Macklemore - B-Boy Lyrics
[Intro:]
Ladies and gentlemans
This an ode to the B-boys, B-girls
The people out there who do it for the love
And believe me I'm not dissin' anybody out there who's trying to get paid
But I got one question
[Verse 1: Macklemore]
Whatever happened to the heart?
That pumped the passion into the art?
The entity that gave you the energy to wanna start?
Breakdancing, I'm battling, doing it at the park
Where the mission was expression, not only to top charts
I don't know what happened, wanting to blow rap
You lose soul and passion for the flows and the tracks
But we're gonna take it back
Before beats to a hundred G's a pop
All you needed was a tabletop and a beatbox
Hip-hop without the B-boy is like shelltoes only having two stripes
Hip-hop, we're freedom-fighting, graffiti-writing, party types
That recite and organize and revitalize our rhyming
'Til the group of the moneymakers systems
Knows that the industry can eventually get served
Breakers of my verses spinning up a revolution throughout our words
If you really want it, come on get it, cause I've got it
I'm honestly paying homage to forgotten pioneers of this culture that are giving them props and learn
If you wanna earn your stripes
You gotta be able to rock this mic and set cyphers alike
The feeling to put in everything you got in the circle
Will never be documented in the Coke commercial
[Hook:]
We be the baddest
[Verse 2: Macklemore]
Now B-boys, B-girls
Bring it back to the block
Lemme see you get ill, for real, pop and lock!
If you record without thought then stop
Because I'll serve your whole album with the goddamn beatbox
Without thought it just happens
If you gotta think to feel, that's not rapping, that's acting
I'm from a land of backpacks and fat cats
MCs with sick raps who serve those that are wack
It's a way of life
I put all my energy into the melody
On the mp3s until the death of me
Record exceptionally, especially
Whenever I be monumentally, grammatically, killing the mic
I tell my DJs, cranking that music, keeping 'em moving when the beat plays
Staying into it, breaking and grooving, and MCs they
Thinking that you should always pursue in what their dreams make
Taking from lucid to really do it
All the people gotta make their money
And the way to make money is to get inside of the industry
Take it on the radio, flow
So you can go blow, we get a car
And a crib up on MTV
But in the end what's classic?
Radio bubblegum? or a voice filled with passion?
To my real hip-hop heads, please stand up
Cause the only people that can preserve this art is us
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Macklemore B-Boy Comments
Best song to breakdance
Play this in 2x it's to fast
try 0.75 lol
I remember breakin to this in highschool back in 2009, this song mad inspired me shit changed my life
Mükemmel ya
B boy to willy wonka... haha
Que chimba weon
This is as real as it gets!
his voice could bei Eminems voice
I gotta always come back to this
only the OG macklemore fans listen to this music
Where are the bboys now? bring them back, I hate new days hiphop dancing, looks fuc*ing ridiculous.
2018! still one of my favourite, if not my favourite song by Macklemore
hip hop
bernie 2021!!!!!!
Skeeeere
Back when macklemore was sick!
Well he's gettin payed now lol
Anyone who talks shit on macklemore needs to give this a listen. Pretty fucking good
Now b boy b girls bring it back to tha block
i came here because the bboy song
This track's scratch part is legendary.
i use this song on my breakdance battles
So good
wow so happy i found this. was listening for bboy songs
like a bomb
nerdplayer battlefield
Only good Macklemore song. (puts flame jacket on)
what happened to this macklemore
Andrew Altmann he evolved
There are Loseyourself's phrase?
The B-Boy song!
of course bernies on this page..much love
spettacolare
jacopo curiosity parli italiano!grande
I bboy is the word 👍😜
not to shabby
And people say drake is Dope, what a fucking Joke!!
LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!
im waiting for macklemore to become washed up so can invite him to my birthday party :D
that song is awesome !
this. goes. hard
Peeeeeps keep it up and enjoy the music. :)
Gracias por el temaa, Likee!! :D
"Macklemore can't rap" Pshh
@Bboy Darts I see you everywhere!
@Bboy Darts lol
This song doesn't flow very well in my opinion. It might be because of how much the best fluctuates, and because this is many years old, but i don't get the flow. Fuck it though, it's better than 90% of the shit out there and I still bump it.
wicked blud
OK I'll admit I'm eating humble pie here as I have slated this guy (especially to my daughter) but this track has some minerals,but I'm pretty sure it's probably 1 of the least liked by his Hip Pop fans..
people mistake macklemore for his fan base, and that's lame. I'll admit, I'm a white kid. but I can't stand half the people who got into thrift shop when it came out. the dude is a great hip hop artist
+TheKevzero1 Woooooooooooooooooord!!!!!
+TheKevzero1 I don't think it's one of his least liked songs, after Macklemore released the Language of My World on Spotify this song has gotten over 1.9 million plays, the second best on the album is only 700,000.
we been bumping this at bboy jams since 2009 at least, the hip hop community digs this song fam
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Always B-boy !! <3
LOVE FOR YALL BBOYS OUT THERE!! <3 BBOY FOR LIFE ^^
When Macklemore doing a real hip hop...
Nooooo!. i can't believe this track is feat'ed by person that i hate, saw his songs in TV.
World change our souls :\
Macklemore had respect for true hip-hop... what happened? This is the most real song I've heard from a mainstream artist about hip hop and we here crap like thrift shop end up on the radio
well he has this way of making funny1 or 2 songs on his albums but the rest of his stuff is coming from deep thought and his heart
Thrift Shop is Thrift Shop as Macklemore is Macklemore. He's still the same artist doing his type of music. Thrift Shop being popular, that's something he can't control.
