[Spoken Samples]
Hold up, before we get started
I rise today to speak on an issue which now more than every needs immediate action
A lot of these new artists don't know the history, you know what I mean?
If you don't know your history you're not gonna know where you're going
So if you don't know the coogee raps and the Big Daddy Kanes and sub rocks and [?] and De La Soul and Slick Rick and Bismark
If you don't know those, then you don't even know shit

[Scratched Hook]
Pay homage, respect
Not as the rest

[Spoken Samples]
Uh, Jazzy J, Bambaataa, Cool Herc, Cool Herc, Cool Herc
And, uh, I do it the old way, the original way, the way the vintage producers, the early hip hop producers, they paved the way for me to sit here and do this
Motherfuckers have no knowledge of the history
If you can't sing no Eric B and Rakim and sing the lyrics to one record, you've gotta leave this alone
Then I started telling stories more
And I started leaning more towards like a Nas, or a 2Pac
But I fell in love, more in love with the way they told stories
And that's kinda how I evolved

If you are doing this independent, and you are in control of what you put out
Do you put the same shit you hear on the radio?
Or do you put out what hip hop is?
You know what I mean?
Like, if you don't know how to make this shit you can't make it
If you don't know how to create it you don't know how to do it
[?] is hip hop