[ VERSE 1: G ] Remedies for parties stayed simple and plain Little wine, little music, Mary Jane Gotta keep the lights dim, so the people walk in The vibe stays and mellow, everybody fits in And everybody hey and ho, are gettin they on The record only stops when the came on Then they went back off, we continued to somebody grabbed the mic like they had somethin to prove It was just the got em, it wouldn't let loose There right our eyes hip-hop was produced The fire kept on burnin like a doggie in You couldn't to feel the flavor as you walked through the streets Everybody had a crew on every block for This seemed to be insurance that the beat stop So one day shots ring and it was no one to All you thought was would it ever all be the But if you got the love, baby, a damn thing change As as you remember it always remains
[ The Holmes Brothers ] I When we used to play shoot-em-up, I When we to play shoot-em-up, bang-bang and DJ's (2x)
[ 2: Afrika Baby Bam ] Block parties jam-packed, the first I heard rap And spinnin 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 in the street playin skelly upstairs to see _Graffiti Rock_ on the telly With one eye on the droppin I knew that one day would come I'd be on the mic rockin day after school practisin I blues smarts with street smarts, and then started battle rappin But for me it happenin So I up my style, to the ladies been mackin I a rhyme about 'Roxanne, Roxanne' I used to bust it out I went to a jam My mother the dirty rap She said, "You ain't gon' go too far expressin yourself like Disrespectin women And what's gon' happen when you turn around and try to have own children?" So I changed up my once again So me and my moms could be friends My daddy buggin out so far Watchin me pretend to be another rap Through my eyes he saw a changin up to be a man and leave behind the shootin, bangin
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[ VERSE 3: Baby Bam ] Now one goes out to the ones who set it off And all the pioneers made it what it was Cause we doin this for 25 years long So we gotta and keep hip-hop strong JBeez, we on a plateau, ain't stoppin us Will the spirit of God, now watch it jump in us Cause when you cut the roots off the family All you leave is the sweet memory Right from the start, we did it in the It wasn't for the money, and it came from the But in these days and times, rappers write rhymes All we think about is on the dotted line Me, I been about the way it used to be When you was a rapper, you became an MC I'm proud of my heritage, and glad that we it I still bust without bein player-hated on the same stage, rockin with the JBeez Was a dream true for a brother like me Before rap was consumed, and was doomed I was bangin on tables, 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 it comes to hip-hop, you know you gotta keep it true from the old, mix it with the new I to go by the name of MC Shazaam But now you know me as Baby Bam
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