Hip Hop Knowledge

Yeah, yo, what's up? This is Hip Hop Yeah, you know, knowledge is power (Stormatique on the beat) And this is Hip Hop Knowledge, the refix (word) 2013, MCskill ThaPreacha, Stormatique Yo, check it out In the early '70s, Hip Hop was born Few years later, Hip Hop was one DJ Kool Herc is the father Holding Hip Hop with a grip all the way up the ladder Let me take you further Afrika Bambaataa, he added consciousness, that made us stronger Bambaataa, founder, the Zulu Nation Hip Hop would go on and survive in any situation Grandmaster Flash came with a flash Took Hip Hop by surprise with the Furious Five Much props to Melle Mel and Cowboy Wiggins Creating the term Hip Hop when he was scat singing JMJ runs DMC I'm talking Jason Mizell, Run and the MC With 'devastating mic control', they turned leaders The culture was richer, here comes the teacher Knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody Call up KRS, he's guaranteed to rip a party He helped Hip Hop destroying all critics Kicking knowledge to emcees trapped in their cities Incorporating Jamaican style into Hip Hop KRS-One, founder Temple of Hip Hop All this happened right before the golden age Before gangsta rap, we had the golden age It's a period in the mainstream hip-hop When innovation was the key, no flip-flop Public Enemy, I see you Eric B and Rakim, De La Soul, man I see you I could go on and on, but I gotta stop I brought you Hip Hop Knowledge, now you overstand Welcome to Hip Hop culture, where Deejaying, Emceeing, Graffiti Art, Breaking And the philosophies are expressed every day within the inner cities of America and the world You are not doing Hip Hop, you are Hip Hop Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong You know, you don't see with your eyes, you see with your brain And the more words your brain has, the more things you can see Yo, you Black, White, Hispanic, or you Asian Come together if you down for this Nation We don't discriminate, we ain't racists Ugly or pretty, we don't care about your faces 'Victory over the streets' is our model I quote from the teacher, the grand model Hip Hop reduced gang wars and street violence With artwork battles replacing the physical violence The critics? They ain't got nothing to say Guaranteed attention, we don't even have to pray They tried so hard to make us fall apart But we went stronger, hip and hop couldn't part Hip Hop is one, we gotta keep expanding Critics got no choice but to start comprehending Listen, I'm 'bout to state the nine elements It's a culture respected by the residents Breaking, Emceeing, Deejaying, Graffiti Art Hip Hop is alive, it's the city's heart Beatboxing, Street Fashion, Street Language, Street Knowledge You gotta acknowledge Street Entrepreneurialism That's the last of the elements' son, study my lyricism We live Hip Hop, I'd never stop saying that I brought you Hip Hop knowledge, now you overstand (stand, stand-) We created the "Stop the Violence" movement You may recall a song "Self Destruction", and so on All of this goes to uh, uh, the idea of living this culture And taking responsibility for how it looks, and acts in society