Journey Of An Artform

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[00:24.02] How it all got started way back when
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[00:34.71] How it all got started way back when
[00:37.46] Reminiscing in a dark room over some Jack D
[00:40.50] Feels like I'm floating adrift on the Black Sea
[00:43.28] Thoughts running on my mind like a track meet
[00:45.56] Tracing it back to when the artform was fresh y'all
[00:48.38] Yes y'all shout out to Grand Master Caz
[00:51.24] Salute only the real heads know the truth
[00:54.08] In the booth Cold Crush and Kurtis Blow
[00:56.42] Damaging the microphone and rocking every show
[00:59.15] B-Boys spinning on the pavement (oohh)
[01:02.26] Memorex 90 minute mixtapes hustle and flow
[01:04.41] Trivial fill in the gap only if you know
[01:06.85] Here we go, I can't live without my (Radio)
[01:10.25] Flashback when it wasn't about dough
[01:12.13] But the culture had to grow and done a new appearance
[01:15.29] Cut throat measures in form of a sample clearance
[01:17.94] But the artform lived despite the interference
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[01:28.25] How it all got started way back when
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[01:39.01] How it all got started way back when
[01:41.67] Listen hey we didn't have a snowballs chance
[01:45.02] Wild style beat street the bri-the break dance
[01:48.03] Krush groove got me in a B-boy stance
[01:50.43] Levi pants addidas no laces
[01:52.88] Run DMC got play on daily basis
[01:55.45] And Hip Hop started having mainstream faces
[01:58.39] Weathered the storm and saw many phases
[02:00.64] From pro black to the beads and the kente
[02:03.69] To the whips and the chains kunta kinte
[02:06.07] Then it became the in thing to talk politics
[02:08.98] Studied the 5 Percenters, Supreme mathematics
[02:11.88] I use to keep vinyl just for the graphics
[02:14.50] In the golden era became a rap addict
[02:17.23] After school kicking verses like a bad habit
[02:19.98] Right now I feel it's losing it's magic
[02:22.56] Word to Nas Hip Hop is dead and that's tragic
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[03:16.81] Yeah, I'm not saying that the music shouldn't evolve
[03:22.44] But yo man let's make some good music
[03:25.38] Its Hip Hop
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