Keepin It Live

Lyrics

What you mean I ain't making no money off this hip-hop shit?
 Yeah, I know this is all I do is stay up and make beats
 You know, this is how we make our living
 This is what the people want us to do
 Nah, I'm not gonna get a job there
 I'm not gonna work there, all day at The Gap
 Fuck it, hey, come over here, let's listen to Thes One
 Check it out, it was me and Double K in my room in 95
 Beatboxing on the mic, recording the tape live
 Before we arrived on the scene, you know what I mean
 When it was all about... I forgot, man forget it
 See now the P is sweated as a global event
 But it seems those closest to me seem the least to care
 When it was "Rah-rah, y'all can do it" back in the day
 Now it's like 3 hours deep and "When are you getting paid?"
 My records are played, I sleep smiling every night
 But when I wake up, it's something else, a whole new fight
 Like cats double crossing me, that I try and help out
 If it wasn't for me and Double that shit wouldn't come out
 So recognize whose the guys devoting they life to it
 Sacrificed stability to flex our ability
 Prove the inner artillery
 I can't chill until we fufill the plan of having mic's in the hand
 The sole reason I was cast down on this land
 Is to sit in front of the MPC and turn the bland into the flambay
 Things to play to make your day
 Same shit 10 years ago I'm doing today
 And 10 years from now, so don't ask how or even why
 B-boy for life, fuck a suit and a tie
 Cuz I'll know I made a difference on the day that I die
 Aiyyo, I b-boy for life so fuck a suit and a tie
 Yeah... I feel you man
 She be talking that ole bullshit, you know
 You know, maybe you should get out and go get a job, ya know
 Or--or, we can't spend enough time, ya know what I'm saying?
 Just like you, maan, Big Thes man,
 I done spent all my life tryna do this hip-hop shit
 Think it was like 95-96, when I...
 Perfected my track skills on the SP
 Murdered 10 seconds in a minute, peers couldn't get it
 Mike was walking on water, my brother you shoulda seen it
 Got ate up in some rap battles, I'm here to redeem it
 Like a rain check hustler, scoping the aisles
 Chocking lyrics making beats just to keep it on file
 With the ADAT Zip on the floppy I'm never coming sloppy
 No reason to copy niggas, I'm dope so go figure
 Not conceided nigga, I'm confident when I'm dropping it
 Hold the microphone firm, let the lyrics burn
 Like the buddha to the sherm
 I'm mellow with one word, two, let it cage,
 Bringing better days when I bust
 Stay grounded with my head in the clouds and thats a must
 Ya know, just a piece in my hip-hop black book
 Outlining the track y'all watch for the hook
 Filling in my ideas, here to keep your style shook
 Never rapping like niggas just to be in the game
 I'm coming from the inside so y'all remember my name
 Yo, it's the K Dub, trouble bringing, the notorious one
 Couldn't be stopped, keeping these sucka crews on the run, ya dig it?
 No matter what y'all say, do or know, it's me and Thes One maintaining the... uhh...
 Ya know how it goes, man... it's me and Thes One, like always, it's two of us...
 Keepin' it live... keepin' it fresh... I dunno man...
 Sometimes I just feel like we can't take it no more
 like we just gonna bust back ya know battle rapping, backpacking
 Yeah... yeah... we backrapping...
 Backrapping and slapping all you fools in the face
 You just a... you just a...
 Just a disgrace to the... to the. to the. yeah
 I like how it sounds right there, man...
 It's real, real mellow, real jazzy like, ya dig
 Oww... word up... oww... word up... ow... word up...
 Thes One and uh, the Double, get live and my man the...
 Get live, and we in the house... yeah... he's with The Double.
 Y-ye-yeah, he in the house and... we all in the house and...
 Suckas...
 

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Song Details

Duration
04:36
Key
8
Tempo
90 BPM

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