Used to Be

east coast rap, 90s east coast hip hop, story telling rap, boom bap hip hop, add old funky soul music samples, aggressive like scolding a child, add funky bass riffs, drum and bass driven, add moog organs behind the interlude, male voice on the verses, only male voice for the verses, add female voice samples only in the chorus

[Intro]
the game used to be golden [echoing]
back in the day the truth was spoken [echoing]

[Verse]
I've been doing this since, story telling was golden
I stay true to the roots, when the truth was spoken
On old soul tracks that got sampled and woven
With hip hop beats, and mc's were the dopest
When they focused on speaking for the streets in their opus
And flowed with a grit that's missing from today's posers
They showed everyone the way that they were living 
Through story's of struggles, brought through with the rhythm 
Giving a voice to the streets to help to uplift them
To expose the deeds of a corrupt system
Shifting headlines about the social conditions
And stitchin the truth into rhymes with real criticisms

[Chorus]
It Used to be real and it used to be raw
Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song
Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something 
Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin

[Verse]
I Remember when people used to have to have skill
To make it in this game, you had to be real
No fishing for clicks with some made up pain
No online bitching behind that fake outrage
they Claiming their gains off of staged debates
Destroying this game, that used to be so great
No shame in the way, they lie through their teeth
Beating their chest while playing deceit on a beat
Fiending for fame, but never been on the scene
Like their mean and they bleed, like the ones from the streets
Demeaning the ones who can't fathom having a dream
About a future with hope, you know their conscience ain't clean

[Chorus]
It Used to be real and it used to be raw
Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song
Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something 
Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin

[verse]
it's past time that we rewind the clock to remind
mc's how it used to be, no more outright lies
only truth in the booth, yall better recognize 
the fiction you've written should be considered a crime
tainting the game with fake story's you've made
handmade claims of glory of unprovable fame
yall should be ashamed, for dancing on graves
but karma's a bitch, when you act like a snake
it ain't that hard to start correcting the record 
take a lesson from the past and don't embellish the message
want respect? tell the truth it will set you free
I'm just takin it back to the way it used to be

[Chorus]
It Used to be real and it used to be raw
Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song
Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something 
Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin

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[Intro] the game used to be golden [echoing] back in the day the truth was spoken [echoing] [Verse] I've been doing this since, story telling was golden I stay true to the roots, when the truth was spoken On old soul tracks that got sampled and woven With hip hop beats, and mc's were the dopest When they focused on speaking for the streets in their opus And flowed with a grit that's missing from today's posers They showed everyone the way that they were living Through story's of struggles, brought through with the rhythm Giving a voice to the streets to help to uplift them To expose the deeds of a corrupt system Shifting headlines about the social conditions And stitchin the truth into rhymes with real criticisms [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin [Verse] I Remember when people used to have to have skill To make it in this game, you had to be real No fishing for clicks with some made up pain No online bitching behind that fake outrage they Claiming their gains off of staged debates Destroying this game, that used to be so great No shame in the way, they lie through their teeth Beating their chest while playing deceit on a beat Fiending for fame, but never been on the scene Like their mean and they bleed, like the ones from the streets Demeaning the ones who can't fathom having a dream About a future with hope, you know their conscience ain't clean [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin [verse] it's past time that we rewind the clock to remind mc's how it used to be, no more outright lies only truth in the booth, yall better recognize the fiction you've written should be considered a crime tainting the game with fake story's you've made handmade claims of glory of unprovable fame yall should be ashamed, for dancing on graves but karma's a bitch, when you act like a snake it ain't that hard to start correcting the record take a lesson from the past and don't embellish the message want respect? tell the truth it will set you free I'm just takin it back to the way it used to be [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin [Chorus] It Used to be real and it used to be raw Used to have truth in the lyrics of a song Long ago the time when the Rhymes meant something Nowadays fake mc's are just frontin ©️ Rukus Crew 2025

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