One For The Back-Catalogue

Lazy wordsmiths get a gentle ribbing in this lyrical love-letter to the art of hip-hop.
Created by Sam Baron & Jack Miller, with Chuk Ikeh, Salvatore St. Croix & Alice Seabright. Featuring Hannah Boatfield, Amy Downes, Hayley Pryke, Dorothea Gebert, Liz Marketty, Kelly Agathos and Catherine Dauphin.
Visit sambaron.com to download the mp3 and see more of our videos. Read the lyrics below:
When we're writing rap we take the time to multiply
The amount of quality beats and rhymes required to satisfy
Reverting to the regular standard would mean that we haven't tried,
Just like all the G's that we see drive by who appear to be acting fly
They all just spit out the same sorta shit like their mind's eye's been sucked dry
While we cook up raps in a 4:4 time stuffed high like a sick steak pie
We know you're hungry We gonna feed ya
Cos I'm a preacher, I'll teach ya wi' lyrics that'll please ya
Our lyrics are so hot, they'll burn you, you'll ignite
Yo, Yo Michael Jackson heard our rhymes, And he went white
Christ, Christ, we drop word-bombs, like a bank heist
We're known for taking hostages and capturing the zeitgeist
Gimme a line, I'll throw it back to you twice,
One time, just like you did it, then again but sounding nice
I roll a dice to pick my syllables, and stick
I roll a six and drop a supercalifragi-
Lipstick, all over my face, from all the ladies I got
They call him Dr Dictionary and the Sultan of Swat
He's got a yacht, and ten pen-powered lyrical jets
Been on the mic since the beginning, I'm the Rap-Thesaurus Rex
My tight bites have reached such heights, that now I'm coasting,
My lyrical-flow's a show, you say I'm boasting? I'm hosting
The globe is my audience, sold out seats, SIX
MILLION RECORDS SOLD! I'll show up, I'll drop the beats
You're word-perfect, every track is etched upon your brain
It's clinical, I'm at the pinnacle of my hip-hop campaign,
I'm King Hurricane, and when I rain I flipping reign
9 Grammy's? Champagne! Twice-platinum - Insane!
You should listen to my other songs (My back-catalogue is excellent)
It's really very good..
You should hear me rap on my other track, my lyrics are phat
His back-catalogue is gooooood..
My debut was written in the ghetto
(Groundbreaking!)
Shot to the top
(Fame! Intoxicating!)
I made a mil, moved to LA, and now I chill
Haven't shot a man in years,
I wake up, and have a chill,
Have a sleep, have a swim,
eat some dill, have a chill
When it's time to write a lyric?
We boast, then have a chill
He's notorious!
I shot 8 kids when I was 9
Wanna hear about it?
Get the first album. Track 9!
Once upon a time, I wrote a song, it was good
Now I'm satisfied, I wrote a flipping song and it was good
You know my last track was all about heart-break, it came from the heart
This track's inspired by that track, it was lyrical art
You know he's all about the lyrics
Cos I'm always writing lyrics like 'I'm all about the lyrics'
Every album's won a Grammy, but we don't yet know
If this will win some too, we're still in the studio
There hasn't been a critical reaction to gage
It's not been on the radio, and it hasn't been played
When I was a kiddie-winkle in my bedroom, listening to Dre,
He told me to track down NWA, and press play
NWA's EP, inspired by Easy E's - Demo
About his first demo,
Inspired our first track,
You should hear it, you'd like that one,
it took what we liked about the Easy E demo
which my friend Rick gave me, then sort of built upon it,
Rick didn't like it but it took off, anyway,
that's the track this song is about
You should listen to my other songs (My back-catalogue is excellent)
It's really very good..
You should hear me rap on my other track, my lyrics are phat
His back-catalogue is gooooood..
We gotta fill a whole flipping album of tracks
There's gotta be some filler songs for kicking back and relax-ing
Like this one, if every song was lyrical gold
It would cease to be surprising Yeah the schtick would get old
So if you think you like this song, but can't describe it?
Listen to our next song, we'll describe it
You should listen to my other songs (My back-catalogue is excellent)
It's really very good..
You should hear me rap on my other track, my lyrics are phat
His back-catalogue is gooooood..

[@Metroid02099]

Nice to see you back Sam! This was pretty awesome, you're always so good with raps!

[@thalialialia]

hahahaha I'm so glad you're posting videos again :) love it

[@RobTFirefly]

Way to turn the thing that aggravates me most about pop rap and make it really very good!

[@MinnesotaIsHockey]

Great song. you guys can't go wrong!

[@guitarshreder777]

awesome video and awesome lyrics 5/5

[@Ktra42]

Lols, I like the ending, especially when all the guys pop in to say a line, plus very funky camerwork. Reminds me of the hiphopopotamus! (his lyrics are bottomless.......) Shamini

[@spoonbomb]

Love it.

[@yevongod]

Really enjoyable video, though for a song that trys to parody rap in a lyrical sense, it kind of went from serious to parody too much to keep the theme going for me. Still good though.