I first got introduced to hip hop For real though Like I used to go to this crazy 600 school High school up in Manhattan (?) You know I was from Queens You know There was cats in from the Bronx you know Know what I'm saying There was cats from Brooklyn up there You know from uptown Manhattan, Staten Island But anyway There was cats coming from the Bronx They had rap tapes You know Used to all (?) at lunchtime Like that's kind of hot right there Break down tapes You know Grandmaster Flash tapes, Furious Five tapes You know All them battle tapes We used to check it out It was all love you know I said yo, I'm living in Queens These cats living out there You know what I'm saying There was cats living uptown I said yo let me do my thing in Queens Know what I'm saying I like where that's coming from right there I started doing my thing
You know I got the Sure Shot crew Up in the projects You know we did (?) up in the (?) center You know you had to pay before you entered It was real like that Know what I'm saying But a lot of cats had to come though Queensbridge To show how tight they was with hip hop Bambaata came to Queensbridge We had Grandmaster Flash back in the day You know what I'm saying Show & AG, everybody that was popping at the time Treacherous, you know they had to come through Queensbridge You know They say like yo we travelled outside the Bronx We did our thing so we can rock Queensbridge So it was like an honor for anybody to come through there and rock Queensbridge Know what I'm saying That's what it was all about It was like You know It was all about peace and harmony at that point And then crack came out