This Is Hip Hop - Termanology

Yeah yo yo

I was a young cat listening to Snoop and Dre

Trying to memorize the words that they used to say

It’s like this and like that and like this and uh

It’s like that and like this and like that and uh

That was back in 92, I was only 10, holding pens

Back before rap was all about the bling

I was a young prince kickin' my style

Not knowing one day I’d be the king of my town

Now, sittin' around just blazin' them pounds

At the age of 15

Rap was only a dream

Then a brother got a demo

And some money to settle

Now I’m 20 years young

And the best where I’m from

Yo.

I remember 88 with the backspin

Back when it was more to hip-hop then rappin'

Back when everybody spit it with a passion

Time, time, time, time for some action

Back when Iron Mike Tyson was the one to be

Marley Marl and Pete Rock had hottest beats

Queen Latifah had the video for human teeth

Around the time that crack fucked up the community

It was the golden age era for rap

Nothing like now-a-days with all these terrible cats

Listening to Kane and to Kool G, it’s a wrap

Everytime you bought an album you just knew it was fat

Way back, before I had the Sony walkman with playback

Before I had the A deck, Hydro and a hayracks

Before the invention of DVD’s

And KRS put it down for the BDP

Back in the days when I was young I’m not a kid anymore

But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again

Eating Skittles and digging in the fridge again

Back when the doc said that Term needed some Idelin

On a mission and trying to get them dividends

Back when I spit for anybody that was listenin'

Remember pitchin' and a dollar for a nickle and

In 95 Mobb Deep had The Infamous

As a young kid, it was a bad influence

I had the police trying to take my fingerprints

Cash rules everything around me — CREAM get the money

4−5-6 give me that 20

That was the hot shit gettin' funds playin' dice

Spending our studio time and adding ice

So I can relate to The Roots man they said it right

Hip-hop your the love of my life, like

«Gangstarr»

Is real hip-hop and uh

«KRS-One»

That’s real hip-hop and uh

«Rakim»

Is real hip-hop and uh

«Public Enemy»

That’s real hip-hop and uh

«Kool G Rap and Polo»

That’s real hip-hop and uh

«A Tribe Called Quest»

That’s real hip-hop and uh

«Big Daddy Kane» That’s real hip-hop and uh

«Ed O.G.»

That’s real

Hip-hop — x8