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What Am I?

from AoA by Hopudoshi

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Each verse on this track is about a different thing. See if you can guess what I'm talking about before the reveal at the end of the verse.

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Title: What Am I?
Artist: Hopudoshi

Chorus:
What would the world be without me?
Would it be a better place or more grimy?
Would there be more peace, tranquility?
Or would mass chaos end up reigning supreme?

Verse 1:
I step up on the scene, I’m so fresh and clean
Everyone thinks I’m so interesting
I make their lives convenient, no more fussing
Now you all can stop specializing
I single handedly ended equality
There’s blood on me, I’m filthy dirty
In this world I reign supreme, I have the power
People slave away for me hour after hour
I give you more respect, you can have anything
Just to have me people steal, lie, and cheat
Put your trust in me, I’ll give you a better life
I can’t find you love, but I can get you a wife
I can do all this, but can’t bring happiness
If you ever lost me you might jump off a cliff
Or off a building, splat on Wall St.
I’m so valuable, but in reality
I’m as worthless as a shell by the sea
I’m the enemy of any commie
The irony, is technically I grow on trees
I’m the root of all evil, what I am is money

*Chorus*

Verse 2:
I can destroy empires, and build up new ones
I’m known to inspire, but I can fool some
I explain to you where the sun comes from
I’m responsible for more death than every gun
I cause nations to war with one another
On the other hand I unite people as brothers
Then again I divide them worse than anything
Have you thinking the other side is worth killing
I’m better than any weapon at controlling the masses
Get ‘em while they’re young little lads and lasses
Running round carefree, still need hall passes
Then professors ridicule me in their college classes
I’m the greatest thing ever made or maybe the worst
I’ve saved the most people, but put the most in a hearse
I can make you a better person, fill you with love
Or I can make you strap on a bomb and blow yourself up
I’m guessing by now you think you figured me out
But for millions of years no one has figured me out
There’s just too many interpretations of me
What I am is religion you see

*Chorus*

Verse 3:
I’m a disease spreading, killing slowly
I’m a virus that infects everything around me
I claim everything that I see as mine
Destroy that, move on, I do this all the time
When it come down to it, I’m responsible
For every single evil, that’s possible
Love and hate, I’ve got it all
In the beginning I had a fall
If you recall, throughout history
I’ve gained control of every country
Relatively I’m awfully weak
But I get by on my supreme cunning
I’m a cancer to the world and I’m growing
When it comes to me, there’s no slowing
I build and destroy, destroy and I build
Can’t tell how many living things I’ve killed
Everywhere I go death follows me
Can’t wait to take more, Earth’s too tiny
But I probably won’t get a chance to ruin space
I’ll eliminate myself, I’m the human race

*Chorus 2x*

I said what would the world be without me?
Can you tell me?

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from AoA, released December 21, 2009
Vocals by: Hopudoshi
Produced by: Hop-Leo & Hopudoshi

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Hopudoshi Columbus, Ohio

Hopudoshi is an American rap artist who currently resides in the Philippines. His introspective rhymes offer social commentary with a mystical bent.

Hopudoshi, Hopanova, and Hop-Leo all represent different sides of my personality. Sometimes they are in harmony and sometimes they are in conflict. The differences between them are the reason for some of my ambivalent feelings towards certain issues.
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