《What’s It Worth?》歌词

[00:00:01] What's It Worth - Pat D and Lady Paradox&Melodiq

[00:00:10] Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet

[00:00:12] The UK and the USA

[00:00:15] Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets

[00:00:18] Words come alive, these lyrics keep flowing

[00:00:20] Melodiq, Pat D, Lady P sounding sweet

[00:00:23] The UK and the USA

[00:00:25] Paradox and Melodiq, poetic like sonnets

[00:00:28] Go together like treble and bass

[00:00:30] Music’s meaning is more than the words, it’s the feeling

[00:00:33] The passion, the soul, writing late in the evenings

[00:00:36] It breathes in the records like turn to the ceiling

[00:00:38] Motivated dreaming, back to what believing

[00:00:41] It’s been in hearts, on tracks in vain

[00:00:43] It’s seen in awe on graff on trains

[00:00:46] The media try to attack its name

[00:00:48] But the realness can’t be attached to fame

[00:00:51] But who am I to say what hip-hop is?

[00:00:54] Hip-hop was before Paradox lived

[00:00:56] Before Yo! MTV Raps got big

[00:00:59] When the soul and the words was what made hop hits

[00:01:02] DJs rock kicks after digging in the crates

[00:01:04] Now we’re living in an age where the rhythm is misplaced

[00:01:07] It’s all about the chains, the millions you make

[00:01:09] So I sit back, imagine as I listen to the greats

[00:01:12] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:01:16] It’s real hip-hop

[00:01:18] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:01:22] What’s it worth?

[00:01:23] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:01:27] It’s real hip-hop

[00:01:28] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:01:31] Some say it’s still the same, it ain’t that

[00:01:34] It’s the authentic, all the time prolific, lyrical extraordinaire

[00:01:38] Got rhymes to share, to educate the masses

[00:01:41] Toasting the realness, raise your glasses

[00:01:44] Never underestimate the movement

[00:01:46] Always keeping my ear to the pavement

[00:01:49] That’s what the pioneers did back then

[00:01:52] Before they had two 12s making the blend

[00:01:54] No emails to send, only word of mouth

[00:01:57] Seems that real hip-hop is in a drought

[00:02:00] Critics kept saying that it wouldn’t last

[00:02:02] Through the years it persevered and made cash

[00:02:05] Somehow it grew up too fast

[00:02:07] Matured incorrectly, evidently

[00:02:10] Now it’s time to do my thing

[00:02:13] With ill flows and vibes that I bring no doubt

[00:02:16] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:02:19] It’s real hip-hop

[00:02:21] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:02:24] What’s it worth?

[00:02:26] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:02:29] It’s real hip-hop

[00:02:31] Hip-hop, some say it’s still the same

[00:02:34] Now let’s take a sec to think back

[00:02:36] Gangstarr

[00:02:39] JD

[00:02:41] Common Sense

[00:02:44] Large Pro

[00:02:46] Nas

[00:02:49] Pete Rock

[00:02:51] Tribe Called Quest

[00:02:54] KRS was number one

[00:03:18] Just being in here

[00:03:20] Is a humbling experience to me

[00:03:21] Because you’re looking through all these records

[00:03:24] And it’s sort of like a big pile of broken dreams in a way

[00:03:27] Almost none of these artists still have a

[00:03:30] A career, really

[00:03:31] Ten years down the line you’ll be in here

[00:03:33] So keep that in mind when you start thinking like

[00:03:36] “Oh yeah, I’m invincible and I’m the

[00:03:38] I’m the world’s best or whatever

[00:03:40] Because that’s what all these cats thought