[ VERSE 1: G ] Remedies for house parties stayed and plain Little wine, little music, Mary Jane keep the lights dim, so when the people walk in The vibe nice and mellow, everybody fits in And everybody hey and ho, are they groove on The record only stops when the lights on they went back off, we continued to groove Then somebody grabbed the mic like they had to prove It was just the spirit got em, it wouldn't let right before our eyes 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 on every block for blocks This seemed to be insurance the beat won't stop So one day shots ring and it was no one to All you was would it ever all be the same But if you got the love, baby, won't a 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 play shoot-em-up, MC's and (2x)
[ VERSE 2: Afrika Bam ] Block jam-packed, the first time I heard rap And spinnin breakbeats back These the last good days of the ghetto It all about bein jiggy, so save that rap for Jell-O Down on my in the street playin skelly Rushin to see _Graffiti Rock_ on the telly With one eye on the droppin I knew one day would come when I'd be on the mic rockin Every day after school I mixed blues smarts with street smarts, and then battle rappin But for me it happenin So I changed up my style, to the ladies been I wrote a about 'Roxanne, Roxanne' I to bust it out when I went to a jam My read the dirty rap She said, "You ain't gon' go too far expressin yourself that black 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 still be friends My wasn't buggin 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 pioneers that it what it was Cause we been doin this for 25 years So we gotta and keep hip-hop strong JBeez, we on a plateau, nothin stoppin us with the spirit of God, now watch it jump in us Cause when you cut the off the family tree All you leave behind is the memory from the start, we did it in the park It wasn't for the money, and it from the heart But in these days and times, when rappers write All we think about is signin on the line Me, I been thinkin the way it used to be When you was a rapper, you became an MC I'm of my heritage, and glad that we made it I still bust rhymes without player-hated Standin on the stage, rockin with the JBeez Was a dream come for a brother like me Before rap was consumed, and hip-hop was I was bangin on tables, rhymin in the I used to the street with my ghetto blaster My brothers on the block was startin chapters You know 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 you gotta keep it true Take the old, mix it with the new I used to go by the name of MC But now you know me as Afrika Bam
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