| [00:17.614] | Been a long way since subway art |
| [00:19.690] | Roller skates in central park |
| [00:22.206] | Statue of liberty after dark |
| [00:24.445] | B - boys doing it, doing it |
| [00:26.883] | Rhyme off the top a freestyle cypher |
| [00:29.249] | All about fun, before the hyper |
| [00:31.458] | Prices dress code strictly like a |
| [00:33.755] | Geek or a misfit deep in a life of |
| [00:35.993] | Didn't think twice to clear a sample |
| [00:38.207] | Drum break and a fill to dismantle |
| [00:40.399] | Bass line and a phrase to assemble |
| [00:42.896] | Beat and the source barely resembled |
| [00:45.140] | Telephone lines are still on dial |
| [00:47.407] | Single records get shipped on vinyl |
| [00:49.798] | Club and radio play the final |
| [00:51.917] | Test for a DJ press it's vital |
| [00:54.889] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [00:56.525] | Always been, will be survival |
| [00:58.838] | Every now and then, you see a revival |
| [01:01.046] | A school and pride and a pack of vandals |
| [01:03.977] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [01:05.685] | Always been, will be survival |
| [01:07.968] | Every now and then, you hear a revival |
| [01:10.085] | A school and pride and a pack of vandalsd |
| [01:21.849] | Fast forward to the future, rewind to the present |
| [01:24.412] | Stop at the moment, record the movement |
| [01:26.880] | No pause for the students |
| [01:28.506] | Of the game no excuse for snoozing |
| [01:30.693] | A shoe - in to steal from the rich that got rich from looting |
| [01:33.567] | You can consume but resume after chewing |
| [01:35.993] | The media never gets tired of dooming |
| [01:38.120] | The world like it's over many times over |
| [01:40.595] | So what's the coda |
| [01:41.724] | They can ban the amp but you can't stop the camp to raise the lamp |
| [01:45.296] | Oh, go a cappella commando |
| [01:47.270] | Spit with a fury than can blow ten candles |
| [01:49.885] | Time flies when u write a fly rhyme |
| [01:51.785] | Take a dope instrumental on a ride |
| [01:53.458] | Let the high tides |
| [01:54.428] | Sweep the nation, ill communication |
| [01:56.465] | Live giving fives on wi - fi |
| [01:58.726] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [02:00.489] | Always been, will be survival |
| [02:02.709] | Every now and then, you hear a revival |
| [02:05.053] | A school and pride and a pack of vandals |
| [02:07.841] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [02:09.591] | Always been, will be survival |
| [02:11.771] | Every now and then, you hear a revival |
| [02:14.222] | A school and pride and a pack of vandals |
| [02:25.582] | Soundman can you turn my mic up |
| [02:27.900] | He says DJ's gotta turn it down, uh |
| [02:30.226] | Monitors blown out, speakers on feedback |
| [02:33.183] | Song cut off, get a homey to beatbox |
| [02:35.519] | And the beat knocks like straight out the boombox |
| [02:37.884] | You can hear it from the city to the boondocks |
| [02:40.088] | That's tagalog, baby and it's all maganda |
| [02:42.626] | Tag a wall with a marker on the under |
| [02:44.603] | Old school poster in the sun, no magenta |
| [02:46.789] | Yellow or black and the image off - center |
| [02:49.109] | See these poems like the kids in the shelter |
| [02:51.305] | We breed songs like seeds in placenta |
| [02:53.620] | And I'm the father, word to the mother |
| [02:55.835] | Earth to the people, power to the peaceful |
| [02:58.196] | Shoot for the moon revolutionary idol |
| [03:00.403] | Never televised nor idle |
| [03:02.521] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [03:04.457] | Always been, will be survival |
| [03:06.701] | Every now and then, you see a revival |
| [03:08.982] | A school and pride and a pack of vandals |
| [03:11.760] | The theme of a hometown anthem |
| [03:13.600] | Always been, will be survival |
| [03:15.755] | Every now and then, you feel a revival |
| [03:18.225] | A school and pride and a pack of vandals |