Flat Top Rules

Verse 1: Flat top rules, flat top '89 Man I used to have mine with the lines like Kane It was high school high and the girls was fly I was practicin’ lines trying to rhyme like Kane With a rayon shirt, do the running man, yeah, y’all, work So c’mon, let’s move it like Special Ed Tapes was the grittiest Grip Grand was born in the City, bitch That’s the most true shit I ever said Fat cap rules, '92, new school With the Air Max lime green trim new shoes Had a swap-meet t-shirt, Dickies, Ben Davis Wore a web belt, matched Starter hats, ten flavors Rocked satin-lined flannel tops King shit like Camelot Cali G’s, Sammy sold trees out a ammo box Back in the day I knew rap would never die out What the fuck else you gonna listen to to ride out? Chorus Verse 2: '85 rules, '85, old school It was Slick Rick, Run DMC, and me With the track suit pants in a B-Boy stance Hip-hop steady blowin’ up, TNT Had skips, not kicks, man I couldn’t buy shit Pay what? Payless, better yet pay nothin’ So I didn’t look fresh in my hand-me-down vest Or a fake Member’s Only jacket straight frontin’ '88 rules, junior high, high school Where were you? I was at the store buyin’ PE Had the gray cassette, used to play that shit ‘Til it broke and eventually I bought the CD Yeah, '91 rules, Native Tongues, so cool New York had the jazz, LA had the violence With a beanie pulled low, couldn’t see a good show I was too young to go ‘cuz they might have a riot [Riot Bridge] Chorus Verse 3: Back pack rules, '93 rap rules Headphones so big bout ta’ break my neck Trying to walk with a bop, troop up to the Hip Hop Shop Cop a Conart shirt from Hex Got a Tommy Hill top that Grand Puba rocked In a video before he dropped Reel to Reel, B? Or were you more on that cold Timberlands when it snows And a parka like Preem on the Arena LP? Yeah, Jumpman rules, '9-cipher, etc In the rhyme cipher, Grip flow with a sharp tongue Can’t afford Jordans so I gotta save up Bought the silver and black with the glow-in-the-dark tongue Everyone wanna go back to the past But for me, I would still hop back to the future If, back in the day, you knew rap would never die? You were right, ‘cuz we still got rap in the future Chorus