Intro: Bill Dixon: Art is the first rebel to rules. Art destroys so that it can create. That’s all it is! In your own work when it doesn’t succeed, You know why it didn’t succeed. Verse: With new music so colorful and vivid I can flip it like a house to find another one to live in. Even if my ship has sailed, I wasn’t on that cruise; Although I’m sure it must be nice like a beach house view, that it’s like I’m only out here to find more truth. You live your life to the fullest like I need more proof. Your thoughts remind me of some fast-food, I see no use. Me shouting over the counter, loud as Fat Man Scoop. No, you aren’t gonna ruin, you are not gonna change me From doing what I’m doing like you understand greatly. I’ve been this, been that. Trouble is I win wars With raps, deep tracks, anything I scratch on. Close my eyes for a second and I take a breath. I used to live life laughing in the face of death, how delightful. I'm polite with that sunshine brightness. Now everything in sight is getting fixed like prices. Truthfully, I do agree with how I read you like a eulogy And usually these opportunities are nothing new to me. I’m getting older now, I have to embrace that I got Too many records and not enough space. Let it drop. I’ve found ways of making it sound great. What a wonderful outrage to spread like an outbreak. Here to bring the whole world the fantastic news Of good afternoon class, welcome back to school, ooh! Chorus: Do you know what hip-hop is? Take a look at yourself and see what hip-hop did Everything that you’ve become when you’re a hip-hop kid. Told yourself when you were young you knew what hip hop meant. Verse: I pray as if I go to war to come back through it safe Cause I’m not a superhero with a mask and a cape. I am asking for strength when completely exhausted From walking too deep through the darkness too often. A difficult man, every sentence or verse, hitting nerves. No longer in search for heaven on earth, written words. I’m in the house even when I’m outside With these unlimited designs whenever I write rhymes. They taught me, my thoughts be, stronger than your heartbeat. You’re not impressed while your legs buckle like a car seat, That for the title I’m making a run at it. They’re barely above average and sweeter than drum patterns. And my refusing to lose is new and improved. The only bubble gum here is stuck under your shoes. No, you deserve what you get, and it has taken its toll On how you left me for dead to awaken my soul. Where I’m at, is at the center of no one can do it better. Whatever they wanna say isn’t clever, get it together. Can you live life wrong as a rich icon? Dog, their fist fight song is a big sized yawn. But when you find the type of people that’ll stand by your side, No matter what that kind of loyalty is, it’s hard to come by. My words dance over drums and move to their own rhythms While these anthems become, he’s so powerfully known with them, come on! Chorus: Do you know what hip-hop is? Take a look at yourself and see what hip-hop did. Everything that you’ve become when you’re a hip-hop kid. Told yourself when you were young you knew what hip hop meant.