Blue Scholars - Cornerstone lyrics

Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha one-two yo, one-two yo
Ch-check- check one, two yo
It goes microphone check one-two yo
Microphone check one one two-two
It's the cornerstone

From the gutter to the throne
Corner to the stone
Camaraderie is earned, cultivated
And homegrown don't really own a damn thing
Except for my labor
And maybe a couple of thousand
Pages of my rhymes
And your brain's just a cage with
The mind locked inside it unless
Knowledge it'self gives proper
Perspective to see how the politicians keep
The dollars protected
My namesake is not confined
To scholarly methods to reach the mass
Never preached the way they teach in class


Sleep-walking half-dead spirit's leaving fast
If you've never had your ass beat, brah
You can't speak about
Nonviolent protests and other such mythology
Watch how the quantity leads into quality
Deep beyond the reaches of
Your Babylon economy
I speak solemnly, I seek equality
My people celebrate life despite poverty
Fuck the false prophecy
Promising we'll all be free
As long as we fall in line
With the flawed philosophy and
Mystery, God's eternal afterlife in heaven
While living in hell
Where the militant dwell
Now the ranks start to swell in
The hoods and jail cells
Lock down the campus cause
It's right to rebel
No uprising fails, each one's a step forward
Toward the victory that's at the
End of the trail, we

Crack jokes while singing the blues
And rock like the stone
That the builders refused
To all area crews, who carry the world
On their shoulders, on some Atlas shit
This one's for you 206, rock rock on
The proletariat, rock rock on
Beacon Hill, rock rock on
Now the hustle on the corner
Sets the struggle in stone

My compatriots and comrades
Engaging in combat
Trying to stay sane up in this land gone mad
Give me two bucks
You take a puff and pass my bong back
Nearly three years and they're
Still up in Baghdad
Battle raps, 85%, talkin' this
And that, quit that
Insecure petty little man
Get a manicure and tan, B
Amateurish candy raps it's hilarious
I'm laughing 'til I can't breathe
Can it be that it was
Never simpler then as now?
Consumers waiting for a magazine
To set the style the critical instead begin
To organize quietly
Underneath the sugar-coated surface
Of society my purpose as of now to serve
The people to the fullest
Knowing that my name is somewhere
Written on a bullet
The beats that I inherited and
Rhymes in my chromosomes
Passed to my seed, I call him my cornerstone

We crack jokes while singing the blues
And rock like the stone
That the builders refused
To all area crews, who carry the world
On their shoulders, on some Atlas shit
This one's for you
New people y'all, rock rock on
Real change, man, rock rock on
The next generation, rock rock on
Now the hustle on the corner
Sets the struggle in stone
We crack jokes while singing the blues
And rock like the stone
That the builders refused
To all area crews, who carry the world
On their shoulders, on some Atlas shit
This one's for you
Central district, rock rock on
U district, rock rock on
International district, rock rock on
Now the hustle on the corner
Sets the struggle in stone

B Town, rock rock on
White Center yo, rock rock on
Bellingham yo, rock rock on
Tacoma y'all, rock rock on
Yo Portland, rock rock on
Pacific Northwest, rock rock on rock rock on
Real People, y'all rock rock on
The Pioneers yo, rock rock on rock rock on