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Rapper's Delight

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Rapper's Delight

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I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie

To the hip hip hop and you don't stop

The rock it to the bang bang boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat

And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet

See I am Wonder Mike and I'd like to say hello

To the black, to the white, the red and the brown, the purple and yellow

But first, I gotta bang bang the boogie to the boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the bang bang boogie

Let's rock, you don't stop

Rock the rhythm that'll make your body rock

Well so far you've heard my voice, but I brought two friends along

And next on the mic is my man Hank; come on, Hank, sing that song

Check it out, I'm the C-A-S-AN, the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y

You see, I go by the code of the doctor of the mix and these reasons I'll tell you why

You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a tee

You see I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali and I dress so viciously

I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain't the whack

I got a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac

So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall

I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball

Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend

But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime 'til I made it again

Everybody go: Hotel, motel, whatcha gonna do today (say what?)

Cause I'ma get a fly girl, gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ

Everybody go: Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn

You see, if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend

Uh Master Gee, my mellow?

It's on you so what you gonna do?

Well it's on and on and on, on and on

The beat don't stop until the break of dawn

I said M-A-S, a T-E-R, a G with a double E

I said I go by the unforgettable name of the man they call the Master Gee

Well, my name is known all over the world

By all the foxy ladies and the pretty girls

I'm going down in history

As the baddest rapper there ever could be

Now I'm feeling the highs and you're feeling the lows

The beat starts getting into your toes

You start popping your fingers and stomping your feet

And moving your body while you're sitting in your seat

And then damn, you start doing the freak

I said damn, right outta your seat

Then you throw your hands high in the air

You're rocking to the rhythm, shake your derriere

You're rocking to the beat without a care

With the sure-shot emcees for the affair

Now, I'm not as tall as the rest of the gang

But I rap to the beat just the same

I got a little face and a pair of brown eyes

All I'm here to do ladies is hypnotize

Singing on and on and on, on and on

The beat don't stop until the break of dawn

Singing on and on and on, on and on

Like a hot ready to pop the pop the pop dibbie dibbie

Pop the pop, pop, you don't dare stop

Come alive y'all gimme what you got

I guess by now you can take a hunch

And find that I am the baby of the bunch

But that's okay, I still keep in stride

Cause all I'm here to do is just wiggle your behind

Singing on and on and on, on and on

The beat don't stop until the break of dawn

Singing on and on and on, on and on

Rock rock y'all get on the floor

I'm gonna freak ya here I'm gonna freak you there

I'm gonna move you outta this atmosphere

Cause I'm one of a kind and I'll shock your mind

I'll put t-t-tickets in your behind

I said 1-2-3-4, come on, girls, get on the floor

Uh, come alive, y'all gimme what ya got

Cause I'm guaranteed to make you rock

I said 1-2-3-4, tell me Wonder Mike what are you waiting for?

I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie

To the hip hip hop and you don't stop

The rock it to the bang bang boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

Skiddlee beebop a we rock a scooby doo

And guess what, America: We love you

Cause ya rock and ya roll with so much soul

You could rock 'til you're a hundred and one years old

I don't mean to brag I don't mean to boast

But we like hot butter on a breakfast toast

Rock it up, uh, baby bubbah

Baby bubbah to the boogie the bang bang the boogie

To the beat beat, it's so unique

Come on, everybody, and dance to the beat

I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie

To the hip hip hop and you don't stop

The rock it to the bang bang boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

