1, 2, Yeah, niggas don't know Fatback With the color records they had back in the days You know I mean, the belt driven turntables Technics joints with the slip mats
Put nickels on the So the motherfucking won't jump The needle skip and shit Getting from the fucking light poles Shout out to the Bronx,
Aiyyo, this shit go way like a Uni marker Kid bombing the D and hit the Bronx up Krylon bandits attack, Planet Rock, to Pylon discovering rap
And the DJ made the first scratch Paved the way for Flex, Mister Cee, 'nuff of cats See, this rap shit came at a time was accurate Twenty years later, I mastered it
Seen light poles get used for power, I was a nigga stay out late, I was sour So I sat by the window, the DJ cut Impeach the Pres, and just begun
Otis Redding, swing, the stopped Guess the system out one of his amps It'd a little while, then it come back on Somebody on the wire and shit, that's all
Now everybody's back in the groove, echo "Check one two, one two", that's my lights is live, Pink Champale Little pink joints being lit up on the
niggas had two fives Other than that, cleared a circle in the park and five Girls wore Lees and jellies and Lees, TF Lords fit the fellies
[Incomprehensible] and Kangol buckets, Go to like, fuck it Seen the stamp on that Eddie Niggas coming from the Funhouse Dusted, throwing on the wall
We must you Where rap come from Yes, my brother, my It's our duty, we remind you
Hip hop was set out in the Hip hop was set out in the Hip hop was set out in the We to do it out in the dark
Yo, it all started at the Midnight Philly' but walk with me Mad niggas coming down from New York Prolly hit the rink USA Schoolly, "Gangster Boogie" and "PSK"
I remember shells, Gazelles, top tens and Mega design, smoke, Coqui nine bottles Entire wore velours, call the boys with the Lucci 84's from City Gucci store
Linoleum break dancing, cans I put the writing on the signed, "Truly yours" smashed '87 Music Seminar Out on the battlefield Pat Benatar
Hit the with Krown Rulers out of Camden People Patty in the party, all cramped in Around the Flav started cold lamping "Rebel Without a Pause" was the street
Old cassette, tape collections Bright spotlights on all the at the Spectrum When the Fest come, leather bombers and sheepskins Brothers would bust they to get one
MC Breeze, Disco C, Jeff Money and Miz and Lady B Everybody "Sucker MC's" in '83 I was South Philly like St. Charles and D
Them wild North Side Puerto Ricans would you Twenty deep in a Ford Escort, pumping the Crew I to follow my cousin, he was a buck too Y'all don't how I'm living, well, fuck you
I been a G since a kid Sticking my head up into somebody's dollar party, getting into And nights, shoulda been in bed Instead, I was running 'round with them downtown heads
A little man, hanging where grown women is thirteen, seeing real strong images And that's the reason for my rap penmanship That's I started it and that's where I'mma finish it
We must you Where rap come from Yes, my brother, my It's our duty, we remind you
Hip hop was set out in the Hip hop was set out in the Hip hop was set out in the We used to do it out in the