Luyện nghe bài hát I Was There

Do it Marley, ha, 'em
You 'em, where were you?
I wanna about these rap historians
Y'all better get it together, where were
I be readin' books, where were you?
better get it together, word up

When Hot 97 started I was
When Rap got started I was there
When KDAY got I was there
When Jive got started I was there

When Yo MTV Raps started I was
When The Source magazines started I was
Cedric and Seda started I was there
When Biggie was doin' his I was there

When Tookie Williams was I was there
'73, Cedar Park I was
One-twenty-three park I was
You ain't tellin' me the history 'cause I was there, I was

And where you? Where were you?
And where were you? were you?
And where were you? Where you?
Where you?

When Moe Dee challenged LL I was
When that bus up in London I was there
When Death Row Bad Boy at the Source Awards
In New at the Garden, yup I was there

When Kwame Toure formerly known as Carmichael
Was on I was there
When Nelson Mandela was freed from
And spoke out at Yankee in New York I was there

For all the births of my children I was
the Rodney King uprisings happened I was there
These rap historians tryin' to document
Hip hop from outside it I was there, I was there

And where were you? Where you?
And where were Where were you?
And where were you? were you?
Where you?

Look, The Jive Records label, I was
The Columbia label, I was there
The Records label, I was there
The Warner Brothers Records label, I was

The Records label, I was there
The Records label, I was there
I about they contracts 'cause I was there
I wrote and rewrote most of 'em when I was

I ain't readin' a or recitin' a hook
I am hip hop itself yup I was there
Y'all to get it together with hip hop's history
And get it right yup I was there, I was there

And were you? Where were you?
And where were you? Where were
And where were you? Where you?
were you?