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Hollis Queens New York gave us our first date
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man she broke me off proper yo the girl was fast
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and everybody kept telling me it would not last
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cause ain't no women in the world supposed to be that sweet
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and ya just can't trust a hot chick from the street
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I could tell she had been through lots of struggle and strife
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but yet in still she'd been with me over half of my life
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born key Jeff Taylor took me into his home
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and intrduced me to some tables and a microphone
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hip hop talked to me told me take your time
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at the age of eleven I bust my first rhyme
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block partys in the day house partys at night
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just about one year before Rapper's Delight
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everybody in the crew called to make a request
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cause rap's on the radio and hip-hop was blessed
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didn't go to many clubs I wasn't old enough
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And if it try to sneak it out my folks is scolding up
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but I still do anything to get on stage
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and once I got a club gig I lied about my age
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just a couple blocks away was the Hollis crew
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Run and them used to rock at one ninety two
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up the street was a crew called Solo Sounds
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where Davey D and Mex used to throw it down
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man I wouldn't trade rap for anything in the world
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hip hop meant more to me than diamonds and pearls
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and I still reminicse to this very day
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and I remember those words hip hop would say
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(Do you have love for the east coast?)
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yes I do
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(the hip hop on the east coast?)
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yeah that's true
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from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop'
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east coast played a role in making a hip hop
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(Do you have love for the east coast?)
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yeah that's right
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(the hip hop on the east coast?)
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yeah that's tight
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from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop'
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east coast played a role in making a hip hop
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now I gotta get busy time to make that move
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high school over with gotta sho' improve
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got college on the coast and I'm makin' plans
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so hip hip went and told me go west young man
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it was a different kind of style but I liked the sound
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everybody in the house gauranteed to get down
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I did the casa skateland word on wheels
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and the crazy crazy world of the record deal
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K-day was the station that played my song
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I got love from the people it's a shame they gone
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Julio and Tony G yo was keeping it real
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and Baker Boys doin' they own up in Bakersville
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I remember other brothers putting out the gin
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like six in the morning and the battle ran
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there were boys in the hood and little Nenah Cherry
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and oh I can't forget about ooh Rock Berry
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before the madness when I made my fame
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alot of people on the west coast knew my name
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before the big magizines even wanted to meet me
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I checked the back pages of the L.A. weekly
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to see if they would write and recognize the sound
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cause in those days Young MC was underground
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lot of times I would rhyme and I'd get no pay
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but I remember those words hip hop would say
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(Do you have love for the west coast?)
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yes I do
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(the hip hop on the west coast?)
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yeah that's true
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from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop'
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west coast played a role in making a hip hop
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(Do you have love for the west coast?)
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yeah that's right
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(the hip hop on the west coast?)
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yeah that's tight
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from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop'
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west coast played a role in making a hip hop
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talk of an east coast west coast beef makes me panic
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I love both sides so I'm straight skitzafrenic
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got my skills in the east got my deal in the west
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so I just can't say what side is the best
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now you love where you live that's true indeed
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cause your family and friends give you what you need
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stand up for yo' hood and you do it with pride
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but the media tells you hate the other side
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now it's hard to hate a man that I have not met
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or hate a whole damn coast like a ????
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cause hip hop is wit ya no matter where you stay
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so remember these words hip hop would say
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(Do you have love for the east coast?)
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yes I do
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(the hip hop on the east coast?)
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yeah that's true
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from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop'
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east coast played a role in making a hip hop
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(Do you have love for the west coast?)
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yeah that's right
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