Hip Hop Hear This!

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by Leroy Moore/Illin N' Chillin

Hip-hop hear this!

introduced Crip-hip-hop

Now the industry is "Thumpin" on L.y.f.e’s., debut album, "Southern Comfort"

the first Deaf Rapper & Producer

Teamed up with another Deaf emcee

Watch out for "Sho Me Who Rocs Betta: Chapter 1" by Sho Roc

Face on the turntables

Scratching with his chin

DJ Ectic has no use of his arms & legs

Getting the crowd up on their feet

His music swimming on sound waves across the ocean and sea

From the UK to the US

"Hop Up On Your Good Foot"

C.R.I.S.I.S spits on Officer in Charge from Zambia

The rap celebrates people with disabilities

With upbeat West African hip-hop lyrics

Blues to hip-hop

Digging deep down to the roots

From 1887 to today

"Strut That Thing" sang Cripple Clarence Lofton back in the day

"Wheelchair Blues" by late Celeste White

Me, The Black Cripple, rhyming about "Identity"

Dancing to our own drum

Peg Leg Joshua Howell did the Peg Leg Stomp

and the Beaver Slide Rag in 1926

Peg Leg Sam Jackson did the Peg Leg dance in 1972

Ludacris brought back wheelchair square dancing

With a hip-hop flavor in 2005"when I move, you move just like that..

House it with Paul Johnson

"In Motion"

as the record spins

Lost his legs from diabetes

But his hands made him the funkiest

house dj in the business

Fezo Da Madone uses his feet

To drop nasty beats in the studio

"Here I AM", his latest CD

Radical MC with Cerebral Palsy

Jive Records made history in the early eighties

Signing the first disabled musician

Brooklyn’s own Rob Da Noize Temple

35 years in the music industry

Now he is stepping out in front with "Peace Thang"

Hip-Hop hear this!

Cripple Connection Production

Slapping on a label

"Warning this purchase will shatter images"

messages wrapped in a plastic cd Jewell case

Hey Blackalicious, your Rhymes, are they a gift or a sin?

You say you have Rhymes for the deaf, dumb and blind

but all we hear is gab, gab, gab, gab your name fits Gift of Gab

Give us the mic welcome to crip-hip-hop rehab

Hip-hop in recovery taking speech therapy opening up a new positive vocabulary

ripping a page from KRSOne Edutainment

Changing people’s backwards attitudes

Targeting the untapped disabled market

Distributors, agents, record companies, MTV & BET

Will pimp us as new kids on the block

But Cripple Connection Production is independent

Funding coming from our SSI benefits

Hip-Hop hear this!

Jay Z, sign our Ticket to Work

Puff Daddy and Flavor Flav, its time for a new Reality show

Called BADAS, Black And Disabled Artists Sharing

reporting inaccessible concert venues to the ADA police

The verdict please! Hip-hop hear this!

You’re out of compliance!

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