[ar:Hilltop Hoods]
[ti:The Underground (feat. Classified, Solo)]
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[00:00.00]The Underground (feat. Classified, Solo) - Hilltop Hoods
[00:06.13]We went from spitting jams to fifty fans in a little cramped room
[00:10.97]A shoebox you couldn't fit a shoe in to touring
[00:13.66]Switzerland with my man in a mini-van
[00:15.75]Being the man of the minute
[00:17.32]Can happen in a minute man
[00:18.84]And it's funny
[00:19.47]I've seen buddies that I trust turn away
[00:21.03]'Cause money can't buy
[00:21.96]You love but it can earn you hate
[00:23.69]And none of you gave a f**k till the movement went large
[00:26.35]Now every crew is making music
[00:27.71]Every dude has got bars
[00:29.13]Now every half-a** bar fly up in the bar rhymes
[00:31.80]We sit about spitting
[00:32.66]'Bout the dark and the hard times
[00:34.39]But got perspective on
[00:35.69]The fighting for the crowns and such
[00:37.09]When we encountered and
[00:37.95]Old pal who had been down on his luck
[00:39.81]In some Volleys pushing trolleys eating soup from a tin
[00:42.15]My girls like golly man these pollie's aren't improving a thing
[00:44.49]Well swap your worries for some Bolly swap your suit for some wings
[00:47.71]And fly with us we light it up and it's a beautiful thing
[00:51.86]It exploded the underground
[00:56.10]They say it's gonna happen the underground
[01:01.71]It exploded The underground
[01:06.80]They say it's gonna happen the underground
[01:11.95]That's where I started at the days of Walkman's and starter hats
[01:14.77]The open mic nights mastering the art of rap
[01:17.16]We man made underground like an artifact
[01:19.85]We don't need to worry when the market crash
[01:22.14]I'm from the bottom bottom of new Scotland
[01:24.67]Planted all my seeds watered them then watched it blossom
[01:27.06]Then they try to tell me over time we'd be forgotten rotten
[01:30.62]Thinking that you're gonna keep me boxed in Nonsense
[01:33.34]Hilltop and Class rock till your noggins nodding
[01:35.94]You can walk in my shoes but never fit in my jeans
[01:38.64]I do this with no option
[01:40.04]Till my body's old and rotten and exhausted
[01:41.85]Keep it going
[01:42.46]'Cause I'm living my dream
[01:43.71]Till the grave we'll spit the pain and
[01:45.33]When it comes to picture painting
[01:46.52]We might be the illest rated with the visuals illustrated
[01:48.44]That's ill communication
[01:50.84]Therapy for life without the rehabilitation
[01:53.38]Keep waiting I'm about to blow up
[01:55.47]It exploded the underground
[02:00.10]They say it's gonna happen the underground
[02:05.66]It exploded The underground
[02:10.87]They say it's gonna happen the underground
[02:15.82]We about to blow it up but we all started this as amateur
[02:18.81]Carving out a path was a hardship for the traveller
[02:21.33]It said that raps a façade you'll never manage it
[02:24.35]In these parts I guess it's our scars that give us character
[02:26.91]We misfits and slackers at risk kids or hackers
[02:29.12]With a wish list sick of doing six shifts at Macca's
[02:31.19]From listeners to rappers prestigious to hapless
[02:34.51]I don't need a gift to know that this sh*t is backwards
[02:37.36]When done officially another visionary
[02:39.26]Will lights the flame
[02:40.60]Write their name in their sweat blood and infamy
[02:42.65]It's gutter symphony f**k the industry
[02:44.64]Let them come we're the ones carving history
[02:47.42]So we rhyme for the hurt and poor hard work and for
[02:50.61]International heard applaud to local suburban tour
[02:53.55]Ya'll gave a purpose for the roar when the curtains draw
[02:56.40]Furthermore ask yourself what you're searching for
[02:58.68]I'm about to blow up
[03:03.00]The underground
[03:04.53]Follow me to a place I like to go
[03:06.61]Liner notes are signposts to find that which lies below
[03:08.57]Born in eighty eight so I came in late
[03:11.60]To find for the first time in life I felt right at home
[03:14.63]Through the growing pains and hostile take overs
[03:17.45]People trying to put us down like Beethoven
[03:20.14]We stayed strong and remained focused
[03:22.33]Until they had no other choice
[03:23.76]But to stand up and take notice
[03:25.70]Never thought what I wrote on a page back in the day
[03:28.65]Would ever have me catching a plane
[03:30.38]Or rapping up on a stage
[03:31.66]Staring out at the crowd in amazement
[03:34.14]Thinking back on the days when
[03:35.45]We were confined to the limitations of the basement
[03:38.70]The subterranean kids became the main event
[03:41.34]I pay respect to those who spent days laying foundations
[03:44.44]Countdown to detonation
[03:46.87]It exploded the underground
[03:52.13]They say it's gonna happen the underground
[03:57.56]It exploded The underground
[04:02.71]They say it's gonna happen the underground