Macklemore - HOT97 Freestyle lyrics

I was just a backpack rapper
Backpack of Krylon fat caps
Slab of concrete that I would write on
Eighth grade when "Triumph" came
Out, and I'm like, "Hey mom
Can I skip school? I can't even wait!" "Nah!"
Thirteen years later, praise God
I just got DM by Raekwon
And he wants me up on the same song
And Method Man's pissed off for
Doing the crowd walk
But it wasn't nothing, man, we squashed it
Nah i'm from the city Nirvana where
That mosh pit started
From where Kool Herc started
That doesn't mean that I won't kill
The beat and be a martyr
Aspestos with pencils my pens
Choke as coffins west Coast, success toast
Seattle down to Compton
What does it say about America
That I became a millionaire
Between kicks and snares and couldn't
Get in to college aight, switch topics
I don't walk I get
Piggybacks on Action Bronson
Show up at Em's crib with the split of vodka
Hit up Mac Miller
Relapse and celebrate kwanzaa
On behalf of us white rappers
I think it's a fact that
Yes we have appropriated culture
It's just race
Let's talk not make it awkward
I wrote a song about thrift shop's
I never thought it would ever get a spin
Radio did it's thing
And all of sudden the song
Popped up and got popular
Would that have happen if I
Wouldn't be a cracker?
Sold 6 millie, does skin tone really matter?
We live in America
Land of gimmicks and ladders
And did I go climb it, bastard
Of course race was a factor
But bitch I'm a B-boy and I
Put that beat in the casket
Listen to The Heist, man
We almost made a classic
You gon' agree, that's vantastic
Take away Thrift Shop and can't
Hold us going platinum 9 times, alright fine
But, I made it uncool for
Kids to say "faggot"
I got rich and I didn't go buy a mansion
Gave away 200K to the homies
That didn't have it and when I fall off and
The second album flops
And turn into Vanilla Ice, wait
That's never gonna happen