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Let's go back (Let's go back, let's go back) Back into time (Back into time, back into time) Back in seventy-three in the borough of Bronx Man, you couldn't be weak, man, you had to be smart See, we talkin' 'bout streets, now we talkin' 'bout art When we talkin' 'bout beats, man, we talkin' 'bout heart We was rockin' a hard beat live in the park Guns spark in the dark, it was all just a part Of the eighties Bronx scene that created all "How you know, KRS?" 'Cause I was there from the start Sixteen-hundred Centric Avenue, that was the spot Fifteen-twenty, hip-hop started right on my block This original hip-hop whether you like it or not I'm remindin' through this rhymin' 'cause you might have forgot Drop on the spot, b-boys start pop Live on the block, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, graf writers don't stop Bottom to the top, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, MCs make it hot Microphone pop, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, DJs on the chop Cut, mix, scratch, this is raw— See, when we would begin, think where the heroin in They was really determined that we was never gon' win But by lookin' within, we began to believe That we was breakers and writers, DJs and MCs We was so damn poor, we was eatin' free cheese But that made us raw, we started eatin' MCs This before the fees and the MTVs When you walked in New York and your ears would freeze Wildin' beats and [?], my necks and Ts Night-long BVDs, we was f**kin' with these We was f**kin' with this, we was f**kin' with that But when the eighties came in, we started f**kin' with crack And along with the crack came a big ol' gat And along with the gat came a big ol' stack 'Cause if you ain't had that, you was the next to get jacked This the way that it was, I'm just takin' it back Drop on the spot, b-boys start pop Live on the block, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, graf writers don't stop Bottom to the top, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, MCs make it hot Microphone pop, this is raw hip-hop Drop on the spot, DJs on the chop Cut, mix, scratch, this is raw— This the way that it was, this the way that it went Man, you had to survive, caught up with the rent When the nineties arrived, eighties' money was spent All them dudes that was live? To the prison they went And the dudes that survived? They began to repent Then they realized in rap, there was money to get So gangstas became rappers, rappers became gangstas Fake became the real for the payment
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