I Used To Think I Was Run

Yo...

A red alert y'all, a red alert y'all

A now we toot on the horns, and ring on the bells

Cause I am the man with the clientele

Rock a rhyme for me and then a rhyme for you

And everybody catch, the boogaloo flu

And like the apple to the peach, the cherry to the plum

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I used to think I was "Run!"

I really thought I was "kiiiiiiiiing"

[Rev Run]

Yo, in my in my imagination's creation I had to get paid

I had a better way to dead 'em so the suckers were slayed

I gad to get up and smash 'em, beat 'em down and bash 'em

Stompin through the Garden fully hardened to the maxim

Rhymin like an animal, the cannibal king

Eat a sucker, break a nucca, but I never could sing

Had a beef with every rapper I could see 'em for miles

And when I saw 'em had to floor 'em, leave 'em layin in piles

Made a dollar while I holla, had to follow me 'round

Rappers fearin when they hearin Run was breakin 'em down

Now every time I had to rhyme my job was thoroughly done

And I never lost a battle...

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[Rev Run]

Yo, yo

Now I was sittin up in Cali from the alley in Queens

Breakin records never know exactly just what it means

Sellin records makin money just to throw in the air

Rockin sneakers, bustin speakers, every day a new pair

Nothin borin, steady tourin, livin life without care

And if I wasn't on the cover of your paper was rare

Even mami would remind me and rewind me the truth

Sucker fellas out there jealous, I was rough in my youth

"Raising Hell" and steady yellin, freezin rockin the Goose

And in the summer on the come up I was clockin the loot

Now come with me and let's remember how we rock it for fun

It's your momma's favorite rapper...

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[Rev Run]

Yo - now back in Hollis makin dollars was a serious day

So me and D we had to get it then we split it with Jay

Choppin it up and flip a buck and drive a sucker away

Never smilin steady whylin never needin to play

Me and Butter, Hollis Crew, and how we do it with Ray

Comin down and throw it down and then we be on our way

Now reminisce, cause it was this

and that's just how it was done...

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