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I Am Hip Hop
March with me now, heads March with me now We are going, going higher and higher.
I used to think hip hop is what I do hip hop is what I'm into hip hop is how I come thru on top of instrumentals I used to think it's what I jot with a pencil or how best i can talk about what I been through The metaphors I like set of thought I write when i get applause on mics I was never sure I was like I sure this hip hop has a better cause in spite the little misconceptions said the voice inside it can't based on the language I rap in or that little pretentious twang in accent I think those are just irrelevant semantics I think hip hop ladies and Gentlemen are had picked it's not whether you rap or write whether you wack or tight hip hop is what you have inside and it's not my job to be here behind this mic it's not my hobby not my career this is my life
I used to think that hip hop is all about hits, hooks and mics freestyles, battles scripts, books the like how difficult it is to spit and what it took to write till I learned hip hop is an outlook on life I used to think it was all about the women in vids being driven in wips getting rich living in cribs getting 'em chips
occasionally spitting em hits turns out, for a minute I've had it twisted a bit
okay a lot, I had it twisted indeed I always pictured it be Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com picking the words out of a dictionary then convincing the streets to listen to this fiction I speak
I was a victim of the television imagery I would wear a flag, a skull cap, and on top a doo rag fubu cap and 2 sweat bands to match jeans hanging at the thighs shorts sticking thought that walking cliché, hip hop's got nothing to do with that in fact.
Before I realized hip hop was all of us I used to think hip hop was in the States and the rest of us are followers I was quite alarmed to discover how wrong I was and quite relieved to discover that it belongs to all of us hip hop is independent minds, thinkers you don't have to write scriptures just subscribe to the principles it's not just the elements, the heads and listeners without us there's no hip hop, hip hop live in us I used to think that hip hop is anything with ebonyx that has an explicit lyrics sticker on it I used to think that it was songs with the strongest language that were dishonest a foreign culture that we adopted I used to think that I could hear it when I cranked up the sound and when I turned it down then it got clearer and when I looked through the window I'd swear I was near it 'hold on' it's not a window, I'm looking in the mirror
I am Hip hop, you are hip hop We're soldiers in the true art of hip hop and you've gotta give props, it's who you are and not what you do that is hip hop.
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