Don't Hurt 'em Hammer Lyrics - Mixtape Messiah 3 - Chamillionaire

[Intro] 

I keep it all the way honest with you 

I just be spitting a lot of those punch lines because 

A lot of people tell me that's what they want to hear 

And me, honestly I feel like I grew out of it 

I honestly don't even like rap like I used to 

You know? It's real easy to spit 160 bars about nothing 

Uh, uh, uh 

Don't hurt 'em Hammer 

Uh, uh, uh 

Don't hurt 'em Hammer 

[Repeat - x8] 

Let's get it, let's get it 

Don't hurt 'em Hammer 

[Hook 1] 

Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so raw 

Hold y'all, under contemporaries, I blow ya nose off 

Most y'all, rappers be making me want to dose off 

That's why I raised the bar just like the game of pole vault 

[Verse 1] 

Hold up, look at the game and appreciate it 

Stop hating on all the artists, while albums even get rated 

Tell you to be creative, and as soon as you be creative 

The 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 same 

The same people that said it, will say "You in need of change" 

The music is getting lame, the people in it the same 

The 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 raw 

Blow y'all, out of the box with a flow that go off 

Money and fame done cost me a bunch of road dogs 

Gotta 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 it 

I can't understand ya, it's just like your speaking Arabic 

In love with rap, so I made the mistake and married it 

Now I'm feeling like, get away from me, you embarrassing 

iTunes downloads and ringtones tearing it 

Into smithereens, if you loving music then cherish it 

Listening to music that's older than what my parents is 

So beautiful like a model think her appearance is 

[Hook 3] 

Told y'all, not with the gimmicks, I keep it so raw 

Hold up, listen to Lil Weezy and Hova 

Most of, rappers be having funny aromas 

Know a, player gon' get it like I'm supposed ta 

[Repeat - x8] 

Let's get it, let's get it 

Don't hurt 'em Hammer 

[Chamillionaire talking] 

I know I ain't gonna be a rapper forever 

And not because I think I'ma fall off or anything 

It's because, I just don't feel rap I used to man 

I remember I used to just wake up in the morning 

And I used to look at my pad, and it was empty 

And I would fill it up with nothing but lyrics 

You know what I'm saying? I know a lot of people talk 

Like they don't write down their lyrics and they do it all in their head 

But me, hey I take pride in writing down lyrics man 

I used to scratch out everything on the paper 

And change the whole rap, up until I felt it was perfect 

I used to perfect my craft so much and just make each rap 

Be the best one that I could possibly make it 

And I try so hard to, you know 

To get back to that feeling I used to have, but I just can't you know 

I look at a piece of paper now and it just doesn't give me that same feeling it used to 

No matter how hard I try, people say that the industry will burn you like that 

And they say it's mainly because of the pressures in the record industry but 

I don't know man, I don't know what it is but I just know 

The same feeling I used to get from music, I just don't get anymore like 

I remember the feeling I used to get when I heard them live instruments on Snoop Dogg's Gin & Juice 

Or you know when 'Pac was going off on everyone in the industry or 

Or when Scarface and 2Pac did a song for the first time 

Or the first time I heard UGK's One Day 

I was like "Maaaan", them boys real 

Or even when I was bumping that east coast music 

And 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 dat 

And I even used to be bumping Wu-Tang Clan 

I 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 nobody 

You know I can't just say I don't like music all music 

There's a lot of music I like, but I just don't like it the way I used to 

And that goes for all of it, including me 

Even when I'm in the studio, and I'm behind the mic 

It just ain't the same man, you know 

I like to talk man, that's the realest part of everything to me 

But I don't get to speak what's on my mind like I am now 

Like I do at the awards, you know? 

I mean I guess life goes on though 

Don't hurt 'em Hammer!