[Marley Marl cuts up]

"Come on y'all

Get down"



It might've took a while

But you knew I had to hit you with a brand new funky rhyme

Guess you already know, so I'm ready to go

Marlon, hit me with the beat one time

Right now I'm gonna introduce myself

So y'all know just who I be

All you suckers in the house stay quiet as a mouse

Instead of Shan call me Mr. MC

I'm goin back to the basics



When I was just a young boy, who ever would've thought

I'd grow up to be an MC

But my rhymes are so nice that they paid my price

Because fortune and fame ain't free

These words I'm recitin are written in a style

That you ain't heard in a long time

And a song like this'll make a rapper reminisce

About the days when he was in his prime

I ain't never lost no battles yet

What made you think I would?

How many times does it take, all the rappers I break

And you still don't think I'm good

This girl in my class tried to move too fast

When she tried to pull down my zipper

Well, things got strange when the whole scene changed

And I all out tried to strip her

Teacher stepped in between, sent me straight to the Dean

That's where I thought my journey ended

Call your moms up to school, are you some fool?

And forget about bein suspended

You went back to the basics



Here's the story on how I got started

Yes, way back in the day

With my man Infinite, Jazzy [Name], Akim

And fly girl Roxanne Shanté

People used to hear that our crew was nice

But rappers just had to be convinced

And those who walked through 12th Street tried to say a rhyme

You seen or heard from em since

We sent em back to the basics



Yes yes y'all, it's like this y'all

MC Shan with a brand new twist y'all

One day when me and Marley Marl was playin in a ditch

We made this jam that we knew would slam

And some day it would make us rich

Marley Marl had B-36 bass bottoms

And he cut you up on the spot

And with my rhymes combined all the papers got signed

And 'The B-B-B-B-Bridge' got dropped

We went back to the basics