Hook
From park jams & block parties to record labels
You're worldwide
And all started from turntables
Multi-billion dollar culture at the forefront
You saved millions of lives
For that they can't front
Salutations to the culture on your born day
The big 5-0
Know we got to celebrate
Yeah!
Give it up for Hip-Hop
From the bottom and you made it to the tip top

1st Verse
The big 5-0
Worldwide vital
Two pieces of vinyl
Now you're unrivaled
Played you like a sideshow
Now you make idols
DJ to MC
Breakdance to Writers
Derived from your presence
Aligned with the essence of expression manifested from a desolate environment
Couple that with violence
The pride of survival
Global domination inscribed since your arrival
From looping up a breakbeat
Followed by a call and response
The ambience brought a whole different energy
Innovative body movement
Never seen in the world
Rocking and popping
Hitting ground work with a twirl
Artistically vibrant
The styling of tags and graf amassed
Visually
Is here to last
Trendsetting fashion
The matching of style and flare is here
Decades everlasting

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2nd Verse
Cultural explosion
Imposing
A level of force
Undeniable
Couldn't front if you tried to
Global phenomenon
Responsible for bonding of people of all nations
Economic invasion inevitable
Corporations seeing plentiful
Opportunities
Alignment essential
Creation to product
When facing the logic
From poverty commodity
To paper to pocket
Regardless of the circumstance
Hip-Hop gave a chance to advance out of impoverishment to financially dominant
Individuals creating
Occupational wealth
Never handouts
Standouts going for self
Another alternative to street life
See light
Rather than darkness
The free life
Gave second chances
To lifetime enhancements
While managing to salvage the life of the damaged

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3rd Verse
Providing awareness
To our mind's interference
That the lives we've been living
Is entwined with a fairness
Social commentary
Put the lies in a prism clearing vision that they'd rather see us die in a prison
But royalty's our history
No longer a mystery
Rhymes presented vividly
Shifting of a mentality
Unapologetic injecting a sense of self worth
Now the priorities centered on putting life first
For that we got to celebrate
Eight Eleven Seventy Three
To the present day
How you made a better way
For inner city youth
Devoid of opportunities
To multimillionaires
Establishing world communities
You're loved and appreciated
Everything we live for
Can't imagine the world
Without you never been more
Honored to be part of your legacy
You can't find
A greater music and culture we know to mankind

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