What's it All About?
Run-D.M.C.

[Run] I would like to throw Rock Box in the start of this one..

{*Jam Master Jay obliges with the cut..
Run.. Dee.. Run.. D.. M.. C..
Here we go again! -> Chuck D*}

What's it all about? (4X with stutter repeats)

[Run]
Livin in the city - the crack the mack and all that
Easy does it, is it was it
the black or white that Friday night
in those racist places - let's get it right
Ah to the maximum, and keep askin 'um
when the city gonna fix where the BLACKS are from
And every day around the way another one got
bucked in his head - from a gunshot
No chance in advance for the ambulance
Cause he was just another victim of the circumstance
A brother died, the mother cried, it was a pity
But that's how it goes down when you're livin in the city

{*Jam Master Jay cuts What's it all about? samples*}

[D.M.C.]
Just a hard rock, call him a hard rock
in the metropolis there's no stoppin this
Can't agree with society poppin this
Disagree with the plea when they coppin it
Some men pretend the end will come soon
They gather what they can and them BOOM
You played yourself, you made your wealth;
the deal was dealt - now your health is in question
Three Card Molly, hoodlums - who are we?
Pollution, prostitution, In God We -
- need a solution, revolution, substitution
for the thing's that we're abusing
Pity the city, for the people livin out on the streets
Yo we homeless, the homeless need to eat
There's no progress for the rest
God bless for less

{*Jam Master Jay cuts What's it all about? samples*}
(*musical breakdown*}

[Run] What it is?
[DMC] What's it all about?
[Run] Whassup G?
[DMC] What it be?
[Run] How you livin HOMELESS PROBABLY
Mandela's free
[DMC] and they're rollin with D
[both] In history you cannot see em like they cannot see me
[Run] The Berlin Wall
[DMC] It all had to fall
[Run] They said no but..
[Jay] Yo! Yes y'all!
[Run] The people that spoke were never provoked
and now it's tumblin down
Freedom of speech for each
[DMC] Now how that sound?
[Run] Try to stop me from sayin what I want to say
My funky rhyme I never quit until the break of day
NOW HERE WE GO as I flow and show and kick
[DMC] Infor-mation, teach and ? reach inside the nation
and be a.. SEER CAUSE I'M REASON WITH RUN
[Run] And now that the point is out
Let the jam slam my man and tell me
what's it all about?

{*Jam Master Jay cuts What's it all about? samples*}
(*musical breakdown*}

[D.M.C.]
I flex my muscle, what I must do
is bumrush you, FUCK YOU I'll crush you
The Ku Klux Klan is fucked up
And every good man'll understand
Beginnin and winnin, from the first fuckin vocal
I spoke to you, I ain't no joke to you
I do what I want to do
If you don't like what me and my crew is doin then FUCK YOU
What I do and what I done with Jay and Run
None could ever become, to sum it up bum..
get off my DICK and out my KINGDOM
(Yo yo D tell em where you're from)
Straight from Hollis, Queens
I'm still eatin collard greens and I'm doin the same things
I ain't never goin out suckers..
punk motherfuckers!
What's it all about?

(*musical breakdown*}


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  3 in the Head   30 Days   5 Boroughs   Ahhh   Ave.   Ay Papi   Back From Hell   Beats to the Rhyme   Beats to the Rhyme [*][Instrumental]   Beats to the Rhyme [#][*][Instrumental]   Big Willie   Bob Your Head   Bounce   Can I Get a Witness   Can I Get it, Yo   Can You Rock It Like This   Christmas In Hollis   Christmas in Hollis [*]   Christmas Is   Come On Everybody   Crack (Demo)   Crown Royal   Darryl & Joe   Darryl and Joe (Krush-Groove 3)   Don't Stop   Down With the King   Down with the King [DVD]   Dumb Girl   Faces   For 10 Years   Get Open   Ghostbusters   Groove to the Sound   Hard Times   Here We Go   Here We Go (Live At Hollis Park)   Here We Go (Live at The Fun House)   Here We Go 2001   Hit 'Em Hard   Hit it Run   Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2)   How'd Ya Do it Dee   I'm Not Going Out Like That   In the House   Is It Live   Is It Live?   It's Like That   It's Like That (Run-D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins)   It's Not Funny   It's Over   It's Tricky   It's Tricky   Jam Master Jay   Jam Master's Jammin'   Jam-Master Jay   Jay's Game   Kick the Frama Lama Lama   King Of Rock   King of Rock [Live][*]   Let's Stay Together   Livin' in the City   Livin' In The City   Mary, Mary   Me, Myself & My Microphone   Miss Elaine   My Adidas   My Adidas [A Cappella][#][*]   Naughty   Not Just Another Groove   Ooh, Whatcha Gonna Do   P Upon a Tree   Papa Crazy   Party Time   Pause   Penthouse Ad   Perfection   Peter Piper   Peter Piper [DVD]   Proud to be Black   Queens Day   Radio Station   Ragtime   Raising Hell   Rock Box   Rock Show   Rock the House   Roots, Rap, Reggae   Run's House   Santa Baby   School of Old   School of Old [DVD]   Simmons Incorporated   Slow And Low (Demo)   Son Of Byford   Soul to Rock and Roll   Sucker D.J.'s   Sucker M.C.'s   Take the Money and Run   The Ave.   The Beginning   The Kings (D-Generation X Theme)   Them Girls   They Call Us Run-D.M.C.   Three Little Indians   To the Maker   Together Forever   Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4)   Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4) [Live]   Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4) [Live][*]   Together Forever (Live At Hollis Park '84)   Tougher Than Leather   Wake Up   Walk This Way   Walk This Way [Album Version] [Version]   Walk This Wayrdmc   What's Next   Word is Born   Wreck Shop   You Be Illin'   You Be Illin'   You Be Illin'   You Know What I'm Saying   You Talk Too Much   You Talk Too Much [Video Edit]   You're Blind

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