[ 1: Mike G ] Remedies for house parties simple and plain Little wine, little music, little Jane Gotta keep the lights dim, so the people walk in The stays nice and mellow, everybody fits in And hey and ho, are gettin they groove on The record only stops the lights came on they went back off, we continued to groove Then somebody the mic like they had somethin to prove It was just the got em, it wouldn't let loose There right before our eyes was produced The fire kept on like a doggie in heat You couldn't help to feel the flavor as you walked through the had a crew on every block for blocks This seemed to be insurance that the won't stop So one day ring and it was no one to blame All you thought was it ever all be the same But if you got the love, baby, a damn thing change As long as you it always remains
[ The Holmes Brothers ] I When we to play shoot-em-up, bang-bang I When we used to shoot-em-up, bang-bang MC's and (2x)
[ VERSE 2: Baby Bam ] Block jam-packed, the first time I heard rap And deejays breakbeats back were the last good days of the ghetto It wasn't all bein jiggy, so save that rap for Jell-O Down on my knees in the playin skelly upstairs to see _Graffiti Rock_ on the telly With one eye on the beats I knew that one day would when I'd be on the mic rockin day after school practisin I mixed smarts with street smarts, and then started battle rappin But for me it wasn't So I up my style, to the ladies been mackin I wrote a rhyme about 'Roxanne, I used to bust it out I went to a jam My read the dirty rap She said, "You ain't gon' go too far yourself like that Disrespectin women And what's gon' when you turn around and try to have your own children?" So I changed up my style once So me and my moms could still be My daddy wasn't out so far Watchin me to be another rap star Through my eyes he saw a child Growin up to be a man and leave the shootin, bangin
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[ 3: Afrika Baby Bam ] Now this one goes out to the who set it off And all the that made it what it was Cause we been this for 25 years long So we represent and keep hip-hop strong JBeez, we on a plateau, ain't nothin us Will with the of God, now watch it jump in us when you cut the roots off the family tree All you leave is the sweet memory from the start, we did it in the park It wasn't for the money, and it came from the But in these days and times, when rappers write All we think about is signin on the line Me, I been thinkin about the way it to be When before you was a rapper, you an MC I'm proud of my heritage, and that we made it I still rhymes without bein player-hated Standin on the same stage, rockin with the Was a dream come true for a like me rap was consumed, and hip-hop was doomed I was on tables, rhymin in the lunchroom I used to walk the street with my ghetto My brothers on the block was Zulu chapters You what I'm talkin about if you go way back And yo, big ups to all my sisters, in the of rap Cause when it comes to hip-hop, you know you gotta keep it Take the old, mix it with the new I used to go by the name of MC But now you me as Afrika Baby Bam
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