South Bronx-Boogie Down Productions

[00:05.030]Yo what's up Blastmaster KRS One [00:07.570]This jam is kicking [00:09.098]Word, yo what up D-Nice? [00:11.148](Yo what's up Scott La Rock?) [00:13.201]Yo man we chilling just funky fresh jam [00:15.672]I want to tell you a little something about us [00:17.070]We're the Boogie Down Productions crew [00:18.770]And due to the fact that [00:19.607]No-one else out there knew what time it was [00:21.597]We have to tell you a little story about [00:22.675]Where we we come from [00:24.905]South Bronx, the South South Bronx (4x) [00:34.801]Many people tell me this style is terrific [00:37.370]It is kinda different but let's get specific [00:39.960]KRS-One specialize in music [00:42.351]I'll only use this type of style when I choose it [00:45.229]Party people in the place to be [00:47.105]KRS-One attacks [00:50.148]You got dropped off MCA [00:52.008]Cause the rhymes you wrote was wack [00:55.198]So you think that hip-hop [00:56.690]Had its start out in Queensbridge [01:00.227]If you pop that junk up in the Bronx [01:02.742]You might not live, cause you're in [01:04.844]South Bronx, the South South Bronx (4x) [01:14.784]I came with Scott La Rock to express one thing [01:17.685]I am a teacher and others are kings [01:19.644]If that's the title they earn [01:20.894]Well it's well deserved, but [01:22.786]Without a crown, see, I still burn [01:24.902]You settle for a pebble [01:25.908]Not a stone like a rebel [01:27.480]KRS-One is the holder of a boulder [01:30.301]Money folder [01:32.405]You want a fresh style let me show ya [01:35.004]Now way back in the days [01:35.972]When hip-hop began, with Coke LaRock [01:38.305]Kool Herc, and then Bam [01:40.052]B-boys ran to the latest jam [01:42.129]But when it got shot up [01:43.301]They went home and said "Damn [01:44.959]There's got to be a better way [01:46.108]To hear our music every day [01:47.544]B-boys getting blown away [01:48.583]But coming outside anyway" [01:50.259]They tried again outside in Cedar Park [01:52.513]Power from a street light made the place dark [01:54.902]But yo, they didn't care, they turned it out [01:57.249]I know a few understand what I'm talking about [01:59.714]Remember Bronx River, rolling thick [02:02.179]With Kool DJ Red Alert [02:03.498]And Chuck Chillout on the mix [02:04.959]When Afrika Islam was rocking the jams [02:07.248]And on the other side of town [02:08.517]Was a kid named Flash [02:10.141]Patterson and Millbrook projects [02:12.266]Casanova all over, ya couldn't stop it [02:15.050]The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys [02:17.475]The real Rock Steady taking out these toys [02:19.854]As odd as it looked, as wild as it seems [02:22.203]I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens [02:24.812]It was seventy-six to 1980 [02:27.508]The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy [02:29.822]You couldn't bring out your set with no hip-hop [02:32.291]Because the pistols would go [02:34.787]So why don't you wise up [02:36.331]Show all the people in the place [02:38.039]That you are wack [02:40.460]Instead of tryna take out LL [02:42.235]You need to take your homeboys off the crack [02:45.496]Cause if you don't, well [02:46.920]Then their nerves will become shot [02:50.535]And that would leave the job up [02:52.616]To my own Scott La Rock and he's from [02:55.240]South Bronx, the South South Bronx (4x) [03:05.148]South Bronx, the South South Bronx (4x) [03:16.143] [04:40.543]The human TR-808, D-Nice [04:46.253]The poet, the Blastmaster KRS-ONE [04:52.201]The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock [04:57.920]Boogie... Down... Productions [05:02.040]Fresh for '86, you suckers!