Ely Joe - Letter to L.A. lyrics

Yo give em the mix; in ninety-seven I'm fixin

to show what I got and that's a lot just kickin it

smooth like, despite the hype I'm still survivin

Takin the good with the bad from the hood with the mad

skills providin true flavor plus I'm scribin

all day all night, it's not easy bein Ike

Hypnotizing, you can't explain it but you follow

the tone of my voice as I pull you swallow

the maximum, niggaz take some, suckers are stung

when reality hit, plus they ain't gettin shit

Where you from? Confused and stick to seein when you cruise

and lean to the side turn it up and recognize

the street wise, keepin it live forever hustlin

Earnin my fetti gettin over cause I'm super-jetty

Steady, bouncin never petty announcin

the F-U-N-K, hip-hop is here to stay

Hip-Hop is here to stay [x4]

Break it down... hip-hop can never be faded G yaknowhatI'msayin?

Hip-Hop is one of those, arts you can never destroy

Genuine smooth is my everday life, bein

all I can be, but it's hard to please me

Hold on tight, cause suckers are slippin and can't get up

Can't get a job I know that feelin is fucked up

out of luck, and goin nuts tryin to figure

the other man, but what about yo' plan my nigga?

I'm here to deliver brotherman with the brand

smack new, smackin you and that's you know who

Comin through, feets suckers still can't see

my laid back styles, but it's all about reality

from now on, so let the real kick original

flavor don't come free yo you gotta take it slow

Earn your props, learn a trade and get paid and stop

bitin my dick quick that's not the fuckin ticket it's kinda sick

I don't know, it just happens

when I'm kickin the fact, suckers be stabbin me in the back

International, gettin busy for mine

You know the time, my styles be genuine

You know what I'm sayin? You can't fade a art like this

My styles be genuine

I don't need no star status to rock this mic apparatus

with these butter rhymes, now you tell me who's the fattest

Kids askin where is verbal stankin total rankin mind historian

You can see me, or Kervorkian

Either way, I can stop the brain torturin

FIgure me out, yo, that's to be continued

Cause you ain't got a clue I represent a chosen few

from B.C. to A.D., kings to shady

Will my switches be heard? Maybe, ask Jay-Z

Is it me and Cypress daily, causin hip-hop sex?

And got a secret code, masters speakin dialects

They ask me why I'm still underground now what the heck

Fourteen years old don't blowin up

I get up on the micrphone, now I'm throwin up

MC's tryin to figure me out, on this freestyle tip

You know, how I flip the hip, to the hop, to the

hibby to the hop, check it out y'all

Hip-hop's here to stay yo, it's goin nowhere

Yo I rip on the mic, yo it's truth or dare

Check it out, hip-hop yo it's hip-hop baby

Hip-hop here's to stay, it's here's to stay

Check it out one time we got the rhyme all day

To the two zero zero, zig to zig zero

The two zig zig zig zig ziggy ziggy zero yo

Don't run with me, or to cross spiritual

This come virile though cause I get a sip and now I'm hypocritical

Yo, I know where you can go

Ask the Grim Reap he'll know, cause he's really dope

folks is pitiful, ever since they quit knowin really cold

Got professional, climb over obstacles I stand on the top

of hills of dough, yo it's nice how can I make

They wanna stop me yo I'm thinkin digits also take it

Jealousy gonna's step and that bothers me, knowin

in hindsight now I have to see

Who was checkin for me, cameras they watchin me

And my crew checkin me out, yo now under my seat

Yo collect all the chips I flips the cards twice

Stay close to my ace for the espionage types

You know the ones with the crew for the funds

Totin all the guns, stick you for your sums..

Yo, hip-hop here's to stay yo, yo

Hip-hop, is here to stay, yo

It's here to stay y'all, it's here to stay y'all

to the two-zero-zero-zero it's here to stay y'all

It's like that with the track, me and me in Tack

Fu and we do it to your mind in your mind for your mind

I got my man Rob on the line on the engineerin tip

you know how we do, it's like that yo

Check it out one time

We comin out, we comin we comin we comin it's like this y'all

It's like that y'all, I bust this freestyle that's like that y'all

And I'm out