DMX
Shades of Hip Hop: The Cypher
I try to have some range what I can't
Come certain certain topics so certain
Certain song my voice is one way interrogatories one another
That’s what I'm saying so come that instrument if not you become what are
You calling one of those things that just sit in the middle of the room not all of it but God then take it into this
Right okay I mean you make you - I can I get a big because I bring with me come alive I listen to her and you know she
Just brings up music the beach
Word association I started thinking about let me show the magic garden for
You or when you were sick and you go home you catch the magic card everybody
Else that's all
So sitting this the battle is just a
Full-flavored video clubhouses cover to you right now
Let’s talk about ego we all got my light
I'd like to contest them oh you're heavy ego I'd like to confess that my father is something very new always job involves
Room but on father says something the eGov stands for easing guard out
Everybody has the ego but my life is with life is a fight you know saying
Life is a fight of and the enemy is self
You all yo you are your biggest enemy have you bet your ego go out of control
He's okay it's like I'm coming into this restaurant and if I'm working off your
Ego and I’m with the next man who’s big world and you stacking my chips my ego
Is gone it's gone forced me to be like within keeps knocking max hips I don’t want to look I'm playing myself
I'm probably really can't afford it I’m gonna go down actually late to prove a point right honestly it'd be better
For me to just say it'd probably be very easy lot easy but the test is for you to say you're doing I really gotta say yeah
We want to come to Sweden say with the street scene right now but you want country disabled cannabis
What eco is it and this is what brought that point up however we ego is back as
A Harrison any day things you out you have cats who say like before I want to do this business in this someplace with
Nobody else is speculated to it however they'll be like within that kind of kicking this and that kind of keeping
That that guy speak you're not and it'll make cashing modify them so cats will edit themselves in their head before
They even spin it because they they want to protect the image with me and Moscow
I'm trying to eliminate my ego to the
Bottom line competition it's competition and when she gets [ __ ] up is when
Competition turns to intimidation [ __ ] is in the mic and I'm saying I think
When he did this thing this bottom line I want to come in get busy no I'm saying I want to share this upon the line I
Said go straight up and down when Ben Johnson wet car Lewis's ass in that race you know I'm saying
Carl Lewis got beat yo he ain't won enough no saying you wanna lump the [ __ ] up here you wanna love been on he
Just walked away for the race he wanted to but he couldn't you know I said like a man Muenster suit
Because we're that competition where the turn to intimidation was gifted [ __ ] say yo [ __ ] that yo it started that you
Understand see you have tremendous ego tremendous yeah can that overcome
Certain little deficiencies in skills
You only go so far like you ego is like as this is sales pitch I'm ill Wow
Believe me that's like this is this is
What remember me I swear to God ye more my earliest memories about him sin I sat
Back a lot because the code of the streets growing up in the projects you couldn't be just any [ __ ] just
Stepping up Ronnie you're not I'm saying you had to be introduced to the circle it was a protocol so I had to sit back
And observe and that protocol respect me because and help people observe and really get real information on how
You're supposed to come who you should respect who is who that protocol don't exist no more so you got a lot of cast
Is coming up out of nowhere ain't been introduced by no kind of service or no affiliations no authority
I'm saying this I hear what's out there and I know my students compete with that so ain't gotta be introduced by nobody
I'm saying it's just like you had to be you had the qualifier but people who
Have authority like for instance like you look at this super qualified was so definitely but now that's the first part
Area but you had to be somebody had the knowledge of sin be like while you like not set back in ATP
Levels and sparking it but I was holding
The speaker pull the plug in so easily see you and lock your whole separate and
Is brewing everybody the McManus let me
Finish if you separate us analyze our styles what you defended is what you defending and you always be defending
That you know I'm saying we defending anything while I'm defending I'm saying he defends you and you just gotta separate them though it's not way to put
It together picture picture ego me to see what we
Got for me to say some [ __ ] in the rap that you said or something like that and
I was saying over that to make this point you can get a cap if you talk about how Elliott what is to be okay
Let's just stand seeing it no no no it's business the truth am seeing you get a [ __ ] come to the ball court with the
Ball and the ill kick and but it comes a
Time when you gotta bounce you gotta you gotta hold a rock and you got a
It was like no rules many littlest [ __ ] out man you get a lot of talking on the
