Hip Hop Rules

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Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group that was originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded. The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap. more »

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1989

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[KRS-One] 
Come again down, man 
This is KRS-One on to wreck rough, rough, rough stuff 
So, we're gonna do it like this now 
Put up your hands if you love hip hop music like I do, seen?
And we gonna do it like this now 
Listen to the lyrics! Bo! 

Me say hip hop rule, hip hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! 
Hip hop rule, hip hop rule
And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want
Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! 
Rap music, we want the rap music 

Way back in the days, 1979 
Fatback Band made a record usin' rhyme 
In the same year come the Sugarhill Gang 
With the pow pow boogie, and the big bang-bang 
R&B, Disco, Pop, Country, Jazz 
All thought Hip-Hop, was just a little fad 
But here comes Grandmaster Flash nonstop 
And right after Flash, Run-D.M.C. dropped 
Now, they had to pay attention to the scale 
Where other music failed, hip-hop prevailed 
See, rap music has gone platinum from the start 
So, now, in eighty-nine we gettin' present as an art 
Me ask, is it because we've got the eighty-nine vision? 
Whoa, whoa, whoa! 
Or is it because it's a unanimous decision?
Hey, hey, hey, hey 

That hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! 
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want 
Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, come down! 
Rap music, we want the rap music 

I pick up the mic and put down crazy lyrics 
I put it upon the phonograph so everyone can hear it 
You want to sound like me, boy? You can't come near it 
'Cause when I flash a new style, the people - dem a-cheer it 
You get so jealous till you just can't bear it 
Jealous of Ms. Melodie, me and Derek 
See, Derek is D-Nice, and I'm KRS-One, ah 
We'll rock ya in the winter, and we rocked ya last summer 
You want to battle me, you got to wake up in the morning 
'Cause if you're still sleepin', then I'm a start yawnin' 

Because, ah, hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! 
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want 
Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! 
Rap music, we want the rap music, come down! 
Rap music, we want the rap music 

Just put up your hands if you like rap music 
Put up your hands if you like rap music 
Ms. Melodie, boy, she always on the mixer 
And D-Square love rap music, ah 
DJ Doc boy - yes, he's on the mix, and 
KRS-One'll flash a lyric; we say 
Here comes Yvette on the lyric and 
Big Kap, rockin' on the mix, and 
BDP boy will flash a lyric a 
Knock the suckers down every time dem hear it, because...

Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule 
And these other industries out here cannot take it, come down! 
Come again! 
We want! 
Bo! 
Come again! 
Bo!

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