South Bronx

Yo, wassup Blastmaster KRS One, this jam is kickin'

Word, yo what up D Nice? Yo wassup Scott La Rock?

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

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

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 'cos the rhymes you wrote was wack

So you think that hiphop had it's start out in Queensbridge

If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live

'Cos you're in

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

I came with Scott La Rock 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 hiphop began

With CoQue, La Rock, 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 hiphop

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 home boys 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 La Rock and he's from

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx

South Bronx, the South, South Bronx