KRS-One - Outta Here lyrics

"Boogie Down was performing
Hey they ain't no joke"
"Down with the sound called B-D-P"

Back in the days I knew rap would never die
I used to listen to Awesome-2 on WHBI
I used to hear all kind of
Rap groups before sampling loops
Rappers wore bell-bottom Lee suit's
Me and Kenny couldn't afford that
So we would go to the park when
They was jammin' to hear rap
I used to listen till the cops broke it up
I always thought to myself "Damn
Why they fucked it up?"
But nevertheless I was in
Love with the microphone
And it stayed that way until I left home
On the streets of New York, now I'm free
But with freedom comes big responsibility
I used to walk around driven by the force
I remember how large Super Rhymes
Was when he fell off
I used to wonder about crews
That used to rock they were large
But none of them could manage to stay on top

Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video outta here?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover outta here?
No doubt BDP is old school
But we ain't goin' out!

After livin' on the streets alone
Some years went by
I signed myself into a group home
I used to watch the show "I Dream of Jeannie"
And dreamt about "When will I
Be large like Whodini?"
But I was messin' with graffiti on the subway
And gettin' chased by the
Cops almost everyday
I knew it had to be a better way, see
So I would go to my room, blast RUN DMC
Around 1984 I left the group home
Again alone
Still dreamin' about the microphone
Gimme a chance man, I know I can rock it
But I had to worry about
Puttin' money in my pocket
So when I reached the shelter I met
My helper DJ Scott La Rock
And we both loved hip-hop
I was takin' suckas out in the shelter system
Yeah there was rappers in the shelter
But I had to diss 'em
But all along, my vision was never lost
I kept seeing all these
Rap groups fallin' off

Do you ever think about
When you're outta here?
Fly girl and fresh gear outta here?
Five-thousand dollar love seat outta here?
No doubt BDP is old school
But we ain't goin' out!

While I'm battling these rival crews
Yes, BDP would stay in the Street News
Some said, All they wanna do is battle
They can't write a song
So their careers won't last long!
Around this time I used to hang with Ced Gee
And DJ Scott La Rock used to
Buy gold with Eric B
I didn't meet Rakim till later with Scott
I remember we were jammin' at the rooftop
It used to irk me when
These critics had opinions
Scott would say "Just keep rappin'
I'll keep spinnin'"
We had a fucked up contract, but we signed it
And dropped the hip-hop album Criminal Minded
We told the critics your opinions are bull
Same time Eric B and Rakim
Dropped Paid in Full
Hip-hop pioneers we didn't ask to be
But right then hip-hop changed drastically
People didn't wanna hear the old rap sound
We started samplin' beats by James Brown
In the middle of doin' "My Philosophy"
Scott was killed and that shit got to me
But knowin' the laws of life and death
I knew his breath, was one with my breath
I had nothin' left and it was scary
So I dropped By All Means Necessary
Another hip-hop group that was a friend of me
Was a revolution crew called Public Enemy
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
These two albums set off consciousness in rap
But all along, I'm still lookin' around
And all I can see are
These rap groups fallin' down

Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Condominium and beach house outta here?
Credit cards and bank accounts outta here?
No doubt BDP is old school
Be we ain't goin' out!