Phone about your hey look at my kicks look at my stairs you know I'm Elaine Devon [ __ ] right table city grandma
Your [ __ ] at that [ __ ]
That makes a great emcee what makes
Agree to see us right here okay men qualities might be said right now listen
You have to be like look this is my style I give a [ __ ] this is my pitch I'll believe in it but
You can't be a stupider you gotta know this was hotter beside you know you can't be angry let your emotions blazing it's not really noted it ain't ya they
Move they like yo advice and help them see people don't believe in the things
That they be telling you believe in the ability to tell you too many [ __ ] try
To prove it to themselves they're not trying to prove to me and you do an exam
Right now right pull you get your beat
Everybody else will then congratulate you to get there but there be that one day gonna come up my suit is gonna be
Hotter than your suit
Like nobody without that
What's your favorite word
Most frequently used work not a word that you like the most my favorite word I haven't said yet on
The record it's about you it's fine everything to be going through we're
Going into the new millennium with where we from and with who we are right now and where it's going rough turbulence turbulent times and she
Could be potentially detrimental to all my folks with this matter it's not under control right now
Shake it out though we gotta get all the Kevin likes it now I'm not saying we all got a formal big group what we got to do
You know one of these love peace and happiness reparations but I'm saying straight up and down we just you don't
Say I'm not saying we got to do that
Baby black out all these legs now
Darkness can't see you can't see me
Funny just talked about
You're much anybody is this people in your industry got the right to do it at
The bottom but the fact this is like your isn't like this gag order was saying you're not feeling it you don't
Say it's perfectly alright just like
With chemistry but that's gonna leave it like this because you meet a cat in this
Pool and your posture yes mister
Five years ago that happiness with a finger anybody doing the best thing for
Them to do it tell me didn't watch told
Me stop singing because no I was so tone deaf man that's it any regular singing
No because I get hurt
No this hip-hop and rap are not the same things wrath is something that is done
While hip-hop is something that is lived hip-hop is the behavior that produces
The act of rapping without hip-hop rap has no life and no meaning rap rhythmic
Speech is but one expression that comes out of the total hip-hop experience
Traditionally hip-hop has been approached as an art form that consists of b-boying breakdancing emceeing rap
Era saw art graffiti writing and DJ and the cotton mixin and scratching of
Recorded materials these are called the core for
You
Slang and everybody to explain to you
You not give would bang and break for the Ellis problem this will is messed up
But you can't tell you you can't [ __ ]
With [ __ ] [ __ ] is a unity oh you know cou talk about the [ __ ] from a unit when the [ __ ] is bringing it for
Me they bring a full four day talking about no see me bringing it to you that's the whole [ __ ] triumph flip that
Later on no see yes lady you can't [ __ ] talk about looting you can't feel look you
Gotta feel that it's gonna get springing something to the table it's never bottom
Line the [ __ ] Ray said Ray said oh yeah rainbow roll neon what the [ __ ] is a rainbow
In the street for the street and I'm
Saying something just old flashpoint
Villanueva was at you know sitting when things began to change form you'll say financially he still was wrong he's
Still with bringing about with that maybe there's other casters start off like development or
You know in a second drink is way better like Commons photos doing is like I am in this cat he could develop with the
Seconds or in his life I like to see and I was like and I said
What I have to still not joining that my life the XYZ from now listen now I got to spit this but in reality trying to
Push the envelope what you got to offer or yourself to people you got a lot of
Cancer to come out with a crazy don't you trying to recreate the magic on that joint it's like shooting yes your first
Child in your second child is two different children they got traits this is similar but they different children
These yeah the third child you can treat
Them all of like any album to meet officers like children you manifest something you can warn the son you gotta
Treat it with a degree in love you gotta cultivate it and protect it because it's under seeds you know [ __ ] industry
People [ __ ] from around your way you trying to get in your head you know and you got to protect young your child from
All of these outside forces but the bottom line is like you're this child is
A different child so I need to deal with this child one or its terms with the same kind of love you can't be trying to
Recapture the magazines from your first baby because your first babies your first that's it you know it's like you
Said Oh BJ more leo C stands for this
Stomachs close it was our house music competition and then DJ cheese from Plainfield New Jersey who's the 86 World
Champion for DMC when he entered that year he introduced scratching into it and changed the whole back and they went
Along with it and let it be a hip-hop