Art and Craft - Authorised

This ain’t a freestyle, but then again what is?

I’ll make it pop like I’m popping a packet of wizz fizz

This is, exactly what I call hip-hop so please ignore the gimmicks and tricks

I’m sick of fake emcees rapping over techno beats

About getting drunk and picking up some chicks

So I’m Here to smash down and old wall and start it off again

But I’m building rap with my own bricks

Yeah, onto my seventh year still dreaming that one day I will turn it into a

career

I took the stage in the sixth grade, was afraid

But I came and wrote a rap about climate change

Still the same yo, developed the flow

Learned to separate my thoughts from what I know

And that’s next to nothing but at least we’re something

Wanna piece of rap, so I guess we’re hunting

I guess it’s time to make our mark

Better ourselves at the art and craft

Been a while here comes the spark

First flame to light up the dark

So it’s time to make a start

Develop ourselves at the art and craft

The art and craft

This ain’t a hit track, but before you make noise step back

I’m sick of these fake emcees trying to talk smack

Time to take you back to school cos your flows whack

See it comes back to the math

You wanna learn how to rhyme first you gotta know how to add

And I know rap ain’t a fad, thats Mos Def-initely the truth

Ima take you back to the booth, back to my beginnings and roots

When I picked up the mic in my adolescent youth

See I tried to be like the heroes of that time

To walk like they walk, and rhyme like they rhyme

I didn’t see the importance of having my own voice

I’d rap about living that opulent life, and rolling in that Rolls Royce

That was never true to who I was or who I wanted to be

So here I stand speaking my mind freely

But I ain’t done yet, this is still a work in progress

I guess it’s time to make our mark

Better ourselves at the art and craft

Been a while here comes the spark

First flame to light up the dark

So it’s time to make a start

Develop ourselves at the art and craft

The art and craft

(Guitar solo)

(Bridge)

I guess it’s time to make a start

We stand together with hands on hearts

We stand together with hands on hearts

For the sake of the art and craft

I guess it’s time to make our mark

Better ourselves at the art and craft

Been a while here comes the spark

First flame to light up the dark

So it’s time to make a start

Develop ourselves at the art and craft

I guess it’s time to make our mark

Better ourselves at the art and craft

Been a while here comes the spark

First flame to light up the dark

So it’s time to make a start

Develop ourselves at the art and craft

The art and craft