| One two
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| It’s Masta Ace, Cunninlynguists
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| We about to get into the seasons
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| The seasons of hip hop
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| How we gonna start it?
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| As we spring back to the past, it was all happening fast
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| We glorified coke and smoking crack in a glass
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| When b-boys danced to the latest jam
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| You could say this man was the greatest fan
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| When shoelaces were fat, and all the rapper’s faces were black
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| And light-brown, a box with the right sound was all you needed
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| When it blast, they must move
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| You just proved you’re hard like L in Krush Groove
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| And songs started to drop, Ain’t nobody start at the top
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| Before Preme learned the art of the chop
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| This is way before SP’s and MPC’s
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| And long before CD’s and MP3's
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| The game started to bloom and blossom
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| And masters ready for the cermony, like a groom in costume
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| Growth from the rain of the previous years
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| I took notes from what I heard through these devious ears
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| Yeah
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| As Summer’s heatwaves ascended in it’s splendid manner
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| Green was flooding our scene, although the skin was tanner
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| «Fuck The Police!"jumpin over radio scanners
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| It was hot in the shade, wet paint all over the canvas
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| Fuck Vanilla Ice cones, we had T, Cube’s Amerikka’s Most
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| And wanted that Chronic on the Left-Coast
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| Talent pools were full and fresh for swimming
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| Backstrokin' through Dark Sides and Illmatic beginnings
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| Them lemonade stands would make you street platinum
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| It was 2 Live, Florida crews caught heat for rappin'
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| But free speech pollination kept bees colonizing in hives
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| And stung Delores Tucker right in her pride
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| The Tribes ocean splash was rising the tide
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| Strictly 4 My Niggas that were Ready To Die in the ride
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| I wish the summer’s vibe could’ve lasted forever
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| To bad we had to have a change in that weather, that shit was beautiful
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| Seasons Change, mad things rearrange
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| Play me in the winter
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| Play me in the summer
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| Play in the autumn
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| Any order
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| Seasons Change, mad things rearrange
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| Trees bright and green turn yellow brown, autumn caught em
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| See all them leaves must fall down
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| As the East vs. West winds blew, causing two
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| Legends to Fall like maple leaves from escalated beef
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| Assumed that the worst was over
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| Til these cats started wearing shiny costumes like the 31st of October
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| The weather’s colder, but the word jacket/jack it
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| Is what they did to people’s styles
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| Not what they covered they backs with
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| Tactics of the skill impaired
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| No Limit to what they’ll do when the green is scarce
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| Some be Thanksgiving for who they know
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| While others get jerked for loot
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| Cause getting signed ain’t a turkey shoot
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| No respect for the pilgrims who paved the way so you could rock that
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| Just pop crap and Plymouth Rock-Rap
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| Beyond gimmicks and fake plastic tits
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| Outkast and Raekwon dropped fall classic discs
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| Born to Roll, so I’m taking you back to school days of autumn
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| Before the bottom dropped out in 2K
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| By the dawn of the new millennium we saw bright chains
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| Winter brought along platinum causing the ice age
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| No more Gold, no more YO! |
| MTV RAPS
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| Now we got R&B cats stealing classic rap tracks
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| In winter it’s snowed in like the temperature’s below ten
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| Citizens open up shows for more snowmen
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| Scrawny boys rock bubblegooses to pose like grown men
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| And you can catch freezer burn from women when they show skin
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| Jolly, fat, white men get paid when rap hits the shelves
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| And artists themselves get treated like Elves
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| Matter of fact, Santa’s gotten so greedy when a rapper sells
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| You even need clearance to s&le Jingle Bells
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| What the hell! |
| You need cells and 2 ways for chicks to bone ya?
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| And so much ice on ya body that you can get pneumonia
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| Even at the beaches of Daytona it’s gotten colder
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| But it’s about time for the cycle to start over (echo)
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| How we gon' start it? |