Kinetik - Boom Bap Babies lyrics

[Intro: Kinetik] Shout out to all the boom bap babies worldwide This is time machine music We're gonna take you back to a time when Hip Hop was great When the laces were fat and when the boom box was king [Scratched Hook] Let's take it back Back in the days Let's take it back Way, way back Let's take it back Boom bap, original rap Let's take it back This is true Hip Hop in the purest form [Verse 1: Kinetik] I reminisce on when I heard Kris Kross in 9-2 No, I couldn't switch off they made me wanna rhyme too Jotting my lines down thinking I'd get shine too But I was getting laughed at like nobody'll sign you Then rappers started getting thuggish for rep Me I was doing nothing except just dubbing ca**ettes And my T.D.K.'s were always coming correct Every one of my mates had tapes to bump in the deck And knock for weeks, whether they were swaps or keeps When they pressed play they wouldn't even stop to speak And I was copping every copy of The Source The 5 mics and quotables we had to discuss In between the freestyles at the back of the bus When a rap track was stacked with scratches and cuts When our rewind bu*tons wasn't gathering dust Cause from the music to the fashion we would do it with a pa**ion It was Hip Hop [Scratched Hook] [Verse 2: Kinetik] We've come a long way from Sedgwick and Cedar The boom and the bap made me a head and a believer Different place in time, London U.K But true say I was living with a New York state of mind Even the youngsters wanted to get mad props That's why we started rocking baggy jeans and flat tops Chatting in slang and fresh was our favourite one We spoke it like a native tongue but we were young And still we learned about the struggles of grown ups After we started rolling with a couple of bone thugs Going for car rides without a sense of direction But we'd always end up on the far side Playing dominoes and listening to ghetto jams Sipping on ice tea mixed with the gin and juice Innocent youth who didn't know the business We were good kids but we had a soul for mischief It was Hip Hop [Scratched Hook]