South Bronx

Yo, what's up Blastmaster KRS-One? This jam is kicking
 Word, yo what up D-Nice?
 (Yo what's up Scott La Rock?)
 Yo man, we chilling just funky fresh jam
 I want to tell you a little something about us
 We're the Boogie Down Productions crew
 And due to the fact that no-one else out there knew what time it was
 We have to tell you a little story about where we come from
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 Many people tell me this style is terrific
 It is kinda different but let's get specific
 KRS-One specialize in music
 I'll only use this type of style when I choose it
 Party people in the place to be, KRS-One attacks
 You got dropped off MCA 'cause the rhymes you wrote was wack
 So you think that hip-hop had its start out in Queensbridge
 If you pop that junk up in the Bronx, you might not live
 'Cause you're in
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 I came with Scott La Rock to express one thing
 I am a teacher and others are kings
 If that's the title they earn, well it's well deserved, but
 Without a crown, see, I still burn
 You settle for a pebble not a stone like a rebel
 KRS-One is the holder of a boulder
 Money folder
 You want a fresh style, let me show ya
 Now way back in the days when Hip-Hop began
 With Coke LaRock, Kool Herc and then Bam
 B-boys ran to the latest jam
 But when it got shot up they went home and said, "Damn!"
 There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day
 B-boys getting blown away but coming outside anyway
 They tried again outside in Cedar Park
 Power from a street light made the place dark
 But yo, they didn't care, they turned it out
 I know a few understand what I'm talking about
 Remember Bronx River, rolling thick
 With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix
 When Afrika Islam was rocking the jams
 And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash
 Patterson and Millbrook projects
 Casanova all over, ya couldn't stop it
 The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys
 The real Rock Steady taking out these toys
 As odd as it looked, as wild as it seem
 I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens
 It was '76 to 1980
 The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy
 You couldn't bring out your set with no Hip-Hop
 Because the pistols would go
 So why don't you wise up, show all the people
 In the place that you are wack
 Instead of tryna take out LL
 You need to take your homeboys off the crack
 'Cause if you don't, well then
 Their nerves will become shot
 And that would leave the job up to my own Scott La Rock
 And he's from
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
 South Bronx, the South South Bronx
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 The human TR-808, D-Nice
 The poet, the Blastmaster KRS-One
 The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock
 Boogie Down Productions
 Fresh for '86, you suckers!