[00:09.470]The year is 2004 people talk about war[00:12.160]I had to hit the floor when the bombs began toopour[00:14.590]Ten minutes ago I was mad cause my stomach was grumbling[00:17.520]Now the whole world is crumbling[00:19.770]I hear people scream across the street gettin crushed[00:22.330]This went on for twenty minutes then the whole world hushed[00:24.440]I couldn't see **** but I could feel myself breathin[00:27.380]Damn I'm still kickin but I'm just not believing[00:29.440]I give thanks to God then I'm off on my mission[00:32.500]Ain't no stars in the sky so it ain't no wishin[00:35.000]I wonder I wonder I just can't under-stand[00:37.120][00:38.740]Why am I the last man[00:56.280][00:59.070]These crazy thoughts in my head won't stop[01:03.120]Where's my moms and my pops and what about hip-hop[01:05.810]I'm pickin up things that could be of use to me[01:08.300]Too build a makeshift crib where Hollywood used to be[01:10.870]And it ain't no forties it ain't no blunts[01:13.240]I ain't had no ass in five years and eight months[01:15.850]Five more years pass and I still survive[01:18.480]And I'm through with wonderin who's still alive[01:21.220]Until one day I'm just walkin along[01:23.410]And I hear this kid singin a hip-hop song[01:25.960]He said "That's the way it is and it's like that"[01:28.590]I said "Yo kid c'mere where you learn that song at "[01:31.270]He said "My daddy taught me about the hip-hop game[01:33.710]I'm eight years old and Rakim is my name"[01:36.320]He said "Yo I'll take you to him come follow me;[01:38.950]But first you gotta prove that you can MC"[01:41.000]So I cleared my throat got in a b-boy stance[01:43.880]And I ran through a rhyme that made him piss in his pants[01:46.630]With tears in his eyes he grabbed me by the hand[01:49.180]And then we ran ten miles across the sand[01:51.550]He took me to the spot dig deep underground[01:53.550]Where I can hear the sound of the big bass pound[01:56.730]I wasn't really sure but I swore we smelled blunt smoke[01:59.600]No joke loc well can I get a joke[02:02.030]He took me to his pops and he handed me a spliff[02:04.650]And out behind the wall came Tash and E-Swift[02:06.960]They took me to a freestle session it was on[02:09.460]I knew hip-hop would never be gone[02:12.460]FIve hundred hip-hop deep[02:14.250]Yo we cool in 2014 Alkaholiks still rulin[02:28.850]It's gonna live forever[02:30.590]This goes out to the P-Town LBNT[02:32.090][02:33.220]Know what I'm sayin[02:37.840]Check it out[02:44.260]Hip-hop doesn't stop[02:50.130]Alkaholiks[02:57.490]Check it out