Red River Rock - The Ventures

[00:00.15]Run dmc
[00:00.66]Miscellaneous
[00:01.02]Down with the king for years
[00:01.62]About ten of 'em
[00:01.98]Recruiting suckers
[00:02.52]Mac and mike
[00:02.91]And makin' men of 'em
[00:03.42]Tears and fears for my peers
[00:04.5]They rippin'
[00:04.77]You think that it is
[00:05.25]It is
[00:05.52]If not it isn't
[00:05.94]Race for the border my daughter
[00:06.75]'Cause beats you're bangin' out
[00:07.29]Jeeps rockin' beats in the streets when there's time for hangin' out
[00:08.67]Gather
[00:08.91]Or rather form a circle around a loud
[00:09.69]'Cause brothers or others could never ever rock a crowd
[00:10.86]Is it because he's runnin' off with the mouth
[00:11.73]Or was he really clearly tryin' to play a n***a out
[00:12.72]Nope
[00:12.9]Shut him down
[00:13.41]The king with a crown
[00:13.86]'Cause all you wanna be is d**ky down
[00:14.43]Two years ago
[00:14.76]A friend of mine
[00:15.15]Asked me to say some mc rhymes
[00:15.81]So I said this rhyme I'm about to say
[00:16.77]The rhyme was meeca
[00:17.1]And it went this way
[00:17.64]Wrecka lecka mecca mic check on the windmill skills
[00:18.75]Mac distracts
[00:19.17]Wearing godfather hats
[00:19.74]It's okay to parlay to fortee better
[00:20.4]Tell 'em my n***a made a sweater tougher than leather
[00:21.27]Swing another rodney king thing in our right
[00:22.14]But just like the white one I get no respect
[00:23.13]Money stay awake
[00:23.52]'Cause them other n***as are fake
[00:24.12]From hollis to the becon
[00:24.72]Now your dumb a*s is leakin'
[00:25.32]C
[00:25.53]L
[00:25.71]And run dmc so rush it
[00:26.49]Big time way before hammer got to touch it
[00:27.42]Remember the faces in all types of places
[00:28.41]Look ma
[00:28.74]No shoelaces
[00:29.37]And I'm
[00:29.64]I'm takin' the tours
[00:30.09]I'm wreckin' the land
[00:30.57]I keep it hardcore because it's d**e man
[00:31.59]These are the roughest toughest words I ever wrote down
[00:32.7]Not mean for a h*e like a slow jam
[00:33.39]Check it
[00:33.6]Sucka emcees could never swing with d
[00:34.5]Because of all the things that I bring with me
[00:35.7]Only g o d could be a king to me
[00:36.45]And if the g o d be in me
[00:37.14]Then the king I be
[00:37.62]The microphone is granted when it's handed to me
[00:38.85]I was planted on this planet and I plan to emcee
[00:40.02]The emcee fiends only seem to agree
[00:40.89]That I rock all the world and the society
[00:42.03]I rages on the stages with a tune of
[00:42.9]I get praises from these pages to the universe
[00:43.95]My voice is raw
[00:44.28]My lyrics is law
[00:44.7]I keep it hardcore like you never saw
[00:45.48]I'm the man you see
[00:45.87]In the place to be
[00:46.29]I went to john jay university
[00:47.16]And since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge
[00:48.27]And after twelve grade I went straight to college
[00:49.41]Down with the kings on the mic
[00:50.04]A full swinger
[00:50.46]The p to the r
[00:51.03]Not an r&b singer
[00:51.39]The r to the u n d mc'n
[00:51.96]The fly human beings
[02:27.95999]Tonight I hold the key and
[02:28.53]Flowin' with the funk track
[02:29.13]Here to soul brother black
[02:29.79001]Pick up the bass
[02:30.39]Better yet leave a space
[02:30.9]So let me put my big black
[02:31.70999]On in to the early mornin'
[02:32.28]Had skins doanin'
[02:32.7]Mecca
[02:32.88]Yo
[02:33.06]You want the mecca
[02:33.51]Yo
[02:33.63]I'll make a funky beat so we can blow
[02:34.56]Check it out
[02:34.83]Pete rock's the beat knock
[02:35.34]Put you in a headlock
[02:35.82]And now all the outty out flock is down with the king