I'm still in the hospital huh (will write more about it soon) ... this is what I found on Stand up to cancer website in my rare pain free moment I had . It must be the first hip hop cancer song I ve heard
......It took Lupe Fiasco, a hip-hop artist with a decidedly punk rock sensibility, to come up a song about sickness that eschews the treacle-filled potholes that dot the road of creative works about disease, and instead pumps up the volume with unflinching power. “Mission,” which debuted earlier this week, is, as explained on Fiasco’s YouTube page, “a track to empower those facing cancer, revere cancer survivors and remember those who have passed to due to cancer related illnesses.” It opens with a minute and a half of overlapping sound bites from a variety of cancer survivors — including the Gap Band’s Charlie Wilson – and then segues into three distinct verses telling three distinct stories: a woman with breast cancer who decides “You can have that hair cause real talk bitch, I think I look better,” a 7 year-old child with Stage 4 cancer who thinks, “Killing kids — well, kiss my ass; it ain’t killin’ me,” and a man who went “undiagnosed and untreated” and says, “If I died, it’d die with me, so let’s do it.”
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