[Intro]

F-F-A-A-N-N-T-T (Remember)

A-A-S-S-T-T-I-I (Remember)

C-C-D-D-A-A-M-M (Remember)

A-A-G-G-E (This is indelible) E

[Chorus]

Yo, nineteen eighty-five, got redtop live

And it was ten to the decibel, my lifelong pride

So I was part of the pack, pardon that, that's fact

I stole part of a track and started to rap, map the growth

[Verse 1]

Try to explain, okay, the Koch era frame

Hardly a game, no marketing, just art in the train

Station exchange, the flickered lights start to change

Same in the brain when I watched the walls spark names

Parked in the car with pa duke at four deuce

There was a double rumble study Kung Fu loop

But we had, at the car wash that cost less cash, a blast

I'd imagine that the water was rising fast

Quarter in hand at the light for the squeegee man

Adult life, squeegee man shot, cop's hand

That's a lot of bad conversion, that's certain

Homeless hustle lost to the dark of the blue curtain

And it was fourth grade, I got high top played

Sported the black and red Jordan bootleg craze

And when the big kids zeroed in, I'd wince

I haven't let my mother buy me bootleg since

'Cause it was

[Chorus]

Nineteen eighty-five, got redtop live

And it was ten to the decibel, my lifelong pride

So I was part of the pack, pardon that, that's fact

I stole part of a track and started to rap, map the growth

Nineteen eighty-five, got redtop live

And it was ten to the decibel, my lifelong pride

So I was part of the pack, pardon that, that's fact

I stole part of a track and started to rap, map the growth

[Bridge]

Get live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all (N.Y.C.)

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Get live, y'all, live, y'all (Get down)

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, live, live

Get live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all (To the Krazy Kings)

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Get live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, y'all, live, y'all (Get down)

Live, y'all, live, y'all

Live, live, live, live, live

[Verse 2]

Trace back, trace the faces with the same life saw

Different borough, same place, Eddie Murph got Raw

After class, got harassed, bully hurt us all

He tried to murk my Nintendo game in Fulton Mall

A fighter, that's what you made, now I fight for fun

I fight for Acme lab rat experiment, son

Pulsate like a Theremin rigged to big drums

Seen Halloween battles in Brooklyn

Eggs and shaving cream

We're gonna spray it on your whole damn team and then

Make the dash laughing 'bout the whole damn thing

We won, we can laugh about that, 'cause that's fun

In the eighties, Decep took fame (Good run)

I took a name, too, and so it begun

And wrote raps in my room sippin' Capri Suns

In fact, studied the cadences of Kool Moe Dee and Rick

Put my name into their rhymes and then practiced it

Put my brain pattern on fly and I mastered it

Dad played jazz when he drank, it's no accident

Hands on the piano and make my foot tap to it

Different path, same love, dad, thanks for passing it

[Chorus]

Nineteen eighty-five, got redtop live

And it was ten to the decibel, my lifelong pride

So I was part of the pack, pardon that, that's fact

I stole part of a track and started to rap, map the growth

Nineteen eighty-five, got redtop live

And it was ten to the decibel, my lifelong pride

So I was part of the pack, pardon that, that's fact

I stole part of a track and started to rap, map the growth

[Indistinct talking]

[Outro]

F-F-A-A-N-N-T-T (Remember)

[Scratches] "Pure within soul, yet shallow within bankroll"

A-A-S-S-T-T-I-I (Remember)

[Scratches] "Place no faith in the majority"

C-C-D-D-A-A-M-M (Remember)

[Scratches] "For me, it's either rhyme or euthanasia"

A-A-G-G-E-E

[Scratches] "For me, it's either rhyme or euthanasia

Euthanasia, euthanasia, euthanasia"