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Composer
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Guru
Guru
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Donald Byrd
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Co-Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Check it out
[Verse 2]
And that what you're doing is that uh
Is taking the music, and takin' rap to another dimension
That what has gone through a lot of changes
In the last ten, fifteen years
When we started out The Bronx and in Inglewood
The other thing is that this is one type of music
That really originates in New York
I mean, you've had other musics like Dixieland and music like that
And music like that started in New Orleans
Music that started in Memphis, Tennessee
And things that started Motown in Detroit
Well, like this is rap music is New York music
[Verse 3]
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, South Bronx, Inglewood
And now, this music, they reported a couple weeks ago
You know, New York Times
It is now the most popular music in the world
And that surpasses anything
And the other thing is that as far as the marketing is concerned
Rap music used to be about two or three percent
Of the whole record market
Today, it outsells classical music and all of that other stuff
[Verse 4]
Okay, and I teach 'em that, I teach at Queens College
And I just tell 'em in the class, I said
Teachin' people to do, uh, what classical music
In the elementary schools and you try to suppress
This black art form
And the thing is that, what
Regardless of how try to suppress it
It doesn't make any difference
[Verse 5]
Ah, it's like, it's like, just to add to that, not to cut you off, but
It's like in the schools, um, the energy
Like, the energy that black kids have and the
Kids in urban environments have when they go to school
It's something that a lot of time
The teachers don't understand how to channel it
So what they do is, oh, this kid's disrupting the class
He's messing up
Uh, send him to the principal
You know, put him, you gotta have a time out
Get outside the classroom, then some
They not in, or stay in there, they're frustrated anyway
From what they're learnin'
[Verse 6]
So then it gets to the point where
They get, they get on the street
And they get out there and that energy's gotta come out somehow
They might go to the block and see the next man is there, like
Two, three years older than them
He's got a fly sweatsuit on, chains
You know, little nice fly watch and uh, mad money in his pocket
And he's, you know, workin'
So it's like, you might wanna get down with that
You're not wanted at the school house
You know, it's all, or you might wanna get down with rap
Or basketball, or whatever, it sounds corny
It's like this rap thing isn't something that we choose
You know, to take us to another level
[Verse 7]
It's part of the whole black experience
That when you, like you said
Keith, when you're wrapped up and frustrated
And you got all this inside, it's gonna come out
And regardless of what people think
That what, what you been talkin' about now
The reason why this music is so great
And everybody wants to do it
Is because what?
It's a living music
And what? It's giving the people a chance to express themselves
Like yourself, you got something to say
You wanna get it out
And this is not just lyrics
You talkin' about literature
You's talkin' about sayin', and givin' a message
To the people
And that's what it is
And you can't suppress that
And that regardless if they don't play it on the radio
Or they don't do it like that
It's still gonna be heard
I mean, there's a network
[Verse 8]
But I find in both jazz and rap
That there's been times in both of their eras
Where the music that, the industry tried to change it
From its classical roots
See like, see like, we're they type of rap group
When we rock shows, we rock shows, we don't use DATs
'Cause DATs came out
All the groups wanna use DATs
No more turntables
Boy, if the DJ's up there, he's not really doin' nothin'
You know, he's just scratchin' over, over the uh, the DAT
And uh, basically, what we do is press up instrumental tracks
To everything we do
Because when rap started, rap started with what they did was
Which was so ingenious
Was to create a whole form of urban style music
From just two turntables and two records and a microphone
Written by: Guru

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