Oxygen Songtext
von Protektahz

Yeah
Protectors
Uh-huh

I need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
I need oxygen to breathe but hip hop to live
I need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
I need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live


I be the microphone controller, lifetime devoter
Ballpen roller, holdin′ up the border
World on my shoulder, turntable revolver
Hip-hop keeps evolving and I be growing older
Bringin' it to basics, meet me in the matrix
I be the glitch that switches up your playlist
Nothing but the classic, radical mathematics
Lyrical ass-kick and tactics I practice
Spit an old flow to lay it on my roots
My tape decks boom with cassettes on loop
Ever since the ′80s when my foot got loose
And the only thing we shoot was the basketball hoops
Music gave direction, purpose and protection
Line for line, my rhymes hit with perfection
Opened up perceptions, made my connections
Here to blow the mind in time with no exceptions

We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Two MCs with one prerogative
To go rock the mic like this
We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Spit fire on the mic, freestyle day and night
Optimistic Jr and BeatSmith


Yo, I don't give a fit up, straight up as I cut through the chaos
Off your radars, original raw rhyme slayers
You can blame us for bringing back the underground layers
To your boomboxes and CD players
Cassettes and tape decks never a day to stay here
We make the earth quake, shake from here to the Himalayas
Scrape the surface, reveal the magma
The hot shit from the laboratory
The greatest untold story from
With a rugged repertoire, fuck the glory
Optimistic and Jr, bodyguards
Your motherfuckin' protectors shuttin′ down your whole sector
We dissect the illusion and bring clarity
In a world full of confusion, substance amongst the pollution
Oxy-oxygon, inhale my contribution to hip-hop′s evolution
P-R-O-T-E-K-P-A-H-C

We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Two MCs with one prerogative
To go rock the mic like this
We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Spit fire on the mic, freestyle day and night
Optimistic Jr and BeatSmith

I collected cassettes, CDs and vinyls
Now I'm collecting the features of my idols
Passion is vital, instincts are primal
Mic device get sliced at recitals
Tongue like a razor, mind like a laser
Down under the radar, I′m a croc, not a gator
Still a motivator, here to elevate my neighbour
If you ain't down with the caper then I catch you fuckin′ later

Breathe in, breathe out
Inhale, exhale, no doubt
The wind's in the sail, breeze in the lungs
The stories we tell as the air passes my tongue and exhale
Raise it to the top
Yeah, my breath carries life in hip-
Hop, same as my blood, every single drop
Rib cage protects the lung and the heart
Just like me and my brother, we protect the art

We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Two MCs with one prerogative
To go rock the mic like this
We need oxygen to breathe but hip-hop to live
Without it, our existence would be negative
Spit fire on the mic, freestyle day and night
Optimistic Jr and BeatSmith