King Of The Streets-Grandmaster Flash/Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five/The Furious Five

[ti:King Of The Streets] [ar:Grandmaster Flash] [al:Kings of the Streets - The Definitve Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]King Of The Streets - Grandmaster Flash/The Furious Five [00:02.37]I'm the King of the Streets Y'all [00:04.20] [00:07.04]What are you stupid [00:07.72]To be bad to be born but born to be bad [00:10.25]The best emcee the mic ever had [00:12.40]I always was famous but never a star [00:14.72]A Don Juan Perignon Antoine bourgeois [00:16.36] [00:17.42]I'm bad without the big fancy cars [00:18.97] [00:19.62]And the Louis Vuitton to the Yves St Laurent [00:22.23]The higher echelon and the body guards [00:23.98] [00:24.55]Not like Prince and Michael I come up hard [00:26.95]I'm the king of the streets I never meet my match [00:29.40]Hanging out in the Fever with AJ Scratch [00:31.57]People see me in the movies and on TV [00:33.93]But when they see me in the streets see that's the real me [00:36.61]So throw your hands in the air [00:38.19] [00:38.86]And wave 'em like you just don't care [00:40.59] [00:41.21]And if you wanna' rock a beat with the King of the Street [00:43.70]Say Yeah [00:44.19] [00:46.17]The King The King [00:49.00]What what what are you [00:50.31]What are you What are you stupid [00:51.59]The King The King [00:52.98] [00:54.09]You know you know you know what I'm saying [00:55.83] [00:56.42]The King The King [00:57.92] [00:58.66]What what what are you [00:59.60]What are you What are you stupid [01:00.95] [01:02.18]The King The King [01:03.48] [01:04.06]You know you know you know what I'm saying [01:06.06]Driving my car wearing my jewelry [01:07.38] [01:08.00]You can fool the public but you can't fool me [01:10.31]Because you made a little album got a royalty check [01:12.64]But your friends don't give you no respect [01:14.50] [01:15.06]Spending my money using my style [01:17.68]They wore my crown for a little while [01:20.00]They went all around the world thinking their all that [01:22.47]But when they saw me on the stage I took it right back [01:24.97]Cause I dress like a pimp and I work like a ho [01:27.27]And rappin' is the only life I know [01:29.53]I got respect on the street so wherever I go [01:31.99]And they only get respect when they doin' a show [01:34.19]Cause their young dumb try to get some [01:37.00]In the process forgot where they come from [01:39.14]But what they can't see while their running the game [01:41.66]Is that their friends and enemies are the same [01:43.98]Cause united we stand divided you fall [01:45.82] [01:46.60]And I am love and love conquers all [01:48.89]I love to turn on the mic and rock the house [01:51.43]And come on everybody and help me turn it out [01:53.80]And just clap your hands to the beat y'all [01:56.22]And let's rock it with the king of the streets y'all [01:58.33]You know Melle Mel you know I rock well [02:00.63]Say Yeah [02:01.25] [02:03.80]What what what what [02:04.55]What what what are you stupid [02:05.77] [02:09.04]I'm here to take command [02:10.75]After I crush him I'm crushing his man [02:12.71] [02:13.25]I'm gonna' gather his whole crew in a bunch [02:15.16] [02:15.67]And give them all the Malachi crunch [02:18.03]And when I rock them for the people to see [02:20.37]I'm gonna kick down his door and rock his family [02:22.77]His girl the nation his whole generation [02:24.72] [02:25.48]And I'll even give myself a rock sensation [02:27.17] [02:27.77]Cause I never had a fight when I'm on the mic [02:30.05]I beat a bum like him up just the other night [02:32.18]When he opened his eyes all he could see [02:34.91]Was the referee the ceiling and me [02:37.30]My name is Melvin Glover I love to be a lover [02:39.81]I'm bad and I'm blessed [02:40.93]I can always rock a sucker sucker sucker MC on the microphone [02:43.89] [02:44.40]So just give me the mic and get up off my throne [02:46.93] [02:47.46]What what what what are you [02:48.60]What what what what are you stupid [02:50.08] [02:52.51]I grew up in the city streets [02:54.10]With holes in my clothes bummy shoes on my feet [02:56.63]Sometimes when I was hungry there was nothing to eat [02:59.00]And other times in the winter there was no heat [03:01.36]We would all freeze it was ten degrees [03:03.91]I would see my mother bow to her knees [03:05.88] [03:06.40]She cried then nod then prayed to God [03:08.66]That times for the kids wouldn't be so hard [03:11.19]But out on the streets a life was rougher [03:13.70]The dream of getting rich made a man tougher [03:16.09]Twenty might get you forty forty might get you eighty [03:18.63]Eighty for a lady that's five foot shady [03:21.00]Staying in the gutter hanging with my brother [03:23.30]My pop's got so drunk he use to stutter [03:25.75]Beat up on my mother for no reason why [03:28.02]And to this day I try not to get high [03:29.96] [03:30.64]The streets got it good so I should warn you [03:33.01]There's a drug store setup right on the corner [03:35.30]Selling d**e smoke smack and crack a lack a lack [03:37.93]The sess mess splif or the chunk chunky black [03:40.25]Temptation reached for my vein [03:42.52]But I didn't let drugs overcome my brain [03:44.78]Because drugs rule the body and mess with your head [03:47.56]And makes you part of the living dead [03:49.71]But I went to school and I learned too good [03:52.37]I learned to understand all that I could [03:54.62]Thought I could skip a letter from l to z [03:56.84]So I took to the streets for my college degree [03:59.42]My teachers were the hustlers garbage and bums [04:01.72]My class was survival and school was the slums [04:04.22]Math was counting money large candy no doubt [04:06.16] [04:06.70]And my homework was knocking sucker niggaz out [04:08.78] [04:09.43]Gym was when I had to run from the cops [04:11.53]And history was who was on top [04:13.79]I would hear about the death of the neighborhood crooks [04:16.24]I didn't want to be in those history books [04:18.68]So I got myself legal as easy as pie [04:21.06]A legal crook got a suit and tie [04:23.60]Like a crooked politician selling dreams and lies [04:25.93]So he can rob you blind then tell you why [04:28.43]Get the most for less then pocket the rest [04:30.71]Kick backs hit backs invest your interest [04:32.72] [04:33.27]Build a better bomb then raise the tax [04:35.66]You know the king would put the truth on wax [04:38.22]Because I'm the kind of king that'll open doors [04:40.42]Let me live my life and you live yours [04:42.90]Do what you wanna' do and don't hurt nobody [04:45.34]And come on everybody let's party that party [04:47.21]And throw your hands in the air [04:49.47] [04:50.04]And wave them like you just don't care [04:51.82] [04:52.43]And everybody just freak with the King of the Street [04:54.79]So everybody [04:55.45]Say Oh Yeah