Underground

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

It's time that I open with a thunder sound

Now look around your own town for the underground

Yo, you rhymin for the TV or a million Cd's?

You ain't a MC, you ain't underground

You could be platinum or gold, hot or cold

But it's the respect you hold that's underground

When the critics don't get, that for the streets you spit it

When your lyric they fear, that's underground

Yeah what does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

Yo, white kids, black kids, skinny kids, fat kids

Them Asian cats be underground

Chicanos, Palestinians, Milanos, fuck the lone ranger

Where's Tanto? That's underground

Freddie Fox, Blackalicious, Kweli

M.O.P., Gangstarr that's underground

Mad lion, Smif-N-Wessun, Buckshot

Armageddon T.S. that's underground

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

Yo, the t'cha returns, I told y'all I went to Cali to learn

And that shit was underground

If the cops be eyein' you 'cause survive is what you try to do

Yo I'm wit you, you underground

If it's justice you want and you protest the ice they flaunt

You want skills that's underground

Yo it's not about a rugger, rapper, or an actor

It's about your subject matter that's underground, look

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground, alright

Chevonne Dean from Ruff Ryders, all the outsiderz

Young Zee, that's underground

When all your money's spent and you're still hangin' on

To 50 Cent, get it, you underground

When you rep the collective consciousness of hip-hop

Not hip-pop, you underground

Yo it ain't about jewels, bitches and cars

It's about Nas, that's underground, yo

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

To be underground simply means that you're down

For the struggle, get 'em up, that's underground

You could be a classy lady or a whore

But if you protest the war, for sure, you underground

If the government can't see you or deceive you

You love your people, believe you underground

If you refuse to play the game, you go against the grain

You ridin' the train, you underground, get it

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

Yo, yo, that blast from the past, like Grandmaster Caz

Bam and Flash, that's underground

Doug E. Fresh, Lord Finesse, KRS

If you listenin' to this you underground

Turn it up now KRS about to show you how

They go wow, blaow for the underground

Mr. Walt, Evil Dee, KRS, BDP

Kenny P, that's underground, do it

What does it mean to be underground?

It means you gotta be free to be underground

Yo, you got your own key when you're underground

If you're listening to me yo you underground

Alright turn it up, turn it up

Turn it up, turn it up

Turn it up, turn it up

Turn it up if you underground, listen

Sure shall