[Intro]
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... to you super listeners
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How you doin' tonight
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All you fly guys and fly girls
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Welcome once again to the world famous Mister Magic Rap Attack
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And of course I am...
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[Verse 1]
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Way way back before the *Hots* and the *Powers*
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We used to listen to live mixing for hours
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Rocks and Shantay, U.T.F.O.
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Mister magic rap attack some of y'all know
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But I was in the shelter in weakness, homeless, turntableless and microphoneless
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Fresh gearless, but still I was fearless and focused on being the dopest MC alive
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It's '85, LL's on Def Jam with the best jam
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And Whodini's on job
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Man you know I had to survive
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New York City was crazy in the 80's but damn it was live
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So here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan
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Shantay's already the queen
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Marley's already the man
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Y'all don't really understand
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When you throw on Shantay or Shan it got live in the jam
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So we went to Mister Magic
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If anybody had to power to put you on he had it
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We gave up the demo tape no love lost
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But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us off
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Somehow we heard we were wack
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Every track, and that we shouldn't even call back
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Right there my chore dropped, no doubt
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But it made me see what I was all about
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[Chorus]
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And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you got
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[Verse 2]
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In the spot new Hip-Hop and Latin corners
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And the Union Square and the rooftop
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We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot
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Where it got dark a lot
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Me and Scott La Rock
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But it was all for the Hip-Hoppers
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Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with *The Show Stoppa*
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MC Shan was gonna challenge LL
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Shantay was battlelin' 3 or 4 groups at the same time what the hell
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Answer records were big then
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After Shantay did it everybody was trying to spit them
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So we spit off, to tell you the truth it was the only way an MC could get on
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We answered MC Shan's *Queensbridge*
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A dope jam about where he was from and where he lived
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But in the Bronx there was these kids
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KRS, Scott La Rock trying to live
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[Chorus]
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And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got
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We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
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...give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you got
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[Verse 3]
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This it what an MC was
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We had a strong street buzz
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Marley and Shan showed us some love
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And love never hurt
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Cause while Shan was with Marley we was with DJ Red Alert
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Every Friday night, every Saturday night
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On the airwaves the battle was right
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Under New York nights, ????
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Jar King at night
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The rocks used to get so hype
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You could put on your headset and get with heads ????
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Live MC's going *check check*
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Spitin' rhymes over the radio set
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These are the days and the ways I can never forget
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So I don't forget it
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To Marley and Shan I am indebted
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For the start of my career these guys could take credit
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For my rappin', the whole battle they let it all happen
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Marley and Shan and Shantay could have been guns trappin' cousin
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But they wasn't, and you know why
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Cause we was on some real Hip-Hop
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Lets keep it buzzin'
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Rising To The Top
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| KRS-One |
