Old School

Here we go, we gonna send this one out to the old school

All these motherfuckers in the Bronx and Brooklyn and Staten Island, Queens

And all the motherfuckers that laid it down, the foundation

Ya know what I'm saying? Nothing but love for the old school

That's who were going to do this one for, ya feel me?

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

I remember Mr. Magic, Flash, Grandmaster Caz

LL, raising hell, but that didn't last

Eric B and Rakim was the shit to me

I flipped to see a Doug E Fresh show with Ricky D

And Red Alert was putting in work

And Chuck Chill had my homies on the hill gettin' ill

When shit was real, went out to steal

Remember Raw with Daddy Kane?

When De La Soul was puttin' potholes in the game

I can't explain how it was

Whodini had me puffin' on that buddha

Gettin' buzzed, 'cause there I was

Them block parties in the projects and on my block

Yo diggy don't stop

Sippin' on that Private Stock

Through my speaker, Queen Latifah and MC Lyte

Listen to Treach, KRS to get me through the night

With T La Rock and Mantronix to Stetsasonic

Remember "Push it" was the bomb shit

Nothin' like the old school

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

I had Shell Toes and BVD's

A killer crease inside my Lee's when I hit the streets

I'm playin' skelly, ring-a-levio, or catch a kiss

Before the homies in my hood learned to smack a bitch

I remember way back

The weak weed they had

Too many seeds in the trey bag

I'm on the train headin' uptown

Freestylin' with some wild kids from Bucktown, profilin'

'Cause the hoochies were starin'

Thinkin', why them **** swearin'?

I'm wondering if that's her hair

I remember, stick ball

Pump the hoochies on the wall

Or taking leaks on the steps, stinkin' up the hall

Through my childhood, wild as a juvenile

A young **** tryna stay away from Riker's Isle

Me and my homies breakin' nights, tryna keep it true

Out on the roof sippin' 90 proof

Ain't nothin' like the old school

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

Remember poppin' and lockin' to Kurtis Blow, the name belts

And Scott LaRock, the Super Ho, back in Latin Quarters

When Slick Rick was spittin' La-Di-Da-Di

Gamin' the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties

I remember breakdancing to Melle Mel

Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he Rocks the Bells

Forget the TV about to hit the streets and do graffiti

Be careful don't let the transit cops see me

Ain't nothin' like the old school

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say?

What more could I say?

What more could I say?