I said I can't wait 'til the end of the week

When I'm rapping to the rhythm of a groovy beat

An attempt to raise your body heat

Just blow your mind so that you can't speak

To do a thing but a rock and shuffle your feet

And let it change up to a dance called the freak

And when ya finally do come into your rhythmic beat

Rest a little while so ya don't get weak

I know a man named Hank

He has more rhymes than a serious bank

So come on Hank, uh, sing that song

To the rhythm of the boogie the bang bang the bong

Well, I'm Imp the Dimp the ladies pimp

The women fight for my delight

But I'm the grandmaster with the three MCs

That shock the house for the young ladies

And when you come inside, into the front

You do the freak, spank, and do the bump

And when the sucker emcees try to prove a point

We're treacherous trio, uh, with a serious joint

A from Sun to Sun and from day to day

I sit down and write a brand new rhyme

Because they say that miracles never cease

I've created a devastating masterpiece

I'm gonna rock the mic til you can't resist

Everybody, I say it goes like this

Well I was coming home late one dark afternoon

Reporter stopped me for a interview

She said she's heard stories and she's heard fables

That I'm vicious on the mic and the turntables

This young reporter I did adore

So I rocked a vicious rhyme like I never did before

She said: damn fly guy I'm in love with you

The Casanova legend must have been true

I said by the way baby what's your name

Said: I go by the name of Lois Lane

And you could be my boyfriend you surely can

Just let me quit my boyfriend called Superman

I said he's a fairy I do suppose

Flying through the air in pantyhose

He may be very sexy or even cute

But he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit

I said you need a man who's got finesse

And his whole name across his chest

He may be able to fly all through the night

But can he rock a party 'til the early light

He can't satisfy you with his little worm

But I can bust you out with my super sperm

I go do it, I go do it, I go do it, do it, do it

An I'm here and I'm there I'm Big Bank Hank, I'm everywhere

Just throw your hands up in the air

And party hardy like you just don't care

Let's do it, uh, don't stop y'all, uh, tick a tock y'all you don't stop

I go: Hotel, motel, what you gonna do today (say what)

