[00:09.470]The year is 2004  people talk about war
[00:12.160]I had to hit the floor when the bombs began toopour
[00:14.590]Ten minutes ago I was mad cause my stomach was grumbling
[00:17.520]Now the whole world is crumbling
[00:19.770]I hear people scream across the street gettin crushed
[00:22.330]This went on for twenty minutes then the whole world hushed
[00:24.440]I couldn't see shit but I could feel myself breathin
[00:27.380]Damn I'm still kickin but I'm just not believing
[00:29.440]I give thanks to God then I'm off on my mission
[00:32.500]Ain't no stars in the sky so it ain't no wishin
[00:35.000]I wonder  I wonder  I just can't under-stand
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[00:38.740]Why am I the last man
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[00:59.070]These crazy thoughts in my head won't stop
[01:03.120]Where's my moms and my pops and what about hip-hop
[01:05.810]I'm pickin up things that could be of use to me
[01:08.300]Too build a makeshift crib where Hollywood used to be
[01:10.870]And it ain't no forties  it ain't no blunts
[01:13.240]I ain't had no ass in five years and eight months
[01:15.850]Five more years pass  and I still survive
[01:18.480]And I'm through with wonderin who's still alive
[01:21.220]Until one day I'm just walkin along
[01:23.410]And I hear this kid singin a hip-hop song
[01:25.960]He said  "That's the way it is  and it's like that"
[01:28.590]I said  "Yo kid c'mere  where you learn that song at "
[01:31.270]He said  "My daddy taught me about the hip-hop game
[01:33.710]I'm eight years old and Rakim is my name"
[01:36.320]He said  "Yo I'll take you to him  come follow me;
[01:38.950]But first you gotta prove that you can MC"
[01:41.000]So I cleared my throat got in a b-boy stance
[01:43.880]And I ran through a rhyme that made him piss in his pants
[01:46.630]With tears in his eyes  he grabbed me by the hand
[01:49.180]And then we ran  ten miles across the sand
[01:51.550]He took me to the spot  dig deep underground
[01:53.550]Where I can hear the sound of the big bass pound
[01:56.730]I wasn't really sure  but I swore we smelled blunt smoke
[01:59.600]No joke loc  well can I get a joke
[02:02.030]He took me to his pops and he handed me a spliff
[02:04.650]And out behind the wall came Tash and E-Swift
[02:06.960]They took me to a freestle session it was on
[02:09.460]I knew hip-hop would never be gone
[02:12.460]FIve hundred hip-hop deep
[02:14.250]Yo we cool in 2014  Alkaholiks still rulin
[02:28.850]It's gonna live forever
[02:30.590]This goes out to the P-Town  LBNT
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[02:33.220]Know what I'm sayin
[02:37.840]Check it out
[02:44.260]Hip-hop doesn't stop
[02:50.130]Alkaholiks
[02:57.490]Check it out