The Roots - History of Rap 4 lyrics

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The Roots - History of Rap 4 lyrics

[Performed by Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake] [Sugarhill Gang, "Apache (Jump on It)"] Tonto, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it Kemosabi, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it [Grandmaster Flash, "White Lines"] Visions, dreams of pa**ion And all the while I think of you [Kurtis Blow, "Basketball"] Basketball is my favorite sport I like the way they dribble up and down the court Just like I'm the king on the microphone So is Dr. J and Moses Malone [Fat Boys, "The Fat Boys"] The Fat Boys (beatboxing) [Run-DMC, "It's Tricky"] It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time It's tricky, it's tricky Tricky, tricky, tricky [Beastie Boys, "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn] No sleep 'til Brooklyn Born and bred Brooklyn, U.S.A They all me Adam Yauch, but I'm M.C.A Like a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon I sip the def ale with all the fly women [LL Cool J, "Going Back to Cali] I'm going back to Cali To Cali, to Cali I don't think so [Slick Rick, Children's Story] Once upon a time not long ago When people wore pajamas and lived life slow When laws were stern and justice stood And people were behavin' like they ought ta good There lived a lil' boy who was misled By anotha lil' boy and this is what he said [2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny"] Ahh, me so horny Me love you long time [A Tribe Called Quest, "Scenario"] Here we go yo, here we go yo So what, so what, so what's the scenario [Cypress Hill, "Hand on the Pump"] Sawed off shotgun Hand on the pump, left hand on a forty s**as get jumped La, la, la, la, la, la, la, laaaaa [Wrecks N'Effect, "Rump Shaker"] All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom And a poom-poom Just shake your rump [Salt 'N' Pepa, "Shoop"] Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do So well it's a spell, hell, makes me wanna shoop, shoop, shoop Shoop shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop [Snoop Dogg, "Gin and Juice] With so much drama in the L-B-C It's kinda hard being Snoop D-O-double-G But I - somehow, some way Keep coming up with funky a** stuff like every single day Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice Laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind [Busta Rhymes, "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"] Ya, ya, ya ya ya Woo-hah, got you all in check [Notorious B.I.G., "Hypnotize"] Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see Sometimes your words just hypnotize me And I just love your flashy ways Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid (holla) [Missy Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"] Go, get your freak on Go, get your freak on Go, get your freak on Go, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha freak on [Jay-Z, "Izzo"] H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A That's the anthem, get your damn hands up [Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"] If you want to go and take a ride with me We 3-wheeling in the fo' with the gold D's Oh, why do I live this way Hey, must be the money [50 Cent, "P.I.M.P."] I don't know what you heard about But a b**h can't get a dollar out of me No Cadillac, no perms, you can't see That I'm a motherwhat P-I-M-P [Chamillionaire, "Ridin' Dirty"] They see me rolling They hating, patrolling and trying to catch me riding dirty Trying to catch me riding dirty Trying to catch me riding dirty [Wiz Khalifa, "Black and Yellow"] Black and yellow, black and yellow [Trinidad James, "All Gold Everything"] Gold all in my chain, gold all in my ring Gold all in my watch Don't believe me, just watch Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy [Macklemore, "Thrift Shop"] I'm gonna pop some tags, only got twenty dollars in my pocket I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up This is freaking awesome [Eminem, "Lose Yourself"] Look, Jimmy If you had, one shot Or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted In one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime