| Ooh… we done did it now… let's go
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| DJ’s, MC’s, from the 615 to London streets
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| We still doing it legitimate
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| Still stick with it
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| Wackness still gets the brick hit in it
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| This is for my people three decades strong
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| From the streets of the Bronx, New York to Hong Kong
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| With this million dollar fad and look we’re all laughing
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| We’re attacking the masses with passion
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| We are the babes of the Kool Herc crates
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| Peace to Biz B, Sup C, JMJ
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| And all the veterans who never did Letterman
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| Who never saw the city from the top of a Sheraton
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| And all my heroes who never did Leno
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| Who never rock a demo in the back of a limo
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| But now it makes more sense because it’s making more cents
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| And I can eat fine because the streets said gimme mine
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| (Maj) with manChild and uncle Ed in charge
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| I thank God for 93 Tribe Quest Maraud
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| DJ’s, MC’s, from the 615 to London streets
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal we don’t (stop)
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| Ladies — DJ’s, MC’s
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| Represent for the mommies and all the poppies
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal you don’t (stop)
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| Universal appeal had chuck searching for steal
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| At a hour of chaos that brother worked to reveal
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| Gotta personal feel for players serving them deals
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| Still murk and they steal with a blurred version of skill
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| I’m certainly ill in the first person until
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| Searching frequencies that burn and turn the virtual reel
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| Wheel spinning style with a hundred miles and running
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| FBI files reads manChild is up to something
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| My punishment is time served when I’m locked in the booth
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| And realize that the wealthy never buy stock in the truth
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| Discipline there mini-men and they rock for the youth
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| Cause the veterans that raised me gave a positive view
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| (Mars Ill) top of the pile still I lies on the bottom
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| But without your (Africa) Bambaataas the whole column is falling
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| It’s bigger than right now so put up or pipe down
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| If you’re liking the sound then you’re running with the right crowd
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| DJ’s, MC’s, from the ATL to overseas
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal you don’t (stop)
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| Ladies — DJ’s, MC’s
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| From east coast saggy to west coast crease
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal you don’t (stop)
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| (Solo section)
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| DJ Maj, DJ Kutt, Paul Point
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| My raps stay rooted by the corners and curves like a ghetto rose
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| Y’all need better flows get a pose
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| Heaven knows you need a whole new gimmick
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| Cause now a days dudes throwing old school in it
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| Flow for two minutes blow a few digits
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| They even got a little image but it ain’t the same
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| It’s like I almost hate the game but I live it
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| Y’all only came to visit I stayed with it
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| I got kids in Cleve and believe
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| And in Oakland they open and hoping and hoboking
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| And they all knowing where I’m from
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| And I ain’t gotta flash my gun and act dumb
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| Y’all like scene three act one
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| While y’all act I executive produce
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| To tell you the truth I had a feeling in my gold tooth
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| You’re only real when you go in the booth (Special ED y’all)
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| DJ’s, MC’s, from the 718 them Brooklyn streets
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal you don’t (stop)
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| (Everybody) DJ’s, MC’s
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| Took it from nothing to something so respect these
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| Turn it up hip hop
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| Universal appeal you don’t (stop) |