Luyện nghe bài hát I Was There

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

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

When Yo MTV Raps I was there
When The magazines started I was there
When Cedric and Seda started I was
When Biggie was his album I was there

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

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

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

When Kwame Toure formerly known as Stokely
Was passin' on I was
When Nelson Mandela was freed from
And spoke out at Yankee Stadium in New I was there

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

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

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

The Koch Records label, I was
The Capitol label, I was there
I know they contracts 'cause I was there
I wrote and rewrote most of 'em I was there

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

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