Back in 86 and I remember it so clear
hip -hop graffiti came here
Now it's seven years later,
You can find them at any bus stop
They tag the bus windshield
Smoothin' too fast, packin' a bus pass
With paint on their hands,
It's 3 a .m., but an artist never stops
Creepin' through the city
Sometimes they're in a posse,
sometimes they roll alone
with a pocket full of fat caps
Hat to the back, supplies in a backpack
They started their mission
around a quarter till eleven
Now with spray can in hand,
they're going to the heavens
Because they mobbin' 10D,
well me and Streaks and Spraypaint
The bus pulls up, at the stop you see smiles
Cause they know that the tags'll
From city to city they collect much fame
but everyone knows her name
And if you know what I'm sayin',
this song was written for you
and all your neighborhoods too
You got police runnin' around,
tryin' to keep you down and get involved
But you give them a problem
they simply just can't solve
y 'all, that it's a family thing
And they don't understand, y 'all,
that you're a deaf city king
And true kings don't stop
when they're on the attack
He's gettin' up on the wall,
his homies watchin' his back
realize that graffiti and rap
and it's part of our hip -hop lives
So we say peace to the artists
who fight to keep it alive
You ask the mind artists,
but I don't use spray cans
when we're in front of a mic stand
It makes us delirious, and furious
Crews today are insane and hard to explain
but now you all wanna tag, bang
you leave them dead in the street
sometimes they're even younger
it's gotta make you wonder
When will it stop and end,
Put down the gun, homie, pick up a pen
Do you wanna be the reason
It started in the heavens,