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The Ghost Of Hip Hops Past
Canibus

[Canibus]

Wake up, what is the date? 1988

Hip Hop is barely exposed to the emotion and hate

I hibernate, rhyming from space

My first album ten years late, I tried to take it to a positive place

It's like a communist state, I tried to escape

My label shot me in the back as I was climbing the gate

Woke up, now I'm awake I found democracy to be fake

Hip Hop sucks, who made it this way?

I was a teenager when Hip Hop saved the day

Paychecks paid the way, not radio play

The artists had knowledge of self, that little bit of honesty helped

Followed lyrics, promoted positive guilt

So even when you thought the message was negative it promoted positive health

It was about the rhymes not wealth

It was about our culture not about what the culture could sell

It was a pact to enlightenment, not Hell

We amused ourselves and this confused everybody else

I memorised 'Rock the Bells'

I memorised 'Tales for the Crack Side', I used to rock gazelles

EPMD 'You Gots To Chill'

Dougie Fresh, Slick Rick, Pete Rock, 'Mistadobalina' was Del

Cold Crush Crew, Melle Mel

Sugar Hill, Salt-n-Pepa, Sweet Tee pretty as Hell

Shanté dimple on her face, pretty as well

I used to wanna sniff the pale Roxanne's tale

Technics 1200, beat it like an SB12

Lord Finesse the punchline king, Heavy D was doing his own thing

____ and McGruff used to hold things

Biz Mark's big ass gold chain

One day I think I saw the Jungle Brothers dancing on Soul Train

Marley Marl, Craig Mack, Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane

Kool G Rap put me under his wing

On the road to lyricism with Rakim and them, some real lyricists

Eric B was sick with the _____

I know I'm tripping, it's bin a minute

So many brothers and sisters, it's hard to remember who did it

Memories disappear like Houdini


My friends disappeared faster than my budget when my producer was greedy

*sample*, feed me

I've been eating emcees, you still don't believe

____ wolf, brown teeth, red blood leak from black sheep

Whenever the horns blowing gets deep

Digging In The Crates for my niggas in D.C.

Diamond D had the 'Best Kept Secret' for weeks

D-Nice said, Bis, you a beast, Redman said, Peace

Def Jam said I couldn't compete

Killah Priest spit 'Heavy Mental' before 'Heavy Mental' was released

Accapella, no instrumental beat

My _____ would hang low, no crease

Timbs on the feet, Cold Cheeks had a Lex

Tom Leek had the MPV, J Rav had the jeep

Clark Kent had the Tahoe, Charles bought a 4.6 because of Jay-Z

The programme director's name from Hot 97 was Tracy

Tragedy Khadafi, Queens' first intelligent Prodigy

Probably the first Arab Nazi

K-9 Posse chew you up like blue chuck chopped meat

MC N-I-N-E

This is the way we 'Walk in New York'

'Throw Ya Gunz' in air if you ready for war

Throw your hands the air if you ready for more

If I don't like the way you look, I'ma tear your face off

The Undergod, underground lord

When it comes to '100 Bars' you know who to ask for

I woke up in the morning, on a regular day

I knew my nigga K-Solo would be around my way

I washed off my Thor hammer, the trigger mechanism lubricate

It was time to destroy the place

He kept saying if I spit my rhymes on the mic

In no time, I would be back in the limelight

I said, Solo, nowadays I don't feel rap

Cos it's not like it used to be, the shit is wack


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