50 Years

Now everybody, fast forward to the future, the year 2044

Now let me tell you what's in store

Just so you won't surprised when we blow up before your eyes

And when you watch my kids grow up, then you'll realize

That my literary talent was genetic

Copacetic not pathetic, but poetical prophetic

Now fifty years down the line, we gon' all look back and say

That hip-hop in nineteen-ninety-five was wack

But then we gots it back on track

And by the year of two-thousand, the TND was housing

Three slamming albums, with faces on the cover of Jet

And chilling like it was no sweat

Production was fat, with lyrics that hit

Had **** steady shouting, Yo them kids the shit

Man they new jam be flam, even fatter that the last one

And TND, see they ain't never pulled no fast one

They got skill, pure intellect

Remember back in ninety-eight when they dropped Cashing Checks?

Yo word 'em up, that was the summertime anthem

I'll be playing checkers, drinking Geritol and just lampin

Macking to the biddies at the bingo game

'Cause even then I ain't show no shame

See, I'll be rocking rough with rhymes till I'm seventy

In TND we gots mad longevity

So fifty years down the line, and you can start this

'Cause we'll be the old school artists

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Now, fifty years down the line, see I'll be chillin'

Like it ain't no thing, with little shorties on the swings

Talking 'bout, My granddaddy had mad flow

He got some old school, year two thousand and ten tapes

When he was rockin' the shows and keeping it true

Taking out your granddaddy with his punk ass crew

Your kid'll get mad, but Wilt didn't run

But what can you say, it's like father like son

And so I'm maxing in a rocking chair, reading the funnies

Shorties runnin' up asking they grandpa for money

So I whip put a wad, and slide the brother some ends

And tell him, Stay away from danger, strangers and skins

They say, Sure, bust a smile real quick

Think they grandpa's dumb, lil' dudes ain't slick

'Cause I was their age once, and so I know what's up

I remember back then when I ain't wanna grow up

I used to kick it with my crew like twenty-four seven

And writer's block rocked and all became legends

In the hip-hop field, now they names is known

The All-Star Durah, Atomic Ganz and Tone

Green Weez, Rashid and The Architects

Never heard of us then, but I was willin' to bet

We would mack and attack to bring back the flow

I ain't dreaming, I ain't bragging, I just know what I know

So yo, fifty years down the line, you can start this

'Cause we'll be them old school artists

Fifty years down the line

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And we start this

You can start it

You can start it

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