South Bronx

                                  Scott La Rock: Yo  wassup Blastmaster KRS ONE. This jam is kickin' 



KRS: Word! Yo  what up D Nice? 



D Nice: Yo  wassup Scott La Rock? 



SLR: Yo man  we chillin' this funky fresh jam. I want to tell 



you a little somethin' 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 (4X) 



Many people tell me this style is terrific 



It is kinda different but let's get specific 



KRS-One specialized in music 



I'll only use this type of style when I choose it 



Party people in the place to be, KRS-One attacks 



Ya got dropped off MCA cause the rhymes you wrote was wack 



So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge 



If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live 



Cause you're in... 



South Bronx, the South South Bronx (4X) 



I came with Scott LaRock to express one thing 



I am a teacher and others are kings 



If that's a 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 CoQue LaRock, cool Herc, and then Bam 



Beat 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 



Beat boys gettin blown away but comin 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 talkin about 



Remember Bronx River rollin thick 



With cool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix 



When Afrika Islam was rockin 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 takin out these toys 



As odd as it looked, as wild as it seemed 



I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens 



It was seventy-six, 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 LaRock 



And he's from... 



South Bronx, the South South Bronx (8X) 



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, suckers! 



(Ha ha ha ha ha)