[Intro: Dj Switch]
Itâs the Switch up, baby
That's right
This is no remix
This is no re-Up
This is the call out
Time to have fun with this HipHop Thing
Itâs now or never, ne-never!
Itâs time to change the game, game
[Verse 1: Pro]
Dankie san!
Awu phambile mshito
Siyaâ ikhanda iboweni kubo Tito
Ay! Besicela ningasâ bangelâ umsindo
Nisâ bangisâ impilo
Ngapha si puffâa lama Hubly
Sithambisa lo mphimbo
Manje linghambela phambili lingshadile icilongo
Ngiyi guard'ile iHipHop
INumber kimi isiko
Busy hunting for pussy
IKati lilele ziko
Ngiceda iparty ngeslilo
Gaurdâkuthi uniga ophi
Wobanâ loyo mcqondo
Ngoba namanje itho
AboKapadia bakhona awuthi yam
[Verse 2: YoungSta]
Hosh!
Nothing happened to rap something happened to rappers (YoungCPT)
Witness a lyricist
Lyrical physicist
Like an Egyptian whoâs building the pyramids
Check the perimeters weâre not similar
Jirre
The bars make me feel like a prisoner
I am the villainous minister
When I deliver the sinister lyrics you shiver
You are a gangster but only on twitter
Acting like kinnas who gossip and skinner
Cape Crusader not Helen Zille
I only see Allah and whose in the mirror
My rapping is rapid and raging like rivers
I apetown Aapie caging gorillas
Pushing the limit
The mind the body and spirit
Really you arenât committed
Your rapping is kak!
Smelling like villis
I have to admit it
I'm not even jealous
Keep all the glitz and the glamour
Slat you binne in your moer with a hammer
I feel like I'm Hulk and bruising the banners
Iâm breaking the stage
Iâm killing the birds
They tell me behave
But it seems they need a constant reminder
Rapâs revived, alive and resides in the Kaapstaad, naaiers!
[Verse 3: Reason]
I guess itâs time for the switch up
Ngiceda ukâshaya amasit ups
NgiGymâile ke zinja
Khokhanâ umoya nje ngama hiccups
Representâa amajita from Katlehong to Tembisa
Niyabona ngiyaphakamisa for nina nabo my sister
Heita! to all the haters and the papers
Great stuff Iâm a G to all the vapours
I encourage you to proceed with all the fake junk
While I snapchat with tens only and stack papers
Iâm way up
And just focusing on ukâphumelela
Sheba fela ke chipa fela like Iâm Lekoelea
More like Jabu Pule, Ngwana wa tshwenya when I play her
But God is always in my favour n***a Halleluya
[Hook]
Check!
Man what happened to Rap?
Yeah
Man what happened to Rap?
Say, say
What happened to Rap?
Hiphop used to drop bars but now we all dab
[Verse 4: GingerTrill]
I do this for the culture
Youâre about to get mad work
Iâm a mixture of Eminem
A pinch of loaded lux and half Verb
Iâm back (Word?)
Just take my verse for it
Itâs evil to live backwards
Just take my word forward
Iâm the rap nerd
And judging of your last verse
Dog you couldnât spar with the God
If You kicked your raps backwards
Students of the game
Iâve seen how quickly they switch up when the tables turn
They hoping the star pupil slip up, (itâs s setup)
Over your head over the edge
Over and over again
Every line is barber precise
Ay, pardon my nice
I put my city on the atlas
I been selling dummies
First demo was a blank disk
[Hook]
Check!
Man what happened to Rap?
Yeah
Man what happened to Rap?
[Verse 5: Siya Shezi]
Ngath ngathuka wonkâ umuntu kau like I'm Dj Euphonik
Nalo Dj Switch igame chux nge speed sika Sonic
BomRapper bazofa e Living Room, isnât that Ironic?
Ng'nokuzâbona seng'ndiza nge broom after isthila se Chronic
Iâm tryna change the game like Iâm Morgan van Starden
Angithi balahlekile abaningi fanel' basilandele
Le track iphethâ izinja kâphela ngathi i industry cypher
Word is born, ah! Awaspanangâ amamorning after
Shintsh imood like laughter
Underdog bayangâ nyatsa
Qal' izinto okwe lamza
Kâzo phelâ ipan mangâa dlwadla
Itâs now or never, ne-never!
Itâs time to change the game, game
[Hook]
Check!
Man what happened to Rap?
Yeah
Man what happened to Rap?
[Verse 6: Kid Tini]
When I hit a sixteen, man itâs hot. Thatâs mandatory
You hit a sixteen and itâs not, itâs statutory
You hate me for my truth your girl love me for my honesty
Reverse psychology pimpinâ widdit
Child of a dying breed
Supplying prophecies non believers owe me apologies
I said a pile of Gâs
Imma need âem commas, man, honestly
Bitch! Fuck out my way
I leave a trail of corpses so you find me
That mean your favourites get behind me
I dare you, try me
Go and ask them. Look
I share my intellectual capacity with those who dare to rap with me
Factually I take so many shots you think Iâm packing heat
When actually, I donât need a gun
Iâm a masterpiece
[Verse 7: Priddy Ugly]
Nah!
