[ti:Rising To The Top]
[ar:Krs-One & Marley Marl]
[al:Hip Hop Lives]
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[00:00.22]Rising To The Top - Krs-One & Marley Marl
[00:10.96]Incomprehensible to you super listeners how you doing tonight
[00:12.99]All you fly guys and fly girls
[00:14.68]Welcome once again to the world famous
[00:16.72]Mister Magic Rap Attack and of course I am Incomprehensible
[00:20.50]Way way back before the hots and the powers
[00:22.66]We used to listen to live mixin' for hours
[00:25.52]Roxanne Shanté UTFO
[00:28.03]Mister Magic Rap Attack some of y'all know
[00:30.55]But I was in the shelter in weakness
[00:32.45]Homeless turntableless and microphoneless
[00:35.60]Fresh gearless but still I was fearless
[00:38.04]And focused on being the dopest MC alive
[00:41.02]It's '85 LL's on Def Jam with the best jam
[00:44.08]And Whodini's on Jive man you know I had to survive
[00:47.39]New York City was crazy in the 80's
[00:49.36]But d**n it was live
[00:50.75]So here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan
[00:53.20]Shanté's already the queen Marley's already the man
[00:56.31]Y'all don't really understand
[00:57.66]When you throw on Shanté or
[00:58.92]Shan it got live in the jam
[01:00.91]So we went to Mister Magic
[01:02.70]If anybody had to power to put you on he had it
[01:05.87]We gave up the demo tape no love lost
[01:08.28]But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us off
[01:10.97]Somehow we heard we were whack
[01:12.85]Every track and that we shouldn't even call back
[01:16.11]Right there my jaw dropped no doubt
[01:17.97]But it made me see what I was all about
[01:20.34]And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:23.49]Give it all you got give it all you got
[01:25.69]I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:28.67]Give it all you got give it all you got
[01:30.80]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:33.66]Give it all you got give it all you got
[01:35.84]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:38.73]Give it all you got give it all
[01:40.13]You got give it all you got
[01:41.68]In the spot new hip hop and Latin Quarters
[01:43.80]And the Union Square and the rooftop
[01:45.94]We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot
[01:48.62]Where it got dark a lot me and Scott La Rock
[01:51.15]But it was all for the hip hoppers
[01:53.00]Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with the show stoppa
[01:55.87]MC Shan was gonna challenge LL
[01:57.96]Shanté was battling 3 or 4 groups
[01:59.84]At the same time what the hell
[02:01.81]Answer records were big then after Shanté did it
[02:04.61]Everybody was trying to spit them so we spit off
[02:08.28]To tell you the truth
[02:09.19]It was the only way an MC could get on
[02:11.85]We answered MC Shan's Queensbridge
[02:14.08]A d**e jam about where he was from and where he lived
[02:16.81]But in the Bronx there was these kids
[02:18.45]KRS Scott La Rock trying to live
[02:20.97]And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:24.12]Give it all you got give it all you got
[02:26.11]I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:29.25]Give it all you got give it all you got
[02:31.42]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:34.29]Give it all you got give it all you got
[02:36.20]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:39.28]Give it all you got give it all
[02:40.64]You got give it all you got
[02:42.11]This it what an MC was we had a strong street buzz
[02:45.28]Marley and Shan showed us some love and love never hurt
[02:48.73]'Cause while Shan was with Marley we was with DJ Red Alert
[02:52.32]Every Friday night every Saturday night
[02:54.41]On the airwaves the battle was right
[02:56.25]Under New York nights smog and lights
[02:58.25]Jargon at night the Roxy used to get so hype
[03:01.56]You could put on your headset
[03:02.99]And get what heads didn't get yet
[03:04.84]Live MCs going check check
[03:06.89]Spitin' rhymes over the radio set
[03:09.01]These are the days and the ways I can never forget
[03:11.97]So I don't forget it to Marley and Shan I am indebted
[03:14.98]For the start of my career these guys could take credit
[03:17.89]For my rappin' the whole battle they let it all happen
[03:20.72]Marley and Shan and Shanté could have been gun strapping cousin
[03:24.74]But they wasn't and you know why
[03:26.79]'Cause we was on some real hip hop let's keep it buzzing