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R.E.K.S. |
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[Scratch Chorus] |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game, kept my mind on fame" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"What defines my name" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages" {echo}- Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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[Verse One] |
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Ayo, once upon a time when no C.E.O.'s |
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Before cassette, CDs and MP3 downloads |
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There lived |
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Corner ciphers, writers who craft flows |
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Snipers tagged up on the iron horse doors |
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Talkin' way back, before platinum replaced gold |
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Goin' through the stages, the phases of hip hop |
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Niggas threw they dukes up, beefin' with they foes |
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Cheeba they would blow to the ceilin' in them old days |
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Before they rocked Gucci shades or them throwbacks |
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We need the soul back, waitin' on the days |
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It was VCR, Kodak, hi-top fades |
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Seein' rap age with no respect for the old cats |
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Birth of an art form before the age of the dot com |
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Classic boom bap lead the hard on |
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Stages we go through |
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Old school to the new |
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Seein' the past in the present day view |
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[Scratch Chorus] |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game, kept my mind on fame" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"What defines my name" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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[Verse Two] |
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Yo, once upon the present |
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Evident how the game shift lane |
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We try to adapt as time change |
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The majors in peril, the Internet the devil |
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And the answer to, "Who got next?" now in the stereo |
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Bezel's replace time clocks on the necklace |
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Then Nas went reckless, handin' us rap's burial |
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Everyone you know either rap or in production |
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When past rap discussion, y'all cats be frontin' |
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No respect for those who paved ways to make this a billion dollar business |
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I feel y'all should witness |
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A rebirth, with each verse I give it |
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Advisory lyrics |
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Distribute middle fingers to the censors |
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Since it's senseless to say niggas, will pick respect, over image |
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Fact over fiction |
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Past division from east to west, lead to homicide |
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These modern times have me lost in my mind |
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[Scratch Chorus] |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game, kept my mind on fame" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"What defines my name" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages" {echo}- Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages" - Guru |
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[Verse Three] |
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Ayo, once upon the future I see it through telescopes |
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They want me to be calm and chill, tell 'em "nope" |
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I am hope for what lacks in rap |
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Reks is actually that piece missin' division |
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Bringin' what really matters back |
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Open your cataracts |
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See focus is quarterbacks in forth quarters, where your true rappers at? |
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They told 'em, "You can never come back to run rap, you had your chance." |
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Did an advance, Reks you washed up |
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Watch the show off for Showoff, mop up |
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Your butt with your so so bars till they so so large |
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Professor's flow so beyond |
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Cranium walls, you catch the next rhyme on the rewind |
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Your mind on the decline |
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We shine like the bling on the v-line |
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Or sweater vest's, Reks is next on the feline |
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Childhood to adolescence to where we met |
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"Stages and phases" - Large Professor |
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Age is experience |
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[Large Professor talking] |
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Yeah, R-E-K-S. Large Profess and Statik Selek. What it is? |
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[Scratch Chorus] |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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It's the |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"As far as rap go" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"Times have changed" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"I spent time in the game" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"What defines my name" - Nas 'Nas Is Like' |
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"'Cause one day you're A and the next you may, |
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have a brand new topic and see a new way" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Stages and phases that we go through" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
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"Have a brand new topic and see a new way" - Large Professor 'One Plus One' |
