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lyrics
6. Play
Chorus
PLAY/ hit on the play button say something keep the bass thumping and all the crowd jumping/
REWIND/ to back in the day when we were rapping away to analogue tape
FAST FORWARD/ to the current time where we be who would think that I would be the MC to
PAUSE/ and reflect on my journey through hip hop and you don’t and you don’t you don’t STOP/
Verse
Man I’m the man that makes the audible a malleable metropolis/ a mortal caught in portals of a automatic populist/ to manual mechanical esophagus when up in this/ This out of order tangible called hip hop and I’m loving it/I sort of caught the bug when smaller than my current frame/ When a older mate had lent a tape, I guess he’s one to blame/ I’ve never been the same and Mane I’m never gonna change/ Cause the contents of that tape had completely blown my brain/ Now since the day I got my grubby fingers on that tape/ My Walkman straight incarcerated it with no hope or escape/ call it fate or call it destiny or call it what you want/ I called about it when I wanted it to “Drop the bomb”/ Upon my ears to show my peers my tape would never cease/ Cause one side had taught us all to scream “Fuck the police!”/ And on the other side was the revolution letting you know that “Yo, Bum rush the show!”/ With “Too much posse!” we used to roll/ through the neighborhood, Up to no good when on patrol/ I was only 10 back then, but friend, the year was 88/ Hyper colours were the T’s and happy pants I used to hate/ but that fate of that one day made a love too strong to break/ for me myself and I and a handful of my mates/ and to the “break a break of dawn” we kept on rocking to hip hop/ until the first side had then ended and the tape came to a stop/
Chorus
Verse
First of it was the… “beatbox” that I heard up on the radio and now I never stop/ A competition with my mates to be the first to emulate/ be what started this artist to be part of his own fate/ making my own breaks, the bass line my voice hums with the …. Drums!/In the playground everyone would gather up and come around to hear the …Sounds/ Then the “MC” would manifest in me, with neighbor and no paper we would freestyle to our beats/ Making tapes about his brother and the people up the street/ kept working and searching on new flows and techniques/ Fast forward a few years, bit older new peers/ New flow and ideas but still I’m all clear/ That’s it’s my world and I won’t stop and if you stand in my way you’re bound to get dropped/
credits
from Audiobiography,
released August 20, 2013
Produced by Simplex
Cuts by Dj Dyems
Awesome Album, completely different to Hell Hath No Fury, caught me by surprise, and what a surprise!.
This album is yet another example of exactly how high skilled Helen is as an emcee and a writter.
I was hanging out for this album and it delivered way more than i anticipated
Guest spots rip too, mad original beats.
Unreal Helen Earth, i love it when you do what you do Mick