(feat. Q-Tip)



[Run] Mic checka..

[DMC] Yes y'all, and I am..

the grand, imperial wizard.. D.M.C..

And you're listening to the sounds..

as we take you onnnnnn down..

to the lasssssssssssst STOP!



[Chorus: Run-D.M.C. (repeat 4X)]



Come on everybody, let's all get down



[Run]

K-k-k-coolin (coolin) relaxin and we're coolin

Rulin while we're schoolin ?? the teacher who ya foolin?

While in, trainin, your brain and foe are entranced

I talk to tiny tots and just like Watson, "Elementary"



[D.M.C.]

Back in eighty-two and three I made the word 'DEF'

Gave life to the mic now you know liggity-left

riggity-right (RIGHT, all that, swinger)

You was crappin in your Pampers now don't tamper with the ??



[Run]

Baddest of the bad, I think of thickness here I come

I get dumb (diddy) dumb (diddy diddy) dumb dumb

(and here we go) Here we go! HERE WE HERE WE HERE WE GO

A lot (of niggaz) bitin (off my) old style flow

But up off the subject, you know I shut em down an'

I think I seen em sinkin matter fact I seen em drownin

(Yo who kicks the flavor?) DJ Run'll keep you guessin

Here's a little tip, it's the Tribe for your Quest'n

Two-seven and I'm representin, comin from HOLLIS

Queens is what I mean, Ma Dukes is cookin COLLARDS

Feelin like ??, and matched up sticks

Down With the King, and we swing it on the mix

of a funky funky (new new) b-boy sound

So come on everybody let's all get down



[Chorus]



[D.M.C.]

Break backs, make tracks, take acts and wax a nigga

that lacks take gats tap at the trigga

D.M.C. you see I got a little bigga

Jam Master Jay a with the zigga-zigga

Produce, bamboost, let loose the sound

No groups or troops could boo me down

I slam and jam, command the land

Don't give a damn they ban, my band will stand

I come to you all knew my crew is true

Do what I do, I do since eighty-two

I got the rhyme, get mine, I got to climb

I won't retire, get higher, I won't resign

I'm here to stay okay won't fade away

I'm movin past the past I last all day

So here we go, I flow, you know the sound

So check the show, and yo, let's all get down



[Chorus]



.. yes yes y'all, a we don't stop [8X]



[Run]

So come on and flip for me, grip and slip into a hipper tone

Not on the dull your skull, cause Run'll rip a dope

snare on the tear, rare you never heard this

This service served you well and I can tell you're gettin nervous

Run, here it come, get some, it's on the diddy-dumb

See a silly soft sucker down there ?? ?? of Run

Rowdy then you're audi gotta go don't want to be us

Torn then you're gone, WORD BOND, none can see us

Hop-along on your way, skip-along little Skippy

'fore I fly that box, me bust you all upper-lippy



[Chorus 2X]



[Q-Tip]

Tribe Called Quest, and you don't stop

The Midnight Marauders, yeah you don't stop

Phife Diggidy, yeah you don't stop

Ali Shaheed, c'mon you don't stop

??, yeah you don't stop

Check it on out, because you don't stop

To my niggaz out on Linden, you don't stop

The hardheads in effect, you don't stop

And to my niggaz in Hollis, you don't stop

All the kids up on Farmers, you don't stop

And to my peoples uptown, you don't stop

And all my peoples up in Brooklyn, you don't stop

And all my peoples in the Bronx, you don't stop

Zulu in effect, you don't stop

And to my people out West, you don't stop

A Run-D.M.C., gettin mad props

Check it on out, thanks to Run

and thanks to D, and JMJ

We on the way, up to the top

Never ever stop, gettin mad props, check it out



"Then I'm out like shout, ooh-ahh, ooh-ahh

OOH-AHH, OOH-AHH!  There it is Baby Pah.." -> [Leaders of the New School]