Sphere Of Hip-Hop (Original) (Raw Material Album Version)-Mars Ill

[ti:Sphere Of Hip-Hop (Original) (Raw Material Album Version)] [ar:Mars Ill] [al:Raw Material] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sphere Of Hip-Hop (Original) (Raw Material Album Version) - Mars Ill [00:11.13]It's there and it's here it's far and it's near [00:13.81]All my hopes and all my fears are manifested in the sphere [00:16.41]It's distorted but it's clear it's my enemy and my peer [00:19.33]It's as wack as radio rap and it's doper than premier [00:21.85]It's all of what you see and it's all of what you hear [00:24.63]It's Def Jams it's so so Def it's on Def ears [00:27.30]It makes you cheer and lets you chill it saves and it kills [00:29.99]It's unbelievably creative and it's run of the mill [00:32.77]It's fake and it's real it's politics and it's skills [00:35.38]It takes up all my money but it pays all of my bills [00:38.25]Still it's simple to decipher and difficult to discern [00:40.83]It's hip hop it's paid in full it's hard to earn [00:43.83]It's you must learn and I got it made it's who's the man [00:46.57]It's brothers gotta work it out it's parents just don't understand [00:49.03]It's overblown and underhanded pacific to Atlantic [00:51.90]Watching all your dreams get shattered and all your wishes granted [00:54.74]Where ignorance runs rampant and knowledge reigns supreme [00:57.36]Where loyalty's highly regarded but everybody switches teams [01:00.09]It's closet aficionados and it's microphone fiends [01:02.79]It's where we say what we mean by any means for Elohim [01:05.48]It's all that you despise and everything that you hold dear [01:08.23]It's war and peace it's this and that it's hip hop and it's the sphere [01:11.24]It's all that you despise and everything that you hold dear [01:13.59]Yin and yang it's love and hate it's hip hop and it's the sphere [01:16.25] [01:27.34]It's up and it's down it's free and it's bound [01:30.11]It's sight and it's sound it's mainstream it's underground [01:32.77]Profound and common sense it's past and present tense [01:35.61]It's dollars it's cents it's guilt it's innocence [01:37.80] [01:38.37]It's bent and it's sober it's on my mind and on my shoulders [01:41.10]It's the Bronx it's queensbridge I forgot the bridge is over [01:43.75]It's New York Los Angeles Atlanta Minnesota [01:45.95] [01:46.50]It's hip hop it's even freaking north and south Dakota [01:49.33]It's contained within my headphones but still it blows my speakers [01:52.01]It's big Willie wannabes and it's poor righteous teachers [01:54.67]It's living for the moment and it's dying over nothing [01:57.21]It's we're all in the same gang and it's headed for self destruction [02:00.22]It's tougher than leather it's no one can do it better [02:02.90]It's ripping a freestyle and it's your writtens to the letter [02:05.61]It's a sling and a stone and it's fully automatic [02:07.65] [02:08.32]It's the sphere of hip hop peace to plastic