Hip Hop

You say one for the trebble, two for the time<br>Come on y`all let`s rock this!<br>You say one for the trebble, two for the time<br>Come on!<br><br>Speech is my hammer, bang the world into shape<br>Now let it fall... (Hungh!!)<br>My restlessness is my nemesis<br>It`s hard to really chill and sit still<br>Committed to page, I write rhymes<br>Sometimes won`t finish for days<br>Scrutinize my literature, from the large to the miniature<br>I mathematically add-minister<br>Subtract the wack<br>Selector, wheel it back, I`m feeling that<br>(Ha ha ha) From the core to the perimeter black,<br>You know the motto<br>Stay fluid even in staccato<br>(Mos Def) Full blooded, full throttle<br>Breathe deep inside the trunk hollow<br>There`s the hum, young man where you from<br>Brooklyn number one<br>Native son, speaking in the native tongue<br>I got my eyes on tomorrow (there it is)<br>While you still try to follow where it is<br>I`m on the Ave where it lives and dies<br>Violently, silently<br>Shine so vibrantly that eyes squint to catch a glimpse<br>Embrace the bass with my dark ink fingertips<br>Used to speak the king`s English<br>But caught a rash on my lips<br>So now my chat just like dis<br>Long range from the base-line (switch)<br>Move like an apparition<br>Float to the ground with ammuntion (chi-chi-chi-POW)<br>Move from the gate, voice cued on your tape<br>Putting food on your plate<br>Many crews can relate<br>Who choosing your fate (yo)<br>We went from picking cotton<br>To chain gang line chopping<br>To Be-Bopping<br>To Hip-Hopping<br>Blues people got the blue chip stock option<br>Invisible man, got the whole world watching<br>(where ya at) I`m high, low, east, west,<br>All over your map<br>I`m getting big props, with this thing called hip hop<br>Where you can either get paid or get shot<br>When your product in stock<br>The fair-weather friends flock<br>When your chart position drop<br>Then the phone calls....<br>Chill for a minute<br>Let`s see whoelse tops<br>Snatch your shelf spot<br>Don`t gas yourself ock<br>The industry just a better built cell block<br>A long way from the shell tops<br>And the bells that L rocked (rock, rock, rock, rock...)<br><br>*scratching*<br><br>Hip Hop is prosecution evidence<br>The out of court settlement<br>Ad space for liquor<br>Sick without benefits (hungh!)<br>Luxury tenements choking the skyline<br>It`s low life getting tree-top high<br>Here there`s a back water remedy<br>Bitter intent to memory<br>A class E felony<br>Facing the death penalty (hungh!)<br>Stimulant and sedative, original repetitive<br>Violently competitive, a school unacredited<br>The break beats you get broken with<br>on time and inappropriate<br>Hip Hop went from selling crack to smoking it<br>Medicine for loneliness<br>Remind me of Thelonius and Dizzy<br>Propers to B-Boys getting busy<br>The war-time snap shot<br>The working man`s jack-pot<br>A two dollar snack box<br>Sold beneath the crack spot<br>Olympic spnosor of the black glock<br>Gold medalist in the back shot<br>From the sovereign state of the have-nots<br>Where farmers have trouble with cash crops (woooo)<br>It`s all city like phase two<br>Hip Hop will simply amaze you<br>Craze you, pay you<br>Do whatever you say do<br>But black, it can`t save you