Krs-One And Marley Marl

Krs-One And Marley Marl - Rising To The Top lyrics

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[Intro:]

... to you super listeners

How you doin' tonight

All you fly guys and fly girls

Welcome once again to the world famous Mister Magic Rap Attack

And of course I am...

[Verse 1:]

Way way back before the "Hots" and the "Powers"

We used to listen to live mixing for hours

Rocks and Shantay, U.T.F.O.

Mister magic rap attack some of y'all know

But I was in the shelter in weakness, homeless, turntableless and microphoneless

Fresh gearless, but still I was fearless and focused on being the dopest MC alive

It's '85, LL's on Def Jam with the best jam

And Whodini's on job

Man you know I had to survive

New York City was crazy in the 80's but damn it was live

So here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan

Shantay's already the queen

Marley's already the man

Y'all don't really understand

When you throw on Shantay or Shan it got live in the jam

So we went to Mister Magic

If anybody had to power to put you on he had it

We gave up the demo tape no love lost

But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us off

Somehow we heard we were wack

Every track, and that we shouldn't even call back

Right there my chore dropped, no doubt

But it made me see what I was all about

[Chorus:]

And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you got

[Verse 2:]

In the spot new Hip-Hop and Latin corners

And the Union Square and the rooftop

We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot

Where it got dark a lot

Me and Scott La Rock

But it was all for the Hip-Hoppers

Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with "The Show Stoppa"

MC Shan was gonna challenge LL

Shantay was battlelin' 3 or 4 groups at the same time what the hell

Answer records were big then

After Shantay did it everybody was trying to spit them

So we spit off, to tell you the truth it was the only way an MC could get on

We answered MC Shan's "Queensbridge"

A dope jam about where he was from and where he lived

But in the Bronx there was these kids

KRS, Scott La Rock trying to live

[Chorus:]

And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

...give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you got

[Verse 3:]

This it what an MC was

We had a strong street buzz

Marley and Shan showed us some love

And love never hurt

Cause while Shan was with Marley we was with DJ Red Alert

Every Friday night, every Saturday night

On the airwaves the battle was right

Under New York nights, [?]

Jar King at night

The rocks used to get so hype

You could put on your headset and get with heads [?]

Live MC's going [check check]

Spitin' rhymes over the radio set

These are the days and the ways I can never forget

So I don't forget it

To Marley and Shan I am indebted

For the start of my career these guys could take credit

For my rappin', the whole battle they let it all happen

Marley and Shan and Shantay could have been guns trappin' cousin

But they wasn't, and you know why

Cause we was on some real Hip-Hop

Lets keep it buzzin'

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