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Here we go; we gonna send this one out to the old school |
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All these mother****ers in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and Staten Island |
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Queens, and all the mother****ers that laid it down, the foundation |
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yaknowhatI'msayin? Nuttin but love for the old school |
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That's who we gonna do this one for, ya feel me? |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [00:29.860]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Nothin like the old school/ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [00:38.860]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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I remember Mr. Magic, FLASH, Grandmaster Caz |
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LL raisin hell but, that didn't last |
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Eric B. & Rakim was, the shit to me |
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I flip to see a Doug E. Fresh show, with Ricky D |
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and Red Alert was puttin in work, with Chuck Chill |
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Had my homies on the hill gettin ill, when shit was real |
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Went out to steal, remember Raw, with Daddy Kane |
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when De La Soul was puttin Potholes in the game |
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I can't explain how it was, Whodini |
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had me puffin on that buddha gettin buzzed, cause there I was |
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Them block parties in the projects, and on my block |
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You diggi don't stop, sippin on that Private Stock |
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Through my speaker Queen Latifah, and MC Lyte |
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Listen to Treach, KRS to get me through the night |
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With T La Rock and Mantronix, to Stetsasonic |
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Remember "Push It" was the bomb shit, nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [01:29.500]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Heheheh, it ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [01:35.630]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [01:43.690]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Yeaheheh, it ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [01:49.570]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [01:57.790]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
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Ain't nuttin like the old school |
| [01:59.390]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Heheh... I had, Shell Toes, and BVD's |
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A killer crease inside my Lee's when I hit the streets |
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I'm playin skelly, ring to leavey, or catch a kiss |
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before the homies in my hood learned to smack a bitch, I remember |
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way back, the weak weed they had |
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Too many seeds in the trey bag |
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I'm on the train headin uptown, freestylin |
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with some wild kids from Bucktown, profilin |
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cause the hoochies was starin, thinkin, "Why them niggaz swearin?" |
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I'm wonderin if that's her hair, I remember |
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Stickball, pump the hoochies on the wall |
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or takin leaks on the steps, stinkin up the hall |
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Through my childhood, wild as a juvenile |
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A young nigga tryin to stay away from Riker's Isle |
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Me and my homies breakin nights, tryin to keep it true |
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Out on the roof sippin 90 proof, ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [02:41.090]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Heheheyah, that's right, it ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [02:52.000]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Ain't nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [02:59.710]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [03:04.890]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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Nuttin like the old school |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
| [03:08.810]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today |
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Hahah... remember poppin and lockin to Kurtis Blow, the name belts |
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Ain't nuttin like the old school |
| [03:10.790]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba] |
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And Scott LaRock the Super Hoe back in Latin Quarters |
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When Slick Rick was spittin La-Di-Da-Di |
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Gamin the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties, I remem-ber |
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breakdancin to Melle Mel |
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Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he Rocks the Bells |
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Forget the TV, about to hit the streets and do graffiti |
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Be careful don't let the transit cops see me |
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It ain't nuttin like the old school! |
| [03:32.040]Grand Puba sample repeats every bar to end] |
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It ain't nuttin like the old school |
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Hahahah, it ain't nuttin like the old school |
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Hey, heheaha, on the real though, ain't nuttin like the old school |
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Remember seein Brooklyn go crazy up in the mother****in party? |
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Member how ****ers used to go, "Is Brooklyn in the house?" |
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and mother****ers would lose they GOD DAMN MIND |
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That's the old school to me; that's what I'm sayin (Su-per, Sperm) |
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I remember goin places that mother****ers was scared to say |
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they was from anywhere but Brooklyn; that shit was the bomb |
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Back in the mother****in old school nigga |
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Remember skelly nigga? Knockin niggaz out the box, poppin boxes? |
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Member stickball? Member niggaz to run that shit like that? |
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Member the block members screamin up at your mom from the window? |
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(LL Cool J is hard as HELL...) |
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The ice cream truck, member all the mother... |
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Member the italian icey's yo? |
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Yo remember the italian icey's the spanish niggaz comin down |
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with the coconut icey's and shit? |
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I came through the door, said it before |
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That was the SHIT! |