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Date of issue: 31.03.2014
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Bad Taste
Song language: English
The Format |
If we gonna start from scratch, you start with wax |
If there’s no dish, then there’s no rap |
Records, albums, vinyl, the facts |
Give us a stack of records and we’ll give you 12 tracks |
The agreement turned cement |
40 years ago |
Hip Hop, the vinyl frontier |
The embryo |
Two turntables a mic and a cold stereo, DJ, one MC, the imperial |
Many many put their muse to it |
Sent bop, sent rock, sent blues through it |
From classical to jazz we can who’s who it |
Or blow the dust off and groove to it |
Lets ride |
B-side on direct drive |
You know that crackle give the best high |
Give me a needle, a cartridge, a partridge, some tree, 45s and a 33, let it be |
A new format hit the scene like way back |
It was smaller and more convenient than 8-track |
You could pop it in your car on a long drive |
Play the album or fast-forward to song five |
If you passed the song you had to rewind it back |
It was kind of frustrating trying to find a track |
Memorex, Ampex down to TDK |
Where the Biz was on the radio with BDK |
When they was on the air, I was on the pause-button |
I had the best taste but I ain’t trying to cause nothing |
Cause everybody thought their paws was the raws |
Cats used to battle, this shit used to cause wars |
We would trade tapes, that was the best it could be |
Busy Bee had the fever for Treacherous Three |
Having the best tapes, was like a status symbol |
The yellow tape, purple tape to the baddest demo |
Battles travel from the Bronx to Baltimore |
They would stand by the speaker to record them all |
Them same tapes that was labeled with a thick marker |
Made the neighbourhood rappers want to spit sharper |
If my tape pop trust, I was ready man |
A razor blade, scotch tape and a steady hand |
I call it surgery |
My cassette went under the knife and brought back to life |
Man that’s word to me |
If you want it, I got it |
That which makes you move |
«It's… the format baby» |
If you want it, I got it |
That which makes you cool |
«It's… the format baby» |
My relationship with bass and kicks had come full circle |
Plastic and cheap but I clapped to the beat |
Stab the repeat button and keep running |
And that’s something you can’t get from tape dubbing |
Skip the skips with a flick of the wrist |
More time to check what’s sick on the list |
The fickle dismissed this little digital disk |
But try and play vinyl in the whip, it’ll skip |
And it’s '96, I’m trying to get laid now |
Chose the format with binary laid down |
1s and 0s, and 0s and 1s, flood the BOSE with flows and drums |
Blunts get blown in my homie’s truck |
We sitting on chrome, little bone thugs |
We got wheels, we ain’t trying to walk man |
CD’s nuts, there’s dust on my walkman |
Follow me entering this digital odyssey |
Holy matrimony but harder to see |
Everywhere but non-existant, what a conundrum |
Upgraded but they say we forgot where we come from |
The past feels even further with every second |
Off the record, the coming and going of Kbps |
In the day of the instant message |
The message is misdirected and the receiver seems to be disconnected |
But don’t complain, love game |
Even after the flood came and left our neighbors over-saturated |
With no computer love, just computer bugs |
Hate the virus and not the hacker, that’s what a loser does |
Meanwhile, the kids are playing shoot em' ups |
Trying to be the 2.0 version of Super Thug |
Press reset, any era you wish to visit is next |
Hold on as we eject |
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Heart | 2009 |
Beautiful ft. Kool Ade | 2008 |
Kill Too Hard ft. RZA, U-God, Masta Ace | 2009 |
Lynguistics | 2001 |
Nostalgia ft. Masta Ace | 2007 |
Mic Like a Memory | 2001 |
Young Black Intelligent ft. Pav Bundy, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Chuck D | 2016 |
K.K.K.Y. | 2010 |
Appreciation Remix (F. Cashmere the Pro) | 2010 |
The Gates | 2006 |
Wishing ft. Pete Rock, Masta Ace | 2019 |
The Light | 2006 |
Dying Breed | 2014 |
The Dangerous Three ft. Brother Ali, Masta Ace, R.A. The Rugged Man feat. Brother Ali and Masta Ace | 2013 |
Remember Me (Abstract/Reality) | 2006 |
Money ft. Wordsworth, Apollo Brown | 2015 |
Labyrinth (Frankie Beverly) ft. LT | 2016 |
Nothing To Give | 2006 |
Die for You ft. Mr. SOS | 2009 |