Bow Down - Tunnel Rats

My killer coordination causing contusions

It ain’t no illusion the way that I’m fusing the music I’m using

Together with God sound, all towns from Roxbury to San Juan

Rocking to the rhythm of some young Puerto-Rican young gun

I tell the world where I come from

The microphone missionary reaching the slums

So come one come all, get up off the wall

Came to wake the minds of those trapped in a time warp

I meddle with measures ministering through rhyme

Never for sport, only thirty percent caught

I take that to heart every time I shout stop

The music, they’re yelling turn it up

I’m forced to burn it up, man could never earn enough to compare

With riches untold that I got in my soul

You know these Tunnel Rats

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise

Now I write to appease the appetite of emcees

To ignite dreams in these bird visionaries

To create a visual description

One individual’s depiction of widespread famine and cultural malnutrition

So feast your eyes on this rendition

And after second or third, the words take on a position

So you know where I stand, there I start the incision

For those of y’all who can’t cut being a man

No ambition, no plan

If thoughts are plastic, then there’s no «I can»

And life’s a stereo and y’all is panned

I cut my arm at the wrist to give you a hand

But you still didn’t understand

That the race ain’t for the weak and the pace is hard to keep up

Your label tellin' you you ain’t gon' make it 'til you G’d up

They turn the heat up and tell you to stay cool

Put the game in motion and want you to play the fool

And there ain’t nothing you can do about it

Because you knew about it

You was warned about the game but you was 'bout it- 'bout it

And didn’t wanna hear nothing I said

Look at you now

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise

I’ve got to be well-rounded

And unpredictable for the fickle and critical public but I love it

So I go past the boundaries of the last flow

Cause if I don’t then I won’t have a chance to advance

I know the people wanna move when they feel the groove

Pay attention to the beat but don’t care what you speak

As long as they can get they freak on, it’s all sweet

But fool, I rumble in the jungle where the concrete

Dishing it out on wax plates (and you ate it)

Blowing up the spot to (elevate it)

Keep it tight man, I got to (and you hate it)

Cause now we the competition and in position to make it

We on a mission for the sake of the love

Real talent on the mic, pushes come to shove

Take it to the next level, bi-coastal local

We freedom bound

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise

(We won’t bow down)

We steady keeping the sound that we started with

Rocking at parties around town, never stoppin' it

Keepin' it for the underground

Rise