Shades of Hip Hop: The Cypher

Lyrics

I try to have some range what I can't Come certain certain topics so certain Certain song my voice is one way interrogatories one another That's what I'm saying so come that instrument if not you become what are You calling one of those things that just sit in the middle of the room not all of it but God then take it into this Right okay I mean you make you - I can I get a big because I bring with me come alive I listen to her and you know she Just brings up music the beach Word association I started thinking about let me show the magic garden for You or when you were sick and you go home you catch the magic card everybody Else that's all So sitting this the battle is just a Full-flavored video clubhouses cover to you right now Let's talk about ego we all got my light I'd like to contest them oh you're heavy ego I'd like to confess that my father is something very new always job involves Room but on father says something the eGov stands for easing guard out Everybody has the ego but my life is with life is a fight you know saying Life is a fight of and the enemy is self You all yo you are your biggest enemy have you bet your ego go out of control He's okay it's like I'm coming into this restaurant and if I'm working off your Ego and I'm with the next man who's big world and you stacking my chips my ego Is gone it's gone forced me to be like within keeps knocking max hips I don't want to look I'm playing myself I'm probably really can't afford it I'm gonna go down actually late to prove a point right honestly it'd be better For me to just say it'd probably be very easy lot easy but the test is for you to say you're doing I really gotta say yeah We want to come to Sweden say with the street scene right now but you want country disabled cannabis What eco is it and this is what brought that point up however we ego is back as A Harrison any day things you out you have cats who say like before I want to do this business in this someplace with Nobody else is speculated to it however they'll be like within that kind of kicking this and that kind of keeping That that guy speak you're not and it'll make cashing modify them so cats will edit themselves in their head before They even spin it because they they want to protect the image with me and Moscow I'm trying to eliminate my ego to the Bottom line competition it's competition and when she gets [ __ ] up is when Competition turns to intimidation [ __ ] is in the mic and I'm saying I think When he did this thing this bottom line I want to come in get busy no I'm saying I want to share this upon the line I Said go straight up and down when Ben Johnson wet car Lewis's ass in that race you know I'm saying Carl Lewis got beat yo he ain't won enough no saying you wanna lump the [ __ ] up here you wanna love been on he Just walked away for the race he wanted to but he couldn't you know I said like a man Muenster suit Because we're that competition where the turn to intimidation was gifted [ __ ] say yo [ __ ] that yo it started that you Understand see you have tremendous ego tremendous yeah can that overcome Certain little deficiencies in skills You only go so far like you ego is like as this is sales pitch I'm ill Wow Believe me that's like this is this is What remember me I swear to God ye more my earliest memories about him sin I sat Back a lot because the code of the streets growing up in the projects you couldn't be just any [ __ ] just Stepping up Ronnie you're not I'm saying you had to be introduced to the circle it was a protocol so I had to sit back And observe and that protocol respect me because and help people observe and really get real information on how You're supposed to come who you should respect who is who that protocol don't exist no more so you got a lot of cast Is coming up out of nowhere ain't been introduced by no kind of service or no affiliations no authority I'm saying this I hear what's out there and I know my students compete with that so ain't gotta be introduced by nobody I'm saying it's just like you had to be you had the qualifier but people who Have authority like for instance like you look at this super qualified was so definitely but now that's the first part Area but you had to be somebody had the knowledge of sin be like while you like not set back in ATP Levels and sparking it but I was holding The speaker pull the plug in so easily see you and lock your whole separate and Is brewing everybody the McManus let me Finish if you separate us analyze our styles what you defended is what you defending and you always be defending That you know I'm saying we defending anything while I'm defending I'm saying he defends you and you just gotta separate them though it's not way to put It together picture picture ego me to see what we Got for me to say some [ __ ] in the rap that you said or something like that and I was saying over that to make this point you can get a cap if you talk about how Elliott what is to be okay Let's just stand seeing it no no no it's business the truth am seeing you get a [ __ ] come to the ball court with the Ball and the ill kick and but it comes a Time when you gotta bounce you gotta you gotta hold a rock and you got a It was like no rules many littlest [ __ ] out man you get a lot of talking on the Phone about your hey look at my kicks