Hip Hop (Still Livin') Lyrics

Ay... ay... ay

Alright... alright

Uh uh uh, come on (Hey, hey, he-hey)

Uh what, and ya don't... stop, stop

Ay, baby baby

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Lyrical finessing without question is how I'm rocking this here flow

Mc's move the crowd, but I'm the kind to spit lyrics for your soul

Recognize your inner greatness, stop being brain dead, nigga wake up

There's more to life than hustling hard daily trying to

Get your cake up, we can't just

Keep blaming our failure and mess ups on another

When we speak, but don't seek to be true keepers of our brother

Tell me what's come of, our current, state of mind

Promoting foolishness through music leaving behind our children blind

Is we scared to actually grow up and be what we oughta

Give the people what they be needing so they can grow and move forward

It's like a trap without drugs or a jail cell nigga

Where keeping it real means living broke

Instead of excelling in living, who built this prison

Is it truly the ones we loving to blame

Who no where to be found when it's your own that's causing you pain

They say the music we pushing lack substance

And ain't really worth listening, but I got a message in mine

Hip-Hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Remember the music that used to encourage you through knowledge and wisdom

While at the same time still dropping boombastic bomb lyrics

Tunes that used to have you teary eyed cause it resonate with your suffering

Gave you strength to keep on fighting when this cruel world you had enough of

Gave you lessons you sometimes never find in those you confide

That you often find yourself using through your day to day life

Whatever happened to the soul once interwoven with rhythm

Authentic representation through open statements from within

Lyricism so frigid it'll give old man winter the shivers

But never sacrificing realism just for figgaz and women

Music with meaning that felt tangible though you know you can't see it

Promoted peace, unity and love and wasn't deemed made for weaklings

Those before us paved the path and set the standard to follow

Have we forgotten our responsibility to the youth of tomorrow

Nothing wrong with having fun, kicking back and chilling

But remember keep it real, baby, hip hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

People suffer from a lack of knowledge cause we ain't giving it nigga

To busy and caught up in nonsensical childish bickering nigga

Forget the gimmicks and imagery used as tools to get you loot

Cause if you, get rich off that then you can't say people feel you

Keep in mind when you rhyme how you wanna be remembered

An mc spitting in vain or authentic and genuine

When you speak is it for hoes or from the depths of your soul

Is your music for the love or the fame and zero's

Don't you want a legacy beyond time measured in glass

Cause people's hearts you truly touched in ways they'll never forget

See as for me, I aim to spit lyrics that'll move a nation

Put love and truth in men heart destroying lies and hatred

Bringing changes many for years have only hoped and dreamed

Showing what it means to be a real and truth telling mc

Standing on principles breaking fictitious and fickle brittle images

Giving what many been waiting on, proof hip hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Graffiti, mc's, breaking, turntablism

Hip-Hop still living

Knowledge being dropped and mixed with jewels of wisdom

Hip-Hop still living

Aight, so... all ya'll out there talking about

This generation of artists and all that

Don't know hip-hop or ain't trying to pay homage

To the old school and all that... (Come on man)

This living proof right here (Ay)... that hip hop... still living (Ay)