What's it All About?

[Run] I would like to throw "Rock Box" in the start of

this one..

{*Jam Master Jay obliges with the cut..

"Run.. Dee.. Run.. D.. M.. C.."

"Here we go again!" -> Chuck D*}

"What's it all about?" (4X with stutter repeats)

[Run]

Livin in the city - the crack the mack and all that

Easy does it, is it was it

the black or white that Friday night

in those racist places - let's get it right

Ah to the maximum, and keep askin 'um

when the city gonna fix where the BLACKS are from

And every day around the way another one got

bucked in his head - from a gunshot

No chance in advance for the ambulance

Cause he was just another victim of the circumstance

A brother died, the mother cried, it was a pity

But that's how it goes down when you're livin in the city

{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}

[D.M.C.]

Just a hard rock, call him a hard rock

in the metropolis there's no stoppin this

Can't agree with society poppin this

Disagree with the plea when they coppin it

Some men pretend the end will come soon

They gather what they can and them BOOM

You played yourself, you made your wealth;

the deal was dealt - now your health is in question

Three Card Molly, hoodlums - who are we?

Pollution, prostitution, In God We -

- need a solution, revolution, substitution

for the thing's that we're abusing

Pity the city, for the people livin out on the streets

Yo we homeless, the homeless need to eat

There's no progress for the rest

God bless for less

{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}

(*musical breakdown*}

[Run] What it is?

[DMC] What's it all about?

[Run] Whassup G?

[DMC] What it be?

[Run] How you livin HOMELESS PROBABLY

Mandela's free

[DMC] and they're rollin with D

[both] In history you cannot see em like they cannot see me

[Run] The Berlin Wall

[DMC] It all had to fall

[Run] They said no but..

[Jay] "Yo!" "Yes y'all!"

[Run] The people that spoke were never provoked

and now it's tumblin down

Freedom of speech for each

[DMC] Now how that sound?

[Run] Try to stop me from sayin what I want to say

My funky rhyme I never quit until the break of day

NOW HERE WE GO as I flow and show and kick

[DMC] Infor-mation, teach and ? reach inside the nation

and be a.. SEER CAUSE I'M REASON WITH RUN

[Run] And now that the point is out

Let the jam slam my man and tell me

what's it all about?

{*Jam Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?" samples*}

(*musical breakdown*}

[D.M.C.]

I flex my muscle, what I must do

is bumrush you, FUCK YOU I'll crush you

The Ku Klux Klan is fucked up

And every good man'll understand

Beginnin and winnin, from the first fuckin vocal

I spoke to you, I ain't no joke to you

I do what I want to do

If you don't like what me and my crew is doin then FUCK YOU

What I do and what I done with Jay and Run

None could ever become, to sum it up bum..

get off my DICK and out my KINGDOM

(Yo yo D tell em where you're from)

Straight from Hollis, Queens

I'm still eatin collard greens and I'm doin the same things

I ain't never goin out suckers..

punk motherfuckers!

What's it all about?

(*musical breakdown*}