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