Hip hop identity in a township reality. - Poppunt

they want to; Mr. Fat is helping them by opening doors for those who have the
courage to follow.
“You can’t save everybody / you can’t save everybody you see / but the few
that is willing to move you see / they will stand up you see.”
As already observed, the inspiration of Mr. Fat comes from the place he lives in. So,
his lyrics will not be about partying and good times, but about ‘setting the record
straight’. The group does not want to pretend that everything is okay when it is not,
because then society will not move forward at all. They are the messengers of and
for the people. Although the status of Mr. Fat in the community is quite high, he
does not want to profile himself as a typical leader:
“If you wanna call yourself a leader don’t let other people follow you / let
everyone walk alongside each other / and that everybody can see what’s
going on and what’s coming to / and whatever you do / do it wisely you see.”
“And always be humble no matter how big you are you see / always come
down to earth / because that is your place of birth that is your existence.”
According to Mr. Fat, first of all we need to realise that sometimes we act more as
programmed robots who act and do not think. We are stuck in the daily rut, and let
everything go by; sometimes we even forget that we received the ‘gift of speaking’,
and keep our mouths shut. But keeping silent is making yourself dumb and
vulnerable.
“If you got the mouth use it the way it supposed to be / because we were born
with the gift of say yes and no / but unfortunately our people are waiting for
the day of the robots when they gonna take over and this gonna take over /
while the sad [right] is robots are here and it’s in human form / because you
get up in the morning six o’clock to get in your car or train or bus / seven
o’clock to go to your job and you wait for a siren eight o’clock to start work
/(…) so is the procedure for the rest of your life.”
Conversely, it is also important to be careful about what you say, too many people
have a big mouth and end up telling lies to impress others. Certainly in the hip hop
industry these kind of people do exist.
“If you don’t know this shit don’t talk about this shit / that’s why I say a lot of
guys talking about gang banging and rolling in my [?] I got the ultimate BMW /
then you get them in the taxi like what’s up man / yeah it’s same thing / yo