Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul lyrics video and bio

These two were truly underground never having a mainstream hit but keeping it tight with the underground hip hop heads during the late 1980's. Both of which talents compliment each other, Eric being a beatmaker and Rakim a greatest MC of his time. THe rhymes are like poetry, see below for yourself. Both from the suburbs of New York, Eri from Queens and Rakim from Wyandanch, Long Island. Rakim as a kid played the trumpet and guitar and switched over to turntables in high school. I Know You Got Soul had a sample of music from James Brown and brought in the funkiness to hip hop and revolutionized the hip hop movement. Check out the song only in a video here:


Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul


It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to
Think of how many weak shows you slept through
Time's up, I'm sorry I kept you
Thinking of this, you keep repeating you miss
The rhymes from the microphone soloist
And you sit by the radio, hand on the dial, soon
As you hear it, pump up the volume
Dance wit the speaker 'till you hear it blow,
Then plug in the headphone 'cause here it go
It's a 4 letter word when it's heard, it control
your body to dance (You got it) soul,
Ditects the tempo like a red alert
Reaches your reflex, so let it work
When this is playing, you can't get stuck wit
The steps, so get set and I'm a still come up wit
A gift to be swift, follow the leader, the rhyme will go
Def wit the record that was mixed a long time ago
It can be done but only I can do it
For those that can dance and clap your hands to it
I start to think and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines,
I escape when I finish the rhyme...
I got soul


You got it (4x)
I know you got soul

Picture a mic, the stage is empty
A beat like this might tempt me
To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train
But I'll wait 'cause I mastered this
Let the others go first so the brothers don't miss
Eric B. break the sticks (you got it)
Rakim will begin when you make the mix
I'll experiment like a scientist
You wanna rhyme, you gotta sign my list
'Cause I'm a manifest and bless the mic I hold
You want it next? then you gotta have soul
'Cause if you ain't got it, I'm a make an encore
Take the mic, make the people respond for
The R, 'cause that's the way it'll have to be
If you wanna get on after me
Think about it, wait, erase your rhyme
Forget it and don't waste your time
'Cause I'll be in the crowd if you ain't controlling it
Drop the mic, you shouldn't be holding it
This is how it should be done
This style is identical to none
Some try to make it sound like this but you're getting me
So upset that I'm wet 'cause you're sweating me
I drip steam like a microphone fiend
Eager to MC is my theme
I get hype when I hear a drum roll
Rakim is on the mic and you know I got soul

You got it (5x)

I got soul (you got it) that's why I came
To teach those who can't say my name
First of all, I'm the soloist, the soul controller
Rakim gets stronger as I get older
Constant elevation causes expansion
I write my rhyme while I cool in my mansion
Then put it on tape and in the city I test it
Then on the radio the R's requested
You listen to it, the concept might break you
'Cause almost anyone can relate to...
Whoever's out of hand, I'm give him handles
Light 'em up, blow 'em out like candles
Or should I just let him melt?
Then give him a hand so they can see how it felt
I'm not bold just cuz I rock gold
Rakim is on the mic and you know I got soul

You got it (4x)

Now I'm a stop to see what you got
Get off the mic before I get too hot
I want to see which posse can dance the best
It should be easy 'cause the beat is fresh
Now if your from Uptown, Brooklyn- bound,
The Bronx, Queens, or Long Island Sound,
Even other states come right and exact,
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at
Since you came here, you have to show and prove
And do that dance until it don't move
'Cause all you need is soul self-esteem will release,
The rest is up to you, Rakim 'll say peace

You got it (10x)

PLANET PATROL - Rock At Your Own Risk Instrumental Credits and Video

Hip Hop was at its maximum energy with this electro track filtering into the minds of the suburban young kids PLANET PATROL - Rock At Your Own Risk-Instrumental





Rock At Your Own Risk (Instrumental)

Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro
Credits: Co-producer - John Robie
Executive Producer - Tom Silverman
Mastered By - Herbie Jr*
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By - Arthur Baker , François Kevorkian
Written-By - A. Baker* , J. Robie*

Planet Patrol's Play At Your Own Risk Credits Video

Breakdancers around the world would use this track to breakdance and if it had to be outside. Give them some cardboard and some masking tape to keep it from moving cause they be spinning and flipping - that cardboard better be locked to the ground cause they be playing "Play At Your Own Risk". And Planet Patrol's "Play At Your Own Risk" and "Planet Rock" was recorded using the same back track.

