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Where Are They Now (80's Remix)
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(feat. MC Shan, Raheem (Furious Five), Doctor Ice & Kangol (UTFO), Kool Moe Dee, Sha Rock (Funky Four + 1), Tito (Fearless Four), Grandmaster Caz, Linque (Isis From X-Clan), Dana Dane, Pebblee Poo & Just Ice)
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[Sample of the late James Brown's "Get Up, Get Into it, Get involved"]
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[Bobby Byrd:] ("GET INVOLVED!!!" GET INVOLVED!!!" GET INVOLVED!!!" GET INVOLVED!!!")
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[Intro: Nas]
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Hold up, hold up, hold up man, this is Nas, hip hop still dead
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1980's, I need all my pioneers to set it off on this one right here
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I asked where they are, here they are
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[Verse 1: MC Shan (Nas)]
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Hip Hop when niggas knew the art of war (Shan!!!)
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Rough rhymes that's what gave the hard the core
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Now it's all good best friends became gladiators
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Matter fact you blow more steam than hot gladiators
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Some niggas is ghost written but I ain't hatin (80's!!!)
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Cause I still spit fire like the Son of Satan
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Shan motherfucker and I'm Queensbridge bred
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Check Myspace (Queens!!!) Forever will they bare my face
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[Verse 2: Raheem from The Furious Five (Nas)]
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Who said lightnin can't strike in the same place twice
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Trailblaze the game, made for life stayed nice
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Yeah you made the Top 50, don't mention my name (Here they are!!!)
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I had you open before crack, cocaine grow-in
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Before The Fever, before +Missy's+ first +Misdemeanor+
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Before Run's, first pair of Adidas, got heaters
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And I pop pop, pop, pop, heaters
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Stop dealers, on my block was the first hot wheeler
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[Verse 3: Doctor Ice from UTFO (Nas)]
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You never knew (1980's y'all!!!) Somethin so butter could come from the gutter
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I'm, Doctor Ice the diamond the cutter
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Like, Jacob The Jeweler and Rick is The Ruler (UTFO!!!)
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Boogie Down Kris is The Teacher but Doc run the schoolin
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Y'all got y'all, sneakers and beepers, your dutches and reefas
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We got our, eight tracks and sneakers, our hookers and reefers
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My work is, never in vain, born to insert
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So even when I'm buried, I'm still the diamond in the dirt, let's work
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[Verse 4: Kangol from UTFO (Nas) {Ladies Screaming Kangol's name}]
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{Go Kangol!!} Yeah what's up fam?
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My chick for twenty years tried to cut your man
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She tried to take the house, the kids, the pots and pans
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I'm on to project Plan B, nigga fuck Roxanne!!! (Get focused y'all!!!)
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Tried to take the pot I piss in, now the chick outta my system
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The whooped niggas need to listen listen listen listen
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Cock aim fire don't you miss 'em miss 'em miss 'em
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And every chance you get you diss 'em diss 'em diss 'em diss 'em
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[Chorus: Nas]
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HEY!! Where are, where they nooooooow, huuuhhhhhooohhh HEY!)
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{Aww man, make me feel like I'm back in the days with my cassette player, tape in the radio y'all!!!}
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(Where are they now?)
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{Your man Nas, I asked y'all where they at? The pioneers I got love for them man that's why I'm doin this}
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{I got love for them man, so here they are two thousand and seven, yeah}
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(HEY! Hit me! Where are they nooooooow?)
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[Verse 5: Kool Moe Dee (Nas)]
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Where am I? On high with a pen
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Blessed manifest rhyme god transcend (Pay attention y'all)
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You call him God's Son, I call him God sent
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First the God sent me, then the God Rakim
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How can Nas not win when the God sent him
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To resurrect true rhyme God kingdom
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You should say amen when you see me
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When you pray I'm him then you believe me
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[Verse 6: Sha Rock from Funky Four +1 (Nas)]
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Yeah! Sha ready to rise, ready to blaze somethin
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Mother of the mic so I'm here to claim somethin
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I got the munchies for the vultures that crushed the culture
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Yo Nas brought us back on this track so bring it back (They don't stop y'all!)
