Just Like That

You know you don't see with your eyes

See with your brain

And the more words your brain has

The more things you can see

Yes yes yall, he don't stop, he can't stop

He won't stop, we used to be here rappin on the block

It was like hip hop would never stop

But then we got older, and a little bit bolder

The streets in new york got a little bit colder

I'm a young too i gotta learn and get over

1980, brooklyn is crazy in the dark

But there i am in wingate park

Damn it should the djs creating this art

I'm on i but i'm free and i wanna be part

So i gotta be smart and then it just sparked

I'mma start with my heart achieving the mark

I'll be the number one mc on the chart

So on your mark get ready, go

Rock steady to show with dj scott la rock, you all ready know

Yo, these were the days when bands were elected

Based on the jam they selected so check it

This man got respected

When fans detected that the south bronx

Was the new answer record

And just like that just, just like that

Just like that, i speak into the air

Just like that, just, just like that

Just like that

My dreams they get appeared so

So just like that, just like that

Just just like that

You speak into the air and

Just like that, just, just like that

Just like that, just like that

Your dreams they appear

So just like that i was right on top

Me and scott la rock, but then scott la rock got shot

I can hear him echoing, hip hop don't stop

But we was getting rhyme like fake with no luck

By a record company that was taking alot

People blaming us, shaming us, but then it all stopped

When by all means necessary dropped

You was like the whole damn hip hop culture stopped

But that's when the vultures dropped, from the culture shock

Because we was showing people how they supposed to rock

With their hands in the air and they mouth on scream

But in 81 this was just a dream

Though we kept dreaming kept the cream and kept seeing

Kept being hip hop, breaking, mcing

Graffiti writing, djing and on the weekend

It's the proper use of your mind i'm teaching

So just like that, i began to see

The truth force and power of m-i-n-d

Now i am free and yes i can be

The amazing mc i saw in 81

That fan i was the crazy one

Even the lazy one, the not sure, the maybe one

But today i'm the sure one, the on tour one

When the one you want more from

But it was all a dream

Now this brother is on the cover of word up magazine

Hangin' fliers on my wall

Boogie down productions, versus mc shan and marley marl

You know my tape rocks, i don't say pop

If i couldn't find o-e, then i got the private stocks

Way back when them dapper dan, yack it's at

With the hats to match all that

Just like that

Now it's 91, and the west coast era now has just begun

And you can't run, crack cocaine, the feds, everyone

Now we know the military, they brought in several tons

Forget them all guns they brought em better ones

The name of this new game is stack your set of ones

For me i remember 1981

When i first wanted to rap it was mainly fun

But hip hop was made to run

So them dudes they think it's all about money their day will come

And come from many and it's scary

To learn that your whole career was really temporary

But on the contrary we can look at the past

And see the major recording artist that didn't last

But here comes the blast, in order to last

Be the real you man, take off the mask