[00:11.623]MCs kick rhymes to beats or acapella

[00:14.547]Graf artists tagging year round through all weather

[00:17.475]Our culture’s evolving what next will it bring

[00:20.681]Hip-hop is one of my favorite things

[00:23.612]DJ’s b-boys and b-girls are so clever

[00:26.253]They called it a fad but we’re hip-hop forever

[00:29.455]We love our culture to it we shall cling

[00:32.633]Hip-hop is one of my favorite thing

[00:35.024]Hip-Hop culture a way of life that’s preyed on by cultures

[00:38.224]To fatten up their pockets some really thought they’d stop it

[00:41.156]And called it a fad all to the bad when you dissing they’re way of life

[00:44.365]Son is a trip button your lip peep what I say tonight

[00:47.281]See it started in the South Bronx but this brother here’s from Maryland

[00:50.225]Home of Mambo sauce and emcees who be shining like sterling

[00:53.137]That’s a whole ‘nother song moving along back to the subject

[00:56.081]H-I-P to the H-O-P man I love it

[00:59.011]It consist of four elements some say five or more

[01:01.941]If you didn’t know that until now what the hell you rhyming for

[01:04.872]There’s breaking & rhyming, deejaying & graf

[01:07.993]I add on beatboxing because I practice that craft

[01:13.052]Like (beatbox) it’s crucial

[01:13.848]When you ain’t got a beat in the cipher it’s quite useful

[01:16.795]Then there was breaking see I stopped that quite early

[01:19.712]Didn’t like the idea that some dance moves could hurt me

[01:22.641]But still find popping and locking to be mad nice

[01:25.822]Just now all my energy is used only to grab mics

[01:28.476]And rock rock on to the dawn of early morning

[01:31.678]Still do graffiti just took my moms warning

[01:34.617]And kept it on the paper to avoid central booking

[01:37.263]But to hell with jail I was more scared of butt whippings

[01:40.442]Now I’m a grown man with hip-hop still way up in me

[01:43.371]And I’ll love it for life even if I never see one penny

[01:46.308]MCs kick rhymes to beats or acapella

[01:49.241]Graf artists tagging year round through all weather

[01:52.166]Our culture’s evolving what next will it bring

[01:55.343]Hip-hop is one of my favorite things

[01:58.264]DJ’s b-boys and b-girls are so clever

[02:00.949]They called it a fad but we’re hip-hop forever

[02:04.139]We love our culture to it we shall cling

[02:07.054]Hip-hop is one of my favorite things

[02:09.705]See an ignorant man made a statement that’s so wrong

[02:12.902]When he said rap music is an oxymoron

[02:15.817]True most of us don’t sing some curse when they’re rapping

[02:18.750]Some of us use sample and others utilize scratching

[02:21.674]But it’s still all music stop judging and listen

[02:24.601]Some of the joints you don’t like were the best songs ever written

[02:27.796]No genre that was conjured has accomplished what rap has

[02:30.724]Filled with brilliant poets who you thought just rap fast

[02:33.659]And that’s sad, only heard when using curse words

[02:36.574]Racial slurs and calling women out of their name

[02:39.507]And they claim that our graffiti isn’t real art

[02:42.419]Like they rule the art world please tell me when did this start

[02:45.360]See art is opinion only techniques have guidelines

[02:48.545]Smarter than what yall think and I haven’t even reached my prime

[02:51.473]Don’t try to diss breaking see I find that quite funny

[02:54.408]I peeped yall in time square giving breakers yall money

[02:57.074]‘Cause you know you love it from our clothes to our lingo

[03:00.256]That’s why most trends start with us blacks and latinos

[03:02.902]Don’t take that as a diss ‘cause I’m telling you that it’s not

[03:06.116]All kinds of people have contributed to hip-hop

[03:09.039]Making my culture more beautiful than it’s ever been

[03:11.975]Hip-hop heads worldwide from Japanese to Mexican

[03:15.154]Taking me places I’ve never been, peace to the veterans

[03:18.605]Swear on my life it will never end

[03:21.013]MCs kick rhymes to beats or acapella

[03:23.942]Graf artists tagging year round through all weather

[03:26.604]Our culture’s evolving what next will it bring

[03:29.791]Hip-hop is one of my favorite things

[03:32.977]Whether I rock mics in the spotlight

[03:35.630]Or remain underground

[03:38.809]Hip-hop will still be my favorite thing

[03:41.476]As long as the earth’s still round