Ko toku whakapapa Hip Hop tenei Started out from the höhä-ness of the way it is Bored by the Bumpnut shit cause I ain't one He Mäori ahau but I gots roots in Europe too Told yaÕll on Hardcore where I'm from anyway catch up The Message, Planet Rock ya know, and back in da day Rappers Delight is still da shit Marley and Herbs to Gil-Scott and LKJ Checkin out the stores I found a Malcolm tape Spread da word I was Djing back when Importing sounds cause no-one had em Always been inquisitive like getting to the cause So all dat shit about blankets for land was fucked So calling MŠori outlaws was a joke The Autobiography got me motivated Then Seize The Time was the bomb too The NZ Wars and just looking at shit here Relating outernationally the happenings Tings and time ya know anyhow Started Rhyming in my head over beats from anywhere But the Dr220 was the first beatbox I used Next to come was the Tr505 And with the Poly800 we got it down Singing live with the drumkit at the Pad Yeah dat was some roots yÕall Conscious lyrics to the fore cause IÕd been wised up By myself and da shit IÕd heard ya know Still a breaker cause I wasnÕt never a faker Juice Groove Breakers to Twilite Thrillz to ScottParkBloods 1984 Bop-a-lympics but we were bodypopping and breaking But it died in da streets Yeah the Pigs were bugging but they ainÕt leading nothing I remember breaking in Manners Mall still Homies be talkin like too old for dat shit and loosing it Later in "88 when they thought breaking was dead I did the windmill on the video for E Tu To show s"akcufahtum I knew what I was doing Back when they was in the Hip Hop scene only to look good "The gnikcufahtum dogs are in the Stree"' On the Woburn overbridge Yeah tagging and doing burners - Hip Hop donÕt stop It was at the Green Door though That I kicked my first rhyme in Public After that I got hooked up with the 808, the 909, the Casio Upper Hutt Posse in effect The MC500 hooking some beats and grooves up too Dropping vinyl and video started back then Hooked up with the Nation and made 'Solidarity' 1990 Farrakhan run it down yeah Da Whiteman da devil and all dat shit, donÕt slip Bullshit media come against UHP but you see we still be As we always have been no smiling for no dollars Kia Kaha Productions come wid da word sound and vision Hook up the 16 plus lay out some shit wid da Sr16,Sp1200 So yeah whakamohio your knowledge Ain"t shit changed and IÕm still about rearranging