[00:17.614]Been a long way since subway art
[00:19.690]Roller skates in central park
[00:22.206]Statue of liberty after dark
[00:24.445]B - boys doing it, doing it
[00:26.883]Rhyme off the top a freestyle cypher
[00:29.249]All about fun, before the hyper
[00:31.458]Prices dress code strictly like a
[00:33.755]Geek or a misfit deep in a life of
[00:35.993]Didn't think twice to clear a sample
[00:38.207]Drum break and a fill to dismantle
[00:40.399]Bass line and a phrase to assemble
[00:42.896]Beat and the source barely resembled
[00:45.140]Telephone lines are still on dial
[00:47.407]Single records get shipped on vinyl
[00:49.798]Club and radio play the final
[00:51.917]Test for a DJ press it's vital
[00:54.889]The theme of a hometown anthem
[00:56.525]Always been, will be survival
[00:58.838]Every now and then, you see a revival
[01:01.046]A school and pride and a pack of vandals
[01:03.977]The theme of a hometown anthem
[01:05.685]Always been, will be survival
[01:07.968]Every now and then, you hear a revival
[01:10.085]A school and pride and a pack of vandalsd
[01:21.849]Fast forward to the future, rewind to the present
[01:24.412]Stop at the moment, record the movement
[01:26.880]No pause for the students
[01:28.506]Of the game no excuse for snoozing
[01:30.693]A shoe - in to steal from the rich that got rich from looting
[01:33.567]You can consume but resume after chewing
[01:35.993]The media never gets tired of dooming
[01:38.120]The world like it's over many times over
[01:40.595]So what's the coda
[01:41.724]They can ban the amp but you can't stop the camp to raise the lamp
[01:45.296]Oh, go a cappella commando
[01:47.270]Spit with a fury than can blow ten candles
[01:49.885]Time flies when u write a fly rhyme
[01:51.785]Take a dope instrumental on a ride
[01:53.458]Let the high tides
[01:54.428]Sweep the nation, ill communication
[01:56.465]Live giving fives on wi - fi
[01:58.726]The theme of a hometown anthem
[02:00.489]Always been, will be survival
[02:02.709]Every now and then, you hear a revival
[02:05.053]A school and pride and a pack of vandals
[02:07.841]The theme of a hometown anthem
[02:09.591]Always been, will be survival
[02:11.771]Every now and then, you hear a revival
[02:14.222]A school and pride and a pack of vandals
[02:25.582]Soundman can you turn my mic up
[02:27.900]He says DJ's gotta turn it down, uh
[02:30.226]Monitors blown out, speakers on feedback
[02:33.183]Song cut off, get a homey to beatbox
[02:35.519]And the beat knocks like straight out the boombox
[02:37.884]You can hear it from the city to the boondocks
[02:40.088]That's tagalog, baby and it's all maganda
[02:42.626]Tag a wall with a marker on the under
[02:44.603]Old school poster in the sun, no magenta
[02:46.789]Yellow or black and the image off - center
[02:49.109]See these poems like the kids in the shelter
[02:51.305]We breed songs like seeds in placenta
[02:53.620]And I'm the father, word to the mother
[02:55.835]Earth to the people, power to the peaceful
[02:58.196]Shoot for the moon revolutionary idol
[03:00.403]Never televised nor idle
[03:02.521]The theme of a hometown anthem
[03:04.457]Always been, will be survival
[03:06.701]Every now and then, you see a revival
[03:08.982]A school and pride and a pack of vandals
[03:11.760]The theme of a hometown anthem
[03:13.600]Always been, will be survival
[03:15.755]Every now and then, you feel a revival
[03:18.225]A school and pride and a pack of vandals