This Is Hip Hop

I'm a hip-hop hooligan, snatch microphone vandal
Talkin' hip-hop as in ?, gazelles, saints and scandals
Hip-hop as in busy being K arrest
Dj GO Hard, drum was a Theodore
Them days was the best, the sound was the best
The MC's and the power connect
The Dj's grabbed for the final and got down to their desk
From the undergrounds of New York, it was the sounds of success
Bad news for ghetto celebrities who were out of respect
Back then an artist felt like a king with a crown on his head
A noose king had a gold medallion and chain on his neck
And then B-Boy started to win and spend the rhyme on their heads
Inventing a new style of rhymes, the mass dishonor they plead
Hip-hop's attorney said it's so damn funky, so damn fresh
A music that was born from the streets, a voice that would address
Hip-hop has seen so many trend from dance session to art
A world wide session better scene take over the charts
From around, I sink in the tarts, hip-hop is in the hearts
So many people that's been only 40 years since they start

This is hip-hop, nothing more and nothing less
Straight out beats and rhymes, I ? up the desk
As a hip-hop soldier, disclosure is what I come to rep
My hip-hop history, that is something I cannot forget
A movement in inhibition, a groove in decision
From the old school to the new school
Cause ? listen
A music with a message of vision knowledge and wisdom
Now I can pray to hip-hop and bring homage to the musician
This is hip-hop, nothing more and nothing less
Straight out beats and rhymes, I ? up the desk
As a hip-hop soldier, disclosure is what I come to rep
My hip-hop history, that is something I cannot forget
A movement in inhibition, a groove in decision
From the old school to the new school
Cause ? listen
A music with a message of vision knowledge and wisdom
Now I can pray to hip-hop and bring homage to the musician

I grew up on electro-hip-hop from the time it came out
I was spittin' a line, always tryna spit live from my mouth
Every time my mother went out, I blew the furniture about
Grabbed the mirror, turn the stereo and start to feel down
I was so excited and delighted to feel part of a movement
That united a lot of the 80' and 90' to the ?
I learned a lot from hip-hop cause back then it was more positive
When hip-hop was more hip-hop, before money was a prerogative
A lot of tracks were made by rappers living in poverty
With no six figure deal and go to studio quality
MC who used to live for respect not a check
As well as freestyle was an instantaneous rhyme from the head
It was so new and so fresh and the sound was so death
I danced to Big Daddy Kane music till I ran outta breath
And ghetto blast, the one I showed ya, I bought em the new cassette
Searchin' for the perfect leaders that now you search on the web
Those are the two elements of hip-hop I just cannot forget
It's that I will reflect on this history and pay my respect

This is hip-hop, nothing more and nothing less
Straight out beats and rhymes, I ? up the desk
As a hip-hop soldier, disclosure is what I come to rep
My hip-hop history, that is something I cannot forget
A movement in inhibition, a groove in decision
From the old school to the new school
Cause ? listen
A music with a message of vision knowledge and wisdom
Now I can pray to hip-hop and bring homage to the musician
This is hip-hop, nothing more and nothing less
Straight out beats and rhymes, I ? up the desk
As a hip-hop soldier, disclosure is what I come to rep
My hip-hop history, that is something I cannot forget
A movement in inhibition, a groove in decision
From the old school to the new school
Cause ? listen
A music with a message of vision knowledge and wisdom
Now I can pray to hip-hop and bring homage to the musician