[ VERSE 1: G ] Remedies for house stayed simple and plain Little wine, little music, little Mary keep the lights dim, so when the people walk in The vibe stays and mellow, everybody fits in And everybody hey and ho, are they groove on The record stops when the lights came on Then they back off, we continued to groove Then somebody grabbed the mic like they had somethin to It was just the got em, it wouldn't let loose There right before our eyes was produced The fire on burnin like a doggie in heat You help to feel the flavor as you walked through the streets Everybody had a crew on every for blocks seemed to be insurance that the beat 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, won't a damn change As as you remember it always remains
[ The Holmes Brothers ] I When we used to play shoot-em-up, I When we used to play shoot-em-up, MC's and (2x)
[ 2: Afrika Baby Bam ] Block parties jam-packed, the time I heard rap And deejays spinnin breakbeats These were the last 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 Rushin upstairs to see Rock_ on the telly With one eye on the droppin I that one day would come when I'd be on the mic rockin Every day after school I mixed blues smarts with smarts, and then started battle rappin But for me it happenin So I changed up my style, to the ladies been I wrote a about 'Roxanne, 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 expressin like that black women And what's gon' happen you turn around and try to have your own children?" So I up my style once again So me and my could still be friends My daddy wasn't 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 behind the shootin,
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[ 3: Afrika Baby Bam ] Now one goes out to the ones who set it off And all the pioneers made it what it was Cause we been this for 25 years long So we gotta and keep hip-hop strong JBeez, we on a plateau, ain't nothin us Will with the spirit of God, now watch it in us Cause when you cut the off the family tree All you behind is the sweet memory from the start, we did it in the park It for the money, and it came from the heart But in these days and times, when rappers rhymes All we think is signin on the dotted line Me, I been thinkin the way it used to be before you was a rapper, you became an MC I'm proud of my heritage, and glad we made it I still bust rhymes bein player-hated Standin on the same stage, rockin with the Was a dream come true for a brother me Before rap was consumed, and was doomed I was on tables, rhymin in the lunchroom I used to walk the with my ghetto blaster My brothers on the was startin Zulu chapters You know what I'm about if you go way back And yo, big ups to all my sisters, in the of rap when it comes to hip-hop, you know 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 Baby Bam
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