Keepin’ Your Name Alive - K Rino

I first saw you when I was fifteen

Spittin' mean flows at MacGregor Park

A veteran, I was still green to this thing

My jaw dropped until your bars stopped

I stood and watched as you rocked the whole crowd while the bass from all the

cars knocked

Always did what you do for the love

On any side of town you went, the people knew who you was

Entertaining was all in your heart and moved through your blood

Wreckin' on the streets, the radio, the booth or the club

A hundred years could go by, no one could have yo game

I remember the time that you let us wear your chains

Showing up at local rap shows and gladly performing

Freestyling at Kids Jam on a Saturday morning

It’s still hard to believe, it’s like your eyes just closed

When I was sixteen years old, I memorized your flows

You was the one who brought the whole city of Houston together

Wickett Crickett, we celebrate your contributions forever, uh!

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive

They call me OG, that’s funny though ‘cause you was here before me

I looked up to you, plus I remembered everything you told me

About life, about the music biz and what I got to do

Gettin' the crowd hype at shows, I learned that from watching you

Your impact — nobody won’t touch that

You gave a whole lot to the game but never got much back

You never got a plaque but in my view, you stayed at the top

And all the artists that you helped who never gave you your props

You worked with the known, the unknown and all in between

Created platforms for rappers to perform and be seen

Who else was doin' that?

Nobody, you lived it and breathe

Did it for years and most of the time you did it for free

But now you’re gone but not really ‘cause what makes things better

We got enough footage of you to see and hear you whenever

All the shows that you hosted, so admit it, it’s true

It ain’t no secret, in the H, nobody did it like you, uh!

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive

A major part of who I am today I owe it to you

I’ll keep your name alive because that’s what you told me to do

All the basketball leagues, all the nights we would hang

On the stage, singing «Where You From?»

at Club Boomerang

See it’s a hole in the game now and it won’t be the same

I’m glad that every time you called me I made sure that I came

When you told us to stick together, we all understood

You worked hard in the community and gave back to the hood

I guess that’s why it hurt me when the problems came with your health

If I’da had the bread, I woulda paid it all by myself

I felt like we coulda saved ya, if we got it in time

And it’s a shame a lot of rappers didn’t offer a dime

But no sense crying about what can’t be changed, we deal with the fact

That it was God’s will so I’ma just accept it as that

It was a blessing just to know ya, hang out with you and kick it

Rest in power to my big brother, OG Wickett Crickett, yeah

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive

I thought this song would be easy to write

I thought the words would come to me like a thief in the night

OG, you wouldn’t want us to stop or keep everything inside

Now you’re gone so it’s up to us to keep your name alive