[Run]I would like to throw "Rock Box" in the start of this one..
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{*Jam Master Jay obliges with the cut..
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"Run.. Dee.. Run.. D.. M.. C.."
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"Here we go again!" -> Chuck D*}
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"What's it all about?" (4X with stutter repeats)
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[Run]
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Livin in the city - the crack the mack and all that
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Easy does it, is it was it
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the black or white that Friday night
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in those racist places - let's get it right
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Ah to the maximum, and keep askin 'um
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when the city gonna fix where the BLACKS are from
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And every day around the way another one got
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bucked in his head - from a gunshot
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No chance in advance for the ambulance
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Cause he was just another victim of the circumstance
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A brother died, the mother cried, it was a pity
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But that's how it goes down when you're livin in the city
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{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}
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[D.M.C.]
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Just a hard rock, call him a hard rock
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in the metropolis there's no stoppin this
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Can't agree with society poppin this
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Disagree with the plea when they coppin it
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Some men pretend the end will come soon
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They gather what they can and them BOOM
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You played yourself, you made your wealth;
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the deal was dealt - now your health is in question
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Three Card Molly, hoodlums - who are we?
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Pollution, prostitution, In God We -
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- need a solution, revolution, substitution
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for the thing's that we're abusing
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Pity the city, for the people livin out on the streets
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Yo we homeless, the homeless need to eat
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There's no progress for the rest
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God bless for less
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{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}
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(*musical breakdown*}
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[Run]What it is?
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[DMC]What's it all about?
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[Run]Whassup G?
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[DMC]What it be?
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[Run]How you livin HOMELESS PROBABLY
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Mandela's free
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[DMC]and they're rollin with D
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[both]In history you cannot see em like they cannot see me
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[Run]The Berlin Wall
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[DMC]It all had to fall
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[Run]They said no but..
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[Jay]"Yo!""Yes y'all!"
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[Run]The people that spoke were never provoked
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and now it's tumblin down
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Freedom of speech for each
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[DMC]Now how that sound?
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[Run]Try to stop me from sayin what I want to say
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My funky rhyme I never quit until the break of day
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NOW HERE WE GO as I flow and show and kick
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[DMC]Infor-mation, teach and ? reach inside the nation
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and be a.. SEER CAUSE I'M REASON WITH RUN
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[Run]And now that the point is out
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Let the jam slam my man and tell me
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what's it all about?
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{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}
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(*musical breakdown*}
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[D.M.C.]
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I flex my muscle, what I must do
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is bumrush you, FUCK YOU I'll crush you
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The Ku Klux Klan is fucked up
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And every good man'll understand
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Beginnin and winnin, from the first fuckin vocal
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I spoke to you, I ain't no joke to you
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I do what I want to do
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If you don't like what me and my crew is doin then FUCK YOU
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What I do and what I done with Jay and Run
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None could ever become, to sum it up bum..
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get off my DICK and out my KINGDOM
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(Yo yo D tell em where you're from)
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Straight from Hollis, Queens
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I'm still eatin collard greens and I'm doin the same things
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I ain't never goin out suckers..
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punk motherfuckers!
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What's it all about?
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(*musical breakdown*}
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What's it All About?
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Run-D.M.C. |