Hip Hop’s Not Over - Intellectual

[Intro]

You can't have hip (without the hop)

Funky def too (so the people never stop)

Pump it up loud (play it in your jeep)

Pump it late at night (so the city never sleeps)

Awww yeah, in the house tonight

Live from Fort Greene, First World

The R.E.V and Knowledge Born

And we gonna take it to head

Nine square style

[Verse 1: Knowledge Born]

This is a secret that was kept

No need for me to run around with a tec

But it doesn't matter whether a nigga may be strappin'

Give me the mic and I'll show you that I'm packin'

Cracking up beats and rhymes in my head

Don't you know the suckers said Hip Hop music's dead

Hip hop music coming out of the past

Here's to the suckers who said it wouldn't last

It's 1994 it's still ripping and wrecking shop

Wanted by my people cause my music is Hip-Hop

I got the streams of fire and I'm slinging up mad dough

Burning up the crosses, dropping lessons that I wrote

I gotta get a crown for my lyrical insight

Dropping ghetto styles cause the people get mad hype

So here's where I begin my friend, I might rhyme in the end

They be trying to take my peep, but it's about to end

[Verse 2: The R.E.V.]

Don't you dare touch it, let it kick so you can bust it

Here in nine square cold kicking with the roughness

Always kinds of punks who try to sabotage me, hush you

They wanna ban rap shit, yet they use them in commercials

Tryna kill off DJs by using CDs

Wanna censor rhymes, to kill off all the MCs

And yet Hip-Hop's still hittin'

Brothers as ya came, moving strong on the mission

Next up is me, to set my thoughts free

Teach you the truth about our own history

Yo its time for me to add on 'cause they put the baton

Our reputations negative we dissin' all the rap songs

Housing police, let it kick off if there was peace

Brothers from the projects was the ones with the guns like the beast

As the style went on so many things got colder

But no matter what they did yo, hip hop is still not over

[Chorus]

Hip hop is not over

Hip hop not not not over

Hip hop

[Verse 3: Knowledge Born]

Soon as the plot's dropped you tryna stop hip hop

I'm really fed up, when will this madness just stop

I drop fucking facts [?] on a track

Kicking rappers to the curb cause they style is whack

First World, ambassadors of hardcore hip hop

Teaching and reaching in the places where we stomp

The harder the beat then the stronger that we flow

I flip with the skills so you can see what a brother know

Brothers from the Fort [?], we crept and stepped in

Yeah you know that we don't need a weapon

But sometimes we strap up, we think that's rough

Why is that? Cause we gotta call a nigga's bluff!

Got it goin' on, gotta keep it strong

Gotta make it last to a show, grab the cash and dash

A dog MC of a real strong breed

Guarantee to give the people just what they need

[Chorus]

Hip hop is not over

Hip hop not not not over

Hip hop

[Verse 4: The R.E.V.]

I'd never trust the Devil with my life or my rhymes

Put my life before the loot or put my neck on the line

Although the Devil come in all shapes and all colors

Before I trust another guy, gotta be able to trust my brothers

And if I can't then I won't, at least I know I tried

And if it don't work then I tell 'em step aside

How many brothers asked me for my beats

Made up rhymes so weak and put the day time asleep

When I move, there ain't no stopping us now

Like McFadden and Whitehead I'ma motivate the crowd

Now pick it up, pick it up, attract it like a magnet

Spike Lee already got it, now the rap's gotta have it

Tribe Called Quest, Flavor Flav, and The Flavor Unit

Wreckx-n-Effect made the honeys wanna zoom it

Now it's First World, growing larger, getting older

Letting suckers know that hip hop is not over

[Chorus]

Hip hop is not over

Hip hop not not not over

Hip hop is not over

Hip hop not not not over

[Outro]

Aww yeah

I like the way this is going down

(I hear that, God)

Rolling in the nine square

First World posse and we in full effect

Man, shout out to First Sound Productions

Maltar Management, the Bloodfunk

Romance and Champagne

The Brooklyn Assault Team

And the whole First World posse

Man, shout out to the underground and commercial hip hop DJ's

Peace!