Song | B-Boy - Original |
Artist | Macklemore |
Album | The Language of My World |
[00:00.96] | Ladies and Gentlemans |
[00:03.16] | This an ode to the b-boy |
[00:05.39] | b-girls |
[00:06.84] | The people out there who do it for the love |
[00:09.13] | And belive me i'm not dissin' anybody out there who's trying to get paid, |
[00:12.31] | I'm trying to get paid too |
[00:13.65] | But I got one question |
[00:15.38] | Whatever happened to the heart |
[00:17.27] | That pumped the passion into the art |
[00:18.41] | The entity that gave you the energy to wanna start |
[00:20.40] | Break dancin',imma battling doing it at the park |
[00:22.50] | Where the mission was expression not only to top charts |
[00:24.80] | I dont know what happened wanting to blow rap |
[00:26.87] | You lose soul and passion for the flows and the tracks |
[00:28.98] | Radio's lackin' |
[00:30.05] | controlled by Fascists assholes doin' damage |
[00:31.94] | But we're gunna take it back |
[00:33.23] | Before beats to a hundred g's a pop |
[00:35.07] | All you needed was a table top and a beat box |
[00:37.01] | Hip-hop with out the b-boy is like |
[00:39.07] | shelltoes only havin' two stripes |
[00:41.34] | Hip-hop we're freedom-fighting graffiti-writing party types, |
[00:44.58] | That recite and organize and revitalize our rhymin till the group of the money makers systems knows the industry can eventually get served. |
[00:49.46] | Breakers of my verses spinning up a revolutions throughout our words |
[00:51.76] | If you really want it come on get it coz i've got it |
[00:54.38] | I'm honestly paying homage to forgotten pioneers of this culture that are giving them props and learn. |
[00:57.86] | If you wanna earn your stripes you gotta be able to rock this mic and set cyphers alike. |
[01:01.19] | The feeling to put in everything you got in the circle |
[01:04.12] | or never be documented in the Coke(?) commercial. |
[01:06.36] | (We be the badest) |
[01:22.60] | Now b-boys, b-girls |
[01:23.82] | bring it back to the block. |
[01:24.88] | Lemme see you get ill, for real, pop and lock. |
[01:26.39] | If you record without thought then stop, |
[01:28.62] | because I'll serve ya whole album with the goddamn beatbox. |
[01:30.65] | Without thought it just happens. |
[01:32.55] | If you gotta think to feel that's not rapping that's acting. |
[01:34.55] | I'm from a land of backpacks and Fatcat, |
[01:37.11] | MC's with sick raps who serve those that are wack. |
[01:39.18] | It's a way of life; |
[01:40.43] | I put all my energy into the melody on the MPC's until the death of me, record exceptionally, especially, whenever i be monumentally, gramatically, killing the mic. |
[01:47.43] | I tell my DJ's, cranking that music, keeping 'em moving when the beat plays, |
[01:49.63] | Staying into it, breaking and grooving(?), and MC's they, thinking that you should always pursue in what their dreams make, taking from lucid (??). |
[01:55.64] | All the people gotta make their money, |
[01:57.40] | and the way to make money is to get inside of the industry, |
[01:59.32] | take it on the radio, flow |
[02:00.47] | so you can go blow, |
[02:01.79] | we get a car and a crib up on MTV, |
[02:03.67] | but,In the end what's classic?radio bubblegum? |
[02:06.66] | or a voice filled with passion? |
[02:07.96] | To my real hip-hop heads, please stand up, |
[02:10.12] | 'cause the only people that can preserve this art is us! |
[02:12.43] |
[00:00.96] | Ladies and Gentlemans |
[00:03.16] | This an ode to the bboy |
[00:05.39] | bgirls |
[00:06.84] | The people out there who do it for the love |
[00:09.13] | And belive me i' m not dissin' anybody out there who' s trying to get paid, |
[00:12.31] | I' m trying to get paid too |
[00:13.65] | But I got one question |
[00:15.38] | Whatever happened to the heart |
[00:17.27] | That pumped the passion into the art |
[00:18.41] | The entity that gave you the energy to wanna start |
[00:20.40] | Break dancin', imma battling doing it at the park |
[00:22.50] | Where the mission was expression not only to top charts |
[00:24.80] | I dont know what happened wanting to blow rap |
[00:26.87] | You lose soul and passion for the flows and the tracks |
[00:28.98] | Radio' s lackin' |
[00:30.05] | controlled by Fascists assholes doin' damage |
[00:31.94] | But we' re gunna take it back |
[00:33.23] | Before beats to a hundred g' s a pop |
[00:35.07] | All you needed was a table top and a beat box |
[00:37.01] | Hiphop with out the bboy is like |
[00:39.07] | shelltoes only havin' two stripes |
[00:41.34] | Hiphop we' re freedomfighting graffitiwriting party types, |
[00:44.58] | That recite and organize and revitalize our rhymin till the group of the money makers systems knows the industry can eventually get served. |
[00:49.46] | Breakers of my verses spinning up a revolutions throughout our words |
[00:51.76] | If you really want it come on get it coz i' ve got it |
[00:54.38] | I' m honestly paying homage to forgotten pioneers of this culture that are giving them props and learn. |
[00:57.86] | If you wanna earn your stripes you gotta be able to rock this mic and set cyphers alike. |
[01:01.19] | The feeling to put in everything you got in the circle |
[01:04.12] | or never be documented in the Coke? commercial. |
[01:06.36] | We be the badest |
[01:22.60] | Now bboys, bgirls |
[01:23.82] | bring it back to the block. |
[01:24.88] | Lemme see you get ill, for real, pop and lock. |
[01:26.39] | If you record without thought then stop, |
[01:28.62] | because I' ll serve ya whole album with the goddamn beatbox. |
[01:30.65] | Without thought it just happens. |
[01:32.55] | If you gotta think to feel that' s not rapping that' s acting. |
[01:34.55] | I' m from a land of backpacks and Fatcat, |
[01:37.11] | MC' s with sick raps who serve those that are wack. |
[01:39.18] | It' s a way of life |
[01:40.43] | I put all my energy into the melody on the MPC' s until the death of me, record exceptionally, especially, whenever i be monumentally, gramatically, killing the mic. |
[01:47.43] | I tell my DJ' s, cranking that music, keeping ' em moving when the beat plays, |
[01:49.63] | Staying into it, breaking and grooving?, and MC' s they, thinking that you should always pursue in what their dreams make, taking from lucid ??. |
[01:55.64] | All the people gotta make their money, |
[01:57.40] | and the way to make money is to get inside of the industry, |
[01:59.32] | take it on the radio, flow |
[02:00.47] | so you can go blow, |
[02:01.79] | we get a car and a crib up on MTV, |
[02:03.67] | but, In the end what' s classic? radio bubblegum? |
[02:06.66] | or a voice filled with passion? |
[02:07.96] | To my real hiphop heads, please stand up, |
[02:10.12] | ' cause the only people that can preserve this art is us! |
[02:12.43] |