[00:00.00]Forgotten Styles - Has Lo
[00:02.04]I'm just tryin' to make something outta nothing
[00:03.93]Word
[00:05.08]So this is how it is sometimes
[00:09.77]Word Up
[00:10.74]Report high light art imitates life
[00:13.31]The written gem shining like the wisdom in the eye of Christ
[00:16.23]Black youth comprehend the science of life
[00:18.61]Seeing of a water living foul and then dyin' trifle
[00:21.45]You can be a rap mogul my work cut up and sculpt tones
[00:24.60]Through a fantasy we hold true
[00:26.40]Life's like a short story where you build wealth and the cost is used
[00:30.19]Touch with the old you  a lower class nobody
[00:33.09]The opposite of what urban radio is sayin' is a hot beat
[00:36.72]Seem as if dissolution my clicks ruling
[00:39.24]I ain't face movement in the verse reveal a blueprint
[00:42.32]Vocally I stomp out beats and leave a giant shoe print
[00:45.21]The new face in rap music  you be a player
[00:47.83]While I change the game if the rules are a nuisance rep for my ill unit
[00:51.90]It ain't nothing I visualize seein' how you live in the illusion
[00:55.44]A trance when the beats bumpin'
[00:57.15]I can pioneer your hit like I'm Rick Rubin
[00:59.79]Has-Lo is on production yeah dollar outta 15 cent
[01:06.16]Word Up money ain't worth nothin' nowadays though
[01:11.64]Word
[01:12.35]Communication sub ether  loving rap even as a little youth
[01:14.82]When we used to wear a hustler or a brushed Caesar
[01:17.66]For the people home rapping in the mirror something gotta change
[01:21.11]Still seemin' out of range  I know the feeling
[01:23.57]They say I'm anarchically as if what they listen to is makin' any real sense
[01:27.51]A lost star reappearin' I'm living proof the streets killin' the youth
[01:31.62]I try to shield em  anyone you hear from is going hard going hard
[01:35.15]Never gonna pop even though his song goin' crop
[01:37.90]So at large only y'all couldn't know the odds  I throw a bomb
[01:41.38]Like a talk from the oligarch  they get you aped like a vol-ca charge
[01:45.25]Solid I'm a cobra covert as
[01:48.16]You need verifying who the voice is
[01:50.68]Yo I shoot off raps like it was 3 pointers
[01:53.33]It got weird when the biz grew enormous and corporate
[01:56.28]Start a label  and make your boys rich
[01:58.49]We forget  what it was like before this
[02:00.72]But now we live and die for it
[02:02.78]Yo
[02:03.77]Live for this  die for this
[02:05.63]Eat breath this Noumea
[02:10.11]Word Up
[02:11.77]Seems like it might take you over sometimes
[02:16.59]Keep shining keep shining
[02:19.95]Keep shining know what I'm sayin'
[02:23.69]Ain't about nothing
[02:25.40]Somebody gin always be playin' but
[02:28.37]Ain't about nothing
[02:30.73]Keep Shining
[02:33.94]Don't forget