Common - Foundations of Hip-Hop & The DJ (Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2005) lyrics

Hip-hop started on the streets of New York
With the Black and Latino community
And it's gone on to spread across the
World, bringing together Blacks
Whites, Latinos, asians
People from England, people from Amsterdam
People from Germany
People from Ireland, people from
Japan, from Africa, from Cuba
From where else? Suriname, yes, Suriname
Yeah from the Caribbean all over
Right? South America
Bringing together all people, y'all
All under what we call hip-hop
Now, in the basement
We love hip-hop and we wanna take it forward
But in order to move forward, you
Gotta understand where you come from
You dig?
Now, at the North Sea Jazz Festival
We should know we all know that hip-hop
Got these different elements
It's not just rappin'
It's different elements
You got MCin', you got
Graffiti, you got breakdancing
B-boying and B-girlin'
But the foundation of hip-hop
Where it all started is with the DJ