| Yeah, yeah, I remember when my cousin
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| Bought me Bigger And Deffer
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| Kangol hat, I was way more fresher
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| Cool J tape, first tape I ever had
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| All in my mirror practicing, I’m bad
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| Pay In Full Eric B & Rakim
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| Cause every rap cat wanted to be like him
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| West Coast, I was raised on a East shit
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| Walk this way then, that Run DMC shit
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| Cross over that EPMD shit
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| Big Daddy came, three cuts in my eyebrow
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| Playing Low End Theory, real hip hop fans know you hear me!
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| Uh, hop hoes in my lawn
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| Chess not checkers I’m a king, you’re a pawn
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| Great Adventures of Slick Rick greatest story ever, oh yeah, get this
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| When the beat was fresh, and the rhymes real
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| And the music really get you that feel
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| Oh, man, damn I miss hip hop!
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| Man, damn I miss
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| Rappers said it and they did it, and they really had fans
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| And you could blow up without having a dance
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| Oh, man, damn I miss hip hop!
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| Damn I miss!
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| Who remember when Geto Boys drop, that classic album we can’t be stopped
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| Scarface, one of the best in hip hop
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| My eyes playing tricks on me till this day that knocks
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| Me against the world, feeling like Pac
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| Like 93' still have a haven’t stopped
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| Hiro I just had to give props
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| And Digital Underground they stayed on my block
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| Wanted to be like Short in that drop on that born to mack cover put my city on
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| the mob
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| And to me Hammer was the greatest
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| Twenty years later, man I ain’t afraid to say it!
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| Every Saturday used to watch his cartoon
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| With pictures, and posters, of him in my room
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| Man, cause he made the city shine
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| And all around the world, they were saying Hammer Time
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| Barber Shop disputes over who was the right one
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| Who was more gangster Kool G Rap or Spice 1
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| Playing Chuck D. saying damn, did he say that?
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| Fuck John Wayne and Elvis Presely did he play that?
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| K.R.S. |
| One, BDP
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| ‘till this day Guru wantin a Primo beat
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| I grew up in Oakland off APG
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| That was Action Packed Gangster, who feel me?
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| When I first heard Outkast Wow
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| J first album didn’t blow, how?
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| N.W.A., straight out of Compton
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| D.O.C. |
| that was just shit was knocking
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| Too hard for the radio Mac Dre
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| Living federal like E-40
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| Whole rap game really miss Pac
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| But to the West Coast, that was hip hop! |