Product of the Environment-3rd Bass

[00:00.000] 作词 : Berrin, Citrin, Nash [00:00.01]Alright coming up now another request (this one) [00:02.75]This time from the boys down at Anna's Pizza Paradise [00:05.87]A new arrangement of a great oldie in rhythm and blues [00:09.12]Verse 1: Pete Nice (Prime Minister) [00:48.10]In the heart of the city you was born and bred [00:50.94]You grew up smart or you wound up dead [00:53.37]Things moved fast, but you knew the scoop [00:55.87]And your savior was a rhyme and a beat and a rap group [00:58.46]A modern day production of the city street [01:00.55]You said I didn't have it that I couldn't compete [01:03.11]So the sleeper did sleep but the sleeper shoulda woke up [01:05.62]Now you're in my sight, the buddha sess you smoke up [01:08.41]That's the element you carry your rhymes on [01:10.83]That style of rhyme won't let you live long [01:13.22]Cause a strong song to you is what I sent [01:15.60]Cause I'm a product, of the environment [01:20.23]*There it is, black and white* [01:29.88]*There it is, black and white* [01:35.08]Verse 2: MC Serch [01:37.43]On the streets of Far Rockaway Queens [01:39.84]Seagirt Boulevard, Beach 17 [01:42.27]Redfern Houses where no MC would ever go [01:45.27]Is where I did my very first show [01:47.31]Had the crowd had the rhymes going, I never fess [01:49.62](His reward, was almost a bullet in his chest) [01:52.17]And on that stage, is where I first learned [01:54.72]Stick out my chest to be a kid and get burned [01:57.12]You're so foolish, but I think you knew this [01:59.69]That on the the microphone punk I can do this [02:02.06]And doing this, is what life meant [02:04.51]Cause I'm a product, of the environment [02:09.26]*There it is, black and white* [02:18.87]*There it is, black and white* [02:24.05]Verse 3: MC Serch, Pete Nice [02:26.40]Back in the days when kids were mack daddies [02:28.90]Striped Lee jeans, playboys and Caddies [02:31.40]Long Beach, the M.O.K. center [02:33.74]He almost caught a bad one when he tried to enter our way [02:36.89]Bang! Bum rush the back door [02:39.06]Then scatter, onto the dance floor [02:41.45]Me and my boys, skeezin the cuties [02:43.69]Never had static, cuz everybody knew me [02:46.14]Local DJ's, tearin up the wax [02:48.63]And out the corner, some kid gets taxed [02:51.02]After the party, crack open a forty [02:53.52]Vicked it from the store yo the man never caught me [02:55.95]Went up to the arcade, cranked the bass [02:58.38]And then the five-oh chased us from the place [03:00.84]Hop on the railroad, play the conductor [03:03.40]Everywhere I went [03:04.43]I always tucked a marker in my jacket to tag where I went [03:08.10]Cause we were just products, of the environment [03:12.94]*There it is, black and white* [03:22.59]*There it is, black and white* [03:27.67]Verse 4: MC Serch, Pete Nice [03:30.13]I wanna tell you something that gets me kind of mad [03:33.24]...it's about my dear old dad [03:35.02]He's tired, and worn, and works a nine to five [03:37.88]Clockin thirty G's a year to survive [03:39.97]But I know kids who in a month or so [03:42.35]Make that money selling the llello [03:44.97]Pushin a drug, I can't understand [03:47.41]Destroyin a life with a buck in the hand [03:49.70]Play rotten slum chain, local street hero [03:52.24]But if you ask Serch, you're just a bunch of zeroes [03:54.74]Too bad cause when you're older, you won't have a cent [03:57.23]Cause you're a product, of the environment [04:01.96]*There it is, black and white* [04:11.64]*There it is, black and white* [04:16.79]Verse 5: Pete Nice [04:19.07]You hear it in the strength of my voice and in my rhythm [04:22.00]Now you know, how I was livin [04:24.03]It happened to me, like it happened to Serch [04:26.42]Prime Minister Pete Nice'll kick the verse [04:28.81]In Bed-Stuy with my boy, Kiwai Height [04:31.36]The K to A Kingston, Wednesday night [04:33.75]To the Empire, show slammin [04:36.41]Open for Dana, crew flammin [04:38.81]Mouth open wide, or listening [04:41.41]Dumb **** with a forty in my system [04:43.86]Unprotected but respected for my own self [04:46.40]Cause of talent, no shade, or nothin else [04:48.73]A time of tension, racially fenced in [04:51.28]I came off (and all the brothers blessed him) [04:53.73]I left more than a mark, I left a dent [04:56.11]Cause I'm a product, of the environment [04:57.56]Outro: K.M.D. and Serch [04:58.56]Aiyyo Serch, skin is just a color of the mind and the soul [05:01.97]And a brother ain't a brother if his heart is cold [05:04.00]You know what I'm sayin fellas? - Word [05:06.65]And I think we need a positive Kause in a Much Damaged society [05:10.53]Word up man nubians killin nubians [05:12.59]Brothers just don't understand, man [05:14.63]Word maybe it's some of that crime that's stoppin the growin [05:17.28]The drug pollution and all needs to calm down [05:19.41]Word man, cause that's what we need, we need Griff Productions [05:22.83]We need a K.M.D. man to uplift the race [05:25.04]and bring Kause in the beginning [05:26.62]And a Posse called Get Yours [05:29.35]There it is, to all y'all bigots who want us to bend [05:33.78]We're just products of the environment, peace!! [05:38.78]Hopefully... [05:40.00]*There it is, black and white*