This Is Hip Hop-Termanology

[00:42.640]Yeah yo yo. [00:44.180]I was a young cat listening to Snoop and Dre [00:46.680]Trying to memorize the words that they used to say [00:49.240]It's like this and like that and like this and uh [00:51.480]It's like that and like this and like that and uh [00:54.350]That was back in 92, I was only 10, holding pens [00:57.790]Back before rap was all about the bling [00:59.490]I was a young prince kickin' my style [01:01.560]Not knowing one day I'd be the king of my town [01:04.080]Now, sittin' around just blazin' them pounds [01:06.740]At the age of 15 [01:07.910]Rap was only a dream [01:09.160]Then a brother got a demo [01:10.470]And some money to settle [01:11.670]Now I'm 20 years young [01:12.880]And the best where I'm from [01:14.510][Chorus] [01:24.990][Termanology] [01:34.760]Yo. I remember 88 with the backspin [01:37.570]Back when it was more to hip-hop then rappin' [01:39.500]Back when everybody spit it with a passion [01:42.730]Time, time, time, time for some action [01:45.280]Back when Iron Mike Tyson was the one to be [01:47.840]Marley Marl and Pete Rock had hottest beats [01:50.350]Queen Latifah had the video for human teeth [01:52.890]Around the time that crack ****** up the community [01:55.430]It was the golden age era for rap [01:57.540]Nothing like now-a-days with all these terrible cats [02:00.150]Listening to Kane and to Kool G, it's a wrap [02:02.720]Everytime you bought an album you just knew it was fat [02:05.090]Way back, before I had the Sony walkman with playback [02:08.070]Before I had the A deck, Hydro and a hayracks [02:10.680]Before the invention of DVD's [02:12.870]And KRS put it down for the BDP [02:16.110][Chorus] [02:21.080][Termanology] [02:36.150]Back in the days when I was young i'm not a kid anymore [02:38.410]But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again [02:41.360]Eating Skittles and digging in the fridge again [02:43.770]Back when the doc said that Term needed some Idelin [02:46.300]On a mission and trying to get them dividends [02:48.820]Back when I spit for anybody that was listenin' [02:51.450]Remember pitchin' and a dollar for a nickle and [02:54.010]In 95 Mobb Deep had The Infamous [02:56.690]As a young kid, it was a bad influence [02:59.130]I had the police trying to take my fingerprints [03:01.740]Cash rules everything around me - CREAM get the money [03:04.720]4-5-6 give me that 20 [03:06.760]That was the hot **** gettin' funds playin' dice [03:09.440]Spending our studio time and adding ice [03:11.840]So I can relate to The Roots man they said it right [03:14.430]Hip-hop your the love of my life, like [03:17.080][Outro] [03:17.500]"Gangstarr" [03:18.680][T]Is real hip-hop and uh [03:19.520]"KRS-One" [03:20.580][T]That's real hip-hop and uh [03:22.210]"Rakim" [03:23.240][T]Is real hip-hop and uh [03:24.720]"Public Enemy" [03:25.840][T]That's real hip-hop and uh [03:26.890]"Kool G Rap and Polo" [03:28.010][T]That's real hip-hop and uh [03:29.360]"A Tribe Called Quest" [03:30.520][T]That's real hip-hop and uh [03:31.760]"Big Daddy Kane" [03:33.110][T]That's real hip-hop and uh [03:34.550]"Ed O.G." [03:35.930][T]That's realHip-hop - x8