I met a girl named hip hop in seventy eight

Hollis Queens New York gave us our first date

man she broke me off proper yo the girl was fast

and everybody kept telling me it would not last

cause ain't no women in the world supposed to be that sweet

and ya just can't trust a hot chick from the street

I could tell she had been through lots of struggle and strife

but yet in still she'd been with me over half of my life

born key Jeff Taylor took me into his home

and intrduced me to some tables and a microphone

hip hop talked to me told me take your time

at the age of eleven I bust my first rhyme

block partys in the day house partys at night

just about one year before Rapper's Delight

everybody in the crew called to make a request

cause rap's on the radio and hip-hop was blessed

didn't go to many clubs I wasn't old enough

And if it try to sneak it out my folks is scolding up

but I still do anything to get on stage

and once I got a club gig I lied about my age

just a couple blocks away was the Hollis crew

Run and them used to rock at one ninety two

up the street was a crew called Solo Sounds

where Davey D and Mex used to throw it down

man I wouldn't trade rap for anything in the world

hip hop meant more to me than diamonds and pearls

and I still reminicse to this very day

and I remember those words hip hop would say



(Do you have love for the east coast?)

yes I do

(the hip hop on the east coast?)

yeah that's true

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

east coast played a role in making a hip hop

(Do you have love for the east coast?)

yeah that's right

(the hip hop on the east coast?)

yeah that's tight

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

east coast played a role in making a hip hop



now I gotta get busy time to make that move

high school over with gotta sho' improve

got college on the coast and I'm makin' plans

so hip hip went and told me go west young man

it was a different kind of style but I liked the sound

everybody in the house gauranteed to get down

I did the casa skateland word on wheels

and the crazy crazy world of the record deal

K-day was the station that played my song

I got love from the people it's a shame they gone

Julio and Tony G yo was keeping it real

and Baker Boys doin' they own up in Bakersville

I remember other brothers putting out the gin

like six in the morning and the battle ran

there were boys in the hood and little Nenah Cherry

and oh I can't forget about ooh Rock Berry

before the madness when I made my fame

alot of people on the west coast knew my name

before the big magizines even wanted to meet me

I checked the back pages of the L.A. weekly

to see if they would write and recognize the sound

cause in those days Young MC was underground

lot of times I would rhyme and I'd get no pay

but I remember those words hip hop would say



(Do you have love for the west coast?)

yes I do

(the hip hop on the west coast?)

yeah that's true

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

west coast played a role in making a hip hop

(Do you have love for the west coast?)

yeah that's right

(the hip hop on the west coast?)

yeah that's tight

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

west coast played a role in making a hip hop



talk of an east coast west coast beef makes me panic

I love both sides so I'm straight skitzafrenic

got my skills in the east got my deal in the west

so I just can't say what side is the best

now you love where you live that's true indeed

cause your family and friends give you what you need

stand up for yo' hood and you do it with pride

but the media tells you hate the other side

now it's hard to hate a man that I have not met

or hate a whole damn coast like a ????

cause hip hop is wit ya no matter where you stay

so remember these words hip hop would say



(Do you have love for the east coast?)

yes I do

(the hip hop on the east coast?)

yeah that's true

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

east coast played a role in making a hip hop

(Do you have love for the west coast?)

yeah that's right

(the hip hop on the west coast?)

yeah that's tight

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

west coast played a role in making a hip hop

(do you have love for the east coast?)

yes I do

(the hip hop on the west coast?)

yeah that's true

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

both coasts played a role in making hip hop

(do you have love for the west coast?)

yeah that's right

(the hip hop on the east coast?)

yeah that's tight

from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

both coasts played a role in making hip hop

(coast to coast)