golden age

i remember the days of the hiphop purist
when the rhymes were just blazin' and the game was glorious,
how the times have changed as us cats made progress,
sold some crack cocaine but now we trademark 'holla's,
yet the life that is shown on the tv screen
undermines our own if that's all we dream
we were real at the start when the shit was raw
to reveal from the heart keeps the artform pure