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[00:01.04]Down With The King-Run DMC
[00:29.72]down with the king for years, about ten of 'em
[00:32.40]recruiting suckers, Mac and Mike, and makin' men of 'em
[00:34.64]tears and fears for my peers, they rippin'
[00:36.95]you think that it is, it is, if not it isn't
[00:39.79]race for the border my daughter, 'cause beats you're bangin' out
[00:42.10]jeeps rockin' beats in the streets when there's time for hangin' out
[00:44.65]gather, or rather form a circle around a loud
[00:46.90]'cause brothers or others could never ever rock a crowd
[00:49.84]is it because he's runnin' off with the mouth
[00:51.96]or was he really clearly tryin' to play a nigga out
[00:54.46]nope, shut him down, the king with a crown
[00:57.02]'cause all you wanna be is dicky down
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[01:19.60]two years ago, a friend of mine
[01:22.05]asked me to say some MC rhymes
[01:24.25]so I said this rhyme I'm about to say
[01:27.00]the rhyme was meeca, and it went this way
[01:29.71]wrecka lecka mecca mic check on the windmill skills
[01:32.42]Mac distracts, wearing Godfather hats
[01:34.55]it's okay to parlay to fortee better
[01:36.98]tell 'em my nigga made a sweater tougher than leather
[01:39.47]swing another Rodney King thing in our right
[01:42.03]but just like the white one I get no respect
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[01:44.61]money stay awake, 'cause them other niggas are fake
[01:47.17]from Hollis to the Becon, now your dumb ass is leakin'
[01:49.72]C.L. and Run DMC so rush it
[01:52.03]big time way before Hammer got to touch it
[01:54.68]remember the faces in all types of places
[01:57.14]look Ma, no shoelaces
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[01:58.97]and I'm....
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[02:19.63]I'm takin' the tours, I'm wreckin' the land
[02:21.93]I keep it hardcore because it's dope man
[02:24.12]these are the roughest toughest words I ever wrote down
[02:26.90]not mean for a hoe like a slow jam, check it
[02:29.83]sucka emcees could never swing with D
[02:31.95]because of all the things that I bring with me
[02:34.38]only G-O-D could be a king to me
[02:36.86]and if the G-O-D be in me, then the king I be
[02:39.60]the microphone is granted when it's handed to me
[02:41.78]I was planted on this planet and I plan to emcee
[02:44.60]the emcee fiends only seem to agree
[02:46.78]that I rock all the world and the society
[02:49.34]I rages on the stages with a tune of verse
[02:51.84]I get praises from these pages to the universe
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[02:54.42]my voice is raw, my lyrics is law
[02:57.09]I keep it hardcore like you never saw you wanna be you wanna be
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[03:19.84]the man you I'm see, in the place to be
[03:21.84]I went to John Jay University
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[03:24.30]and since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge
[03:27.33]and after twelve grade I went straight to college
[03:29.86]down with the kings on the mic, a full swinger
[03:32.13]the P to the R, not an R&B singer
[03:34.48]the R to the U-N-D-MC'n
[03:36.98]the fly human beings, tonight I hold the key and
[03:39.66]flowin' with the funk track, here to soul brother black
[03:42.41]pick up the bass, better yet leave a space
[03:44.53]so let me put my big black ?? on in to the early mornin'
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[03:48.37]had skins doanin'
[03:49.55]mecca? (yo) you want the mecca? (yo)
[03:51.98]I'll make a funky beat so we can blow, check it out
[03:54.48]Pete Rock's the beat knock, put you in a headlock
[03:57.29]and now all the outty out flock is down with the king
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