[ 1: Mike G ] Remedies for house parties simple and plain Little wine, little music, little Jane Gotta keep the lights dim, so when the walk in The stays nice and mellow, everybody fits in And everybody hey and ho, are they groove on The record only stops when the came on Then they went back off, we to groove Then somebody grabbed the mic like they had somethin to It was just the spirit got em, it wouldn't let right before our eyes hip-hop was produced The fire on burnin like a doggie in heat You couldn't help to feel the flavor as you through the streets Everybody had a crew on every block for This seemed to be insurance that the won't stop So one day shots and it was no one to blame All you was would it ever all be the same But if you got the love, baby, won't a damn thing 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 and DJ's (2x)
[ 2: Afrika Baby Bam ] Block parties jam-packed, the time I heard rap And spinnin breakbeats back These the last good days of the ghetto It wasn't all about bein jiggy, so that rap for Jell-O Down on my knees in the street playin Rushin to see _Graffiti Rock_ on the telly one eye on the beats droppin I knew that one day would come I'd be on the mic rockin Every day after practisin I mixed blues smarts street smarts, and then started battle rappin But for me it happenin So I changed up my style, to the been mackin I a rhyme about 'Roxanne, Roxanne' I to bust it out when I went to a jam My mother read the rap She said, "You ain't go too far expressin yourself like that black women And what's gon' happen you turn around and try to have your own children?" So I changed up my style again So me and my moms could still be My daddy buggin out so far me pretend to be another rap star Through my eyes he saw a changin up to be a man and leave behind 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 made it what it was Cause we doin this for 25 years long So we gotta represent and keep hip-hop 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 leave behind is the sweet Right 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, rappers write rhymes All we think about is signin on the line Me, I been thinkin the way it used to be before 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 come true for a brother like me Before rap was consumed, and hip-hop was I was bangin on tables, in the lunchroom I to walk the street with my ghetto blaster My brothers on the was startin Zulu chapters You know what I'm talkin about if you go way 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 to go by the name of MC Shazaam But now you know me as Afrika Bam
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