Back 2 Tha Roots

[Verse One]

Let's take a journey back into our history
When this was all about our beats, content, rhymes and delivery
DeeJays would spin the breaks to make your body jittery
And you'd fall into a trance and forget all your misery
It's a real shame looking at what this has become
What society views Hip-Hop as, blending in among
The mainstream noise, we're starting to forget the roots
This was Good Music before you abused it and abandoned the truth
I bet half you 'rappers' have no clue who Kool Herc is
So pay close attention cause you need to learn this
Kool Herc was the one who started our culture
And Flash and Bambaataa proceeded to take it further
Doug E Fresh, Buffy and Biz Markie
Became human instruments helping the Disc Jockeys
Slick, Ra, G Rap, Daddy Kane and KRS-One
Started to develop their rhymes in order to become the best ones
All of you people should be taking this info in
And learn it before you try and get that sick flow kid
Cause what you hearing on the radio is not hip-hop
Those like Rick Ross are nothing but shit pop

[Hook]

Let's take it Back 2 Tha Roots of the real Hip-Hop
Times running out as the clock goes tick tock
Let's take it Back 2 Tha Roots of the real Hip-Hop
Before we had shit pop like Drake and Rick Ross

[Verse Two]

While on your journey, make sure you learn about the seven elements
Cause in this genre it's them that take precedence
First there's emceeing which is what we be speaking
Delivering our flow to create feeling and meaning
The second part comes to us from the vinyls
Whilst emcees are rhyming, DeeJays are scratching and mixing, creating diamonds
Some may say producing is just what the DeeJays do
But I think that's like saying licking her out is the same as giving a BJ dude
The fourth be graffiti, spreading this through visual means
They could create something beautiful with a single simple E
Breaking is one of the elements that not many can do
Years of dedicated hard work to pull off those moves
Beatboxers have my instantaneous respect
Crazy how they make those sounds without breaking a sweat
Last but most important, the forgotten element of our culture
Knowledge bonds us together and defines our sculpture

[Hook]

Let's take it Back 2 Tha Roots of the real Hip-Hop
Times running out as the clock goes tick tock
Let's take it Back 2 Tha Roots of the real Hip-Hop
Before we had shit pop like Drake and Rick Ross

Let's take it Back 2 Tha Days of NWA
Onyx, Gang Starr, Eyedea and Daddy Kane
Let's take it Back 2 Tha Times where real dudes rhymed
Wu, Nas, R.A., Pac, Big and the Pharcyde