[ti:B-Boy] [ar:Macklemore] [al:Westside Bugg Presentsγçª the Best of the West] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]B-Boy - Macklemore/Kurupt/JAYO FELONY/40-Glocc [00:01.59]Ladies and gentlemans [00:02.13] [00:03.57]This an ode to the B-boys B-girls [00:06.44] [00:07.51]The people out there [00:08.28]Who do it for the love [00:09.86]And believe me [00:10.40]I'm not dissin' anybody out there [00:11.45]Who's trying to get paid [00:12.33]I'm trying to get paid too [00:13.48] [00:14.00]But I got one question [00:15.20] [00:15.91]Whatever happened to the heart [00:17.31]That pumped the passion into the art [00:18.69]The entity that gave you [00:19.47]The energy to wanna start [00:20.81]Breakdancing I'm battling [00:21.57]Doing it at the park [00:22.70]Where the mission was expression [00:23.66]Not only to top charts [00:24.62]I don't know what happened [00:26.04]Wanting to blow rap [00:26.90]You lose soul and passion [00:27.74]For the flows and the tracks [00:29.13]Radio's lacking controlled by fascists [00:31.01]Assholes doing damage [00:31.78]But we're gonna take it back [00:33.50]Before beats to a hundred G's a pop [00:35.20]All you needed [00:35.69]Was a tabletop and a beatbox [00:36.98] [00:37.55]Hip-hop without the B-boy [00:38.52]Is like shelltoes only having two stripes [00:41.31]Hip-hop we're freedom-fighting [00:43.19]Graffiti-writing party types [00:44.48]That recite and organize [00:45.18]And revitalize our rhyming [00:46.27]'Til the group of the moneymakers systems [00:47.49]Knows that the industry [00:48.45]Can eventually get served [00:49.85]Breakers of my verses spinning up [00:50.94]A revolution throughout our words [00:52.44]If you really want it come on get it [00:53.82]Cause I've got it [00:54.43]I'm honestly paying homage [00:55.30]To forgotten pioneers [00:55.85]Of this culture that are giving them [00:56.99]Props and learn [00:58.13]If you wanna earn your stripes [00:59.06]You gotta be able to rock this mic [01:00.83]And set cyphers alike [01:02.16]The feeling to put in everything [01:03.30]You got in the circle [01:04.24]Will never be documented [01:05.12]In the Coke commercial [01:06.11] [01:21.09]We be the baddest [01:22.51]Now B-boys B-girls [01:23.67]Bring it back to the block [01:24.81]Lemme see you get ill [01:25.68]For real pop and lock [01:26.91]If you record without thought then stop [01:28.67]Because I'll serve your whole album [01:29.79]With the goddamn beatbox [01:31.20]Without thought it just happens [01:32.44]If you gotta think to feel [01:33.82]That's not rapping that's acting [01:35.12]I'm from a land of backpacks and fat cats [01:37.09]MCs with sick raps [01:37.99]Who serve those that are wack [01:39.52]It's a way of life [01:40.62]I put all my energy into the melody [01:42.14]On the mp3s until the death of me [01:43.83]Record exceptionally especially [01:44.87]Whenever I be monumentally [01:46.21]Grammatically killing the mic [01:47.39]I tell my DJs cranking that music [01:48.93]Keeping 'em moving when the beat plays [01:50.19]Staying into it [01:50.77]Breaking and grooving and MCs they [01:52.18]Thinking that you should always pursue [01:53.22]In what their dreams make [01:54.26]Taking from lucid to really do it [01:55.83]All the people gotta make their money [01:57.05]And the way to make money [01:58.11]Is to get inside of the industry [01:59.43]Take it on the radio flow [02:00.71]So you can go blow we get a car [02:02.44]And a crib up on MTV [02:03.85]But in the end what's classic [02:05.63]Radio bubblegum [02:06.33]Or a voice filled with passion [02:07.98]To my real hip-hop heads [02:09.29]Please stand up [02:10.06]Cause the only people [02:10.83]That can preserve this art is us [02:12.28]Sing