I stole Hip Hop

I know what you're think'n

You got it in your mind that I

Stole Hip Hop in a Pete Nice

          MC Serch sort of

          Way

The way Tiger stole Golf

Or Elvis Rock and Roll

No, when I say I stole

Hip Hop I mean I STOLE

HIP HOP-Tapes

All Tapes, Singles Tapes,

Mix Tapes, EP Tapes,

Eight Ninety Five Tapes

Bootleg Swap Meet Tapes

The first tape I ever laid

Eyes on was a Run-DMC

Self titled tape-JMJ

Punctured my arm-Moved through my Veins

And Blasted my eyes Wide open 

To a world that didn't exist in the

Local DJ's Mind

You know what They say it only takes one

Hit of the DOPE and you could be hooked committing

Crimes, I'm not say'n O.J. crimes

More like Winona Crimes

Tape by Tape I began to Relate and soon

Eleva'ted my MIND

Beat by Beat

Rap by Rap bridging Kulture's Gap

With Chuck D of PE and KRiS Parker's BDP

Raising the Activist in me Long before

Tupac and Biggie I stole Hip Hop-

I stole D-Nice, Ice-T and Chubb Rock I

Stole Eazy E, Dana Dane, Big Daddy Kane

And Miss Melody-MC Shan, Marley Marl

Eric B - Rakim, Q-Tip and EPMD - Special

Ed and Kool Moo Dee taught Me-The

Words of Dr. Martin Luther "Knowledge

Is KING" inspiring the verses of

HB Poetry

Come to think of it

I didn't steal Hip Hop

Hip Hop Stole me

I stole Hip Hop-Before

Hip Hop Stole itself

Back when only Athletes Retired

And Rap wasn't Self-Help

Waiting for aspiring OG's

To pick off the top shelf

Like a manual telling them

How to be, what to wear

And which shoulder to

Lean-What is Bling all the while

Killing the MC

I think Pete Nice warned Me

PoP

The Weasel went PoP

No more talkin bout

South Bronx dread locks

Or Abusive Cops/No more

LL's rockin BeLLs or RUN-DMC's

In and out of HeLL it's all Good

And weLL just as long as the

Clothing line SeLLs

Radio Waves full of MC's

Meshing Bling Bling and

Skeet Skeet with a backdrop

Of Club Beats/I guess it's

Just the old in me can't

Seem to relate want to go

Back in the day-When

I Stole Tapes