[beatboxing in the background]



Boring... same ol' Sunday type shit

Man, kinda boring

Hey you, kid!  (Who me?)  Yeah you

Ahh what are you listenin to in that there Walkman huh?

(The new "Gas Face" rewrote'd by K.M.D.

 It's kind of funky with a lot of bass)

Yeah but I bet you wonder where they got the bass from huh?

(I don't really care)

Don't care?  Well let me you this story

Go on now, let him tell you this story



[Zev Love X]

Friday, I believe it was a payday

Onyx, Subroc and myself goes out of subway

To catch the X train, the drums roll Brooklyn

Plan was a night of intense hookin

We enter the club, where we hooked 'til we drop

When stopped, to exit, I spoke of this prop

Talked about her bouncing guns

The word buns was on the tip of my fun swing {"All at once!"}

Approached this big fat seven foot..

{"I'll teach you to talk to my girl!"} Said the hood

Sub and I geesed, Onyx sped up the block

And it was fast, I looked back and Fats was headlockin him

I was clockin, about two blocks per minute

And then I thought, that voice there's somethin definitely familiar in it

Not long did I cram

From the lows, I knows it was the 808 Man



[Chorus]

"Thump... thump... THUMP!

 They heard the.."  {Eight-oh-eight}  {MAN!}



[Zev Love X]

Clockin crazy mileage like a 60-deck of math

Ducked into an alley like on Kickdrum Ave.

Stopped and told Sub, but Sub was stumped

I said do you recall the bass that thumped

in the Jeeps of the streets, as the pedestrian bops?

Heard with vocals where any hip-hop beat drops

Y'know the bass fool! {"And everything happened as it did before"}

But Sub wasn't passin it

To escape harassment, I booked like a crook

Out of sight, all my mics was took

Conscience eatin me, my boy's hooked in Hook

off the 808 Man, so I peeps to look

No immediate danger did I see myself in

Watchin 'round the block thinkin "Ehh, who's missin him?"

Onyx was headlocked and Subroc was half nelson'd

Think I was wrappin up?  Man, listen



[Chorus]



(Man you guys must have been really scared!)

Was I?  You think I wasn't?!

Man I was petri-scared stiff!

(What were you thinkin about?)



[Zev Love X]

I was thinkin about my cousin Enus, if he asked me once

He asked me a dozen times to go bowlin with him

But still I wasn't runnin from the Bass, Man as he walked up

Then from the back of my thoughts I forked up

The teachings of Mr. Hood

And I began to recall when suddenly it dawned on me

Lesson one - if a sucker tries to come, let him come

By then the hood was up on me

Lesson two was to recite the words you can't do me none

Even though you might be bluffin, it's nothin

Follow procedure and sure 'nough, no doubt

Left that seven foot fat hood whupped out

Lesson three said a keeper of a hood is his brotherhood

As we helped him up he said "Damn!

You sure pack a punch, I had a hunch you was a hood

Well if you ever need bass, hook up with the 808 Man"



[Chorus]



Say word

Man tried to get me to throw hands, I had to go HU HUH!

Yeah check it out yo, yo that's a tight headlock true indeed

Yeah, the half nelson got me in a neck brace

Yeah, but kid you know where they got the bass from now?

(Yeah yeah, sure do!)

Yeah yeah word

But I'll tell you what

I'll give you this exclusive K.M.D. album tape, unreleased!

(Sweet, thanks!)

(I'll let my boy Lil' Rock hear it, I'll let Bill hear it)

(And my mom and dad will hear it)

Yo yo, don't let nobody dub it, don't let nobody dub it

Don't let somebody dub it, you'll get funked

Now scram, or 808 Man'll do ya

Now get up out of here, you thumpty-hump dump head

(What?)  Yeah yeah, just scram, scram

Get out of here (808)  {Man}

... (808)  {Man}