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Yo, wassup Blastmaster KRS-ONE. This jam is kickin' |
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Word! Yo, what-up D-Nice? |
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Yo, wassup Scott La Rock? |
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Yo man, we chillin' this funky fresh jam. I wanna tell |
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You a little somethin' about us. We're the Boogie Down |
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Productions crew and due to the fact that no-one else out there |
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Knew what time it was, we have to tell you a little story about |
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Where we come from |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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Many people tell me this style is terrific |
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It is kinda different but let's get specific |
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KRS-One specialized in music |
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I'll only use this type of style when I choose it |
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Party people in the place to be, KRS-One attacks |
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Ya got dropped off MCA cause the rhymes you wrote was wack |
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So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge |
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If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live |
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Cause you're in |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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I came with Scott LaRock to express one thing |
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I am a teacher and others are kings |
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If that's a title they earn, well it's well deserved, but |
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Without a crown, see, I still burn |
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You settle for a pebble not a stone like a rebel |
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KRS-One is the holder of a boulder, money folder |
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You want a fresh style let me show ya |
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Now way back in the days when hip-hop began |
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With CoQue LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam |
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Beat boys ran to the latest jam |
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But when it got shot up they went home and said "Damn |
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There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day |
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Beat boys gettin blown away but comin outside anyway" |
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They tried again outside in Cedar Park |
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Power from a street light made the place dark |
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But yo, they didn't care, they turned it out |
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I know a few understand what I'm talkin about |
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Remember Bronx River rollin thick |
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With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix |
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When Afrika Islam was rockin the jams |
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And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash |
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Patterson and Millbrook projects |
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Casanova all over, ya couldn't stop it |
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The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys |
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The real Rock Steady takin out these toys |
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As odd as it looked, as wild as it seemed |
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I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens |
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It was seventy-six, to 1980 |
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The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy |
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You couldn't bring out your set with no hip-hop |
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Because the pistols would go |
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So why don't you wise up, show all the people in the place that you are wack |
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Instead of tryna take out LL, you need to take your homeboys off the crack |
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Cos if you don't, well, then their nerves will become shot |
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And that would leave the job up to my own Scott LaRock |
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And he's from |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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South Bronx, the South South Bronx |
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The human TR-808, D-Nice |
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The poet, the Blastmaster KRS-ONE |
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The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock |
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Boogie Down Productions |
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Fresh for '86, suckers |
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(Ha ha ha ha ha) |
