| I was born with the rhythm before Ra had hit 'em
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| Before Pac had spit 'em with shots full of venom
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| And Glocks was to kill him Big Poppa was the villian
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| Jay Roc-A-Fella'd 'em Dre split with Suge and them
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| Way before any before had ever tooken it
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| Look at where we shook it before there was a hook in it
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| (Yeah) Cops threw the book at it
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| Crooks was in the kitchen and b-boys was cookin' it
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| Hot flame on a track who got game?
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| A lot came after the wack had got play
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| Shots rang out on a night then cops came
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| And locked hip-hop in a cell & stopped play
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| And Radio (Raheem) said «D muthafucker!» |
| with Love & Hate
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| Fists of full fury like The Roots said (You Got Me)
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| I loved you death ever since Eric B. For President (uh)
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| You have given me everything I need to see
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| What I need to be somehow you have set me free
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| Been right by my side everyday throughout my life
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| Now I know this time I can really blow your mind
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| So catch your breath & let it breathe
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| So catch your breath & let it breathe
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| I gotta bring it back for the street with a track for rap listeners
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| Back with a beat and a clap for that sinister rap
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| That ministers yap about it’s evil in fact
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| What you’re singing is wack I can’t listen to it
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| It’s all crap it’s sad what you’re doing to it
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| So sad so there’s no sense in grooving to it
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| (Yeah right) Rock Steady’s moving it
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| Ain’t No Half Steppin' and Kane’s out there proving it (uh)
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| Hip-Hop on the screen we Krush Grooves
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| Beat Street’s, Breakin' Electric Boogaloo
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| So fresh and def plus we’re Top Billin'
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| In full effect you know we’re cold chillin'
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| Send a salute to Masta Ace and Craig G the original Jay-Z
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| Style original flav the style take a bow
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| It feel good that’s my word like the 1st time I heard Illmatic
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| The feeling I still have it and like 2nd verse from Stop, Look & Listen
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| Like Pac bustin' shots at cops who tried to hit him and not
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| Going to prison at least for that
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| Fuck Tha Police was that shit! |
| STREET CLASSIC (yeah!)
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| We’re so creative when we speakin' in a native tongue
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| The Tribe, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers were my favorite ones
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| I seen Run DMC at The Palladium
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| And KRS rock the projects like a stadium
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| It gave me chills like when Amir played the drums
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| 'Til we started making sums now it’s fuck you pay me
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| Carry on the family name, still my mama baby
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| Cause they laid the foundation and let hip-hop raise me
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| C’mon admit it this shit is too fly
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| The rhymes that I say you just can’t deny
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| Because 100% is what I give it)
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| I haunt the house with the hip-hop spirit
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| Emcee’s masters of creativity
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| Rappin' is the activity
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| Rhyme is a sport, let it be taught that
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| Hush & Kweli is taking no shorts |