Chamillionaire: Don't hurt 'em hammer

I keep it all the way honest with youI just be spitting a lot of those punch lines becauseA lot of people tell me that's what they want to hearAnd me, honestly I feel like I grew out of itI honestly don't even like rap like I used toYou know? It's real easy to spit 160 bars about nothingUh, uh, uhDon't hurt 'em HammerUh, uh, uhDon't hurt 'em Hammer[Repeat - x8]Let's get it, let's get itDon't hurt 'em Hammer[Hook 1]Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so rawHold y'all, under contemporaries, I blow ya nose offMost y'all, rappers be making me want to dose offThat's why I raised the bar just like the game of pole vault[Verse 1]Hold up, look at the game and appreciate itStop hating on all the artists, while albums even get ratedTell you to be creative, and as soon as you be creativeThe 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 sameThe same people that said it, will say "You in need of change"The music is getting lame, the people in it the sameThe house, the car, the strip, are the only thing in the frame[Hook 2]Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so rawBlow y'all, out of the box with a flow that go offMoney and fame done cost me a bunch of road dogsGotta keep that, iron near me but it ain't no golf[Verse 2]Looking it at the TV, I can't believe I'm hearing itI can't understand ya, it's just like your speaking ArabicIn love with rap, so I made the mistake and married itNow I'm feeling like, get away from me, you embarrassingiTunes downloads and ringtones tearing itInto smithereens, if you loving music then cherish itListening to music that's older than what my parents isSo beautiful like a model think her appearance is[Hook 3]Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so rawHold up, listen to Lil Weezy and HovaMost of, rappers be having funny aromasKnow a, player gon' get it like I'm supposed ta[Repeat - x8]Let's get it, let's get itDon't hurt 'em Hammer[Chamillionaire talking]I know I ain't gonna be a rapper foreverAnd not because I think I'ma fall off or anythingIt's because, I just don't feel rap I used to manI remember I used to just wake up in the morningAnd I used to look at my pad, and it was emptyAnd I would fill it up with nothing but lyricsYou know what I'm saying? I know a lot of people talkLike they don't write down their lyrics and they do it all in their headBut me, hey I take pride in writing down lyrics manI used to scratch out everything on the paperAnd change the whole rap, up until I felt it was perfectI used to perfect my craft so much and just make each rapBe the best one that I could possibly make itAnd I try so hard to, you knowTo get back to that feeling I used to have, but I just can't you knowI look at a piece of paper now and it just doesn't give me that same feeling it used toNo matter how hard I try, people say that the industry will burn you like thatAnd they say it's mainly because of the pressures in the record industry butI don't know man, I don't know what it is but I just knowThe same feeling I used to get from music, I just don't get anymore likeI remember the feeling I used to get when I heard them live instruments on Snoop Dogg's Gin & JuiceOr you know when 'Pac was going off on everyone in the industry orOr when Scarface and 2Pac did a song for the first timeOr the first time I heard UGK's One DayI was like "Maaaan", them boys realOr even when I was bumping that east coast musicAnd 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 datAnd I even used to be bumping Wu-Tang ClanI 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 nobodyYou know I can't just say I don't like music all musicThere's a lot of music I like, but I just don't like it the way I used toAnd that goes for all of it, including meEven when I'm in the studio, and I'm behind the micIt just ain't the same man, you knowI like to talk man, that's the realest part of everything to meBut I don't get to speak what's on my mind like I am nowLike I do at the awards, you know?I mean I guess life goes on thoughDon't hurt 'em Hammer!