I Said Hey

[Verse 1]

Yo

The first time I heard Digital Underground I was in the first grade

My homie, Lace, brought it over and he dubbed it on a mixtape

I would do the Humpty Hump and perform to his verses

12 Years later, I learned that Shock G and him were the same person

I loved Hammer I can't front he taught me how to dance

Along with Bell Biv DeVoe I had Jay-O's and a pair of zebra pants

But this was the foundation

What would come to be a life long passion, journey and drive an MC

Some people ask me what it means

I dont know where to start

Its the deepest connection between my soul and my heart

When I first stepped to do a cypher in a jam at the park

I got served No for real I got served

But see I learned something observed others

And watched an urge hungered

Verse studier earned a turn on that block

I dont care who you are or where you're from or what you believe in

But if you love Hip Hop I bet

Its more or less for the same reason

This is it when you spit you exist in that moment

And if you're sick with that gift you then rip it when you perform it

Then all the shit that you live begins to lift off your shoulders

And the audience well they get to experience where your soul is

The most amazing feeling rocking a crowd to your anthem

To the front to the back with their motherfucking hands up

Cause I'm an MC won't be the first won't be the last

Just another B-Boy and I'ma die in my stance

[Hook]

If you got a pen and a pad put your heart down

If you got a record and can crab lay your scratch down

If you got a marker and a can bomb your art now

If you got a floor and you're fast kick that ill style

If you got a pen and a pad put your heart down

If you got a record and can crab lay your scratch down

If you got a marker and a can bomb whole damn town

But If you live for hip hop dont ever put your hands down

Dont put your hands down Keep that shit up

We're gonna rock it like this

It goes front back front back front back front Come on

It goes front back front back I said front back

To my people you know it

It goes front back front back it goes front back

Okay, bring it down

[Verse 2]

Now I don't know if it's the clothes, the hoes or the cars

That make people rap like they're trapped inside these bars

This shit ain't complicated, man, just be who you are

Too busy searching for the light, missing the fact that you're a star

Now who's got passion? Stand the hell up

'Cause I wanna hear somebody rapping who's got it inside their cuts

Now you can get intricate, displaying your fancy cadences

But if you're not speaking the truth you might as well not be saying shit

I said "Who's going to teach the kids?"

You wanna blow up and get famous so you can get some new rims

All the money in the world can help you look like a star

But money can't buy you the heart to go and put inside your bars

And I like nice shit too

Believe me, I got a closet full of Nikes and whole bunch of Velour suits

Fitted white Tees and an Icy earrings like the whole youth population of hip-hop

But look beyond it when I record to these beats

But if I don't speak me

What's the difference between my lyrics and what you hearin' on MTV

People fear that if they're steering away from the mainstream

Then their album won't sell, well, I could give a fuck

I'm just gonna freestyle and spit what's inside my gut

And if you want to you can go and label me conscious

But just remember there's a kid at a bus stop beatboxing

Whose life's will be affected by what's inside of his Walkman

[Hook]

If you got a pen and a pad put your heart down

If you got a record and can grab lay your scratch down

If you got a marker and a can bomb your art now

If you got a floor and you're fast kick that ill style

If you got a pen and a pad put your heart down

If you got a record and can grab lay your scratch down

If you got a marker and a can bomb the whole damn town

But if you live for Hip Hop dont ever put your hands down