It's All About Hip Hop (Da 4 Elements) lyrics - Cassidy

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It's all about hip hop (hip hop)

Hip hop (hip hop)

It's all about hip hop (hip hop, hip hop, hip hop)

Hip hop

Hip hop a culture that most people wanna be in

Middle-eastern, Asian, African, European

I'm a bul that's intelligent but know the four elements:

DJ'in, dance, graffiti and MC'in'

But I been seein' a lot of people that's uninformed

And need to be enlightened like a thunderstorm

'Cause hip hop brung a storm and they changed shit

First song they came with was Sugarhill Gang shit

They got the game lit, but that group had a ghostwriter back then

And nowadays it's the same shit

"A hip hop, a hippie to the hippie the..."

Movie, cinema, y'all can remember the

Song, it was ten minutes long when they spit atcha

But bars is my signature, let's break down the literature

It was unique on-beat to hear cats rhyme

It was cool to use one syllable at that time

Throwback rhyme: "Yo, I'm not sweet

And if a sucka cross me, he'll be six feet"

Peep: sweet, feet, one syllable

Spit that shit now, and that shit sound pitiful

'Cause in the early 80s in some riddles I heard

The best rappers started rhymin' two-syllable words

Like, "I'm the King of Rock

There is none higher

Sucker MCs should call me sire"

Higher, sire... see? I'm not a liar

Ain't that two syllables? I'm tryna paint a visual

In Adidas attire, they were spittin' fire

For you to be original - what the fans required

The lyricists the only niggas I admire

Hearin' dope lines the only time I get inspired

And the subject that I'm addressin' is a blessin'

I spit scripture, these niggas singin' to the choir

And prior to niggas' desire to wanna be wack

I tried to hold it down and they tried to hold me back

We strapped

All the guns foreign that we pack

We clap the stick, it be barkin' like tree sap

I felt like a gangsta when I heard Ice-T rap

Hearin' Rakim and G Rap what made me rap

I felt happy to be black when Chuck D rap

Hearin' Lord Finesse punchlines what made me snap

Kid 'n Play, they made movies, I got to see that

Fresh Prince had a sitcom, that's TV rap

The Fat Boys, Chubb Rock, and that Heavy D cat

Was the first dudes that made it cool to be fat!

Melle Mel was the first to talk street rap

And Kool Moe Dee had bars, he used to eat cats

KRS was the One who used to teach cats

Kane's name was verified, but he couldn't tweet that

The Geto Boys showed us how niggas in the street act

Tribe Called Quest had a different wave, unique rap

Each rap I heard from Slick Rick was slick shit

Kriss Kross showed me that young niggas could get rich

LL showed me that you could rap and get chicks

And Pac showed me that anybody could get this

Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte and Queen Latifah

Just a list of sick chicks

But shit switched, now it's a bunch of dipshits

That don't know their history, so it's not a mystery

That some critics be dissin' me, but first do your research

Or your opinion don't mean shit to me

Yo, realistically?

2 Live Crew went to court and fought so that artists can talk explicitly

And all this was before '96, 'cause around that time

I started seein' shit differently

'Cause all the artists started [?] quickly

But I didn't think that they could think quick as me (naw)

So that was 'round the time I picked the pen up

And ever since then a nigga been up

I'm a star

Since I'm in love with hip hop, I got my chin up

'Cause ain't no tellin' where I'm gon' end up

It's time for bars

Hip hop (hip hop)

Hip hop (hip hop)

It's all about hip hop (hip hop, hip hop, hip hop)

Hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop