The beginning, 1989, hip-hop came and creeped into my life, I started out breaking on the block, body poppin' with the essential boombox, we swayed it on, me and milk from dusk till dawn, nothing but shape and skills, skipping class we had decisions to make, I'd be rockin' to Grand Poobah on Big Daddy Kane, those were the days, dancing in streets and I'm contestin' in Prisma on Fridays, heartache, then we started braggin' and boastin' with the mic on stage, and that's where I found my game, I thought I'ma ride this one out no matter how long it takes, Blue's Gym back then the name, now it's Louie himself, the one they love to hate. Hip-hop, we're up, we goin' with you, hip-hop, and what to do without you, hip-hop, there's no life without you, hip-hop, so let us rock on, then I got hooked up with the G to double G, Wooley Masters in D, life hip-hop in the purest form, me and Rollie Rocker we were doin' the honors, we had to muse the monsters, we were youngsters, no boundaries for us, we jumped it, that's when the tricks and traits became me, I started to relax, I was ready to breathe, along came flowers down my spot, we connected on the muse and made it rock, we taught a lot but then went our separate ways, went through all that blues and called it a day, until this day I don't know how to explain it, I'm understandin' it's totally faded, but then I got hooked up with Mr. Not-To-Be-Underestimated, Brogad Hip-hop, we're up, we goin' with you, hip-hop, and what to do without you, hip-hop, there's no life without you, hip-hop, so let us rock on So now I be rockin' mics evidently, higher the stakes, full of expectancy, so now my then I take the muse on a roll, check out what's not and then just let it go, you can feel it in the way that I stroll, you never see me doin' shit they tell me to I snoop the issue on the rise, I take the muse and magnify Hip-hop, we're up, we goin' with you, hip-hop, and what to do without you, hip-hop, there's no life without you, hip-hop, so let us rock on Hip-hop, we're up, we goin' with you, hip-hop, and what to do without you, hip-hop, there's no life without you, hip-hop, so let us rock on Hip-hop, we're up, we goin' with you, hip-hop, and what to do without you, hip-hop, there's no life without you, hip-hop, so let us rock on