[Verse 1] Yeah, yeah, I remember when my cousin Bought me Bigger And Deffer Kangol hat, I was way more fresher Cool J tape, first tape I ever had All in my mirror practicing, I'm bad Pay In Full Eric B & Rakim Cause every rap cat wanted to be like him West Coast, I was raised on a East sh** Walk this way then, that Run DMC sh** Cross over that EPMD sh** Big Daddy came, three cuts in my eyebrow Playing Low End Theory, real hip hop fans know you hear me! Uh, hop hoes in my lawn Chess not checkers I'm a king, you're a pawn Great Adventures of Slick Rick greatest story ever, oh yeah, get this [Hook] When the beat was fresh, and the rhymes real And the music really get you that feel Oh, man, damn I miss hip hop! Man, damn I miss Rappers said it and they did it, and they really had fans And you could blow up without having a dance Oh, man, damn I miss hip hop! Damn I miss! [Verse 2] Who remember when Geto Boys drop, that cla**ic album we can't be stopped Scarface, one of the best in hip hop My eyes playing tricks on me till this day that knocks Me against the world, feeling like Pac Like 93' still have a haven't stopped Hiro I just had to give props And Digital Underground they stayed on my block Wanted to be like Short in that drop on that born to mack cover put my city on the mob And to me Hammer was the greatest Twenty years later, man I ain't afraid to say it! Every Saturday used to watch his cartoon With pictures, and posters, of him in my room Man, cause he made the city shine And all around the world, they were saying Hammer Time [Verse 3] Barber Shop disputes over who was the right one Who was more gangster Kool G Rap or Spice 1 Playing Chuck D. saying damn, did he say that? f** John Wayne and Elvis Presely did he play that? K.R.S. One, BDP ‘till this day Guru wantin a Primo beat I grew up in Oakland off APG That was Action Packed Gangster, who feel me? When I first heard Outkast Wow J first album didn't blow, how? N.W.A., straight out of Compton D.O.C. that was just sh** was knocking Too hard for the radio Mac Dre Living federal like E-40 Whole rap game really miss Pac But to the West Coast, that was hip hop!