[00:10.10]Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet
[00:12.82]The UK and the USA
[00:15.46]Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets
[00:18.12]Words come alive, these lyrics keep flowing
[00:20.68]
[00:20.97]Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet
[00:23.43]The UK and the USA
[00:25.78]Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets
[00:28.57]Go together like treble and bass
[00:30.69]
[00:30.87]Music’s meaning is more than the words, it’s the feeling
[00:33.56]The passion, the soul, writing late in the evenings
[00:36.41]It breathes in the records like turn to the ceiling
[00:38.87]Motivated dreaming, back to what believing
[00:41.56]It’s been in hearts, on tracks in vain
[00:44.14]It’s seen in awe on graff on trains
[00:46.70]The media try to attack its name
[00:49.24]But the realness can’t be attached to fame
[00:51.82]But who am I to say what hip-hop is?
[00:54.56]Hip-hop was before Paradox lived
[00:57.15]Before Yo! MTV Raps got big
[00:59.68]When the soul and the words was what made hop hits
[01:02.38]DJs rock kicks after digging in the crates
[01:04.83]Now we’re living in an age where the rhythm is misplaced
[01:07.52]It’s all about the chains, the millions you make
[01:10.13]So I sit back, imagine as I listen to the greats
[01:12.72]
[01:12.93]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[01:16.64]It’s real hip-hop
[01:18.57]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[01:21.71]What’s it worth?
[01:23.27]
[01:23.64]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[01:27.19]It’s real hip-hop
[01:28.63]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[01:30.77]Some say it’s still the same, it ain’t that
[01:33.17]
[01:33.67]It’s the authentic, all the time prolific, lyrical extraordinaire
[01:39.03]Got rhymes to share, to educate the masses
[01:41.64]Toasting the realness, raise your glasses
[01:44.48]Never underestimate the movement
[01:46.86]Always keeping my ear to the pavement
[01:49.74]That’s what the pioneers did back then
[01:52.01]Before they had two 12s making the blend
[01:54.59]No emails to send, only word of mouth
[01:57.28]Seems that real hip-hop is in a drought
[01:59.98]Critics kept saying that it wouldn’t last
[02:02.56]Through the years it persevered and made cash
[02:05.28]Somehow it grew up too fast
[02:07.92]Matured incorrectly, evidently
[02:10.66]Now it’s time to do my thing
[02:13.11]With ill flows and vibes that I bring no doubt
[02:15.94]
[02:16.15]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[02:19.15]It’s real hip-hop
[02:21.03]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[02:24.63]What’s it worth?
[02:25.91]
[02:26.20]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[02:29.96]It’s real hip-hop
[02:31.48]Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same
[02:33.75]Now let’s take a sec to think back
[02:35.92]
[02:36.42]Gangstarr
[02:39.03]JD
[02:41.64]Common Sense
[02:44.25]Large Pro
[02:46.84]Nas
[02:49.35]Pete Rock
[02:52.01]Tribe Called Quest
[02:54.70]KRS was number one
[02:56.27]
[03:18.03]Just being in here
[03:20.07]Is a humbling experience to me
[03:21.29]Because you’re looking through all these records
[03:24.09]And it’s sort of like a big pile of broken dreams in a way
[03:27.56]Almost none of these artists still have a
[03:29.71]A career, really
[03:31.43]Ten years down the line you’ll be in here
[03:33.31]So keep that in mind when you start thinking like
[03:37.05]“Oh yeah, I’m invincible and I’m the
[03:38.82]I’m the world’s best or whatever
[03:40.49]Because that’s what all these cats thought