Mass Appeal Lyrics
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
[Verse 1]
No way, you'll never make it
Come with the weak shit, I'll break it
Step into my zone, mad rhymes will stifle ya
Lines like rifles go blast when I kick some ass
A lot of rappers be like one-time wonders
Couldn't say a fly rhyme if there was one right under their noses
I hate those motherfuckin' posers
But I'm so real, to them, it's scary
And with my unique skills, nah, you can't compare me
And no, we don't make wack tracks
And all the suckers get pushed back when I'm kickin' real facts
I represent, set up shit like a tent, boy
You're paranoid 'cause you're a son like Elroy
And you'd be happy as hell to get a record deal
Maybe your soul you'd sell to have mass appeal
[Chorus]
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Mas appeal
Oh yes, I'm greater than all MC's when I breeze
Give me room, please
I be like fascinatin' when I be updatin'
Cuttin' off wack kids, pullin' their trump cards
I thump hard and make 'em say that I'm God
Niggas be pretendin' they're hardcore
Never know the meaning of raw
But I get props like a slogan
And no man could ever try to diss when I kicks my jam
Lyrically def and connectin', complete mic-wreckin'
No double-checkin', vocals kill like weapons
But if I have to, I go all out with no mic
Yeah, that's right, 'cause I survived mad fights
And for my peeps, I truly care
'Cause without some of them, I wouldn't be here
And they all know how I feel
'Cause suckers be like playin' themselves to have mass appeal
[Chorus]
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
[Verse 3]
I know I'm dope, but don't wet that
I've suffered setbacks, but now I'm makin' greenbacks
Just like baggy slacks, I'm crazy hip-hop
Check, one, two and you don't stop
Your head'll bop when I drop my crop of pure bomb
Just like the seashore, I'm calm but wild
With my monotone style
Because I don't need gimmicks
Give me a fly beat and I'm all in it
Word is bond, I go on and on
For you, it's tragic, I got magic like wands
So I'ma end this lecture and I bet ya
Those who kick dirt, in due time, I'm gonna get ya
'Cause I be kickin' the real
While they be losin' the race, tryin' to chase mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
Money's growin' like grass with the mass appeal
[Outro]
Mass appeal
Mass appeal
Mass appeal
Mass appeal
About
A critique of the sellouts watering down their sound for mainstream success. Even though Guru and Primo did more commercial projects separately, together their output was always 100% hardcore Hip Hop. Any wider success Gang Starr achieved was due to the mainstream crossing over to them rather than vice versa.
DJ Premier said the following about “Mass Appeal”:
We were really making fun of radio, and it became our biggest radio record. And to this day it’s one of my favorites ever.
Q&A
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DJ Premier via Complex:
It was recorded as a joke. We just wanted to make fun of the radio on what it sounded like to get airplay. That’s why I made the background melody real simplistic. I was making fun of the radio, but I’m going to make a funky version of making fun of it. Everything’s a vision, and your brain has to be that intense to be able to capture that. What the radio played, when it came to hip-hop, it sounded too watered down. That was making fun of it, but that record did real good for us. We shot the video in Riis beach out in Far Rockaway, but don’t mention that video, man. It was cold, too cold.
DJ Premier via Off The Record:
DJ Premier via Red Bull Music Academy:
- 2.Full Clip
- 3.Discipline
- 6.I’m the Man
- 7.Mass Appeal
- 8.Jazz Thing
- 9.The Militia
- 10.Tonz ‘O’ Gunz
- 11.Royalty
- 14.Above the Clouds
- 16.DWYCK
- 17.All 4 tha Ca$h
- 19.Work
- 21.Take It Personal
- 22.Speak Ya Clout
- 24.1/2 & 1/2
- 25.The ? Remainz
- 27.So Wassup?!
- 28.Now You’re Mine
- 29.Betrayal
- 30.B.Y.S.
- 31.Credit Is Due
