Step Off-Grandmaster Flash/Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five/The Furious Five

[ti:Step Off] [ar:Grandmaster Flash] [al:The Sugarhill Records Story] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Step Off - Grandmaster Flash/The Furious Five [00:05.92]Step step step step step off [00:07.61]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh [00:10.55]Step step step step step off [00:12.44]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh huh [00:15.65]Step step step step step off [00:17.33]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft [00:19.65] [00:29.84]I was sittin' on the corner just a wastin' my time [00:32.19]When I realised I was the king of the rhyme [00:34.85]I got on the microphone and what do you see [00:37.09]Huh the rest was my legacy [00:39.38]I was born to be the king of the be bop swing [00:41.91]To have stallions and medallions big diamond rings [00:44.45]I own a castle and a yacht two million in gold [00:46.76]Because rap is the game that I control [00:49.11]I'm like Shakespeare I'm a pioneer [00:51.58]Because I made rap something people wanted to hear [00:54.05]See before my reign it was the same old same [00:56.48]To the bop with the bop that street talk game [00:58.91]So if you ever let me make this clear [01:01.42]If you ever think that we're steppin' out of here [01:03.83]You ever think you're getting up down around or in [01:06.28]Huh huh you better think again my friend [01:08.73]Because the door is closed and we're in town [01:11.13]And the only place you can go is dowwwwwwwwwwn [01:13.80] [01:16.72]Step step step step step off [01:18.63]Well I'm Keith cowboy and you're my cow [01:20.99]So what you MC's gonna do now [01:23.08] [01:23.61]It's gonna be a slaughter and here's my plan [01:25.61] [01:26.16]You won't even get bread and water my man [01:28.38]Gonna put you on the racks like a pair of slacks [01:30.83]With another wack rapper tied to your back [01:32.81] [01:33.36]And if you wanna hang yourself out to dry [01:35.65]It's the beautiful round up in the sky [01:38.09]I'm the carry out kid when my trigger's in cock [01:40.46]I'll be carryin' out bodies stiff as a rock [01:42.89]Carryin' out a million dollars in my pockets and hand [01:45.42]But I carry out orders from no man [01:47.84]Cause anything you wanna do I already did [01:50.25]You used to see me rock the house when you was a kid [01:53.00]But in my MC school my class is packed [01:55.10]And tricks are for kids so I left your a** back [01:57.65]The bow legged brother there'll never be another [02:00.18]I buy a mansion for my mother [02:02.78]The 247 the kool aid smile [02:04.94]Say hey crack a lemon and look at my pile [02:07.17] [02:08.08]Step step step step step off [02:09.83]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh [02:12.81]Step step step step step off [02:14.62]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh huh [02:17.88]Step step step step step off [02:19.53]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft [02:21.70]Come on [02:22.17]Now you know just who I am [02:24.13] [02:24.68]And what I do because I'm in demand [02:26.98]Because I look good [02:28.08]Do you hear my man [02:29.37]And if you can't take that you chump your old hand [02:31.95]One girl at a time getting MC [02:34.30]So how could you think that you rank with me [02:36.81]If you only did your homework you would surely find [02:39.28]When scorp' get girls they all be fine [02:41.57]And the only girl that you could take of mine [02:44.10]Is the one that I left way behind [02:46.53]And plus you're cheap you're petty your music is trash [02:49.00]You need to go to the bank and get some cash [02:51.66]Because talking don't pay you're drifting away [02:53.81]When I see you on the stage I'm a blow you away [02:56.34]You're right [02:56.78]There is no diff' between me and you [02:58.84]Except I look good and you look through [03:01.10]Take that [03:01.60] [03:11.78]Step step step step step off [03:13.35]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh [03:16.22]Step step step step step off [03:18.15]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft [03:20.83]Little pieces of a dream is all you mean [03:23.17]Since the day you stepped into the MC scene [03:25.34] [03:25.85]Bitin' your