I’ll take it back to early days of pioneers and ex vandals

Everywhere illegal drugs, violent gangs and sex scandals

Against the odds and in the ruins

Forgotten ones found an oasis

Kool Herc was the one who built the playlist

And it made him famous

Rockin’ records super loud that no one ever hardly saw

Apache and It’s Just Begun and Melting Pot and Mardi Gras

The system was like Mount Olympus

Humungous and the bass was thumping

B-boys goin’ at it

When the breakdown comes, the place was jumpin’

Speakers and the custom pre amp, Herc had the componentry

A potpourri of records, Coke La Rock reciting poetry

The echo box, every party he raised hell

Whether at the Hevalo or else the Webster PAL

Acrid smells were in the air, the action was provocative

The FOI was in the house to keep the violence positive

You heard fables of bandits coming at it from absurd angles

Earth Angel’s changing the world with his turntables