| Hip hop is the greatest
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| I love it so much that I hate it
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| I haven’t been in it in a minute to win
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| Ok, so let’s begin
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| When I first hit the scene as a struggling MC
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| Doing shows at The Fez underneath the Time Cafe as rap meets poetry
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| Made enough loot for train fare
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| I had no car to get there
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| So I’d leave the party early
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| I was stranded, sleeping in Grand Central
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| If I missed that last 138 train heading up to White Plains
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| I could be wrong but I believe
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| This took place around the years early '94 or '93
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| Heard Nas on Main Source when I lived in Atlanta
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| Before my first time touring overseas with Vernon Reid
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| When Sayyid was a writer for URB
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| Before I quit smoking 'erb
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| We used to get high outside across the mall by the library
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| While a local MC from White Plains named Top Quality
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| Put out an album called «Magnum Opus»
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| When he signed a record deal with PMD
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| Back then I was a cashier at a clothing store
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| While my man Dead End came to visit one day
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| Said he’d be right back
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| Then turned around and robbed the video store right next door
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| I only soared in '95 and '97
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| Antipop had to be distinctive in it’s approach from those (?) kids
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| I always considered it essential in art
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| Forward thinking and plus
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| (?) keep it real
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| And held it against me as a minus
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| Back then we had no support and nobody was behind us
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| Which meant Stretch and Bobbito would never really play us
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| And Rawkus would never really sign us
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| Before (?) gave the world’s first orientation to our single «Disorientation»
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| Before the (?) Blues Remix
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| Before The Isolationist with Vadim
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| Before Antipop was performing at the Soundlab as The Blank Slates
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| Before Priest got arrested, posting up stickers he made working at Kinko’s
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| Promoting the Consortium mixtapes
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| After Original Flavor from New Rochelle dropped «Can I Get Open» with Jay-Z
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| I recorded my first verse ever on an album by a female MC
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| Named (?)
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| When Gang Starr was two MC’s
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| Still together was EPMD
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| I was influenced by Sadat X’s freestyle tapes
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| Before Brand Nubian’s first album hit
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| That my man (?)
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| He was the first to say to me, «Don't be a DJ, you’d make a better MC»
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| Occasionally I’d go to Lyricist Lounge
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| That was the first time I saw Biggie
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| I was in the crowd, I stood a few feet away from him
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| Then I saw him again during New Music Seminar
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| Sharing the stage with 2Pac at the Palladium
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| I’m a golden era 80's baby
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| PE raised me
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| I’m here to stay, I ain’t for play
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| A blank page to a pen is a sin
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| (???) when I cancel your grin |