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Rising to the Top

[Incomprehensible] to you super listeners how you doing tonight?

All you fly guys and fly girls

Welcome once again to the world famous

Mister Magic Rap Attack and of course I am [Incomprehensible]Way way back before the 'Hots' and the 'Powers'

We used to listen to live mixin' for hours

Roxanne Shant, U.T.F.O.

Mister Magic Rap Attack some of y'all knowBut I was in the shelter in weakness

Homeless, turntableless and microphoneless

Fresh gearless but still I was fearless

And focused on being the dopest MC aliveIt's '85, LL's on Def Jam with the best jam

And Whodini's on Jive, man you know I had to survive

New York City was crazy in the 80's but damn it was liveSo here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan

Shant's already the queen, Marley's already the man

Y'all don't really understand

When you throw on Shant or Shan it got live in the jamSo we went to Mister Magic

If anybody had to power to put you on he had it

We gave up the demo tape no love lost

But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us offSomehow we heard we were whack

Every track, and that we shouldn't even call back

Right there my jaw dropped, no doubt

But it made me see what I was all aboutAnd I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you gotWe'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you gotIn the spot new hip hop and Latin Quarters

And the Union Square and the rooftop

We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot

Where it got dark a lot me and Scott La RockBut it was all for the hip hoppers

Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with 'The Show Stoppa'

MC Shan was gonna challenge LL

Shant was battling 3 or 4 groups at the same time what the hellAnswer records were big then after Shant did it

Everybody was trying to spit them so we spit off

To tell you the truth it was the only way an MC could get onWe answered MC Shan's 'Queensbridge'

A dope jam about where he was from and where he lived

But in the Bronx there was these kids

KRS, Scott La Rock trying to liveAnd I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you gotWe'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you gotThis it what an MC was we had a strong street buzz

Marley and Shan showed us some love and love never hurt

'Cause while Shan was with Marley we was with DJ Red AlertEvery Friday night, every Saturday night

On the airwaves the battle was right

Under New York nights, smog and lights

Jargon at night the Roxy used to get so hypeYou could put on your headset

And get what heads didn't get yet

Live MCs going, "Check, check"

Spitin' rhymes over the radio setThese are the days and the ways I can never forget

So I don't forget it to Marley and Shan I am indebted

For the start of my career these guys could take creditFor my rappin', the whole battle they let it all happen

Marley and Shan and Shant could have been gun strapping cousin

But they wasn't and you know why

'Cause we was on some real hip hop let's keep it buzzing

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