Planet Patrol's Play At Your Own Risk Credits Video
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro
Credits: Co-producer - John Robie
Executive Producer - Tom Silverman
Mastered By - Herbie Jr*
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By - Arthur Baker , François Kevorkian
Written-By - A. Baker* , J. Robie*


Planet Patrol - Play at your own risk



Well 19x (includes echoes)
play at 6x your own risk 6x (repeat)

Spent some lonely days and sleepless nights
waiting for you girl to hold me tight
you run around like I do not exist
played me for a fool girl you been so cruel
girl you had me like a puppet on a string
I thought without your love
life wouldn’t mean a thing
girl the freedom that I gave you you abused
if you want my love girl you've got to choose

p-l-a-y if you play with me
it’s at your risk that I’ll set you free
(Repeat)
play at your own risk girl
play at your own risk I’m tellin you
play at your own risk girl
play at your own risk I will be cruel

p-l-a-y if you play with me
it’s at your risk that I’ll set you free
(Repeat)

I thought I had a woman oh so fine
now I gotta watch you all the time
If you think that you're so hot stuff
I’ll take you to the top
and then I’ll let you drop
girl you had me like a puppet on a string
I thought without your love
life wouldn’t mean a thing
girl the freedom that I gave you you abused
if you want my love girl you gotta choose

(instrumental break)

play at 6x your own risk 4x (repeat 8x)

girl you betta watch your step
playing at your own risk repeat 2x

p-l-a-y if you play with me
it’s at your risk girl I’ll set you free
(Repeat)

set you free
Repeat until fade out.......

The Rock Steady Crew Uprock Lyrics Video and Bio

The Rock Steady Crew was formed in 1977 by Bronx b-boys Jimmy D and Jojo. They started the crew in the Bronx streets which to their surprise took them around the world. Only the best could join their crew, who were up against five other boroughs of New York. To get into the crew you had to battle one of the b-boys in the crew and prove yourself. Only a few made it.

They also released a single called "Uprock". Which appeared on their album "Ready For Battle".

Check it the lyrics and video right here:


If you wanna battle 'cos the beat's all there.
Uprock
sureshot
never stop the body rock. Uprock - uprock - uprock.
Can you dance like the crew? Can you do what we do?
Check it out when we're through
And don't forget that our moves are true.
Can you dance like the crew? Can you do what we do? . . .

Uprock
sureshot
never stop the body rock - uprock
uprocking.
Uprock
sureshot
never stop the body rock - uprock
uprocking.
Uprock
never stop.
Can you dance like the crew? Can you do what we do? . ..
I'm crazy legs with the master breaks
a crazy pace is what it takes.
Price Ken Swift
I'm down by law
my princely moves make sure I score.
Devious doze
I like to uprock
the more I break the more I shock.
I'm buck for the turtle master if you try to do it Ill do it faster.
They say New York is the place to be but it ain't no place without Kuriaki.
Baby love is my name and you better believe it 'cos fame is my game.
Uprock
sureshot
never stop the body rock - uprock
uprocking.
Uprock
sureshot
never stop the body rock - uprock
uprocking.
Can you dance like the crew? Can you do what we do? . ..
Uprocking
stabbing the air

Rock Steady Crew - Uprock


If you wanna battle 'cos the beat's all there.
Slip alive
dip'n dive
put yourself in overdrive.
I'm baby love
rockin' it. I'm doze
rockin' it.
Ken Swift I'm
rockin' it. Crazy legs I'm
rockin' it.
Kuriaki I'm
rockin' it. Rocksteady we're
rockin' it.
Rocksteady we're. rockin' it. Rocksteady we're. rockin' it. . . .

Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight) Lyrics by KRS-One

Lawrence Parker is from Park Slope, Brooklyn in the summer of 1965 the rapper left his house at the age of 14. He stayed at a homeless shelter in the South Bronx, where he was known as a Krishna spirited individual and he focused on antipoverty issues.

Step Into a World is my featured track!!! You should definitely check out more from KRS-One cause he is the most familiar name in hip hop!


Step into a world
Where there's no one left
But the very best
No MC can test
Step into a world, where hip-hop is me
Where MC's and DJ's
Build up their skills as they play every day
For the, rapture

Yeah, what what!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!


Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight) Lyrics by KRS-One


Verse One:

I'm bout to hit you wit that tradional style of cold rockin
Givin options for head knockin non stoppin
Tip-toppin lyrics we droppin but styles can be forgotten
so we bring back the raw hip-hoppin
Just like the records and tapes you be coppin
Cop some breakdancin, boogie poppin, and lockin
Tic tockin, guaranteed to have you clockin
We only get better and only better we have gotten
This type of flow don't even think about stoppin
Beware, the length of the rhyme flow can be shockin
All music lovers in the place right now
That never understood the way that KRS got down
Yo I'm strictly about skills and dope lyrical coastin
Relying on talent, not marketing and promotion
If a dope lyrical flow is a must
You gots to go with a name you can quickly trust
I'm not sayin I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin your money on marketing schemes
and pretty packages pushin dreams to the beams
A dope MC is a dope MC
With or witout a record deal, all can see
And that's who KRS be son
I'm not the run of mill, cause for the mill I don't run

Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!

Verse Two:

Yeah, yeah
Everybody on the mic in the party sound alike
until I recite, in black and white what's right
Let me take flight, my style is TIGHT AN GOOD
TIGHT AN GOOD, come is it TIGHT AN GOOD
Old styles I pass dat, slow down on fast rap
All in yo' ass crack, old King go Blast dat
Conjure to ask dat, hyper type of flashback
I publish like ASCAP lyrics for hand clap
No past rappin, youth trackin, talent lackin
MC's more worried about their financial backin
Steady packin a gat as if something's gonna happen
But it doesn't, they wind up shootin they cousin, they buggin
I appear everywhere and nowhere at once
I know my style is bumpin, even though some people front
It's the God of rap, you heard of it
The one that rhymes toward the sky givin airplanes mad turbulence
In rap tournaments, I reign permanent
Don't you think by now the number one spot I'm not concerned with it
The course of rap I'm turnin it
Back to that good old fashioned way of getting cash money by earning it
No bogus hocus pocus, I bring back to focus
Skills if you notice my position is lotus
Now quote this, MC's are just hopeless
Thinkin record sales make them the dopest

Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!

DJ Grandmaster Flash The Message The video, bio and lyrics

DJ Grandmaster Flash The Message The video, bio and lyrics


DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were another important influential innovators of hip hop. If you don't know now you know.

1982's "The Message," was a track that spoke out about the realties of street life in the ghetto and for the first time, hip-hop became a platform to not only speak about the hype of your style but growing up facing street life.

Melle Mel spits the track and the record was a huge hit, and it was a major step for rap music to be seen as an important form of musical expression.


The video and lyrics see below:

It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
'Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car

Grandmaster Flash - The message


Chorus:
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh]
[4th: say what?]
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eatin' out of garbage pails, she used to be a fag-hag
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
The Zircon Princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got Social Security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own



My brother's doing bad on my mother's TV
Says she watches too much, it’s just not healthy
“All My Children” in the daytime, “Dallas” at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane

My son said: ”Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I’d dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey"
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
Hear them say: “You want some more?" livin' on a seesaw

A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you’ll go through
You’ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: “I'm cool, I'm no fool!”
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walking ‘round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you’ve done did
Got sent up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
Spent the next two years as a undercover fag
Being used and abused to serve like hell
'Til one day you was found hung dead in your cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Man Parrish Boogie Down Bronx, video, and lyrics and info.

