1, 2, Yeah, don't know about Fatback With the different color records they had back in the You what I mean, the belt driven turntables With Technics joints the slip mats
Put on the needles So the motherfucking record jump The won't skip and shit Getting juice from the fucking light Shout out to the Bronx,
Aiyyo, shit go way back like a Uni marker Kid bombing the D train and hit the up Krylon attack, Planet Rock, Bambaataa to Pylon discovering rap
And the DJ that made the scratch Paved the way for Flex, Mister Cee, of them cats See, this rap shit came at a time that was Twenty years later, I mastered it
Seen light poles get used for power, I was a little Couldn't stay out late, I was So I sat by the window, the DJ cut Impeach the Pres, Apache and begun
Otis Redding, swing, the music Guess the system blew out one of his It'd take a little while, then it come on Somebody stepped on the wire and shit, all
Now back in the groove, echo chamber "Check one two, one two", my favorite lights is live, Pink Champale Little pink joints lit up on the side
Couple niggas had two Other than that, cleared a circle in the and shoot 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 back from the Funhouse Dusted, throwing on the wall
We must you Where rap come from Yes, my brother, my our duty, we must 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 at the 'After Midnight Philly' but walk with me Mad niggas coming down from New City Prolly hit the rink USA Schoolly, "Gangster Boogie" and "PSK"
I shells, Gazelles, top tens and lottos design, reefer smoke, Coqui nine bottles Entire wore velours, call the boys with the Lucci 84's from City Gucci store
Linoleum break dancing, Rust-Oleum I put the on the wall signed, "Truly yours" Philly smashed '87 Music Out on the battlefield like Pat
Hit the borough with Krown Rulers out of People Dukeing in the party, all cramped in Around the time Flav cold lamping "Rebel Without a Pause" was the street
Old Memorex cassette, tape spotlights on all the fights at the Spectrum When the Fresh Fest come, leather and sheepskins Brothers would they guns to get one
MC Breeze, C, Jazzy Jeff Cash and Miz and Lady B Everybody "Sucker MC's" in '83 I was Philly like St. Charles and Crazy D
Them wild North Side Ricans would snuff you Twenty deep in a Ford Escort, the Tuff Crew I used to follow my cousin, he was a too Y'all don't like how I'm living, well, you
I been a G since a kid Sticking my head up into somebody's dollar party, getting shit And late nights, been in bed Instead, I was running with them downtown lemon heads
A little man, where them grown women is Under thirteen, seeing strong images And the reason for my real rap penmanship That's where I started it and where I'mma finish it
We must you this rap come from Yes, my brother, my our duty, we must 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