Let me tell you about the Proto Culture

If you don′t know the culture, here's the whole structure

20 years ahead of the game, we gave propsAnd we still play the kind of games you can′t pick up at Game Stop

From arcades to consoles, you name it I got those

Hop on the sticks and I shut it down pronto

My ensemble, got mad combos

Never been Butt, unless I was playing Garou

Mark of the Wolves

Hey But I like that game

Had other imports that was twice as strange

Dungeons & Dragons, Capcom's best

Radiant Silver, guns in the treasure chest

Before n64 I was getting a whipping

From sneaking and calling Nintendo hotlines in the kitchen

In tomb raider I crawl through, telling the homies to Fall through

Maniac Mansion but I had to use the walkthrough

The homie put me on to the emulators

Every game in the arcade, already played 'em

All the original rhymes got translated

Now video game studies was mandated

Let me tell you about the Proto Culture

If you don′t know the culture, here′s the whole structure

20 years ahead of the game, we gave props

And we still play the kind of games you can't pick up at Game Stop

Yo I had to make important life decisions

Will I study something to help me make a living

Or will I continue to spend time progressing

Analyze combos and strategies for Tekken

So damn bad I beat Mario with a dance pad

Ransack, hit high scores you ain′t got a chance at

Smash cats, like E.Honda with hundred hand slaps

Del dropped the syllabus, now we in the advanced class

In high school I played this boy

Out the golden Zelda cartridge and Metroid

For Gyromite and Clu Clu Land

Told him next day, "black black no trade backs"

Hee Hee

I still prefer 3rd strike cause of the guard parry

NBA Ballers, crossing over with Marbury

PS2 had some bangers, Okami and San Andreas

But I still prefer Dreamcast, that was prolly the greatest

Let me tell you about the Proto Culture

If you don't know the culture, here′s the whole structure

20 years ahead of the game, we gave props

And we still play the kind of games you can't pick up at Game Stop

Catch me at GDQ, E3 too

We been about this life

Don′t let em deceive you

20 years later everybody jackin' the style

Every month a new battle royale, slow down

Twitch overrun by -hold it down now

There's games, see ′em loading up in the background

I remember getting bootlegs from my favorite store

Till the feds busted them and I didn′t no more

I would pass on Smash, the combos were too meticulous

Movement kinda limited, I couldn't get into it

Imported Million Arthur with my stimulus, but I

Still know the code to Mike Tyson it′s ridiculous

Right now I'm playing Project Warlock, y′all

And Prototype 2 running up sides of walls

Slicing the vice and cops trying to shoot

Laughing, throwing bums off the roof

Haha

Let me tell you about the Proto Culture

If you don't know the culture, here′s the whole structure

20 years ahead of the game, we gave props

And we still play the kind of game you can't pick up at Game Stop