Pay Homage Interlude lyrics

[Spoken Samples]
Hold up, before we get started
I rise today to speak on an issue which now more than every needs immediate action
A lot of these new artists don't know the history, you know what I mean?
If you don't know your history you're not gonna know where you're going
So if you don't know the coogee raps and the Big Daddy Kanes and sub rocks and [?] and De La Soul and Slick Rick and Bismark
If you don't know those, then you don't even know sh*t

[Scratched Hook]
Pay homage, respect
Not as the rest

[Spoken Samples]
Uh, Jazzy J, Bambaataa, Cool Herc, Cool Herc, Cool Herc
And, uh, I do it the old way, the original way, the way the vintage producers, the early hip hop producers, they paved the way for me to sit here and do this
Motherf*ckers have no knowledge of the history
If you can't sing no Eric B and Rakim and sing the lyrics to one record, you've gotta leave this alone
Then I started telling stories more
And I started leaning more towards like a Nas, or a 2Pac
But I fell in love, more in love with the way they told stories
And that's kinda how I evolved

If you are doing this independent, and you are in control of what you put out
Do you put the same sh*t you hear on the radio?
Or do you put out what hip hop is?
You know what I mean?
Like, if you don't know how to make this sh*t you can't make it
If you don't know how to create it you don't know how to do it
[?] is hip hop