"i'd like to know.. are you really ready for some super dynamite soul? 

Then thank youbecause nowit's star time!"



The apollo (4x)



[kid capri]

The apollo a placewhere performers perform

Before you got on the stage you would all be warned

About if you're good enoughto rock the place

But if you wasn't they would throw beer cans in your face

Well it was aamateur nighta group dressed in white

Didn't think it was spectacular but they were alright

Kept sayin to myselfI wish it was me

That was on the stage doin my r-a-p

Well uhanyway we go back to the days

When james brown used to havethe crowd amazed

He used to come outdancinjust doin his work

And when he screamedall the ladies went bezerk

Slidin across the stage like he was runnin on oil

Shoesshinin bright like aluminum foil

Women was fallin outinnocent to ? 

He said"please please" then started rappin

You only seen one show you couldn't stay to see another

Of the singin godfather number one soul brother

Events like this happened all the time

At the place that was known to beone of a kind

It's the apollo



The apollo (4x)

[kid] it's the apollo!

The apollo (3x)

The ap..



[kid capri]

The apollo yes a legend in it's time

The place is so fly that I wish it was mine

I mean the line was so long but people did not care

Just as long as they knewthey could get in there

On wednesday'samateur night was cool

And you couldgo to see what other artists could do

Nothin but black starsrisin to the top

Now you see what's takin overwe call it hip-hop

The apollono othercould ever compete

When you look down and I see people movin their feet

When the stage used to rise all the people went nuts

And no one ever kept their big mouth shut

They used toscream and yellraise a whole lot of hell

Hang off the balcony and sometimes they fell

It's a traditionso whatta ya do?  I don't know

You get a ticket take yourself to the apollohey

The showbiz cafewas right next door

Leavefrom the apollo and you party some more

You can go many places to have a show

But no matter where you went you always seemed to go

To the apollo

To the apollo!

Uhh.. (the apollo) .. ..

To the apollo!

And let me break it down for you one time



Hey the a for artistthe p for people

O for outstandingl - for legal

And the other l-o is for the low-down shame

For the onesthat triedto destroy the name

So whatever you doyou can never forget

About the placethat always kept you drippin with sweat

From dancin and prancin and jumpin up and down

Everytime you turned around a new show was in town

It's the placethat everybody would always go

And I called itthe famous apollo

It's the apollo

It's the apollo! (the apollo) uhh!



The apollo (4x)

[kid]	it's the apollocome on!

The apollo (3x)

[kid]	uhh!

The apollo (2x)

[kid]	it's the apollo!

The apollo (2x)



The apollo..