South Bronx Lyrics - Boogie Down Productions

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 wanna 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) 

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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) 

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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, Kool 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 Kool 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 

Cos 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)