3RD BASS - Product Of The Environment lyrics

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Alright coming up now another request (this one)<br>This time from the boys down at anna's pizza paradise<br>A new arrangement of a great oldie in rhythm and blues<br><br>Verse one: pete nice (prime minister)<br><br>In the heart of the city you was born and bred<br>You grew up smart or you wound up dead<br>Things moved fast, but you knew the scoop<br>And your savior was a rhyme and a beat and a rap group<br>A modern day production of the city street<br>You said I didn't have it that I couldn't compete<br>So the sleeper did sleep but the sleeper shoulda woke up<br>Now you're in my sight, the buddha sess you smoke up<br>That's the element you carry your rhymes on<br>That style of rhyme won't let you live long<br>Cause a strong song to you is what I sent<br>Cause I'm a product, of the environment<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>There it is, black and white (2x)<br><br>Verse two: mc serch<br><br>On the streets of far rockaway queens<br>Seagram boulevard, b-17<br>Redfern houses where no mc would ever go<br>Is where I did my very first show<br>Had the crowd had the rhymes going, I never fess<br>(his reward, was almost a bullet in his chest)<br>And on that stage, is where I first learned<br>Stick out my chest to be a kid and get burned<br>You're so foolish, but I think you knew this<br>That on the the microphone punk I can do this<br>And doing this, is what life meant<br>Cause I'm a product, of the environment<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Verse three: mc serch, pete nice<br><br>Back in the days when kids were mack daddies<br>Striped lee jeans, playboys and caddies<br>Long beach, the m.o.k. center<br>He almost caught a bad one when he tried to enter<br>Our way<br>Bang!<br>Bum rush the back door<br>Then scatter, onto the dance floor<br>Me and my boys, skeezin the cuties<br>Never had static, cuz everybody knew me<br>Local dj's, tearin up the wax<br>And out the corner, some kid gets taxed<br>After the party, crack open a forty<br>Vicked it from the store yo the man never caught me<br>Went up to the arcade, cranked the bass<br>And then the five-oh chased us from the place<br>Hop on the railroad, play the conductor<br>Everywhere I went, I always tucked a<br>Marker in my jacket to tag where I went<br>Cause we were just products, of the environment<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Verse four: mc serch, pete nice<br><br>I wanna tell you something that gets me kind of mad<br>...it's about my dear old dad<br>He's tired, and worn, and works a nine to five<br>Clockin thirty g's a year to survive<br>But I know kids who in a month or so<br>Make that money sellin ya-yo<br>Pushin a drug, I can't understand<br>Destroyin a life with a buck in the hand<br>Play rotten slum chain, local street hero<br>But if you ask serch, you're just a bunch of zeroes<br>Too bad cause when you're older, you won't have a cent<br>Cause you're a product, of the environment<br><br>Chorus<br><br>Verse five: pete nice<br><br>You hear it in the strength of my voice and in my rhythm<br>Now you know, how I was livin<br>It happened to me, like it happened to serch<br>Prime minister pete nice'll kick the verse<br>In bed-stuy with my boy, kiwai height<br>The k to a kingston, wednesday night<br>To the empire, show slammin<br>Open for dana, crew flammin<br>Mouth open wide, or listening<br>Dumb dope with a forty in my system<br>Unprotected but respected for my own self<br>Cause of talent, no shade, or nothin else<br>A time of tension, racially fenced in<br>I came off (and all the brothers blessed him)<br>I left more than a mark, I left a dent<br>Cause I'm a product, of the environment<br><br>Outro: k.m.d. and serch<br><br>Aiyyo serch, skin is just a color of the mind and the soul<br>And a brother ain't a brother if his heart is cold, youknwhati'msayin fellas? <br>Word<br>And I think we need a positive kause in a much damaged society<br>Word up man nubians killin nubians, brothers just don't understand<br>Word maybe it's some of that crime that's stoppin the growin<br>The drug pollution and all needs to calm down<br>Word man, cause that's what we need, we need griff productions<br>We need a k.m.d. man to uplift the race and bring kause in the beginning<br>And a posse called get yours<br>There it is, to all y'all bigots who want us to bend<br>We're just products of the environment, peace!!<br>Hopefully...<br>(there it is, black and white)