Grown Folk Rap Lyrics

I had to switch up and swerve and spit some ill verbs

For my peeps who can sing Ladi Dadi word for word

And go back in time to the essence to the roots

Dropping lessons they ain't know that Busta Rhymes was in a group

Hip Hop has grown up and I grew up with it

I seen the rappers come and go yo I seen all the gimmicks

I watched a whole culture evolve, to think it launched

Off of two turntables and a mixer in the Bronx

Is kinda crazy, thought I'd grow out of this as I got older

But then I hear a song to make me fall in love all over

Sending tracks across seas on mp3's

And I still can't believe that we can scratch on CD's

Back then you ain't fast forward through a tape or stop it

Cause there weren't as many rappers in turn there was more hot shit

You see a old school tape I'm sayin you should buy one

Cause you'll probably hear where ya favorite rapper got his style from

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap

If you listen you can hear, I'm improving every year

Cause I'm easy on the eyes and I'm soothing to the ear

And I grew up in da years of the big gold chains

And the four finger rings and the Big Daddy Kanes

Its that golden era rap the next one came in '94

And everything was grimy raw that time helped define me more

And now I'm just actually coming into my own

I'm finding my zone, I'm done designing my poems

They ready for mass consumption, they blast and pumpin

In they cars I go back to Allstars and Pumpkin

Cause here comes that beat that Sesion 31 laced me with

Da real boom bap you know da dirty drum basement shit

Official like Cool C down to the grissle

Cause you know it when you hear it like the sound of the pistol

Da real hip hop's what you want

I knew that when KRS had Philly niggas yellin out South Bronx

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap

If we went by the cold I'm 20 something winters old

I seen enough Februarys come and go to know

How this shit suppose to sound with the kick and fat snare

Then the sample lock up like dreads in black hair

In the record store this chick said I hate this music, this music you hate

Basically cause you can't relate

It's the soundtrack in my life and each song connects me

I feel like the rapper is talking to me directly

Sometimes I don't wanna hear the bang bang shoot'em up

I want da grown folk rap back when cats would do it up

Dapper Dan suited up nigga truck jeweled up

Timberland booted up, the songs made you move your butt

And I just seen some shit that's wack ock

A cat rockin' over beats clickin 'a mouse on a laptop

I like my Hip Hop natural with lyrical skills

Containing no herbal stimulants or miracle pills

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap

I tell'em

Line'em up, cause recess is over time is up

This is for the 25 and up livin up

It's grown folk rap

My golden era era cats holla back

If you miss that real rap