Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song As the Art Fades Away, artist - Wordsmith. Album song Vintage Experience, in the genre Иностранный рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 29.03.2010
Record label: Nu Revolution Entertainment
Song language: English
As the Art Fades Away |
Got them Props, shows been rocked, Ode to the greats the tapes |
The boom box and to the bus stop the bootlegs are hot the |
Days fade away won’t stay on the block (Adlib: On the block) so true |
They due to get paid, the art that they made it skip the airwaves |
The labels just say we own ya like slaves (Adlib: Put em' on the shelf) |
That thought they took to the graves (Adlib: To the graves). |
Fast forward |
Flow so historic I claim the torch, the course, the force wit' it (Adlib: |
I’m the one) |
My lead I bleed the Hip-Hop I speak to the kids the pop |
Has gotta stop (Adlib: Gotta stop), please research the birth |
Of who’s hot (Who's hot) Young crowd said Nelly built Rap |
And Chingy, Young Joc put it all on the map and treat the |
Pioneers like Blacks, so hit the back (Adlib: Hit the back) |
Hook 1 |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if there was never an Eric B. and Rakim |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Public Enemy never started the Rap Revolution |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Big Daddy Kane never touched a Mic (Pause) |
Wordsmith: Imagine if I… wasn't willing to fight!!! |
2nd Verse |
So Sad when ah rapper gets richer give them the fame |
Make money be scripture love of the game fades like |
An old picture… your ah boss, ay boys call you mister |
(Adlib: Coffee Boss) Let me make it real clear for you |
Cats if the pioneers never rapped ya’ll wouldn’t make crap |
All facts even got jacked when a label own it all from your |
Name to your tracks. |
Listen here, Hip-Hop my dear |
The doe it dig deep to steep for them to care (Adlib: Don’t care) |
Sit quiet in a studio session I start to flashback to tracks |
When I’m eleven. |
LL had a girl around the way |
I learned to kick step I’m reppin' Kid-N-Play |
I love to hear a scratch from Jam Master Jay (Adlib: Ippy Jay) |
Cop an attitude like N.W.A (Adlib: What)… |
Hook 2 |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Slick Rick never mastered the art of storytelling |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Run DMC never did «Walk this Way» |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if EPMD wasn’t all about they business (Pause) |
Wordsmith: I remember… and I’ll never forget this!!! |
Bridge (4 xs) |
Wordsmith & Female singing: Round & Round we go… Hoping the Art Don’t Fade |
Away… |
3rd Verse |
Spin Vinyl, DJ behind you, rock mics forget |
Who ya signed to. |
This show is for all the greats |
Rewind the time back to dancing wit' breaks |
Free expression that was rap law graffiti on ah |
Stall and ah subway wall and on ah blacktop |
Where the B-boys ball. |
This culture lives on |
For years and I’ll keep spitting an ode to pioneers… |
Hook 3 |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Pete Rock & CL Smooth never gave us «Mecca & the Soul |
Brother»… |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if BDP never dropped «Criminal Minded» |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Gangstarr never created that Mass Appeal (Pause) |
Wordsmith: So I… keep it real!!! |
Hook 4 |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if De La Soul never dropped «3 Feet High and Rising» |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if Das Efx never dropped «They Want EFX» |
Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like??? |
Wordsmith: Imagine if A Tribe Called Quest never dropped «The Low End Theory» |
(Pause) |
Wordsmith: So I hope you hear me!!! |
Outro |
Wordsmith: Hold on, it’s not over… Imagine if Sykeone never signed Wordsmith. |
.if that happen the world would never get the chance to hear this record, |
so we can correct the state of Hip-Hop… |