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Know what I'm sayin' In 1979 |
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I was a 2 year old kid from Adelaide |
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I wasn't a 14 year old kid from the Bronx |
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It seems to me that in 1999 Hip Hop's a business |
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In 1979 it was a culture And I miss it |
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You're so fake its plain to see who you truly are |
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Looking less like a b-boy more like a movie star |
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Forget the funk and go hook up those disco breaks |
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Sit down punk and take a look at what you make |
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It's not hip-hop it's something more sad sick and seedy |
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What's Popping that Gucci got to do with graffiti |
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And your RB dance-steps what about finger-popping |
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B-boy electric shocking windmills body rocking |
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So body-body rock body-body rock I'll take ya back |
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Break your back realize b-boys aren't faking that |
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Funk that you've forgotten h*e |
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How could you have gotten so |
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Far gone that you could never stop and go |
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Back to the roots 1979 |
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Birthplace of the scratch birthplace of the rhyme |
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You'll feel it in your spine like your first taste of wine |
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We'll make it back |
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It'll just take some time |
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Remember Kangol hats fat laces and lino mats |
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Kids spinning on their backs to the sugar hill wax |
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Now the sugar hills collapsed and the sweets turned sour |
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Moneys walking my culture through its darkest hour |
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Now I wanna take you back walk my way through time |
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I was two years old in 1979 |
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But it's a time that I miss you ask what's the difference |
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Hip-hop was then a culture now hip-hop's a business |
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Zulu started b-boying as a form of expression |
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To channel youths stress and their aggression |
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Now through the suggestion of record companies |
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MC's are pumping these |
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Problems back into ya section and isn't it ironic |
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But not the sort to make you laugh |
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Cuz MC's are building futures while raping the past |
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Taking a glass of Chardonnay and putting it to your lips |
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I'd rather take a razor blade and put it to my wrist |
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Than sell records on the basis that I have to promote |
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Sniffing and selling coke toting guns and smoking d**e |
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You're all weaving the rope that you'll hang yourself with |
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My only consolation is within the hip hop nation is |
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B-boy elements that can still get me open |
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Like Graff mags from Berlin mix tapes from Oakland |
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Breakers from Rock Steady plus anything from Tribe |
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And old school New York that's still got the vibe |
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Remember Kangol hats fat laces and lino mats |
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Kids spinning on their backs to the sugar hill wax |
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Now the sugar hills collapsed and the sweets turned sour |
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Moneys walking my culture through its darkest hour |
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Now I wanna take you back walk my way through time |
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I was two years old in 1979 |
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But it's a time that I miss you ask what's the difference |
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Hip-hop was then a culture now hip-hop's a business |