Macklemore is the same as he always was, songs like thrift shop were in almost everyone of his albums. Fake id is in this one
Well, he basically paid Warner Music Group so his song got more airplay in the beginning, so he intended this song to be famous. He may not have had control over how well the song was received, but he put in effort to make it happen.
here is a source https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/08/171476473/the-real-story-of-how-macklemore-got-thrift-shop-to-number-one?t=1533361650379
Doesn't change the fact that he produced and will produce honest, self-reflective songs and fun songs in the future. To quote Billy Talent: 'This is how it is and this is how it goes'.
@Coozie *cough cough* Penis song as well *cough cough*
What happend to old Macklemore, why can't He make oldskool shit like this any more?
money money money
StreetCliche market* market* market*
A good bboy song for me when i dance
Mack raps faster then bizzy bone! Real Shit. Sick! Beat
Sick beat! This is going in my next snowboard video, reminds me of the beat from AWOL One & Daddy Kev - Rhythm
Fuck yes!! That song is the best.
Awesome song
oooooooooooooohhh its cool music
dope! love this beat
sick beat, macklemore is a fuckhead tho
Critical, hehehe
Yeah. He probably disses people online he doesn't know. Sportin a profile picture of tits hanging out like he's starving for attention. Oh, wait...
boring as hell sorry still don't like him....
"and whats classic, radio bubble gum or a voice filled with passion",,,,,,
luv this beat all ya'll bboys and bgirls godbless ya'all
edm4r uh thanks hehe u bboy too?
Yeah he went mainstream but he is not signed to any major record label because he wanted to rap about what he wanted rap about. He refused many record deals because he didn't want to be forced to write songs that are seen as "popular" today. He didn't want to write about "dropping molly" he wanted to write about his experiences. Macklemore is still Macklemore he hasn't changed.
My comment was to carlwinslo, cant reply back as im commenting through a phone
Dude i can not agree with you anymore, i said basically the same thing when i was at breakin practise an it all kicked off into a big argument
"Only can preserved is us"
This reminds me almost exactly of some music From Ratchet and Clank. Only the first three, the new ones are... Okay.
Yeah! :D do you mean R&C one the planet pukitaru?
Well, I meant more of an in general kind of thing. I was hearing it more on the R&C Going Commando path, but I could hear it in the first as well. How this song starts, that kind of music, it just straight up always reminds me of the series' music. And thank you, I posted this about 4 months ago and never thought someone would know, they would just read this comment. I would actually like to meet you at a specified location and shake your hand and get to know how your day was. Did the kids give you trouble? Bring them up to their grandparents, they'll learn.
Ssshhh... Macklemore's fake fans will never find us here.
And thats why theirs no passion Marcellus. his new=shit
How can a fan be “fake”? Shut the fuck up.
CRANK IT WHERE DID THE PASSION GO
ahh, these "true fans" that think they're better just because they know few old, unreleased or just less known songs. Meh.
@The Immortal Sun-kun ikr
raps about keeping it real and sells out. this guy is just another corporate puppet.
You sure? You seem mad. Good thing he went mainstream so you could come here and have something to complain about.
Damn, get roasted
I think you heard wrong song
This is pure class
my new favourite song
cool,b boys,macklemore
My favourite macklemore song!
my dogs name is hector
Verry cool recpect
And to think i thought this song was about dancing...not txting
Very good breakbeat Let's dance B-Boy
Hey it's pretty good, respect.
Until..
"Now B-boys, B-girls
Bring it back to the block
Lemme see you get ill, for real, pop and lock!"
Please no, don't say pop and lock.
woow :)
Respect but how now aboaut Dj Kool Herc
You just basically typed his music appealed to the masses and Mack wasn't content with that so he made music that appealed to the masses. Haha. Like he did the same thing all over again.
This is my jammmmm
im not a fan because his music is SHIT NOW. pop sounding that appeals to the masses. his sound before appealed to the masses but mack obvs wasnt content with that tho.
this is such an awesome statement.
i would never fuckin break to this. shit is corny man i know im bboyin why the fuck i gotta hear about it in a track
footwork and toprock for days
Bboys lets get it
Awesome track! unlike most of his new stuff
I'm glad he made it big, and I'm still a fan, but I still feel like his songs aren't as genuine anymore - certainly not as much as this album.
This rly makes me want to breakdance xD
sorry, you are stupid, now shush. don't bother replying.
Dude ! thrift shop is one of the best and only normal songs made after 2012 !!!
maybe the beat is kind of newschool.... but the lyrics are awesome and he is talking about some real shit and taking all the phonies out, listen to the words you dumb F*** !
this is dope, first time hearing this
no i stopped listening to him because most people that go mainstream go bad, just look at his new tracks. it's made for the masses, not for the fans.
people don't realize the thrift shop or whatever that fucking song is called is so utterly bad lyrically and by so many other aspects.It's not as raw as this shit.
all mainstream music follows a red line, at the end it's all the same fucking bullshit.
Thrift shop was woke man
Sky Fly Crew
True dat
this wigga aight but that gay song was gay
lol for the record bboys r better;P we tend to power better/more
Lol, I first listen to this song when i first started breaking 2 years ago. Never knew it was macklemore the whole time haha
WIsh he made another song like this
Goin mainstream is so much more than being in the public eye and being on the radio, the tv, and so much more. Going mainstream is fine, being mainsream is not. BEING mainstream is conforming to what society wants to hear, to the sonic sounding crap and auto tunng of the music industry. Going mainstream is fine its a sign that you made it. But once your music changes to accomodate the simple minded and your no longer sending a message that is wrong, that is BEING mainstream