thats crap well let me tell u somethin ur crap u might as well be a discrinate bastard |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (67.124.150.128) -- Friday, December 5 2003, 01:19 pm I did live it punk. I write about what I lived, but in an articulate way. I use words that describe what I experienced, that don't offend people in the process. And you know what? People actually listen. People other than the ones who are in the same boat as I was. In fact, those are the only people who don't listen! This doesn’t bother me, since most of them will be dead before they reach 30 anyway. They'll run around spitting their trash talk until they tick off the wrong people and then wind up getting capped. And as they feel their life fluids ooze out of their body, they wonder why someone would hate them enough to kill them. What you've endured in your life isn't crap, how you present it is what's crap. As long as you represent your story in such a repugnant and disrespectful way, it will be perceived in the same way. In other words, your story isn't crap, but the way it’s presented makes it crap. I doubt you have the capacity to understand my point so I will present something you’re a little more familiar with. I’ll have a Big Mack, fries and a coke. I’d like to super size that too. Late. |
| Love Joi (207.232.152.154) -- Friday, December 5 2003, 04:31 pm I think that race don;t have anything to do with the rap industry at all. We all know that sometimes people misjudge you because of the type of music you listen to. To me I think that people can rap about their lifestyle and how it is to be in the streetz and how to live in the streetz. When you truly think about it , it teaches young people how to survive in the streetz. |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (67.124.150.128) -- Saturday, December 6 2003, 12:06 am And as long as that's as far as they want to get in life, it works. I could have stayed on the streets and by now I'd be in jail or dead. It's funny, I don't see country singers or rock stars or R&B artists getting capped. Wonder why that is? They get off the streets! The ones getting capped are the ones who never left. Yeah they surviving, right? They're teaching everyone how to survive the streets before they get capped. All that money, and they can't get away from the streets. Too bad. You should probably listen to something that will teach you how to get off of the streets too. In the meantime, break's over. There's a lady with a Big Mac attack waiting to place an order. |
| Meridian (205.188.116.197) -- Wednesday, January 12 2005, 12:05 am Good poem Justus in expressing yourself! -Meri |
| Ben F (81.100.175.39) -- Wednesday, January 12 2005, 01:05 pm I agree with some aspects of your "poem",yes there is alot of profianty(which in my opinion never has to be used),but not all "rappers" rhyme like this,kanye west is a huge example at the moment,he talks about life and whats going on in a inttelgent way. Rap has profainity,rock has profianty,folk songs have profainty. and to "gangster Boo", like seizure said,theres no reason to bring race into this,your only proving how small minded you are. |
| Rubydragon (82.10.190.131) -- Thursday, January 13 2005, 01:40 am I am an MC, and I know for a fact that you say what ya feel, we all agree. but Dreamers is a place where we respect that. If you gonna take offence at anybodys writing and start disrespecting it and throwing all your feelings down just to insult someones writing then you have more than just an offence problem, and you need to shut up respect people for their feelings and outlook on life and understand that sometimes there are things that irritate us and if we deal with them by attacking someone else then we just like every other non-understanding moron out there and thats how problems arise, so back off and have a bit of decency and respect. |
| Rubydragon (82.10.190.131) -- Thursday, January 13 2005, 01:42 am For peoples writings and for Dreamers site!!!!! Nicely written Justus. |
| Britney (67.136.84.49) -- Monday, February 14 2005, 01:06 am I liked your poem by expressing your self. I'm black my self but this didn't like say anything about color so yeah. But I listen to rap it's truthful though sometimes. Well I liked your peom though.Peace...~Britney~ :) |
| Michael A. Crawford (4.226.15.104) -- Sunday, September 25 2005, 09:06 am Michael. A.Crawford .Writing you to comment you on your poem. Dec.5th.2003.I Michael. A. Crawford. realy. Loove It. |
| Tainted Innocence (205.188.116.203) -- Sunday, December 4 2005, 01:22 am Ignoring the other posts, i thought this was a great poem and i think your right. |
| Jose Rubio (67.67.42.253) -- Wednesday, January 17 2007, 04:29 pm U all are funny wit tha stuff U come up wit |
| barb (216.129.12.79) -- Wednesday, January 17 2007, 06:02 pm I agree with this write. All you did was speak the truth. No racial comment that I read. You know the saying "The truth hurts" Good thinking. |
| nichelle anit alvarez (198.189.241.3) -- Thursday, January 25 2007, 10:12 pm can i make a copy of your poems.i realy love our poems it hella good and i wanted to put it in my binder. please |
| Sulema (68.90.46.19) -- Sunday, March 4 2007, 01:23 am Hey dizz is kool so |
| Marlem (68.90.46.19) -- Sunday, March 4 2007, 01:25 am Can I use your poem please |
