In front of the mic, behind the limelight
A star so bright shines refined advancement
Dance with the last man on the face of the earth
Who did the electric sl-i-i-ide over the v

knownots

this goes out to everybody in the whole wide world
fresh coast gettin' rowdy
we don't represent out west we signifyin'
we showin' out
and we about to tell y'all what it's

the_march

I was born..
I was born..
I was born..
I was born in a concrete jungle
and I learned to make my own way (learned to make my own way)
I was raised by streets and the

the_thief

As I awaken
Born from the slums and taken
Through the ritual, childhood, puberty, adulthood, maturity
And mastery of me
And my surroundings counting down the days till

b boy_real_mc_coy

[ Aceyalone ]
Yeah
Ah, this one's out of respect
To you and yours
Ah

I'm a b-boy, I'm the real McCoy
I'm chocolate all over like an Almond Joy
anywhere_you_go

Check it out y'all...
This is Aceyalone on the microphone
and we got my nigga Punish on the beatbox
and we gonna show you how WE does it...

Anywhere you go
I

headaches_and_woes

Intro:

oh man i got a splittin' headache
and my heart is broken up into a thousand tiny little microscopic pieces

Chorus:

i got a head full of headach

arhythamaticulas

oh yes welcome to hiphology please open up your workbooks to page
and break out your pads and pens and your calculators
for the first lesson of today is

arhythamatic arhy

the_vision

Today
Sunday
On the nineteenth day of October at one a.m.
Nineteen ninety seven
I had a vision
No, well not exactly like a vision
No but like a sight
i_never_knew

Pump it up a little bit
Alright look

[Verse One]
See I never really new life could be so hard
I never really new pain til I got scared
I never knew people cou

project_blowed

Yo this goes out to hip hop world wide.
Straight from Leimert Park, California, los Angeles.
Yo, everybody in the hip hop struggle, in the life
Struggle, makin' a name for thems

microphones

[Aceyalone]
Excuse me - sir, whose microphone is this?
"I think it's that guy over there"
This guy over here?
Excuse me, is this your microphone?
"Yeah"


the_hurt

Hook: (x2)
The more I look around the more it hurts
My livelihook is poisoned my works
Fall on deaf ears a messenger bringer
With a foreign face and
Tongue and

the_hold

Intro:
Can't hold on.

Hook:
Hold on is what they say
But I say open up your hands and let it fly away
Until the day it comes back and it was meant to be

in_stereo

[Chorus]
What is that.. in the stereo
That's Acey/A.C. - Automatic Control
What is that.. in the stereo
AHHH! That's Acey/A.C. - Automatic Control

[Verse One]