South Bronx-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:South Bronx] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:Criminal Minded Deluxe Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.31]South Bronx - Boogie Down Productions [00:00.51]Written by：L. Parker/S. LaRock [00:01.01] [00:05.56]Yo what's up Blastmaster KRS One this jam is kicking [00:09.33]Word yo what up D-Nice [00:11.88]Yo what's up Scott La Rock [00:13.40] [00:13.99]Yo man we chilling just funky fresh jam [00:15.61] [00:16.16]I want to tell you a little something about us [00:17.96]We're the Boogie Down Productions crew [00:19.42]And due to the fact that [00:20.53]No-one else out there knew what time it was [00:22.05]We have to tell you a little story about where we we come from [00:24.49] [00:25.30]South Bronx the South South Bronx [00:27.73]South Bronx the South South Bronx [00:30.11]South Bronx the South South Bronx [00:32.66]South Bronx the South South Bronx [00:35.23]Many people tell me this style is terrific [00:37.78]It is kinda different but let's get specific [00:40.20]KRS-One specialize in music [00:42.77]I'll only use this type of style when I choose it [00:45.64]Party people in the place to be KRS-One attacks [00:49.29] [00:50.64]You got dropped off MCA cause the rhymes you wrote was wack [00:54.24] [00:55.70]So you think that hip-hop had its start out in Queensbridge [00:59.34] [01:00.75]If you pop that junk up in the Bronx you might not live [01:04.26] [01:04.80]Cause you're in [01:05.56]South Bronx the South South Bronx [01:07.88]South Bronx the South South Bronx [01:10.24]South Bronx the South South Bronx [01:12.77]South Bronx the South South Bronx [01:15.21]I came with Scott La Rock to express one thing [01:17.38] [01:18.11]I am a teacher and others are kings [01:20.14]If that's the title they earn well it's well deserved but [01:23.17]Without a crown see I still burn [01:25.18]You settle for a pebble not a stone like a rebel [01:27.84]KRS-One is the holder of a boulder money folder [01:31.42] [01:32.91]You want a fresh style let me show ya [01:34.77] [01:35.43]Now way back in the days when hip-hop began [01:37.40] [01:37.95]With Coke LaRock Kool Herc and then Bam [01:40.54]B-boys ran to the latest jam [01:42.65]But when it got shot up they went home and said damn [01:45.49]There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day [01:48.15]B-boys getting blown away but coming outside anyway [01:50.65]They tried again outside in Cedar Park [01:53.01]Power from a street light made the place dark [01:55.52]But yo they didn't care they turned it out [01:57.73]I know a few understand what I'm talking about [02:00.16]Remember Bronx River rolling thick [02:02.74]With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix [02:05.56]When Afrika Islam was rocking the jams [02:07.67]And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash [02:10.47]Patterson and Millbrook projects [02:12.70]Casanova all over ya couldn't stop it [02:15.49]The Nine Lives Crew the Cypress Boys [02:17.95]The real Rock Steady taking out these toys [02:20.32]As odd as it looked as wild as it seems [02:22.72]I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens [02:25.32]It was seventy-six to 1980 [02:27.85]The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy [02:30.20]You couldn't bring out your set with no hip-hop [02:32.68]Because the pistols would go [02:34.03] [02:35.37]So why don't you wise up [02:36.85]Show all the people in the place that you are wack [02:39.55] [02:40.95]Instead of tryna take out LL [02:42.77]You need to take your homeboys off the crack [02:44.93] [02:46.09]Cause if you don't well then their nerves will become shot [02:49.52] [02:51.07]And that would leave the job up to my own Scott La Rock [02:55.06]And he's from [02:55.84]South Bronx the South South Bronx [02:58.04]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:00.46]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:02.99]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:05.46]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:08.13]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:10.59]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:13.09]South Bronx the South South Bronx [03:15.36] [04:41.11]The human TR-808 D-Nice [04:45.49] [04:46.83]The poet the Blastmaster KRS-ONE [04:50.77] [04:52.70]The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock [04:57.40] [04:58.47]Boogie down productions [05:01.51] [05:02.67]Fresh for '86 you suckers