South Bronx-Boogie Down Productions

[00:06.16]Yo what's up Blastmaster KRS One, this jam is kicking [00:09.48]Word, yo what up D-Nice? [00:11.63](Yo what's up Scott La Rock?) [00:13.38]Yo man we chilling just funky fresh jam [00:15.87]I want to tell you a little something about us [00:17.80]We're the Boogie Down Productions crew [00:18.77]And due to the fact that no-one else out there knew what time it was [00:21.93]We have to tell you a little story about where we we come from [00:24.95]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [00:27.57]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [00:29.98]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [00:32.59]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [00:35.13]Many people tell me this style is terrific [00:37.48]It is kinda different but let's get specific [00:39.96]KRS-One specialize in music [00:42.66]I'll only use this type of style when I choose it [00:45.22]Party people in the place to be, KRS-One attack [00:49.22]You got dropped off MCA cause the rhymes you wrote was wack [00:55.40]So you think that hip-hop had its start out in Queensbridge [01:00.11]If you pop that junk up in the Bronx you might not live [01:04.72]Cause you're in [01:06.40]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [01:07.53]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [01:10.44]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [01:12.92]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [01:15.34]I came with Scott La Rock to express one thing [01:17.83]I am a teacher and others are kings [01:20.59]If that's the title they earn, well it's well deserved, but [01:23.60]Without a crown, see, I still burn [01:25.30]You settle for a pebble not a stone like a rebel [01:27.92]KRS-One is the holder of a boulder, money folder [01:32.76]You want a fresh style let me show ya [01:35.20]Now way back in the days when hip-hop began [01:37.97]With Coke LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam [01:40.46]B-boys ran to the latest jam [01:42.73]But when it got shot up they went home and said "Damn [01:45.44]There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day [01:47.99]B-boys getting blown away but coming outside anyway" [01:50.24]They tried again outside in Cedar Park [01:52.82]Power from a street light made the place dark [01:55.42]But yo, they didn't care, they turned it out [01:57.75]I know a few understand what I'm talking about [02:00.50]Remember Bronx River, rolling thick [02:02.73]With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix [02:05.33]When Afrika Islam was rocking the jams [02:07.76]And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash [02:10.61]Patterson and Millbrook projects [02:12.24]Casanova all over, ya couldn't stop it [02:15.38]The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys [02:17.73]The real Rock Steady taking out these toys [02:20.42]As odd as it looked, as wild as it seems [02:22.83]I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens [02:25.38]It was seventy-six to 1980 [02:28.70]The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy [02:29.89]You couldn't bring out your set with no hip-hop [02:32.79]Because the pistols would go [02:34.60]So why don't you wise up, show all the people in the place that you are wack [02:39.75]Instead of tryna take out LL, you need to take your homeboys off the crack [02:45.25]Cause if you don't, well, then their nerves will become shot [02:49.87]And that would leave the job up to my own Scott La Rock [02:54.81]And he's from [02:55.55]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [02:58.14]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:00.53]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:02.94]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:05.63]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:08.50]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:10.66]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [03:13.23]South Bronx, the South South Bronx [04:41.43]The human TR-808, D-Nice [04:46.34]The poet, the Blastmaster KRS-ONE [04:51.64]The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock [04:58.36]Boogie... Down... Productions [05:02.76]Fresh for '86, you suckers!