Rock On

[Intro: KRS-One sample] I'm ‘bout to hit you with that traditional style of cold rockin' [Verse 1] Welcome aboard the Underground Railroad, I'm your captain I'm gonna explain the reason why I keep on rappin’ Why I keep on movin’, doin’ shows in Manhattan Knowin’ in my heart that I'll probably never go platinum See, it's for the love—music is in my protoplasm I can only wish but I don't have a genie and my name's not Aladdin Fasten your seatbelts, we're takin’ off soon I'm gonna rock rock on, on a rocket to the moon Start a label up there, sign an alien rappin’ clique Sell a million units and get paid in amethyst ‘Cause on this planet, reality doesn't exist You'd rather sell souls than to sign some real shit But I refuse to put it in park, so I'm shiftin’ the gears Even though time flies, I'm 28 in years That's about 10 thousand and 2200 months Spittin’ heat for ten years and haven't been signed once How I'm 'sposed to blow up when independent labels front Don't pay up, don't promote—your record label sucks You got MCs out there that deserve to get put on So for them, I'm gonna rock rock rock on [Chorus] Supernat (rock rock rock on) And The Plague (rock rock rock on) Stronghold (rock rock rock on) Red Clay (rock rock rock on) Juggaknots (rock rock rock on) M-Pire (rock rock rock on) All of y'all (rock rock rock on) N.Y. (rock rock rock on) [Verse 2] At first, I wanted to paint, so I went to art school Then I saw heads rappin’, bangin’ on tables in the lunchroom In a cypher, they were playin’ some hot beats And these heads rappin’ was C-Rayz Walz and Mobb Deep Yeah, I went to school with them dudes And they dropped out, and eventually I did too I formed a crew with a group named Doom—they call 'em Hydra now And they even sound liver now So me and Blitzkrieg, now we got Park Slope on lock That's when I battled, this Puerto Rican cat named Block And we battled, he beat me, I was impressed with his flow He saw potential, so we broke bread and smoked 'dro This ain't fake, trust me, this is a real tale Block had a group called Zooty Zoo and introduced me to Will Tell We did a track with Metaphor and shit clicked rapidly Then Block said, “Let's form the Brooklyn Academy” So we did. Kids flipped, they loved our songs We were like Pink Floyd, Run-D.M.C., and Cheech & Chong Then Black Panther, Marco Polo came along So now we gon' rock rock rock rock on [Chorus] Jean Grae (rock rock rock on) E.O.W. (rock rock rock on) Medina Green (rock rock rock on) And Hiero (rock rock rock on) Beatminerz (rock rock rock on) Boot Camp (rock rock rock on) Molemen (rock rock rock on) All of y'all (rock rock on, yeah) [Verse 3] I never stop (stop) but I pause for the cause When I rock (rock) my voice echo through halls And the block (block) be like, “PH, {‘It's yours!’}” I'm so (hot… hot… hot…) I rock for Brooklyn, Park Slope, that's my home I rock for the brothers on lock gettin’ chopped for the phone I rock for the b-boys and the DJs I rock for emcees and writers, catchin’ tags on the freeway I rock for my dad and my uncles—rest in peace I rock for my grandma Isabel who's also deceased I rock for those who died and those who are alive I rock for my mom and sis—they helped me to survive I rock for my wife—she brought our son in our life I mean it so sincere that I'm sayin’ it twice I rock for my wife—she brought our son in our life I rock for him like when I rock him to sleep at night I rock for the Ac, my family in these dark days I rock, for y'all, like I rock for The Plague And one day.we'll all be one, rockin’ on stage Lord, what I say is true, so I'm rockin’ for you [Chorus] We goin’ Ocean (rock rock rock on) Everliving Sound (rock rock rock on) Bruise Frank (rock rock rock on) Venom (rock rock rock on) My dad Robert Sr. (rock rock on) My son Raiden (rock rock rock rock on) My wife Shawntay (rock rock rock on) The Diaz family (rock rock rock on) The Edo family (rock rock rock on) DP One (rock rock rock on) Turntable Annihilists (rock rock rock on) DP-1 (rock rock rock on) Turntable Annihilists rock rock rock on [Outro: O.C. sample] The more emotion I put into it, the harder I rock The more emotion I put into it, the harder I rock The harder I rock..