Hip Hop Tribute

[sample from "Can it Be All So Simple": sample (Raekwon)]

Hey you know everybody's talkin bout the good ol' days, right?

(Yeah) E-everybody, everybody, the good ol' days, good ol' days

(The good ol' days.. the good ol' days)

Well.. Let's talk about them (Let's talk about them xxxxx now, knowImean?)

[Chorus: sample]

I love you so.. never gonna let you go baby

I love you so.. never gonna let you go baby

[Intro: Polite (Stumic)]

Ice Water.. (yeah dedication

to my niggaz, I love y'all)

[Stumic]

I remember back when, a nigga first started rapping

Wu-Tang was the main attraction

Rae and Ghost was the illest team

Deck did his thing on C.R.E.A.M.

Meth made you wanna smoke weed

Dirt and Uey, spit with SWV

I used to rock Cuban Linx and go and double my cheese

Duckin' the D's, RZA was the Prince Rakeem

So peace to the whole Clan and thanks for everything

[Cigars]

Yo, it's hip hop/rap, let's take it back, 1986

When MC Shan, Marley Marl, niggaz rocked the bridge

I watched video hot tracks on T.V.

Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, down to Biz Markie

Remember UTFO and The Real Roxanne?

"Eric B. For President" was a classic jam

KRS repped the Bronx, Boogie Down, rap battles threw down

From the roof top to Polo Grounds

I had the big boom box, thumping Scott LaRock

Hip hop was hot, had shorties doing the wop

And my niggaz used to break dance to Planet Rock

From doing the pop, spinning on the cardboard box

[Polite]

Aiyo, it seems it's all good, but the block is mean

It's like, hip hop, showed me how to rock my jeans

If it wasn't for this rap game, where would I be?

Gunned down, dead in the streets, or locked in the beast

Yo, when Big died, that's the day the world cried

Peace to Pac and Pun, Aaliyah, we ride

Yo, I wanna take this rap game back to the beginning

Where Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay was spinning

Yo, it wasn't easy, niggas had a harder way

Doc The Roc, he spinning on Harbor's day

It's like, hip hop, showed me how to live my life

My name's Jason, but hip hop named me Lite

[Chorus]

[Raekwon]

Straight money, get a live lad

Young seed, color it bad

My wallabees red, the lobby, we graph it

Sell it, had smoke with caves on

Brushin' my way, hide behind wave picture, fly away sensation

Blast takers, be gooses, mad loose, come in the booth

Doug E. Fresh and 'em, Rick and them suits

The raw lotto years, switch up the emblem

More color bottles, gold on a nigga neck

Slidin' around cop Gallo

What? Playin' Union Square

Chillin' with you and who care

My first fade, picture me scared

I bet a high life, and anarchy, can't rob me, all in the train

The 8th baby boy, blowin' on yard weed

R.C. Tone, K-Pin, J-Bosh

The nigga Rosh, Buddha Rob, Black Chavy and Marsh

Move on, I shout yesterday's dons, God love and respect

I hope the dreams come true, word is bond

[P.C.]

When niggaz used to be in cyphers I was sittin in the back

Never said nothin, I just used to listen to rap

Wu was still tryin to get on the map

I was a youngin when I realized that I had a mission in rap

So I grabbed my pen and my pad, gave it everything that I had

I swear I used to sit in the lab

and write all night, niggaz used to make me hype

Freestylin in the mirror with a brush as my mic

[Rhyme Recka]

This is my music, it made me, taught me, raised me

Held me down, 24/7, when I need it from it it gave me

Put me on to the latest gear, put a durag on my hair

Throwback or baseball cap, Air 1's, Triple 5 Vex on my back

This is now but I still remember way back when

When we used to rock Puma's, Gazelles and back spin

Before 106 & Park, they used to throw jams in the park

Cheeba got sparked after dark, twisted in bamboo paper

That was when that battle between KRS-One and MC Shan was major

Kane was raw, what Rakim said on beat was never said before

The streets was hot, on every ghetto and every block

And every radio you walked by was blastin off that real hip hop {*echoes*}

[Chorus]

[movie sample from Casino performed by Joe Pesci]

If you don't have my money for me

I'll crack your xxxxxx head wide open in front of everybody in the bank

And just about the time that I'm comin out of jail

Hopefully, you'll be comin out of your coma

And guess what?

I'll split ya xxxxxx head open again

Cuz I'm xxxxxx stupid