Artist: PRhyme f/ Joey Bada$$ Album: PRhyme Song: Golden Era * Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com * deluxe edition bonus track [Intro: Adrian Younge] The golden era of recording, took place in 1968 to 1973 It's a time when, a hard sound was raw and unrefined This is where you could find the seeds of hip-hop [Royce Da 5'9"] Comes back around again L-Boogie, is you with me? What goes around comes back around again Ice Berg, is you with me? What goes around comes back around again Nasty Nas, is you with me? At this very moment You 'bout to witness another golden era of recordin Let's shine a light on this real shit, real shit The Lord won't put too much on you than you can deal with I learned early why deal drugs when I can deal wit? Plus I'm down to kill plus switch kills, kill a friend of yours quick like flippin the kill switch Me bein the illest +It Was Written+, my lyrics are +Illmatic+ though Before the skateboarders controlled the genre Your favorite rapper was still radical We came from standstill to Chitlin circuits to fan-built arenas So flashin rifles on your Instagram and throwin bitches off the roof only work if you Dan Bilzerian So me on this landscape is like usin an anthill for skiing I'm like a young Marshon trapped in his dark prime Roamin the premises with a shopping cart blind with carte blanche to chart climb These rappers are soft, they take L's, embarrassin Doin light-skinned nigga shit so they pale in comparison [Chorus: Royce Da 5'9"] At this very moment You 'bout to witness another golden era of recordin (ah-one-two, one-two) Lyrics is social commentary, money for yo' commissary It's the golden era of recordin (ah-one-two) Where it's cool to battle your demons, it's cool to battle no matter who you are The golden era of recordin (ah-one-two) It's music out here for everybody no matter who you is We live in the golden era of recordin (ah-one-two) [Royce Da 5'9"] Let's shine a light on this real shit, real quick I'm a true karma chameleon, I've been through the illest, the ill shit I believe he who escapes the environment unscathed should have nothin to say Therefore he shouldn't make it if he never got punched in the face Let's take it back to the basics That'll save him from gettin punched in the face after he makes it I'm from the Motor City It was intended for me to work in factory places I chose to drink liters of Hennessy with Daiquiri chasers If everybody around you is the kind that'll take a mile if you give 'em an inch The time it'll take for you to fall out with all of them niggaz, that could mean acres Plus the time it'll take for you to realize that rappers could be fakers You went and disputin the bullshit Twitter revolution Hope you could breathe way better in your "He can't breathe" shirts Mention me or mine in your rhyme It's gon' look like you went around Mayweather in a "He can't read" shirt Cause I'm more the riotin type, nigga [Chorus] [Joey Bada$$] Uhh, uhh, and I'm somethin like a big deal Need six mil', for the deal, check the witty appeal Throw up New York, Yuck City feel will fill I'm too real and too gritty I feel Ready to kill, +Ready to Die+ R.I.P. to Biggie, rep BK the Stuy, bring your honey to this beehive We bustin cousin, fuck a introduction We live, my young'ns want it, gunnin for them hundreds My niggaz is head-hunting, and it's duck season for assumption She took the top off, I started dumpin, she was ruthless She licked the cocka for poppa like, she was toothless You got a different persona from what the truth is Sucker nigga stuck on stupid, it's nothin new All these hoes suckin dick and they get, so comfortable up under you Fake players and fake gangsters Sellin dreams, make-believe schemes, it's San Andreas I'll take your bitch and slay her, but I don't really like to boast I know I'm just that dope, I'll take a toast Big L's is gettin smoked yo, to the illest coast A livin ghost in the motherfuckin belly of the coast What's up? [Chorus] [Outro: DJ Premier scratching sample of Canibus] "Golden e-, golden e-, golden era" "Golden e-, golden e-, golden era" "Golden era, go-go-go-go-golden era"