| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| It's time that | |
| I open with a thunder sound | |
| Now look around your own town for the underground | |
| Yo, you rhymin for the | |
| TV or a million | |
| Cd's?You ain't a | |
| MC, you ain't underground | |
| You could be platinum or gold, hot or cold | |
| But it's the respect you hold that's underground | |
| When the critics don't get, that for the streets you spit it | |
| When your lyric they fear, that's underground | |
| Yeah what does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| Yo, white kids, black kids, skinny kids, fat kids | |
| Them Asian cats be underground | |
| Chicanos, | |
| Palestinians, | |
| Milanos, fuck the lone ranger | |
| Where's Tanto? | |
| That's underground | |
| Freddie Fox, | |
| Blackalicious, | |
| KweliM.O.P., | |
| Gangstarr that's underground | |
| Mad lion, | |
| Smif-N-Wessun, | |
| BuckshotArmageddon | |
| T.S. that's underground | |
| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| Yo, the t'cha returns, | |
| I told y'all | |
| I went to | |
| Cali to learn | |
| And that shit was underground | |
| If the cops be eyein' you 'cause survive is what you try to do | |
| Yo I'm wit you, you underground | |
| If it's justice you want and you protest the ice they flaunt | |
| You want skills that's underground | |
| Yo it's not about a rugger, rapper, or an actor | |
| It's about your subject matter that's underground, look | |
| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground, alright | |
| Chevonne Dean from | |
| Ruff Ryders, all the outsiderz | |
| Young Zee, that's underground | |
| When all your money's spent and you're still hangin' on | |
| To 50 Cent, get it, you underground | |
| When you rep the collective consciousness of hip-hop | |
| Not hip-pop, you underground | |
| Yo it ain't about jewels, bitches and cars | |
| It's about | |
| Nas, that's underground, yo | |
| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| To be underground simply means that you're down | |
| For the struggle, get 'em up, that's underground | |
| You could be a classy lady or a whore | |
| But if you protest the war, for sure, you underground | |
| If the government can't see you or deceive you | |
| You love your people, believe you underground | |
| If you refuse to play the game, you go against the grain | |
| You ridin' the train, you underground, get it | |
| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| Yo, yo, that blast from the past, like | |
| Grandmaster | |
| CazBam and | |
| Flash, that's underground | |
| Doug E. Fresh, | |
| Lord Finesse, | |
| KRSIf you listenin' to this you underground | |
| Turn it up now | |
| KRS about to show you how | |
| They go wow, blaow for the underground | |
| Mr. Walt, | |
| Evil Dee, | |
| KRS, BDPKenny | |
| P, that's underground, do it | |
| What does it mean to be underground? | |
| It means you gotta be free to be underground | |
| Yo, you got your own key when you're underground | |
| If you're listening to me yo you underground | |
| Alright turn it up, turn it up | |
| Turn it up, turn it up | |
| Turn it up, turn it up | |
| Turn it up if you underground, listen | |
| Sure shall |