Luyện nghe bài hát I Was There

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

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

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

When Tookie Williams was buried I was
'73, Cedar Park I was
One-twenty-three park I was
You tellin' me the history 'cause I was there, I was there

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

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

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

For all the births of my I was there
When the Rodney 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 were
And where were Where were you?
And where were you? Where were
were you?

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

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

I readin' a book or recitin' a hook
I am hip hop itself yup I was there
Y'all need to get it together with hip history
And get it right 'cause yup I was there, I was

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