Yes this beat is raw, coming at your door
Start to scream out loud, Hip hop’s back for more(2)
Yo, I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream(4)
They Scared to Death and scared to look
They shook, cause aint no such thing as halfway crooks(6)
Yall, And you don’t stop
To the beat yall, and you dont stop(8)
Chorus 1: Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge
Im trying not to lose my head
( Its like a jungle sometimes, Its makes me wonder how I keep from going under (2x)
I said a hip hop, the hippie to the hippie to the hip hop hop and you don’t stop, the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat(4)
Extremity in rhythm, yea that’s what you heard
So just clean out your ears and just check the word (6)
Déjà vu, tell you what I’m gonna do
When they reminisce over you, my God(8)

Chorus 2: Im gonna knock out , Mama said knock you out, Im gonna knock you out boy, Mama said knock you out (2x)

Way back in the day,
Hip hop was much more than just a phase,(2)
It was a movement, art, culture and a way of life
MC’s rocking every night (4)
Its time for resurrection, to raise the roots
That started all of hip hop that we know is true(6)
No more money driven motives and boundaries
Cause nowadays the audience members are zombies(8)
Now in 3D, they try to see me
But with the eyes of the spirit I now see clearly (10)
Satan is the name of the game, so I aint playing
I say what I mean and I mean what im saying (12)
Two thumbs up to Gods grace
Allowing music to be created in the first place (14)
And if u don’t know, now you know suckah(16)
(Chorus: Ready or not, here I come, you cant hide,
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not, here I come, you cant hid,
Gonna find you and make you want me,)
(4 bar rest)

Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game
Reminiscin when it wasn’t all business (2)
If it got where it started,
So we all gather here for the dearly departed (4)
It never was about the money
It was about giving back to the poor and hungry (6)
Saying what needed to be said, even if
You ended up behind bars and got sued by the plantiff(8)
Truth in the verses, Roots in the words, this
Thing called hip hop serves as a purpose (10)
This goes out to the pioneers
Who have been all but forgotten over all these years (12)
A to Z, spanning many different names
Most rappers nowadays put em all to shame (14)
Now they dropping and yelling, it’s a tad bit late
R.i.p to Nate dogg, so i got to regulate (16)

Hip hop is more than music. Hip hop has crossed cultural boundaries that other music genres never crossed. Hip hop is not only the music you listen to, but the way you walk, talk, dress, and act. Hip hop is a state of mind. An entire generation. 30 years strong. We are the hip hop generation.

To put it into simpler terms, KRS One said it best. : “Rap is what we do. Hip hop is how we live.”

Keep the music alive. Keep it real. Keep it true. And Just keep on moving.