The Echo Of Events Unknown And It Held Meaning

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Hip hop is the greatest I love it so much that I hate it I haven't been in it in a minute to win Ok, so let's begin When I first hit the scene as a struggling MC Doing shows at The Fez underneath the Time Cafe as rap meets poetry Made enough loot for train fare I had no car to get there So I'd leave the party early I was stranded, sleeping in Grand Central If I missed that last 138 train heading up to White Plains I could be wrong but I believe This took place around the years early '94 or '93 Heard Nas on Main Source when I lived in Atlanta Before my first time touring overseas with Vernon Reid When Sayyid was a writer for URB Before I quit smoking 'erb We used to get high outside across the mall by the library While a local MC from White Plains named Top Quality Put out an album called "Magnum Opus" When he signed a record deal with PMD Back then I was a cashier at a clothing store While my man Dead End came to visit one day Said he'd be right back Then turned around and robbed the video store right next door I only soared in '95 and '97 Antipop had to be distinctive in it's approach from those (?) kids I always considered it essential in art Forward thinking and plus (?) keep it real And held it against me as a minus Back then we had no support and nobody was behind us Which meant Stretch and Bobbito would never really play us And Rawkus would never really sign us Before (?) gave the world's first orientation to our single "Disorientation" Before the (?) Blues Remix Before The Isolationist with Vadim Before Antipop was performing at the Soundlab as The Blank Slates Before Priest got arrested, posting up stickers he made working at Kinko's Promoting the Consortium mixtapes After Original Flavor from New Rochelle dropped "Can I Get Open" with Jay-Z I recorded my first verse ever on an album by a female MC Named (?) When Gang Starr was two MC's Still together was EPMD I was influenced by Sadat X's freestyle tapes Before Brand Nubian's first album hit That my man (?) He was the first to say to me, "Don't be a DJ, you'd make a better MC" Occasionally I'd go to Lyricist Lounge That was the first time I saw Biggie I was in the crowd, I stood a few feet away from him Then I saw him again during New Music Seminar Sharing the stage with 2Pac at the Palladium I'm a golden era 80's baby PE raised me I'm here to stay, I ain't for play A blank page to a pen is a sin (???) when I cancel your grin