Lodovicus - References lyrics

[Verse 1] It all was started in the Bronx in 1973 By DJ Kool Herc: the originator; the first The birth of Hip-Hop - revolutionary The development of Hip-Hop - evolutionary People started to rap on the track instead of using a beat The outcome: people danced and moved their feet As simple as a nursery rhyme At the time there were only cursory lines Soon it was developed, embellished and relished The sound of the music, the rhythm of the MC Ensuring that a dance floor would never be found empty B-boys and b-girls all across the world, hip-hop unfurled Every word went from being heard to listened This made people aware of what they envisioned Its vision: to increase its reality and popularity What it would result in - a proper salary The vision was met and kept as it swept Throughout the East Coast, it would keep most Of the original qualities The four elements of Hip-Hop: oral, aural, physical and visual Oral is the rapping, expressing what's happening Whereas aural is the DJing, the playing of various records Next towards physical, the b-boy Spectators spectated what was debated, chanting Where people would have competitions involving freestyle dancing And finally, visual The art and craft of the culture Writing on the walls, known as graffiti The free spirit of the people could never be defeated Hip-Hop started to gain mainstream recognition for its use of slang When Rapper's Delight was released by The Sugarhill Gang The first cla**ic in Hip-Hop Nothing could make it stop The Message came in ‘82 - the same year as Rapture, it entered the mainstream The main theme was pop but it's still considered Hip-Hop Planet Rock was dropped in the same year and was a ma**ive success; people didn't know what would be next Mainly though, they couldn't Live Without their Radio The late 80's was crazy - just like Jingling Baby Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys Were Together Forever in ‘87 N.W.A stepped on the scene with their revolutionary album They were named the world's most dangerous group, how come? Because their lyrics were explicit with vivid pictures of the ghetto The kind that the government would never want anyone to view Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh came out for The Show with the Get Fresh Crew Boogie Down Productions entered to Stop the Violence Eric B. & Rakim showed defiance They were a triumph, with no compliance And dropping the science With lyrics full of metaphors, multisyllabic and internal rhyming schemes The likes of which had never been seen Big Daddy Kane was soon on the scene Releasing Long Live the Kane in ‘88; a year later he'd become the Smooth Operator DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince had a Nightmare On their Street Whilst the Juice Crew came through with the Symphony EPMD gave us history to witness - when they released their debut album: Strictly Business They decided to go with Funk rather than a rumble The same time that Jungle Brothers came Straight Out the Jungle The decade was coming to a close, but not before Queen Latifah came in with the Pro's featuring Daddy-O The same year she collaborated on Buddy by De La Soul Kool G Rap & DJ Polo were far from solo with the Road to the Riches Their collaborative album wasn't religious; rather more ambitious than malicious And so the first full decade of hip-hop had come to an end Now it was the start of the almighty 90's what might just be The best era in hip-hop history Public Enemy came back empowered with Fight the Power; 2 years later than Bring the Noise Hip-Hop was poised, The Golden Age of hip-hop was coming to an end But not before A Tribe Called Quest entered the stage with People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Unlike the Wu, it didn't Bring Da Ruckus by blowing up his prism The same year Cypress Hill released Insane in the Brain But they didn't come to Bring the Pain Back when Ice Cube was asking people Who's the Mack? Are they All Black or known to catch wreck on any ca**ette deck? Like the Inspectah, you best Protect Ya Neck When you step through to the Brooklyn Zoo U-God's Hip-Hop can rock and shock the nation like the emancipation proclamation Just like hate that makes disgrace to races which Changes and defaces a nation Dr. Dre released his first solo album The Chronic A year before Gin and Tonic and Slam by Onyx Das EFX were the manufacturer of their own style; nonsensical lines with a fast-paced flow One year on from the formation of d**h Row Naughty by Nature released their self-titled debut and let everyone know they were down with O.P.P And soon KRS-One was bringing the Sound of Da Police Ghostface k**ah demonstrated nobody could get iller on Da Mystery of Chessboxin' The next option released a year later, Nas jumped into the game with Illmatic; a countless cla**ic, on the path to greater And Pharoahe Monch woke up with a mathematic of an erratic rap 2Pac then let everyone know that he was trapped Meanwhile Scarface was checking his telephone for taps Jay-Z came in with Reasonable Doubt It was no seasonable drought LL Cool J said Mama Said Knock You Out On the west it was all G-Funk with the P-Funk When Warren G and Nate Dogg told you to Regulate And a year later Prodigy said his gun shots will make you levitate The Notorious B.I.G. was Ready to Die in ‘94 But not before Coolio was telling us about the Gangsta's Paradise Redman told us to: press rewind if I haven't blown your mind Now around this time Hip-Hop started to spread further With the mid-west on the scene introducing it's team Bone Thugs-n-Harmony bringing the originality; harmonic, melodic lyrics delivered faster than Cyrix The same state where the Geto Boys originate When Common Sense Used to Love H.E.R were the times that rhymes were brought to Chicago Next to Detroit to exploit Eminem; he released Infinite with no used musical instruments Black Star kept the Jazz Gang Starr added religion with Elijah Shabazz The Roots came in: out of Philadelphia with Organix Far from a panic or manic, it was easy to manage Then a year later an Atlantic duo came with Southernplaylisticadillacmuzik They were talented, but they didn't abuse it Instead, they showed America just what the South were using Lauryn Hill and the Fugees were Ready or Not 4 years after C.L. Smooth and Pete Rock's Mecca and the Soul Brother Big Pun came in much rougher and tougher When he became the Dream Shatterer, team batterer The underground started to gain more awareness in 1999 When Calm Before the Storm was released by Tech N9ne A few months before, another storm was caused with a boom when Operation: Doomsday was released by MF Doom