Old School Language - Zach Sherwin

Every time I kick a verse, every single word of it

Is timeless, ageless, evergreen, permanent

I don’t mess with any newfangled slang

But I do make that old school language bang

YOLO was a flash in the pan

Swag?

It’s already trash in the can

But man, my flow is so hot

When I pull that mic from the stand

It gets scorched black in my hand

And turns to ashes like a match lit

Burnt from the fire that Zach spit

Every word is a classic

More than I can say for «cray,» «twerk» or «ratchet»

But look, I’m no hater who wants to dis

That is not what I wish to do with this

Give me your attention.

Hark to the plan

Hear and obey as I bark a command

You’re coming with me through a wormhole

On a journey through time to reach the eternal

Word to your mother, here we go

Back to fifteen thousand years ago

So this study came out with a list of words

That are «ultraconserved,» read down the page

These are words that «have been retained

In related forms since the end of the last ice age»

Their sounds and meanings have remained

Remarkably similar for fifteen thousand years

And all of them appeared in that verse that you heard

And that you’re going to hear again right here

Double time

(Old)

Vocab words that go backwards in time?

I got plenty, chum

(Old)

Specifically these twenty-some

Stretching across many a millennium

(Old)

No newfangled slang, but dang

I can sure make that old school language bang

And how great is it that «old»

Is one of the words that’s incredibly old?

It’s perfect