[KRS-One]
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Do it Marley, ha!
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Killin 'em, you killin 'em! (Where were you?)
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I wanna talk about these rap historians
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Y'all better get it together (Where were you?)
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I be readin your books (Where were you?)
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Y'all better get it together, word up
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When Hot 97 started, I was there
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When Rap City got started, I was there
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When KDAY got started, I was there
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When Jive Records got started, I was there
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When Yo! MTV Raps started, I was there
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When The Source magazins started, I was there
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When Cedric and Seda started, I was there
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When Biggie was doin his album, I was there
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When Tookie Williams was buried, I was there
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'73, Cedar Park, I was there
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One-twenty-three park, I was there
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You ain't tellin me the history cause I was there
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[Chorus]
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I WAS THERE! (And where were you?) (Where were you?)
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(And where were you?) (Where were you?)
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(And where were you?) (Where were you?)
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(Where were you?)
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[KRS-One]
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When Moe Dee challenged LL, I was there
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When that bus blew up in London, I was there
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When Death Row challenged Bad Boy at the Source Awards
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in New York at the Garden, yup, I was there
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When Kwame Toure, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael
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was passin on, I was there
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When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison
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and spoke out at Yankee Stadium in New York, I was there
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For all the births of my children, I was there
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When the Rodney King uprisings happened I was there
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These objective rap historians tryin to document
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hip-hop from outside forget it, I was there
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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LOOK! The Jive Records label, I was there
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The Columbia Records label, I was there
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The Elektra Records label, I was there
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The Warner Brothers Records label, I was there
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The Koch Records label, I was there
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The Capitol Records label, I was there
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I know about they contracts cause I was there
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I wrote and rewrote most of 'em when I was there
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I ain't readin a book or recitin a hook
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I am hip-hop itself cause yup I was there
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Y'all need to get it together with hip-hop's history
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and get it right, cause yup I was there
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[Chorus]
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I Was There
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KRS-One |