As the Art Fades Away - Wordsmith

Got them Props, shows been rocked, Ode to the greats the tapes

The boom box and to the bus stop the bootlegs are hot the

Days fade away won’t stay on the block (Adlib: On the block) so true

They due to get paid, the art that they made it skip the airwaves

The labels just say we own ya like slaves (Adlib: Put em' on the shelf)

That thought they took to the graves (Adlib: To the graves).

Fast forward

Flow so historic I claim the torch, the course, the force wit' it (Adlib:

I’m the one)

My lead I bleed the Hip-Hop I speak to the kids the pop

Has gotta stop (Adlib: Gotta stop), please research the birth

Of who’s hot (Who's hot) Young crowd said Nelly built Rap

And Chingy, Young Joc put it all on the map and treat the

Pioneers like Blacks, so hit the back (Adlib: Hit the back)

Hook 1

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if there was never an Eric B. and Rakim

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Public Enemy never started the Rap Revolution

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Big Daddy Kane never touched a Mic (Pause)

Wordsmith: Imagine if I… wasn't willing to fight!!!

2nd Verse

So Sad when ah rapper gets richer give them the fame

Make money be scripture love of the game fades like

An old picture… your ah boss, ay boys call you mister

(Adlib: Coffee Boss) Let me make it real clear for you

Cats if the pioneers never rapped ya’ll wouldn’t make crap

All facts even got jacked when a label own it all from your

Name to your tracks.

Listen here, Hip-Hop my dear

The doe it dig deep to steep for them to care (Adlib: Don’t care)

Sit quiet in a studio session I start to flashback to tracks

When I’m eleven.

LL had a girl around the way

I learned to kick step I’m reppin' Kid-N-Play

I love to hear a scratch from Jam Master Jay (Adlib: Ippy Jay)

Cop an attitude like N.W.A (Adlib: What)…

Hook 2

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Slick Rick never mastered the art of storytelling

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Run DMC never did «Walk this Way»

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if EPMD wasn’t all about they business (Pause)

Wordsmith: I remember… and I’ll never forget this!!!

Bridge (4 xs)

Wordsmith & Female singing: Round & Round we go… Hoping the Art Don’t Fade

Away…

3rd Verse

Spin Vinyl, DJ behind you, rock mics forget

Who ya signed to.

This show is for all the greats

Rewind the time back to dancing wit' breaks

Free expression that was rap law graffiti on ah

Stall and ah subway wall and on ah blacktop

Where the B-boys ball.

This culture lives on

For years and I’ll keep spitting an ode to pioneers…

Hook 3

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Pete Rock & CL Smooth never gave us «Mecca & the Soul

Brother»…

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if BDP never dropped «Criminal Minded»

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Gangstarr never created that Mass Appeal (Pause)

Wordsmith: So I… keep it real!!!

Hook 4

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if De La Soul never dropped «3 Feet High and Rising»

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if Das Efx never dropped «They Want EFX»

Female Singing: What Would the Game be Like???

Wordsmith: Imagine if A Tribe Called Quest never dropped «The Low End Theory»

(Pause)

Wordsmith: So I hope you hear me!!!

Outro

Wordsmith: Hold on, it’s not over… Imagine if Sykeone never signed Wordsmith.

.if that happen the world would never get the chance to hear this record,

so we can correct the state of Hip-Hop…