Raiders Of The Lost Art Lyrics

Raiders Of The Lost Art lyrics

[ Kool Moe Dee ]	We are the Raiders



[ L.A. Sunshine ] Of the Lost Art		(8x)







[ Treacherous Three ]



This is a funky expedition, a mission, I had a vision



Stop, look and listen, yo, isn't it something missin?



Take aim with precision like vision, it's a collision



New styles are hittin, b-b-boom, bash, forgettin



The laws, created by the creators



There's no more masters, just master-perpetrators



We did time with the rhyme like a bid



Now we're puttin out hits on the new fake kids







[ Kool Moe Dee ]	We are the Raiders



[ L.A. Sunshine ] Of the Lost Art		(8x)







[ Treacherous Three ]



Here comes the greatest, baby



Here comes the Raiders, the Raiders



We are the greatest, baby



Here comes the Raiders, the Raiders



Here comes the greatest, baby



We are the Raiders, the Raiders



Here comes the greatest



We are the Raiders, the Raiders



We're lookin for the gold



We're searchin for the jewels



We're mining for the coals



We're working with the tools



The keepers of the light, the owners of the dark



Ain't nothin we're afraid of, we're the Raiders of the Art







[ Kool Moe Dee ]



I'm like a diamond in the rough, too tough



You can't bring enough



Ammunition, vision or wishin



No need in bringin up



'The homeboy's-strapped-with-his-gat-



In-his-lap' crap



This is on the lyrical skills, you can scratch that



My lyrical skills makes mills, pays bills



And chills, all of the no-frill chills on the diznills



Now who cares who kills



When you got true skill?



I'm kickin the real, yet and still



Brothers flake until



My relevance flips the script



Dives and dips and hip-hops



And drops and give props



And knocks the kids out of the box and rips



Suckers to bits and kick knowledge and lifts the hits



When I get lifted, kid



Take cover, no mercy on a brother



He's kicked to the curb



Then into the street, then into the gutter



You c-c-can't win, n-n-no matter w-w-whatta



Even if I stutter -



I'm butter







[ Kool Moe Dee ]	We are the Raiders



[ L.A. Sunshine ] Of the Lost Art		(8x)







[ Special K ]



Time to pay the bills with lyrical skills



Built in time to lock deals



Crack seals, we build the real



Technique, unique technique



Did you really think



My creatively level would ever sink a level shrink?



Words are like missiles, bombs aim to hitcha, splitcha



So you better beware when you hear the sound of a whistle



Duck for cover, here comes a brother who lives in quadruples



And still does it youthful



And keeps away the display, expert rendition



Poetic, energetic, with vision and precision



Mystifyin, we're supplyin the funky stuff



Boogie Down Bronx, neither could fade that I'm tough



Rough on the floor, straight from the door



There's nothin phoney when the one is only kickin the verse, yo



Ask anybody familiar with my particular brand of funk



Tell em to pump it in the trunk







[ Kool Moe Dee ]	We are the Raiders



[ L.A. Sunshine ] Of the Lost Art		(8x)







[ L.A. Sunshine ]



Way back in the days we lit a flame in this rap game



Groups like Tribe keep the vibe alive, and now the fire remains



Self-preservation is man's first law



I don't wanna start a war, but it's been done before



Almost like deja-vu with a sick twist to



An artform with warts torn, worn down, then run through



But don't gimme no credit, I'm a cash kinda guy



With my stash kinda high, still the girlies pass by



You know why? Cause I'm a Raider of this Lost Art



Played a big part from the start of hip hop, but now it's gotta stop



And if you go and check the archives, read the lines of the hieroglyphics



It says 'Sunshine's terrific'



As sacred as a golden scarab



Through my Creator I'm greater than the riches of a whealthy arab



The Sun shines in the east, so step from the west



On a musical archeological conquest







[ Treacherous Three ]



Here comes the greatest, baby



Here comes the Raiders, the Raiders



We are the greatest, baby



Here comes the Raiders, the Raiders



Here comes the greatest, baby



We are the Raiders, the Raiders



Here comes the greatest, baby



We are the Raiders, the Raiders



We're lookin for the gold



We're searchin for the jewels



We're mining for the coals



We're working with the tools



The keepers of the light, the owners of the dark



Ain't nothin we're afraid of, we're the Raiders of the Art