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Album: Run-D.M.C. (1984)
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  • Run-dmc
    Live for you
    (Fresh) fresh, yeah

    For all you sucker MCs perpetratin' a fraud
    Your rhymes are cold wack and keep the crowd cold bored
    You're the kind of guy that girl ignored
    I'm drivin' a Caddy, you fixin' a Ford
    My name is Joseph Simmons, but my middle name's Ward
    And when I'm rockin' on the mic, you should all applaud
    Because we're wheelin', dealin', we got a funny feelin'
    We rock from the floor up to the ceilin'
    We groove it, you move it, it has been proven
    We calm the savage beast because our music is soothin'
    We create it, relate it, and often demonstrate it
    We'll diss a sucker MC, make the other suckers hate it
    We're risin', suprisin', and often hypnotizin'
    We always tell the truth and then we never slip no lies in
    No curls, no braids, peasy-head and still get paid
    Jam Master cut the record up and down and crossfades, okay

    Because the rhymes I say sharp as a nail
    Witty as can be and not for sale
    Always funky fresh, could never be stale
    Took a test to become an MC and didn't fail
    I couldn't wait to demonstrate
    All the super def rhymes that I create
    I'm a wizard of a word, that's what you heard
    And anything else is quite absurd
    I'm the master of a mic, that's what I say
    And if I didn't say that, you'd say it anyway
    Bust into the party, come in the place
    See the first things come, the music in your face
    Girls on the walls, some on the floor
    With the DJ named Jay with the cuts galore
    So listen to this because it can't be missed
    And you can't leave 'til you're dismissed
    You can do anything that you want to
    But you can't leave until we're through
    So relax your body and your mind
    And listen to us say this rhyme, hey
    You might think that you have waited
    Long enough 'til the rhyme was stated
    But if it were a test, it would be graded
    With a grade that's not debated
    Nothing too deep and nothing dense
    And all our rhymes make a lot of sense
    So move your butt to the cut
    Run amok, you're not in a rut
    Each and everybody out there, we got the notion
    We want to see y'all all in motion
    Just shake, wiggle, jump up and down
    Move your body to the funky sound
    Side to side, back and forth
    We're the two MCs and we're gonna go off
    Stand in place, walk or run
    Tap your feet, you'll be on the one
    Just snap your fingers and clap your hands
    Our DJ's better than all these bands
    Huh

    We got all the lines and all the rhymes
    We don't drop dimes and we don't do crimes
    We bake a little cake with Duncan Hines
    And never wear the pants they call the Calvin Kleins
    'Cause Calvin Klein's no friend of mine
    Don't want nobody's name on my behind
    Lee on my legs, sneakers on my feet
    D by my side and Jay with the beat (beat)

    Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, uh, uh
    We don't stop
    Don't, don't stop (Jay)
    One, one, two, two, three, three
    The, the Hollis, Hollis crew, crew
    For, for, for, for, for the love now
    Cool T now, ha, ha
    My man, my man
    My, my man Jam Master
    In, in his place to be
    Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay
    The big beat blaster
    Wailin', straight up rap
    Countin' green
    All the way live
    Re-remember you don't stop
    And, and, and, and you don't stop
    Rock, rock the spot
    Stick 'em and you don't stop, hah (stick 'em)
    Run rocks it well, huh, well, well
    With the clientele
    Krush Groove (young ladies in the place)
    We're-we're, we're-we're (bass)
    We're-we're, we're-we're in the hottest place
    Ha (Cold Crush), so Larry
    Homeboys
    Now we're talkin' autographs
    Talkin' autographs and autographs
    Fly girls in the place
    Homeboys
    Hollis Crew Writer/s: Darryl Matthews McDaniels, Joseph Ward Simmons, Lawrence Smith
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Moosehead from ScHappy 50th anniversary HIP HOP!! 8/11/73--8/11/23. Rakim is on that radio right there right now, doing it in the park! talking to roxanne! just need me some of that run-dmc for a complete day!
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