
Date of issue: 22.01.2007
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Carry On Tradition |
Yeah, niggas want to talk about this rap shit |
Niggas want to talk about this money |
About these cars, these homes, these labels |
Clothes, sneakers, big money shit |
Now everybody trying to get rich |
Now get rich niggas, fuck it |
Some rap pioneers be them crackheads |
When they speak, you see missin' teeth |
Silver chain with a silver piece |
Niggas your grandfather’s age, they pants still hangin' down they legs, |
talkin' about they ain’t paid |
And they hate you, ‘cause they say you ain’t pay dues |
And |
I feel it’s a problem we gotta resolve |
Hip-Hop been dead, we the reason it died |
Wasn’t Sylvia’s fault or because MC’s skills are lost |
It’s because we can’t see ourselves as the boss |
Deep-rooted through slavery, self-hatred |
The Jewish stick together, friends in high places |
We on some low level shit, we don’t want niggas to ever win |
See, everybody got a label |
Everybody’s a rapper, but few flow fatal |
It’s fucked up, it all started from two turntables |
When they crown you and you rise up to your position |
Carry on tradition |
When they knight you, then you go to fight |
Go to war, don’t petition, carry on tradition |
Carry on tradition, carry on, ca-carry on, carry on tradition |
Carry On Tradition |
When you rep what we rep, then carry on tradition |
Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards |
With their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness |
I got an exam, let’s see if y’all pass it |
Let’s see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest |
Some of you new rappers, I don’t understand your code |
You have your man shoot you, like in that Sopranos episode |
Do anything to get in the game, mixtapes |
You spit hate against bosses; |
hungry fucks are moralless |
You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists |
Niggas, I could’ve wrote your shit |
I had off-time, was bored with this |
I could’ve made my double-LP |
Just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus |
Still came five on the charts with zero audience |
The lane was open and y’all was droppin' that garbage shit |
Y’all got awards for your bricks — it got good to ya |
You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits?! |
WHAT? |
When they crown you and you rise up to your position |
Carry on tradition |
When they knight you, then you go to fight |
Go to war, don’t petition, carry on tradition |
Carry on tradition, carry on, ca-carry on, carry on tradition |
Carry On Tradition |
When you rep what we rep, then carry on tradition |
Now niggas got the studio poppin', it’s mad clearer |
Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us |
The live-in-the-park sound versus the studio state of art sound. |
We on the charts now |
From British Walkers and Argyles |
Look at us rap stars now, with our black cars now |
Fortune 500 listed, brunches, Cipriani’s |
Sippin', blunted, with rich white guys around me |
Thick white girls around me, Chinese lined up |
Because I’m what? |
Every dime lust |
We used to be a ghetto secret; |
can’t make my mind up |
If I want that or the whole world to peep it |
Now carry on tradition |
Fuck a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin' |
Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one’s gone, we miss 'em, |
I promise I carry on tradition |
When they crown you and you rise up to your position |
Carry on tradition |
When they knight you, then you go to fight |
Go to war, don’t petition, carry on tradition |
Carry on tradition, carry on, ca-carry on, carry on tradition |
Carry On Tradition |
When you rep what we rep, then carry on tradition |
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