[Intro]

And the Cold Crush Brothers are here to do a sure shot throw down for their very best friends

Let's do it!

[Chorus: Cold Crush Brothers]

When I say "how" then you say "ho"

And if somebody say "thug" then you say so

'Cause there's hell below and you ain't trynna go

So get ready for the throw down

Heads catch wreck and bums get done

B.D.P., Cold Crush, KRS-One

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run

So get ready for the throw down

[Verse 1: KRS-One]

Throw down, low down

MCs get thrown down

I mastered the sentence, paragraph, and pronouns

I think you oughta go now

You can't stand the blow of toe to toe now

That you heard all the rap criminals

Skills minimal, despicable

Check out the rhyme originals (Cold Crush!)

Indivisible with justice for all

Before ya learn to walk, you gots to learn to crawl

Before ya learn to crawl, you gots to be born

And before you were born, your folks had to get it on

The point to the matter comin' from the blast master

Is hip-hop culture might be headed for disaster

All these wack rappers don't know the past data

They act like hip-hop history doesn't matter

So when you see KRS-One brace the stage

The difference that you see has to do with my age

Fresh in '74, fresh in '75

Fresh in '76 when MCs rocked live to cassette

Fresh in '77, don't forget

Fresh in '78 on a turntable set

Fresh in '79, fresh in '80

I was Grandmaster G with my man Neville T

Fresh in '81, and fresh in '82

With DJ Mad Mike off of Church Avenue

In the BK, Brooklyn Flatbush

In the BK MCs got mushed

I was fresh in '83, '84 and '85

When I moved back to the BX and got live

Fresh in '86, fresh in '87

Fresh in '88 after Scott went to heaven

Fresh in '89, fresh in '90

I'm fresh in '91, '92 and '93

Fresh in '94 and '95, don't be forgetting

Fresh in '96 and fresher in '97

Fresh in '98 and fresh in '99

In the new millennium I'll be arousin' your mind, so

[Chorus: Cold Crush Brothers]

When I say "how" then you say "ho"

And if somebody say "thug" then you say so

'Cause there's hell below and you ain't trynna go

So get ready for the throw down

Heads catch wreck and bums get done

B.D.P., Cold Crush, KRS-One

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run

So get ready for the throw down

[Verse 2: KRS-One]

What does it take to be a real MC?

It means you can't write rhymes for the TV

'Cause a real MC, whether amateurs or pros

Is an MC that knows how to rock live shows

Another thing, while I sing MC talk

A real MC never diss New York

'Cause if you knew the time while you're rhymin', MCin'

You'd know that New York is hip-hop's Garden of Eden

And if this ain't sacred, we never gonna make it

You're dissin' your very own hip-hop tradition

You know why when I grab the mic I'm superior?

'Cause I was at the Roxy and Danceteria

KRS, a product of respect and courtesy

While the rapper is a product of the record company

I'm not braggin' but this is what hip-hop is achievin'

It's becomin' all rap and no MCin'

Still we ain't seein', 'cause still we ain't believin'

The West and the East of hip-hop can cease

[Bridge: Cold Crush Brothers]

Hey y'all, yes it's true

The boys in blue got a plan for you

And don't mess with the suits 'cause they do too

So whatcha gonna do (Stop bitin' on my crew)

Try to be the best

Live positive and free from stress

And don't limit yourself to East or West

Who's the very best? (KRS)

[Verse 3: KRS-One]

I warm up your chest while your bones untangle

The lyrics hit your head then goes down your ankle

I'm saved for rainy days like casseroles

Then rediscovered later like the Dead Sea Scrolls

You wanna get out the ghetto, the projects, and profit

Well first, negativity, you gots to stop it

You can big up the East Coast and the West Coast

But you can't big up no coast when you're ghost

I can see now how the other man stole rock and roll

And guitar rippin', 'cause we was bullshitin'

Sittin', eatin' chicken, what fixes time tickin'

We spittin' and complainin', the world is rearrangin'

Still we doin' the same and who's to blame, we don't need this

It's not black strength, it's black weakness

Now we doin' the same and who's to blame, we don't need this

It's not black strength, it's black weakness

[Chorus: Cold Crush Brothers]

When I say "how" then you say "ho"

And if somebody say "thug" then you say so

'Cause there's hell below and you ain't trynna go

So get ready for the throw down

Heads catch wreck and bums get done

B.D.P., Cold Crush, KRS-One

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run

So get ready for the throw down

[Outro]

[?] live on stage from the Bronx

Charlie Chase, Tony Tone, and the Cold Crush Four

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