[ VERSE 1: G ] Remedies for parties stayed simple and plain Little wine, little music, little Jane Gotta keep the lights dim, so the people walk in The vibe stays nice and mellow, everybody in And everybody hey and ho, are they groove on The record only when the lights came on Then they went off, we continued to groove Then somebody grabbed the mic like they had to prove It was just the got em, it wouldn't let loose There right before our hip-hop was produced The kept on burnin like a doggie in heat You couldn't help to feel the flavor as you walked through the 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 all be the same 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 we used to play shoot-em-up, bang-bang MC's and (2x)
[ 2: Afrika 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 about jiggy, so save that rap for Jell-O on my knees in the street playin skelly Rushin upstairs to see _Graffiti on the telly one eye on the beats droppin I knew that one day come when I'd be on the mic rockin Every day after school I mixed blues smarts with street smarts, and then started battle But for me it happenin So I up my style, to the ladies been mackin I wrote a rhyme 'Roxanne, Roxanne' I used to bust it out when I to a jam My mother read the rap She said, "You ain't gon' go too far expressin yourself like Disrespectin black And what's gon' when you turn around and try to have your own children?" So I changed up my style again So me and my moms still be friends My wasn't buggin out so far me pretend to be another rap star Through my eyes he saw a changin Growin up to be a man and leave the shootin, bangin
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[ 3: Afrika Baby Bam ] Now one goes out to the ones who set it off And all the pioneers that made it it was we been doin this for 25 years long So we gotta and keep hip-hop strong JBeez, we on a plateau, nothin 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 behind is the memory Right the start, we did it in the park It wasn't for the money, and it came from the But in these and times, when rappers write rhymes All we think about is on the dotted line Me, I been about the way it used to be When before you was a rapper, you an MC I'm proud of my heritage, and glad we made it I still bust rhymes without player-hated Standin on the same stage, rockin the JBeez Was a dream come for a brother like me rap was consumed, and hip-hop was doomed I was bangin on tables, rhymin in the I used to walk the with my ghetto blaster My brothers on the block was startin Zulu You know what I'm talkin about if you go way And yo, big ups to all my sisters, in the of rap Cause when it 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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