[Hook]
When life is just a memory
All I ask is for you to remember me

We so scared to face our history
How will we replace the energy?


[V. 1- Big Rube]
Hip-Hop is immortal
It survived many attacks and many wars using

Our minds eyes to portal
Folding the spaces between generations and races
So that we can come closer through the struggle

Itâ??s easy to move muscle, bone, skin, and sinew
Movement of the mind is the type of grind Iâ??m into
So I kick the mental over sick instrumentals

Get respect with the pencil, never flex with the stencil
Iâ??m in love with the art form that still keeps my heart warm
Presented with the most virtuous intent but in hard form

They say hip-hop is dead, $$#assinated by ^!$$%s
But on the charts I read all the hits was by ^!$$%s
Thereâ??s no surreal drama, they wanna steal her from ya

Take her out to a field in the woods but we ainâ??t gonna let em kill the hood
Canâ??t kill it with the pistol, Canâ??t beat it with ya chain
Canâ??t crush it with your rims, but you can save it with your pain

As long as we breathe, hip-hop gonna breathe with us
As long as we real, folk canâ??t help but feel us
The White Manifest Destiny got em they dirty land

But no matter how clean they shave, they got them dirty hands
My story says what his story doesnâ??t
In the passage of my people they tried to murder all my cousins

They celebrate they Independence and ask us to forget how they abused it
But we remind them everyday coming gangsta with this music