Manny Parrish - Man Parrish is one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Influencing electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno and extensions of subgenres by laying the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno.

Parrish introduced the European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining funk and the electronic man-machine music of Kraftwerk bringing hip-hop.

His credits are numerous, however tracks like "Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)" and "Boogie Down Bronx" were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys -- and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day.


Check out Man Parrish's Boogie Down Bronx Video

Man Parrish - Boogie Down Bronx Lyrics

Cool Johnski from the Freeze Force Crew
I came here to say a def rhyme for you
About the Boogie Down Bronx, it's a one of a kind
It's the place to be; it's a state of mind
But the guys out here, they really are crookin'
They snatch gold chains when the cops ain't lookin'
But what can I say? It's the place to be
It's where I stay in reality
So listen close and you all will here
About the devastatin' body rocker of the year

Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie, Boogie Boogie

Man Parrish Boogie Down Bronx


One young man born to be an MC
The only one that rocks ya with a guarantee
Because I dress to impress, guaranteed to be a hit
I walk down the street, the girls are jumpin' on it
I got the ladies on my left, the beats on my right
The ladies follow me all through the night
'Cause I'm the one with the action, the king of satisfaction
You listen to my rhythm, there is a chain reaction
It goes on your back, it goes down your spine
And when it hits your head, it's gonna blow your mind
And if you're from the Bronx and you hear the sound
Come on, everybody, boogie down, boogie down

Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie, Boogie Boogie

My man Man Parrish and Cool Raul
Cooler than the water in a swimming pool
Like a R to the A, the U and the L
Pushing more power than a Duracell
And like the L to the A, the F and the Y
The hip-hop master that you can't deny
So check out the beat and listen to the sound
And if you're from the Bronx just boogie down

Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie, Boogie Boogie

People all around walk around in the streets
They got the funky box with the Johnski beats
You here the sound, become a believer
Then go to the Bronx, hang out at The Fever
You take the D to 205th
Then go see me 'cause I got the gift
And I'm the cool MC with the vicious sounds
I'm not from the Bronx, but I still Boogie Down
F to the R, double E, Z, E
F to the O, the R, C, E
Yes, the Freeze Force and we never lost
At any cost 'cause I'm the boss
I'm the cash back, money keeper
Never broke, never cheaper
If you ask me for a dime
Give it to you any time
Keep cash money, but I'm no jerk
I can use it, don't abuse it, I can put it to work
Just to buy my clothes, all designer names
And if you wanna bite, you'll never look the same
Bill Blass, Calvin Klein, are some of mine
You'll never catch me on the welfare line

Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie, Boogie Boogie

You've got the perfect beat, I hear you say
But you better listen close 'cause I'm here to state
That I rock so good, I rock so strong
I rock so well 'cause I last so long
I rock the mic with the greatest of ease
To all the all fine and the sweet and the young ladies
And when I say my rhymes, I know ya want to bite
That's not right or polite, so we have to fight
But I don't want to fight; I'd rather rhyme instead
'Cause my rhyme style's fresher than Wonder Bread
And all my brothers in the Bronx we got to rhyme
Catch all the ladies and blow their minds
And all the brothers and the sisters in the US of A
This hip-hop music is here to stay

Johnski boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Freeze Force boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Raul boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Zulu Nation boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Mayor Koch boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Captain Mike boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Two Sisters boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Haunted House boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Brooklyn boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Queens boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Staten Island boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx
Manhattan boogies down to the Boogie Down Bronx

Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie
Boogie Down Bronx, Boogie Boogie, Boogie Boogie