Turning Into My Father

Knock knock, open up

What's this music that
You're listenin' to?
What's the name of it? XXXTentacion? Fun
No no, you're not in trouble
Relax, I just wanna have a conversation
With you 'cause you're my son
For the last hour I was in
My room makin' a call
And I could hear this loud
Ass bass shakin' the wall then his lyrics?
He sounds like a psycho that's depressive
Why's there so much anger and
Violence in his message?
I just don't understand people your age
All you care about is sex, and drugs
And pure rage
My generation wasn't like that
You had to be a poet with
Talent in order to write raps
I just Googled this kid on my
Phone to read about him my god
I'm reading lots'a scary things about him
Have you read about the terrible
Things he does to women?
And how he had to do time in prison? Listen
I understand that you wanna be
Cool and you don't
Wanna be the dork when you walk around school
But listenin' to him is a terrible influence
And when I was your age
I swear I wouldn't do it
Smarten up, find therapy in music
It's even better if your
Parents can approve it trust me
I didn't have a dad that was cool enough
To tell me when my music was bad

Wait wait Dad, stop
My favorite rapper died today
You don't need to preach to me man
I'm okay i get it
You think that I'm hostile and queer
I get it, you think that my culture is weird
I get it
You think that my music isn't smart
I get it
You think I'm depressed and I'm dark
I get it, you think it sucks
You hate the beats
Now let me listen to it in peace, please
Please

I'm just saying that my music was, y'know
See this XXXTentacion guy, we didn't have
We had like 2Pac and and actual talented
Y'know people with perspective
Poets and stuff like that

What's this music that
You're listenin' to?
What's the name of it?
2Pac Shakur? Okay, that's fun
No no, relax, you're not in trouble
I just wanna have a conversation with you
Right now 'cause you're my son
For the last hour I was in
My room makin' a call
And I could hear this loud
Ass bass shakin' the wall and his lyrics?
He sounds like a psycho that's depressive
Why's there so much anger and
Violence in his message?
I just don't understand people your age
All you care about is sex, and drugs
And pure rage my generation wasn't stupid
You had to be a talented artist
If you wanted to make music
I just opened the newspaper to read about him
My god, i'm readin' all these scary
Things about him
Have you read about the terrible
Things he does to women?
And how he had to do time in prison? Listen
I understand that you wanna be
Cool and you don't
Wanna be the dork when you walk around school
But listenin' to him is a terrible influence
And when I was your age
I swear I wouldn't do it
Man, try to find therapy in music
And maybe I could play you what
Your parents used to groove with
Johnny Cash didn't sing about killin'
He didn't care about doin'
Drugs and screwin' women

Wait Dad, stop my favorite rapper died today
You don't need to preach to me now
I'm okay
I get it, you think that I'm hostile
It's clear
I get it, you think that my culture is weird
I get it
You think that my music isn't smart
I get it
You think that I'm depressed and dark
I get it, you don't understand rap beats
Now let me listen to it in peace, please