The Beat Goes On - Exposition

And now I’m hearing that I’m soft

And I’ve sold out to the man

Because I listen to The Clash

And play with a band

These kids are on the internet

With hip hop shit talk

I’m on Rakim

While you on New Kids on the Block

You went and copped

Paid in full last time you went shopping

Played it for your friends

Now you think you know the hot shit

Got the nerve to tell me

What real hip hop is

Son that’s where I started

And I ain’t ever stopping

Grandmaster Flash

And the Furious Five

Africa Bambata

Zulu Nation alive

Run DMC take

Cool J on the b-side

Studying when to spit

And when to let the beat ride

Cool G rapping met BMD

Big Daddy Kane

Public Enemy of BDP man

Slick Rick was the shit to me

And that Straw Field-matic

Made history

And to the 36 Chambers

Changed my life

I listened to the Fugees tape

Till it didn’t play right

And all these other great MCs

That came before us

I promised I would take what they made

And push it forward

But y’all don’t know nothing about that

Try to MC but don’t

Know nothing about rap

Never take a chance with

Any song that you write

That’s why you play

The Western Front

For the rest of your life

Man, I ain’t joking

And this shit is not a caper

I’m the hard liquor

You ain’t nothing but a chaser

You think I care bout

That blade on your waist son

We’ll go toe to toe

Your aux and my mind eraser

You won’t even know

Where it is you’re stabbing at

I’ll send your punk ass

Back to your habitat

You probably live

Where your Mommy and your Daddy at

Son I’ve got bills to pay

Fuck a battle rap

All I want to do

Is sing my song

And hope a couple people like it

Feel like singing along

'Cause when the satellites crash

And the feast is gone

The dance might stop

But the beat goes on

(Man see the beat goes on)

(DJ Cool Herp, the beat goes on)

(Outkast, the beat goes on)

(A Tribe Called Quest, the beat goes on)

(Gangstar, the beat goes on)

(De La Soul, the beat goes on)

(The D Boys, the beat goes on)

(Wherever you are, the beat goes on)

(Marxminship, the beat goes on)

(You know what I’m saying)

(The beat goes on)

(Audible Mainframe, the beat goes on)

(Exposition, the beat-goes-on)