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From dusk to dawn equip the mic on my palm
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I bring the love so you can get it on
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Got the books on lock, mother of hip hop
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For realla, come under from some of you niggas
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[Verse 7: Tito from Fearless Four (Nas)]
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You cats is foul frontin like you hard as a rock
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When these brothers were the buildin blocks, that made you turn up the box
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Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew, To Markie D and Cool Rock (Know your history y'all!!!)
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Rest in peace to the Human Beat Box (Know your history!)
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Like when I first heard Jay, Darryl and Joe, saw a UTFO
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I knew right then and there I wanna blow
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There need to be a museum where everybody could see 'em
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Said everybody take some pedium, and get respect
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[Verse 8: Grandmaster Caz from The Cold Crush Brothers]
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You got another thing comin if you think me and my man ain't sellin
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Got more gold than Mr. Drum and we sellin
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Through Welcome To The Terrordome, niggas are ever wrong
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That's why you get no ends, but just in case
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you got a death wish, for flare for the dramatics
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There's some static in the attic {?} hid it looking at it
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I'm a 'matic, nice to the fifth power son and I'm still at it
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I was about to flip power son 'til I saw a vision, Caz!!!
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[Chorus: Nas]
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HEY!! Where are, where they nooooooow, huuuhhhhhooohhh HEY!)
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{Grandmaster Caz, y'all know what this is do y'all know what this means!!!}
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{The fact, that each brother got on this track, the fact, that each sister got on this track}
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(Where are they now?)
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{To rap, took time out of there schedule, when y'all ain't even got no love}
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{But they still givin y'all love, that's hip hop y'all}
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(HEY! Hit me! Where are they nooooooow?)
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{Give it up to the OG's the original gangstas of Rap, yeah}
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[Verse 9: Linque AKA Isis from X-Clan]
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Nas you had to ask Linque, where you been?
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Rippin on the mics with the devilish grin
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Sort of like a tack cause I stay under they skin
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Cause when I open up my mouth I blow them chicks to the wind
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Don't get besides yourself like you Siamese twins [Professor X:] ("This is protected!")
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Still got the pen to make the ?message of sin? ("By the red, the black")
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You bring it back I do it over again ("and the green")
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Exposin those who pretend, stay on my grind 'til the end
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[Verse 10: Dana Dane (Nas)]
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First there was a tree and a MC grew and became (Brooklyn!)
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Another rapper born in Queens, 9/6 the b-day
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Moms moved and born {?}, dad hit the freeway
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My young life was screenplay, better yet a clich? (I can't believe it!)
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To rap in the eight-tay, no lenses in the east-say?
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They say we were a fad but fad don't add reggae
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We played by the D-Day, eveyday, Eve's day
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Capital D-A-N-E and hip hop, must be in it
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[Verse 11: Pebblee Poo from Def Committee (Nas)]
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C'mon! Well I'm the ?wa-say-why? with the with the same crew
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First name Pebblee, last name Poo (Oh!)
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Gina Parks? says a {?} I'm a leader, theiver, greeter
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Last mark the game like Run and them Adidas (Do the history ya'll!!!)
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I'm a real estate investor but, I still blessed her
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Microphone teacher outta Alpha Four ?"Beavers?
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Hold on I get deeper, dope b-boy speaker
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Practice what I preach-a, DAMN I'm a keepr, huh
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[Verse 12: Just Ice (Nas)]
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Just the mic and make 'em stand up [RAW!]
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Lyrics are legendary status so get ya hands up
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Clap to the freestyle (Just Ice!) dance, but in the meanwhile
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Cool calm collected, smooth that's how I get down
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Then at the stage, hold 'em up like a twelve gauge
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Page after page, all you see is a pure rage!
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So pass the gat, grab ?taps? for the beat
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Just Ice signing off [Whaaat?!] Yo I'm out y'all, PEACE!!!!!
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[Outro: Nas]
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Yo that's incredible man play that again!!!
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