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Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet |
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The UK and the USA |
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Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets |
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Words come alive, these lyrics keep flowing |
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Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet |
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The UK and the USA |
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Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets |
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Go together like treble and bass |
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Music’s meaning is more than the words, it’s the feeling |
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The passion, the soul, writing late in the evenings |
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It breathes in the records like turn to the ceiling |
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Motivated dreaming, back to what believing |
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It’s been in hearts, on tracks in vain |
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It’s seen in awe on graff on trains |
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The media try to attack its name |
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But the realness can’t be attached to fame |
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But who am I to say what hip-hop is? |
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Hip-hop was before Paradox lived |
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Before Yo! MTV Raps got big |
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When the soul and the words was what made hop hits |
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DJs rock kicks after digging in the crates |
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Now we’re living in an age where the rhythm is misplaced |
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It’s all about the chains, the millions you make |
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So I sit back, imagine as I listen to the greats |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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It’s real hip-hop |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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What’s it worth? |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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It’s real hip-hop |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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Some say it’s still the same, it ain’t that |
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It’s the authentic, all the time prolific, lyrical extraordinaire |
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Got rhymes to share, to educate the masses |
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Toasting the realness, raise your glasses |
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Never underestimate the movement |
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Always keeping my ear to the pavement |
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That’s what the pioneers did back then |
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Before they had two 12s making the blend |
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No emails to send, only word of mouth |
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Seems that real hip-hop is in a drought |
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Critics kept saying that it wouldn’t last |
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Through the years it persevered and made cash |
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Somehow it grew up too fast |
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Matured incorrectly, evidently |
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Now it’s time to do my thing |
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With ill flows and vibes that I bring no doubt |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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It’s real hip-hop |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
| [02:24.63] |
What’s it worth? |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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It’s real hip-hop |
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Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same |
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Now let’s take a sec to think back |
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Gangstarr |
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JD |
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Common Sense |
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Large Pro |
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Nas |
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Pete Rock |
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Tribe Called Quest |
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KRS was number one |
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Just being in here |
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Is a humbling experience to me |
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Because you’re looking through all these records |
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And it’s sort of like a big pile of broken dreams in a way |
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Almost none of these artists still have a |
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A career, really |
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Ten years down the line you’ll be in here |
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So keep that in mind when you start thinking like |
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“Oh yeah, I’m invincible and I’m the |
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I’m the world’s best or whatever |
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Because that’s what all these cats thought |
