El Malestar En La Cultura

A dream is not the same as a thought
When a fan blows as opposed to the wind
Reading a history book versus reading a tale
Preserving a culture versus following a rule

The essence of rap from before
The subculture resisting against the dominant
Allow me, allow me
Allow me to opine
You don't define the culture, the culture defines you
Do you understand, do you get it?

Culture doesn't stay the same, it adapts
It changes, mixes, fuses
Culture evolves from having few neurons
To a brain that reasons, see if you reflect
It's what made monkeys turn into humans

From a fur coat to armor
It's the seed that grows, develops, and matures
From riding a horse with horseshoes
To arriving in a plane at thirty thousand feet high

Like every civilization, today rap endures
Adjusting to the temperature
And in that adjustment, its shape will change
Because culture is never pure

No longer with pencil or writing
I write with brush and paint
I structure everything breaking the structures
Free, without restraints

Because the rap that you defend
Because the rap that you defend hits me at the waist
Rap doesn't carry me, I'm the one who carries it
The world doesn't move if I don't move

I always broke all the rules
Because they don't measure what it took me to get here
Rules for me are sinister
In school, with rules, the teachers used to hit me

Rap has always been politically incorrect
Ah, rules are for architects
I am the art of doing what I shouldn't do
Like in jazz, going off tempo and falling back

On a beatless track, they still nod their heads
Without walking on water, I make them believe
I have the rhymes, ah, I have, I have the rhymes that ease your pain
I have the rhymes, I-I-have the rhymes that ease your pain

I have the rhymes that ease your pain
So you can find peace without having to go to Bolivia
For you all, I go all out
My north has always been the south