Nothing happened to rap
Youâre lacking the facts
Rap has had to adapt to the ratchet and trap
Itâs a hazard in-fact
If rappers are lacking the tact they have to retract
Perhaps where them amateurs at
Now add and subtract
Iâm packed with a savage attack
Iâm not talking 'bout beating pussy when I damage a cat
If her assets are fat
I dab and have her clapping her ass
Standing ovation
I rap and I just happen to trap
Assassin of rap
Attack if your rappin is whack
Voetsek and relax
Donât tell me I should rap in vernac
You see the bars are ever present
Iâm unwrapping the raps
Seven seas of toxic flows and Iâm the captain of that
Vrrrrrr
[Verse 7: Zakwe]
Yho Iâm a born don
Sukungi hlokoloza with all this boredom
You born dom
Buwekuphi sikokota, till we gone gold
Before called
Amakoporoshi, but you, we fought strong
I log on, i-âgoalâ ukushaya i-ânetâ and get the law gone
Ngisonoro, samsokolo, bars dololo
Bho bho bho, ngibhodloza isikgogo, fokof umgopholo
We no more hog, kwi nkondlo, of cos
Ngoba u-cash-u-less
Tracks are not on track, most cast are now trapped on trap
But akuna niks, nami kumele sitheshe
Rap tricks under my sleeve, noma ngigibsele i-vest
Now bring it back, to real rap before nidab nibheda
Now or Never, click click bang
Uynyaka owama kleva
Itâs now or never, ne-never!
Itâs time to change the game, game
[Hook]
Check!
Man what happened to Rap?
Yeah
Man what happened to Rap?
[Verse 9: Shane Eagle]
Murder, rappers. Iâm guilty
This case is closed
Howâs this a come-up if I just opened for J.Cole?
Iâm ahead of the game so they hopin I never blow
But itâs been a long time coming my n***a, yaâll ain't even know
They sell you bullshit music and theyâre happy when it goes plaques
You whack mathafakas are the reason Im starting to hate rap
Iâm making waves
So I see that theyâre getting sea sick
So Switch called me back to come and kill âem on the remix
Slow and steady wins the race donât tell me about whose first
You've got a couple of award but you can t touch me on a verse
Yes, you and you and you
Iâm callin em out
You never say anything with value but you got gold in ya mouth
[Verse 10: BigStar]
Yo! Yo! Yo!
Iâm just glad somebodyâs asking why nobodyâs rapping
Some of these cats den came in so much trash I thought I was Punk'd
Lookin for Ashton
Itâs BigStar the verbal Assassin
I came in with nothing but passion
Lyrical Asprin
Phamaceutical cure to the trappin
Still askin
What happened to simileâs, punchlines, metaphors
Food for thought thats edible
Cut off your umbilical
Who wouldâve thought the n***a though
Still be schoolin these niggers is principal
I cannot mess with the typical
Come from the East then you know that you gotta come nice
All of us is clinical
Jump on the bars with the general
Take you to Mars with my silly flow
Bars on the charts is what you really know
I spit mean
My punchlines spilt spleens
My sixteens leave the world cut up like split screens
Wassup
[Verse 11: Blaklez]
Iâm in a mood to eliminate the fake dudes
Theres a lot of false prophets in the world so watch who you pray to
One look at you I can tell that your motherâs unfaithful to your father
So it means itâs not your real father that raised you
Your real friends escaped you
Now youâre hanging with the day twoâs
Youâre buying real gold but when you rap youâre dropping fake jewels
You know I kept the cool when the media tried to pressure me
Theyâre sleeping on me thinkinâ they can keep me from my destiny
Like Leleti Khumalo ntwana I remember yesterday
This line might fly over some heads cause they were born yesterday
Okay killer Iâm nice
Name an emcee thatâs way realler
Im real dope, youâre just an addiction to painkillers
Itâs now or never, ne-never!
Itâs time to change the game, game
[Verse 12: Proverb]
Itâs a little bit like the Oscar trial
Cause lots have tried
To figure out how hiphop has died
And lost itâs vibe
And got ostracized
Iâm Gerrie Nel youâre Barry Roux
Weâre standing on opposite sides
You know very well I carry the truth
A lot of you rappers are compromised
Your songs are lies
We need some stronger guys
To put it back on the rise
Because of you hiphopâs dead
So you need to be gone for life
Heres evidence that the veterans are much better than all this gentlemen
You couldn't even catchphrase
So this tracks made to sentence them
To life behind bars
You need some life behind your bars cause your full of it
Get electric chair
Dj pull the Switch
Itâs now or never, ne-never!
Itâs time to change the game, game
[Hook]
Check!
Man what happened to Rap?
Yeah
Man what happened to Rap?