| Elisa (75.30.138.33) -- Friday, April 6 2007, 11:07 pm Hey well i was just lookin around for gangsta love poems and i ran in to this sit and i think that ppl shuld be allowed to do wat eva they want its thier life and not anyone elses. So stay out of other ppls lifes and get one of ur own. |
| -E- (72.191.163.198) -- Saturday, April 7 2007, 06:21 pm freestyle... I agree There are alot of wannabes.. BUT? Have you ever considerd the posiblities? The why we act the way we do Because of S### that we've seen And still go throuh Hopefully you'll understand what I mean everything I say is true So with all do respect.. To critsize me? Just who are you? ? ? I'm A real T-H-U-g Livin in todays modern Gheeto society even my shoes were bought with drug money... So I'll tell right now I live the lifestyle So when people like you hate... The real G's just smile... (Quik tought..) If you are a wannabe you'll shot one these days by people like me... |
| crash (24.72.10.77) -- Monday, April 23 2007, 12:17 am In my life , ,y daddy aint bin a daddy i bin beat cheated a drug addict i bin kicked out of school i hane played sports and now just for 2day im living good comes to bad the bad comes to goog and bothers and sisters color ant got a dam thing to do with it . i use to live with my mom in a car when i was 6 we got evicted cause her habbit was more importand than...my brother died of a drug overdose and im still her,m i white? am i black? youll never guesse because it doesnt have anything to do with it. life is about being more than WHITE OR BLACK. |
| anonymous (67.183.195.69) -- Sunday, April 29 2007, 02:57 am can i used you poem |
| TINA (63.197.247.189) -- Thursday, May 3 2007, 12:03 am at the end... we all the same!!! no matta tha color, tha size, tha race or whateva. we all tha fuckin tha same!!! you guys dont even know what life is.any of you been to tha war? seen ppl kill each other? seen dead ppl or yo family on tha streets seen lil girls get raped over n over again? lived in the concentration cam for weeks? no you probaby have not!!! think about those that live that life, before you speak up. you should be lucky you lived only on the streets, you should be lucky you had drugs to feed your body with, you should be lucky to have been to jail over and over again, had a roof above your head and 3 meals a day. you should be lucky to not ever have to suffer like i did!!! i wish i was a drug addict all my life and a fucking wanna be gangsta that got her ass kicked after school day by day n seen more cell than my own bed!!! i wish and wish, but will not happen. still im alive today. stronger than any of you...n i dont intend to give up. don’t be so selfish, but think of ppl that had worse than you. think about the things you never want to live through, then you’ll be glad to have the life you have today!!! peace |
| ak the great (69.223.50.240) -- Thursday, June 21 2007, 12:40 am yall tripn! holla |
| jenny (76.171.51.135) -- Tuesday, August 28 2007, 06:29 am well u got that right...lol.... but yeah it is ok!.. great poem by da way |
| G-Funk (71.103.5.207) -- Monday, September 17 2007, 02:22 am f you don't like it, don't listen to it. |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (64.12.116.201) -- Monday, September 17 2007, 12:32 pm If you don't like it, don't read it. Seems to me, all y'all are hypocrites. You come here complaining to me for writing this, and then tell me I got no right to complain. All I’m doing is writing about something I don’t like. I just did it with more rhythm than most of you. You don’t like my little rap, so you write about it. But instead of just complaining, you tell me I got no business complaining about something you approve of. Bunch of hypocrites ya ask me. Late. J |
| Geezer (71.217.53.29) -- Wednesday, September 19 2007, 05:03 am Wow! Your poem has really stirred things up. Makes me hungry for stir-fries. When a poem can get this much attention, tells me this is a great poem. Thanks for the read and all the comments folks. I'm from the 60's and the music back then was awesome, I can't understand todays rap? Only thing I can figure is, they can't sing, so they talk sing???? Guess I'm too old. |
| sheniqua (64.9.51.66) -- Thursday, January 31 2008, 10:23 pm i liked all of them they all speak the truth and nothing but the truth |
| ducc (98.197.48.216) -- Tuesday, June 3 2008, 11:45 pm ummmmmmmmmmm.............i guess.............i think u jus expressing ur feelings towards stuff u dnt lik n ur own way...but fo otha ppl cussing is a way to express demselves....so deal w it jus lik we deal w ppl lik you DUCE!! |
| ducc (98.197.48.216) -- Tuesday, June 3 2008, 11:46 pm ummmm....but great poem tho...i likd how u expressd urself............ |
| anonymous (74.65.121.49) -- Wednesday, June 4 2008, 08:20 am what in hell has happened here? going from a terrific poem to a near confrontational riot on the website... man, do people ever wear their anger and nerves near the surface of their skin, or what? rap is just another way of saying something, which most of the comments are in agreement with, but to lose control of your ability to post rational thoughts is not beneficial - all you do is make yourself look foolish. in my class you would get good grades for your work, likely, but if you got into a mind-rolling argument off on a tangent, you would get a d or an f - no way would i even bother to listen to you again. be cool, fool - you don't impress anyone except yourself otherwise. |