I'm gonna get a fly girl gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ

Everybody go: Hotel, motel, holiday inn

You see, if your girl starts acting up then you take her friend

I say skip, dive, what can I say

I can't fit em all inside my OJ

So I just take half and bust them out

I give the rest to Master Gee so he could shock the house

It was 12 o'clock one Friday night

I was rocking to the beat and feeling all right

Everybody was dancing on the floor

Doing all the things they never did before

And then this fly fly girl with a sexy lean

She came into the bar, she came into the scene

As she traveled deeper inside the room

All the fellas checked out her white Sassons

She came up to the table, looked into my eyes

Then she turned around and shook her behind

So I said to myself, its time for me to release

My vicious rhyme I call my masterpiece

And now people in the house this is just for you

A little rap to make you boogaloo

Now the group ya hear is called Phase Two

And let me tell ya something we're a hell of a crew

Once a week we're on the street

Just a-cutting the jams and making it free

For you to party, got to have the moves

So we'll get right down and give you a groove

For you to dance you got to be hype

So we'll get right down for you tonight

Now the system's on and the girls are there

You definitely have a rocking affair

But let me tell ya something there's still one fact

That to have a party ya got to have a rap

So when the party's over, you're making it home

And trying to sleep before the break of dawn

And while ya sleeping you start to dream

And thinking how ya danced on the disco scene

A name appears in your mind

Yeah, a name you know that was right on time

It was phase two just a doing a do

Rocking ya down cause ya know we could

To the rhythm of the beat that makes ya freak

Come alive girls get on your feet

To the rhythm of the beat to the beat the beat

To the double beat beat that it makes ya freak

To the rhythm of the beat that says you go on

On and on into the break of dawn

Now I got a man coming on right now

He's guaranteed to throw down

He goes by the name of Wonder Mike

Come on Wonder Mike do what ya like

Like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey

Like a millionaire that has no money

Like a rainy day that is not wet

Like a gambling fiend that does not bet

Like Dracula without his fangs

Like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang

Like collard greens that don't taste good

Like a tree that's not made out of wood

Like going up and not coming down

Is just like the beat without the sound, no sound

To the beat beat, ya do the freak

Everybody just rock and dance to the beat

Have you ever went over a friend's house to eat

And the food just ain't no good

I mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed

And the chicken tastes like wood

So you try to play it off like you think you can

By saying that you're full

And then your friend says: momma he's just being polite

He ain't finished uh-uh that's bull

So your heart starts pumping and you think of a lie

And you say that you already ate

And your friend says: man there's plenty of food

So you pile some more on your plate

While the stinky food's steaming your mind starts to dreaming

Of the moment that it's time to leave

And then you look at your plate and your chicken's slowly rotting

Into something that looks like cheese

Oh so you say that's it I got to leave this place

I don't care what these people think

I'm just sitting here making myself nauseous

With this ugly food that stinks

So you bust out the door while its still closed

Still sick from the food you ate

And then you run to the store for quick relief

From a bottle of kaopectate

And then you call your friend two weeks later

To see how he has been

And he says: I understand about the food

Baby but bubbah we're still friends

With a hip hop the hippie the hippie

To the hip hip hop and you don't stop

The rock it to the bang bang boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

I say: Hank can ya rock?

Can ya rock to the rhythm that just don't stop?

Can ya hip me to the shoobie doo

I said: come on, make uh, make the people move

I go to the halls and then ring the bell

Because I am the man with the clientele

And if ya ask me why I rock so well

I'm Big Bank, I got clientele

And from the time I was only six years old

I never forgot what I was told

It was the best advice that I ever had

It came from my wise dear old dad

He said: Sit down punk I wanna talk to you

And don't say a word until I'm through

Now there's a time to laugh a time to cry

A time to live and a time to die

A time to break and a time to chill

To act civilized or act real ill

But whatever ya do in your lifetime

Ya never let a MC steal your rhyme

So from six to six 'til this very day

Ill always remember what he had to say

So when the sucker emcees try to chump my style

I let them know that I'm versatile

I got style, finesse and a little black book

That's filled with rhymes and I know you wanna look

But there's a thing that separates you from me

And that is called originality

Because my rhymes are on from what you heard

I didn't even bite and not a godd--m word

And I say a little more later on tonight

So the sucker emcees can bite all night

Uh, tick a tock y'all, a beat, beat y'all

A lets rock y'all, ya don't stop

It go: Hotel, motel, whatcha gonna do today (say what)

Cause I'ma get a fly girl gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ

Everybody go: Hotel, motel, holiday inn

You see if your girl starts acting up then you take her friends

A like that y'all to the beat y'all

A beat, beat y'all ya don't stop

Uh, Master Gee am I mellow?

Its on you so whatcha gonna do?

Well like Johnny Carson on the late show

A like Frankie Crocker in stereo

Well like the Bar-Kays singing Holy Ghost

The sounds to throw down they're played the most

Just like my man Captain Sky

Whose name he earned with his super sperm

We rock and we don't stop

Get off y'all I'm here to give you whatcha got

To the beat that it makes you freak

And come alive girl, uh, get on your feet

A like a Perry Mason without a case

Like Farrah Fawcett without her face

Like the barkays on the mic

Like getting right down for you tonight

Like moving your body so ya don't know how

Right to the rhythm and throw down

Like coming alive to the Master Gee

The brother who rocks so viciously

I said the age of one my life begun

At the age of two I was doing the do

At the age of three it was you and me

Rocking to the sounds of the Master Gee

At the age of four I was on the floor

Giving all the freaks what they bargained for

At the age of five I didn't take no jive

With the Master Gee its all the way live

At the age of six I was uh, picking up sticks

Rapping to the beat my stick was fixed

At the age of seven I was rocking in heaven

Dontcha know I went off

I got right on down to the beat you see

Getting right on down making all the girls

Just take of their clothes to the beat the beat

To the double beat, beat that makes you freak

At the age of eight I was, uh, really great

Cause every night you see I had a date

At the age of nine I was, uh, right on time

Cause every night I had a part to rhyme

Going on and on and on, on and on

The beat don't stop until the break of dawn

A saying on and on and on, on and on

Like a hot buttered the pop the pop the popcorn

A saying on and on and on on and on

Cause I'm a helluva man when I'm on the mic

I am the definite feast delight

I'm a helluva man when I'm on the mic

I am the definite feast delight

Call me the master gee you see

The brother who rocks so viciously

I'm gonna freak ya here I'm gonna freak ya there

I'm gonna move you outta this atmosphere

The east to the west, I rock you the best

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