Hip Hop's Cool Again - Oddisee

Back at it

So out the box in an instant I spit and get cheese

Craftmatic

So out the box in the present I represent the eMCees

Of the past the icons

At the last my Mic’s on

Alas the light’s on

I flash 'em shinin' for minutes of fame

For continuous streams of a dream that I climbed in

I flow on and on like the Nile and Amazon and Mississippi

Steam 'cuz I’m risin heat before you’re eyes

I’m planning on

Standing on top like I know I’m the man and all

Like a year ago I wasn’t even a man involved

Solving my own problems I might hand 'em off

Fumble

Intercept myself corrected

Now I’m a player of the game wasn’t even expected

On the humble

No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)

Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)

Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)

And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again

(yeah)

I’m half A-rab half nigga

AK47 9 milli mixture

In the mosque friday sunday scripture

Parents split because they views always differ

Get harassed at the airport and the block

By the FBI, Interpol & the cops

I’m acclimated to the winter cold and the hot

Spit a flow in the desert rollin' on a cinder block

Concrete jungle yeah that’s my livin' spot

Sudanese restaurant that’s the dinner spot

Wake up breakfast on facin' mecca don

Got the wheaties yeah i’m the champ of the (get it pie)

Bend

No stoppin'

The ball i’m passin' y’all like stock-ton

I’m after those claimin' they on top and

I topple them like west bank apart-ments

No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)

Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)

Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)

And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again

(yeah)

May my competitors fall

I better myself by look at myself in the mirror

Hear myself say I’m better than y’all

Telling myself who am I to argue with that

I mean its fact so I’m betting it all

On the underdog in the motor race

Runnin' tall catch the motorcade at a slower pace

So the sweat is involved

Tears to us and the blood’ll stand through those

Except for the fall

I represent 'em

The streets you rappin' 'bout, I’m in 'em

A preacher lashin' out in denim

The speakers blackin' out — I’m in 'em

Pumpin' that bass like bass free show

At the club pack it out and kill 'em

Leave nothing before or after

Fire like the lord and rapture

I am like the (raw) and pastor

The foundation of this DMV gritty shit

I recall and capture

No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)

Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)

Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)

And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

I’m makin' hip hop look cool again

It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again