| Justus Isaiah Richardson (207.200.112.103) -- Wednesday, June 4 2008, 10:45 pm Right now, your generation is dishing out the disrespect, and profanity filled opinions. In the blink of an eye, you're gonna be on the receiving end, still deluding yourself into believing that your opinion matters, and someone is listening. The only people listening to your generation, is your generation, and the only generation listening to the older generation, is the older generation. Self-righteousness is what creates the gap between generations. Self-serving opinions, like the kind shared, so ineloquently, through rap music, only serve to widen the gap. But then I’m old, and experienced. How could I possibly have anything to say to you? My opinion doesn’t matter, any more than yours will in 30 years. Good luck in dealing when that fact is realized. |
| anonymous (74.65.121.49) -- Thursday, June 5 2008, 01:00 pm sadly, justus, not one of them is listening, or even understanding that you are trying to tell them something. bottom line - they don't care, and they are of the opinion that it doesn't matter - a friend one of my kids is of the same generation as these so-called wanna-be gangsta rappers complete with enough metal piercings to set off airport alarms at 30 feet, and he wonders why, with the way he struts and dresses,- if you can call wearing pants 4 sizes too big for you, and showing off the fact that you are wearing underwear being dressed,- and talks, he can't get a better job than mcdonald's or changing tires at a garage... they'll be in their late 20s before it starts to hit them. |
| Meridian Zuriel (151.199.132.226) -- Friday, June 6 2008, 06:20 pm What I think Justus is saying, is that rap music can be clean without the use of sexually explicit lyrics. A person doesn't have to be a listener of rap/hip-hop, they know they can easily change the radio dial. Justus couldn't escape vulgar lyrics if he tried because someone could blast their CD while he's at a stoplight. It's everywhere. People who dislike it, have no choice but to tolerate it. But, everyone is entitled to their opinion, without insulting or threatening someone in the process. He's talking about lyrics that include violence and expresses harm to an individual. And I'm a young person, really young. He may or may not like rap music, but he really isn't disrespecting anyone in his poem. Everyone has opinions and are entitled to them. Music has changed. Music is supposed to inspire or include morals to stories. Music is supposed to be for young, middle-aged, and old people. A lot of artists have gone through hard times and write about it in their songs. Justus isn't judging nor is he trying to force anyone to conform to his beliefs. And I'm not trying to be a "spokesperson", but it's interesting how this turned into a free-for-all. |
| Classic_Boss_Lady (69.8.10.142) -- Monday, September 1 2008, 05:33 am Watz Good Justus, I luv dat poem "Gangsta Crap". Dat poem go hard. Ignore wat dem other ppl say cuz dey juzt hatin'. Peace, Love,& Cherry Lip Gloss Classic_Boss_Lady |
| Lady flaca (206.176.113.164) -- Friday, October 10 2008, 04:01 pm every 1 misses u wished u never had 2 leave hope those that did that 2 u pay for wat they did every 1 loves u and misses u.. much love!! |
| NEVA WHATEVA (75.45.5.87) -- Sunday, January 4 2009, 04:01 am it HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE!! Anyone can be a Gangsta wheter ur black white ANYTHING! so get over it and stop worring about other ppls problems and focus on ur own! u rap to express ur feelings and then when another person (no matter what race) trys to express themselfs u critisize them?! Justus is right,u are all hipocrits if u think the poem has to do with race!So GET OFF HIS BACK!if u think his poem/rap was no good then make ur own and proove to him that he is wrong!but until u can do that,SHUT UP!Cuz u dont have a reason to be critisizing him until u can PROOVE IT!Im wiht u justus! for the most part anyway!BYE BYEZ!BY THE WAY. im NOT a Gangster!im WHITE and i still RAP!u ave a problem with that?!than FIX it yourself cuz its not my problem! |
| Luke Mudge (69.207.207.8) -- Saturday, January 10 2009, 06:11 pm "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be", it's a poetry site!, if Justus wants to write about dancing dogs in a circus wearing pajamas that have bananas on them, then Justus can write JUST THAT!, I dont agree with his original poem above, though, if he wants to Express his Opinion, Nobody can tell him that His opinion is wrong, cause it's HIS Opinion, so Justus keep writing, expressing ones opinion is what makes the great writers of the world. |
| shay aka jamie (67.165.179.221) -- Friday, January 23 2009, 03:47 am life is not a game 4 people to be shooting up every thang life is hard life isn't nothing with out god . people think its a joke to sell crack and make some one else choke.life is to short to kill or to die my life is a bunch of lies god is with me in mt eyes i pray to him every night so my life could be long in not so tight . I have a whole life ahead or me and god no what it is gonna be. flay girls all day |
| Lisa M (96.251.192.188) -- Thursday, January 29 2009, 06:47 pm well, i do wish there is more like richard. i'm oldschool girl. back then all rappers dont even use profanity word.maybe!! but now, all i could say is wowwww!!! say no more or dont listen at all... stop/drop/and lets roll. love your poems rich. peace out. l.m.c. |
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