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Macklemore
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Ladies and gentlemans
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This an ode to the B-boys, B-girls
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The people out there who do it for the love
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And believe me I'm not dissin' anybody out there who's trying to get paid
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I'm trying to get paid too!
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But I got one question
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Whatever happened to the heart?
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That pumped the passion into the art?
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The entity that gave you the energy to wanna start?
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Breakdancing, I'm battling, doing it at the park
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Where the mission was expression, not only to top charts
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I don't know what happened, wanting to blow rap
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You lose soul and passion for the flows and the tracks
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Radio's lacking, controlled by fascists, assholes doing damage
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But we're gonna take it back
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Before beats to a hundred G's a pop
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All you needed was a tabletop and a beatbox
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Hip-hop without the B-boy is like shelltoes only having two stripes
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Hip-hop, we're freedom-fighting, graffiti-writing, party types
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That recite and organize and revitalize our rhyming
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'Til the group of the moneymakers systems
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Knows that the industry can eventually get served
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Breakers of my verses spinning up a revolution throughout our words
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If you really want it, come on get it, cause I've got it
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I'm honestly paying homage to forgotten
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pioneers of this culture that are giving them props and learn
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If you wanna earn your stripes
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You gotta be able to rock this mic and set cyphers alike
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The feeling to put in everything you got in the circle
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Will never be documented in the Coke commercial
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We be the baddest
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Now B-boys, B-girls
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Bring it back to the block
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Lemme see you get ill, for real, pop and lock!
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If you record without thought then stop
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Because I'll serve your whole album with the goddamn beatbox
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Without thought it just happens
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If you gotta think to feel, that's not rapping, that's acting
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I'm from a land of backpacks and fat cats
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MCs with sick raps who serve those that are wack
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It's a way of life
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I put all my energy into the melody
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On the mp3s until the death of me
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Record exceptionally, especially
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Whenever I be monumentally, grammatically, killing the mic
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I tell my DJs, cranking that music, keeping 'em moving when the beat plays
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Staying into it, breaking and grooving, and MCs they
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Thinking that you should always pursue in what their dreams make
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Taking from lucid
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All the people gotta make their money
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And the way to make money is to get inside of the industry
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Take it on the radio, flow
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So you can go blow, we get a car
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And a crib up on MTV
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But in the end what's classic?
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Radio bubblegum? or a voice filled with passion?
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To my real hip-hop heads, please stand up
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Cause the only people that can preserve this art is us
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - CAN'T HOLD US ...
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