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J-Formz & Nick Ballz - It's Still Alive ft Mic Bea
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Song #6 from my collaboration album with Nick Ballz, One, from 2021.
hip hop new york city new york 718 staten island one manuel jformz nick ballz j formzy its still alive
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From the North Shore of Staten, NYC. I use free beats, write, record, and mix all my own stuff. Not in this for fame or money, enjoy the music for free...
from the north shore of staten island, nyc...started doin music in 04...was in a group called ghostown, dropped 2 mixtapes, had sum succes...group split, i went solo... went to IAR (institute of Audio Research) and opened up my own home studio...the business of music made me lose all interest completely in the art...sold all my equipment n went on an 8 year hiatus...my house burnt down n random people out of nowhere started requesting a new cd...wen u have a gift n u dont use it u r being disrespectful to urself n every1 around who appreciates it, as well as the art itself...i went out, bought all new equipment, n have been creating more art since...i record n mix myself, come up wit all song concepts, lyrics, n samples myself...
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Genre
Hip-Hop • Hip Hop General
Charts
Peak #362
Peak in subgenre #169
Author
J-Formz, Nick Ballz
Uploaded
December 01, 2021
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MP3 10.0 MB • 320 kbps • 4:22
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WAV 66.5 MB
Story behind the song
I think it's a bit ironic that we have sum of the very people who claim to b of hip hops roots absolutely degrading and defacing the name of hip hop and all of its legends, but this white boy from the suburbs is still over here with his hoodies and Timbs making that boom bap...i beg to differ Nas, I say it's still alive...
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Intro: (DJ Kool Herc) One night, Im waiting for the record to play outI said I wonder if I putI said to myself Hmmtheyre out there waiting for this particular break and I have a couple more records thats got the same break up in itI wonder how it would be if I put em all together? And I told them, I said Im gonna try something new tonightcalled the merry-go-round Verse 1: (J-Formz) Kool Herc threw that first block party in 73and its like that boom Bap was just embedded in me11 years later, came here to show em how it soundedcause I was born the same year that Def Jam was foundedugh, coincidence? Maybebut lemme stake a claim and state my case before you go and call my ass crazyaround 86, I took my first steps, and what do you say!? The number one song is Walk This Wayin grammar school, I aint never needed class for speechcause I heard NWA say Fuck The Police!and the very first decade that helped mold himis the era that they now refer to as the Goldenget emso many veteran legends, I stop and thinkif hip hop was a Queen, the King was Pac or BIGshe was cryin for peace, its like the streets never heard herold enough to remember both their beef, and their murderdamnput on the bassment, or throw the clicker my way106 & Park time, its Freestylele Friday! The first day of the week, every kid hatesexcept me, Im hyped up for Monday night mixtape! The 2 gods in hip hop are dissinjust slaughterin each other while I watch n listen, I dig itbut after that, most shit got wacktight pants and ya mama wanna dance and snapevery now and then, you might catch me saying hes dopebut I swear, some of the muh fuckas are wasting my weed smokeIm still standing with my Timbs and barscause I love em, not cause I want you to think Im hardyou just couldnt be you, and I know what was stoppin yayou were clearly only good at doing wut was popularI survived through a time Nas said hip hop diedthe white boy from the burbs said its still alivecome on! Hook: (Mic Beatz) Its the hip hop revivalIm embedded in this shit like Jesus in the Bibleits like the universeis trying to tell me something through the versethis rap shit flowin through my veinsas Im going through my painCash Rules Everything Around Me! Im glad hip hop found me Verse 2: (Nick Ballz) It all started with Jump on cassetteI had a boom box, I would bump it to deathyes, I was hyped like a crowd for a DJ setI taped Mo Money, Mo Problems on VHSit wasnt music to me, it was more like a movieBiggie, rapping on the corner in Coogiif someone asked whats hip hop?, Id point em to Juicymy first CD was Score, by the Fugeesmoms hated the cursing, shes a nice white ladydrank Henny warm, there was no Ice, Ice Babyback when I started sparkin dailyI was watching TRL with Carson DaileyDMX at Woodstock with his mic in the airremember when he went platinum twice in a year!? There was no streaming then, but yes, I would listenbut, I had to hit Best Buy to get ittheres no denying the impact that Em madecouldnt tell me nothing bout him back in 10th gradeif its the early 2000s, then I would tell yathere was nobody fuckin with Roc-A-Fellabefore 444 and Lemonademe and Leg would argue the best verse on Renegadeits kind of soft right now, but what can I say? Raps wrestling these days, my styles MMAway before I recorded my rhymesI was all in on Royce Da 5 9I would spectate, study the templateand calculate how I could be the next greatI never listen to music, I feel the vibeno way to explain the way it make me feel insideyou think I aint hot? Then you ill adviseduntil the day I die, hip hops still alive Hook: (Mic Beatz)
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