moves takin' fake awards [03:28.07]Sayin' everyone else is perpetratin' the frauds [03:30.51]But you're nothing but a clone of a flesh and bone [03:32.95]Now you're tryin' to play gone on the microphone [03:35.37]But I tell you bout a night and you know I'm right [03:37.90]When you listen to us rockin' to the broad daylight [03:40.21]And then you looked in the sky and you started to cuss [03:42.91]But then you prayed to God that you could be like us [03:45.42]Then God was great and God was true [03:47.55]And he tried to show you how to be like you [03:49.95]But you still didn't get where you wanted to go [03:52.42]When you gathered in a group and got your own show [03:55.06]Cause without the source the force won't survive [03:57.29]For eternity the source is alive [03:59.92]You forgot the words of your creator [04:02.45]And now he's made you a perpetrator [04:04.94]Forever in a world of you and a girl [04:07.22]A few grams in a pipe to make your head swirl [04:09.78]You must spread the words of the master teacher [04:12.11]You die by the rhymes and the streets'll eat you [04:14.64]The words are a gift we will never flaunt [04:16.87]That's why we're gonna get everything we want [04:19.30]Just like a shadow in the night on a sight unseen [04:21.86]And I'm the bonafide vocal master supreme [04:24.22]And I'm here to run it down for the ladies and gents [04:26.78]For my rhymes make dollars plus they make sense [04:29.10]See you're down with cowboy you'll be rockin' the show [04:31.54]With king lou tommy gun and huh scorpio [04:33.46] [04:34.00]Kami Kaze Clayton savage and eazy mike [04:36.51]And goin' down in the books is the king of the night [04:38.95]So if you're ever in a battle I'm a make you my slave [04:41.37]And I'm a give you a shovel so you can dig a grave [04:43.88]Leave behind all your fame and wealth [04:46.13]So you can say one rhyme then bury yourself huh [04:48.78]I may sound possessed but you know I'm blessed [04:51.24]With the will to make sense of all this mess [04:53.61]I'm the power of the sun that shines in the sky [04:55.98]And I'm the only MC that'll never die [04:58.44]So just rock and don't stop 'til you hit the top [05:00.91]But when you see mellie mel you're gonna have to drop [05:03.61]Rock [05:03.83] [05:05.96]And not only that [05:06.79] [05:08.98]Step step step step step off [05:10.54]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh [05:13.52]Step step step step step off [05:15.32]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft [05:17.85]And for all you MC's you heard my story [05:20.41]On my super fly cold crushin' fame and glory [05:22.84]How I rocked the children and the young ladies [05:25.35]I even rocked the country that was overseas [05:27.64]Cause I can rock anybody from any crew [05:30.15]Because I did it to chaka I'm a do it to you [05:32.69]I'm a show you how I rocked it y'all all night long [05:35.08]But when I rocked with chaka khan I just said [05:37.47]Chaka khan let me rock you let me rock you chaka khan I said [05:40.41]Let me rock you that's all I wanna do [05:42.45]Chaka khan let me rock you let me rock you chaka khan I said [05:45.16]Let me me rock you cause I feel for you [05:47.30]Chaka khan won't you tell me what you wanna do [05:49.60]Do you feel for me the way I feel for you [05:52.05]Chaka khan let me tell you what I wanna do [05:54.53]I wanna love you wanna hug you wanna squeeze you too [05:57.16]So let me take me in your arms [05:58.48]Let me fill you with my charms chaka [06:00.11]Cause you know that I'm the one to keep you warm chaka [06:02.45]I'll make you more than just a physical spell [06:04.41]I wanna rock you chaka baby cause my name is Melle Mel [06:07.06] [06:19.29]Say what y'all [06:19.84] [06:21.59]Say what [06:22.47] [06:26.59]To the DJ scratch the metro match [06:28.99]Cause we're coming out fresh with a brand new batch [06:31.47]So takin' you off into the galaxy [06:33.62]Is vicious vicious vicious lee [06:36.05] [07:06.14]Step step step step step off [07:07.88]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft uh huh [07:10.86]Step step step step step off [07:12.72]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft [07:15.05] [07:15.82]Step step step step step off [07:17.55]Because you got to get lost because you know you're soft