Tha Alkaholiks & Phil Da Agony
Dilated Peoples
Defari
Visionaries
Slum Village
Yasiin Bey
Jurassic 5
Showbiz & A.G.
Rasco
Lootpack
Buc Fifty
Xzibit & Saafir & Ras Kass
T-Love (USA)
Krondon
L.M.N.O.
Pumpkinhead & & Ocean (of Makin’ Records and Natural Resource) & Meat Pie & DCQ & The Bad Seed & Pokaface & Jean Grae
The Associates & L.M.N.O. & Key Kool & Divine Styler & Evidence
Styles of Beyond
The Associates & T-Love (USA) & Shaydie & Rakaa Iriscience & L.M.N.O.
Ha! another!
Beat Junkies, sure shot!
Dilated, T-Love
Visionaries, Urbanites
From the Ground Up
(Shaydie and LMNO:)
From the ground up we round up, crews to get pound up
They wound up fucked up, tell em all what's up
Tough luck, ran amuck, open up a can of suck
You must have had a twelve pack, that's why you got held back
I felt that, we propel rap with some detailed fact
Ay! We sell rap, this ain't no woof ticket
Woof that shit and get evicted, he did what?
The whole conversation got shifted
We unwrap the gifted, shake up the timid
Who's to save, give fear to the brave
With a friendly wave, or a premature grave
You make the call, what's the path that you pave?
Engrave math subtract add the division
Multiplied fractions equal one decision
One mind, one cause, all applause, no flaws
We're human tonight, Associates hold tight
It be a cold night in heat town
The beat down will take place overground
It's overnow, we continental bound
LA cracks code, ???
Plus we pack shows, with no delay
(HOOK: Rhettmatic on the scratch)
From the ground up (x6)
(T-Love and Iriscience:)
My brother, my sister, my brother, my brother
My name is T-Love, be crackin 40's with your mother
My sister, my brother, my sister, my sister
The name is Iriscience, I'm a whirlwind twister
Now can you picture, lyrical scriptures
All rolled up in an empty bottle of malt liquor
Floatin adrift, uh, all my sisters
B-Girls be back, B-Boys best be with her
I tell crews, you know I wanna watch the news
What you wanna do is watch for clues
The plot unfolds and the story is old
You get touched like Robert Johnson at the crossroads
One day diggin through my promo stack, they all wack
Called up Iriscience, he thinks ??? a fact
Too many MC's, G's, I can't breathe
Egomaniacs ain't got no goals to achieve
But I never sold my soul givin blues a cold
Like jackfrost nippin while I'm rippin up shows
I hear a lot of talk but not enough is said
And blows to the body help to soften up the head
HOOK:
From the Ground Up was produced by DJ Rhettmatic.
The Associates released From the Ground Up on Thu Jan 01 1998.