[Intro: Stetsasonic sample]
"It ain't nothing like"
"It ain't nothing like"
"It ain't nothing like"
"It ain't nothing like hip hop music"

[Chorus: Kool Shen & Joey Starr]
Not everything’s so easy, everything's only hanging by a thread
Not everything’s so easy, everything's only hanging by a thread

[Verse 1: Kool Shen]
1983, already more than 10 years ago
Hip hop was taking its first steps in France
There were no rules, no laws and certainly no contracts
No problems between you and me
Everything was clear, from the goal to the way
Everything should be done, naïve, inexperienced but so proud
To evolve in a parallel system
Where the basic values were in a jumble
Peace, unity, love and having fun
Hip hop never needed guns or gangs, toys or crews
But rather the faith of those defending
Its memory and ethics, the essential values
The ones that still make a spark when I reminisce
Over those early days in the vacant lots of La Chappelle
At the time, our heroes were named Aktuel
Lucien, Dee Nasty, T-Col and Meo
Big up! Big up for staying so long at the top
Of the bill, as tiptop as the flow of my words
We had to work hard for hours and hours
Days and days and even years for hip hop to hang on
Not everything was so easy for the Suprême