Luyện nghe bài hát I Was There

Do it Marley, ha, 'em
You killin' 'em, where were
I wanna about these rap historians
Y'all better get it together, where were
I be your 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 Records got started I was

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

When Tookie Williams was buried I was
'73, Cedar Park I was
park I was there
You ain't tellin' me the history I was there, I was there

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

When Moe Dee LL I was there
When that bus up in London I was there
When Death Row Bad Boy at the Source Awards
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 from prison
And spoke out at Yankee in New York I was there

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

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

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

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

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