Rising to the Top - KRS-One

[00:00.000] 作词 : KRS One, Parker, Williams
[00:09.04]To you super listeners how you doing tonight?
[00:11.61]All you fly guys and fly girls
[00:13.89]Welcome once again to the world famous Mister Magic
[00:16.17]Rap Attack and （unintelligible）
[00:19.13]Way way back before the ' Hots' and the 'Powers'
[00:21.96]We used to listen to live mixin' for hours
[00:24.23]Roxanne Shanté,U.T.F.O.
[00:26.80]Mister Magic Rap Attack some of y'all know
[00:29.47]But I was in the shelter in weakness
[00:31.64]Homeless, turntableless and microphoneless
[00:34.11]Fresh gearless but still I was fearless
[00:37.19]And focused on being the ****** MC alive
[00:40.28]It's '85,LL's on Def Jam
[00:42.36]With the best jam,And Whodini's on Jive
[00:44.81]Man you know I had to survive
[00:46.78]New York City was crazy in the 80's but damn it was live
[00:49.59]So here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan
[00:52.16]Shanté's already the queen,Marley's already the man
[00:55.41]Y'all don't really understand
[00:56.84]When you throw on Shanté or Shan it got live in the jam
[00:59.76]So we went to Mister Magic
[01:01.68]If anybody had to power to put you on he had it
[01:04.64]We gave up the demo tape no love lost
[01:07.45]But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us off
[01:09.91]Somehow we heard we were whack
[01:12.18]Every track,and that we shouldn't even call back
[01:14.78]Right there my jaw dropped, no doubt
[01:16.88]But it made me see what I was all about
[01:19.63]And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:22.56]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[01:24.72]I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:27.58]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[01:29.80]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:32.75]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[01:34.85]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[01:37.72]Give it all you got,give it all you got,give it all you got
[01:40.59]In the spot new hip hop and Latin Quarters
[01:42.77]And the Union Square and the rooftop
[01:44.97]We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot
[01:47.35]Where it got dark a lot me and Scott La Rock
[01:50.16]But it was all for the hip hoppers
[01:51.75]Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with 'The Show Stoppa'
[01:54.86]MC Shan was gonna challenge LL
[01:56.64]Shanté was battling 3 or 4 groups at the same time what the hell
[02:00.46]Answer records were big then
[02:02.58]after Shanté did it,Everybody was trying to spit them
[02:05.66]so we spit off
[02:07.36]To tell you the truth it was the only way an MC could get on
[02:10.88]We answered MC Shan's ' Queensbridge'
[02:13.10]A **** jam about where he was from and where he lived
[02:15.81]But in the Bronx there was these kids
[02:17.83]KRS, Scott La Rock trying to live
[02:19.93]And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:23.26]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[02:25.27]I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:28.29]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[02:30.40]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:33.36]Give it all you got, give it all you got
[02:35.48]We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go
[02:38.39]Give it all you got,give it all you got,give it all you got
[02:41.19]This it what an MC was,we had a strong street buzz
[02:44.60]Marley and Shan showed us some love and love never hurt'
[02:47.65]Cause while Shan was with Marley we was with DJ Red Alert
[02:50.82]Every Friday night,every Saturday night
[02:53.42]On the airwaves the battle was right
[02:55.39]Under New York nights, smog and lights
[02:57.43]Jargon at night the Roxy used to get so hype
[03:00.65]You could put on your headset
[03:02.11]And get what heads didn't get yet
[03:03.58]Live MCs going,"Check, check"
[03:06.06]Spitin' rhymes over the radio set
[03:08.08]These are the days and the ways I can never forget
[03:10.94]So I don't forget it to Marley and Shan I am indebted
[03:14.06]For the start of my career these guys could take credit
[03:16.94]For my rappin',the whole battle they let it all happen
[03:19.54]Marley and Shan and Shanté could have been gun strapping
[03:22.59]Cousin!But they wasn't and you know why?
[03:25.90]Cause we was on some real hip hop let's keep it buzzing!