Turn the beat up  I get lost in the mind come across
 the rhyme kick my feet up  then I find myself in time
 I was on a train  destination Marley Marl's domain
 I entertained things'll never be the same
 DJ's are conveyed if the label OK it
 Teddy Ted and Special K was the first ones to play it
 On the radio  with the crazy flow
 I pay dues until it pays me dough to do a show
 When I'm at the helm I cover the whole realm
 In control and leave your soul overwhelmed
 Another influence of beats and instruments
 Lyrics make it intricate and elements are tense
 When you was playin Pac Man it was the jams I packed
 Peeps would swarm when I was perform in, black I'm all that
 Back before they turned hip-hop to rap
 It always a place to party at, remember that?

 I remember the spots that used to be hot
 Just like the roof top, a place that only few can rock
 on a wild ass block, yeah you find me there a lot
 Until you hear gunshots, that's when the fun stops
 Here come the cops, time to go home, get in order
 Cause I'll be back in Manhattan if somethings happenin at the Latin Quarter
 House of havoc when it came to fourteen carat
 And if you had it yeah kids'd try to grab it
 It's cool at the Red Parrot we was doin it there
 I was the first one to rip it at the Union Square
 Me and DJ Red Alert did work
 A crazy concert, a lot of kids got hurt
 I did encores at the Encore, they wanted more
 I kicked a freestyle til I heard the crowd roar
 Like the Funhouse, Bronx Center never endin black
 Place to be was the Brooklyn Armory, remember that?

 Remember that? (3X)

 Open the door, let the crowds in, over twenty thousand
 Wildin music's loud and microphone's growlin
 Tickets are sold out, parties is packed and on tour
 rippin basketball arenas back then
 Even afterparties, posses of players and hotties
 Everybody was Gotti, spreadin bucks like shotties
 Spendin cash, to make a good time last
 Thoughts that I had give me a blast of the past
 Memories of unforgettable times on my mind
 Dollar signs and melodies and incredible rhymes
 The people I met, and the sets that got wrecked
 All the mics I checked, most of all life's effects
 And peace to all the people I grew up around
 in the streets back when beats had a rougher sound
 I used to be wild me and my crew sit back and we smile
 Keep piles of pictures filed in case I go senile
 Cause some things are just too good to be forgot
 Like your neighborhood block or your favorite spot
 Certain records always seem to make me reminisce
 And when it hits, and then it clicks, remember this
 My life flashed before me I'm there from the sounds
 I hear pinpoint the year, it's perfectly clear
 I like the way it went down and alla that, in fact
 It mean a lot, cause you can't bring it back, remember that

 Remember that? (3X