look at my stairs you know I'm Elaine Devon [ __ ] right table city grandma Your [ __ ] at that [ __ ] That makes a great emcee what makes Agree to see us right here okay men qualities might be said right now listen You have to be like look this is my style I give a [ __ ] this is my pitch I'll believe in it but You can't be a stupider you gotta know this was hotter beside you know you can't be angry let your emotions blazing it's not really noted it ain't ya they Move they like yo advice and help them see people don't believe in the things That they be telling you believe in the ability to tell you too many [ __ ] try To prove it to themselves they're not trying to prove to me and you do an exam Right now right pull you get your beat Everybody else will then congratulate you to get there but there be that one day gonna come up my suit is gonna be Hotter than your suit Like nobody without that What's your favorite word Most frequently used work not a word that you like the most my favorite word I haven't said yet on The record it's about you it's fine everything to be going through we're Going into the new millennium with where we from and with who we are right now and where it's going rough turbulence turbulent times and she Could be potentially detrimental to all my folks with this matter it's not under control right now Shake it out though we gotta get all the Kevin likes it now I'm not saying we all got a formal big group what we got to do You know one of these love peace and happiness reparations but I'm saying straight up and down we just you don't Say I'm not saying we got to do that Baby black out all these legs now Darkness can't see you can't see me Funny just talked about You're much anybody is this people in your industry got the right to do it at The bottom but the fact this is like your isn't like this gag order was saying you're not feeling it you don't Say it's perfectly alright just like With chemistry but that's gonna leave it like this because you meet a cat in this Pool and your posture yes mister Five years ago that happiness with a finger anybody doing the best thing for Them to do it tell me didn't watch told Me stop singing because no I was so tone deaf man that's it any regular singing No because I get hurt No this hip-hop and rap are not the same things wrath is something that is done While hip-hop is something that is lived hip-hop is the behavior that produces The act of rapping without hip-hop rap has no life and no meaning rap rhythmic Speech is but one expression that comes out of the total hip-hop experience Traditionally hip-hop has been approached as an art form that consists of b-boying breakdancing emceeing rap Era saw art graffiti writing and DJ and the cotton mixin and scratching of Recorded materials these are called the core for You Slang and everybody to explain to you You not give would bang and break for the Ellis problem this will is messed up But you can't tell you you can't [ __ ] With [ __ ] [ __ ] is a unity oh you know cou talk about the [ __ ] from a unit when the [ __ ] is bringing it for Me they bring a full four day talking about no see me bringing it to you that's the whole [ __ ] triumph flip that Later on no see yes lady you can't [ __ ] talk about looting you can't feel look you Gotta feel that it's gonna get springing something to the table it's never bottom Line the [ __ ] Ray said Ray said oh yeah rainbow roll neon what the [ __ ] is a rainbow In the street for the street and I'm Saying something just old flashpoint Villanueva was at you know sitting when things began to change form you'll say financially he still was wrong he's Still with bringing about with that maybe there's other casters start off like development or You know in a second drink is way better like Commons photos doing is like I am in this cat he could develop with the Seconds or in his life I like to see and I was like and I said What I have to still not joining that my life the XYZ from now listen now I got to spit this but in reality trying to Push the envelope what you got to offer or yourself to people you got a lot of Cancer to come out with a crazy don't you trying to recreate the magic on that joint it's like shooting yes your first Child in your second child is two different children they got traits this is similar but they different children These yeah the third child you can treat Them all of like any album to meet officers like children you manifest something you can warn the son you gotta Treat it with a degree in love you gotta cultivate it and protect it because it's under seeds you know [ __ ] industry People [ __ ] from around your way you trying to get in your head you know and you got to protect young your child from All of these outside forces but the bottom line is like you're this child is A different child so I need to deal with this child one or its terms with the same kind of love you can't be trying to Recapture the magazines from your first baby because your first babies your first that's it you know it's like you Said Oh BJ more leo C stands for this Stomachs close it was our house music competition and then DJ cheese from Plainfield New Jersey who's the 86 World Champion for DMC when he entered that year he introduced scratching into it and changed the whole back and they went Along with it and let it be a hip-hop