Do It Again - Intellectual

[Intro]

Whodini, launchin' rockets in the 90s!

[Verse 1]

Now I remember in the days of way back

With just a 4-track

With no SP-12 to make tracks

Wearing leather suits and boots was the gear

Of fly bands and hip hop stars of the year

"Hey-ho" when rockin' on the street was the show

When the people clapped but they went home with no dough

Sportin' All Star walking to the beat of the Funky Four + 1

And the awesome Treacherous Three

Bump it in your Walkman, the music was explodin'

But these are The Breaks from the king Kurtis Blow

And giving us The Message is Grandmaster Flash, The Fearless Four

But still they said that rap won't last

Radio was playin' it, street kids were sayin' it

Soulsonic Force had the funk and they were bringing it

Then we threw the Whodini sound in the crew

With Magic Wand, had it going on (Old school)

Bringing the freaks out at night, Rapper's Delight

Fly girls were giving hip hop a new light

Pioneers who've given rap its life and itself

All praise due and remember that time repeats itself

[Chorus]

Do it again

(You know we got a...) reputation

Let's do it again

Do it again

(You know we got a...) reputation

Now check it out

[Verse 2]

I remember in the days when we wore gold chains

And Lee suits, Adidas and Pumas with no strings

And boppin' to The Rap Attack

Run-DMC was hittin' everywhere with Rock Box

The inner-city was complimentin' Big Mouth

One Love, and Friends

The Five Minutes of Funk, those days will never end

The Dynamix would break and all over town

All over the world, hip hop came and made its rounds

Taking up the fresh cuts, 1, 2, and 3

With The Fat Boys, Whodini and Run-DMC

Lookin' at the kids with boomboxes on their shoulders

Sheepskins, Gazelles, leather bombers lookin' bolder

Then LL and Rakim came to life

One for makin' us dance, the other insight

The fans was getting bigger, look what we delivered

You still think that rap is gonna die, how do you figure?

Every time you say it's gonna pass

Hip-hop comes out with another style of rap and slaps your ass

Boogie Down Production, Biz and Public Enemy

DJs The Red Alert and Magic gave us energy

Tour and tour and show after show

And everybody freaked when Marley Marl had control

And pioneers who've given rap its life and itself

All praise due, remember that time repeats itself

[Chorus]

Do it again

(You know we got a...) reputation

Let's do it again

Do it again

(You know we got a...) reputation

[Bridge]

Do it, do it, do it

[Verse 3]

I'm thinkin' of today's sound and how it all changed

To hear it on the radio, no longer in the game

Videos just get me depressed

Well I guess a 9 to 5 isn't a way to end my quest

I see mad MCs with fat raps and [?]

Thinkin' if Whodini could ever compete with that

Little kids rockin' on the mic with pure terror

Whatever happened to the nameplates of funky fresh era?

Then I see Run-DMC comin' back

Old school MCs become the new school styles of rap

Like Naughty by Nature, Leaders of the New

A Tribe Called Quest, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy too

Red Alert keepin' it street for the core of hardrocks Respect to you, Red, and many more

Awesome Two paved the way thru and thru

Thanks to all the DJs keeping it real and true

We used to be on the outside lookin' in

Now Whodini is comin' back to do it all again

Pioneers who've given rap its life and itself

All praise due and notice that time repeated itself

[Outro]

Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth

Heavy D, Das EFX

Queen Latifah, Redman, Brand Nubian

All respects due

Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa

Spoonie Gee, T La Rock, Special K

Chuck Chillout, Eric B, Funkmaster Flex

All respects due

Doug E Fresh, Nice & Smooth

Kid Capri, Kool G Rap, DJ Starski

Doctor Ice, MC Lyte, Milk and MC Shan

All respects due