Product of the Environment - 3rd Bass.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Berrin, Citrin, Nash
[00:00.01]Alright coming up now another request (this one)
[00:02.75]This time from the boys down at Anna's Pizza Paradise
[00:05.87]A new arrangement of a great oldie in rhythm and blues
[00:09.12]Verse 1: Pete Nice (Prime Minister)
[00:48.10]In the heart of the city you was born and bred
[00:50.94]You grew up smart or you wound up dead
[00:53.37]Things moved fast, but you knew the scoop
[00:55.87]And your savior was a rhyme and a beat and a rap group
[00:58.46]A modern day production of the city street
[01:00.55]You said I didn't have it that I couldn't compete
[01:03.11]So the sleeper did sleep but the sleeper shoulda woke up
[01:05.62]Now you're in my sight, the buddha sess you smoke up
[01:08.41]That's the element you carry your rhymes on
[01:10.83]That style of rhyme won't let you live long
[01:13.22]Cause a strong song to you is what I sent
[01:15.60]Cause I'm a product, of the environment
[01:20.23]*There it is, black and white*
[01:29.88]*There it is, black and white*
[01:35.08]Verse 2: MC Serch
[01:37.43]On the streets of Far Rockaway Queens
[01:39.84]Seagirt Boulevard, Beach 17
[01:42.27]Redfern Houses where no MC would ever go
[01:45.27]Is where I did my very first show
[01:47.31]Had the crowd had the rhymes going, I never fess
[01:49.62](His reward, was almost a bullet in his chest)
[01:52.17]And on that stage, is where I first learned
[01:54.72]Stick out my chest to be a kid and get burned
[01:57.12]You're so foolish, but I think you knew this
[01:59.69]That on the the microphone punk I can do this
[02:02.06]And doing this, is what life meant
[02:04.51]Cause I'm a product, of the environment
[02:09.26]*There it is, black and white*
[02:18.87]*There it is, black and white*
[02:24.05]Verse 3: MC Serch, Pete Nice
[02:26.40]Back in the days when kids were mack daddies
[02:28.90]Striped Lee jeans, playboys and Caddies
[02:31.40]Long Beach, the M.O.K. center
[02:33.74]He almost caught a bad one when he tried to enter our way
[02:36.89]Bang! Bum rush the back door
[02:39.06]Then scatter, onto the dance floor
[02:41.45]Me and my boys, skeezin the cuties
[02:43.69]Never had static, cuz everybody knew me
[02:46.14]Local DJ's, tearin up the wax
[02:48.63]And out the corner, some kid gets taxed
[02:51.02]After the party, crack open a forty
[02:53.52]Vicked it from the store yo the man never caught me
[02:55.95]Went up to the arcade, cranked the bass
[02:58.38]And then the five-oh chased us from the place
[03:00.84]Hop on the railroad, play the conductor
[03:03.40]Everywhere I went
[03:04.43]I always tucked a marker in my jacket to tag where I went
[03:08.10]Cause we were just products, of the environment
[03:12.94]*There it is, black and white*
[03:22.59]*There it is, black and white*
[03:27.67]Verse 4: MC Serch, Pete Nice
[03:30.13]I wanna tell you something that gets me kind of mad
[03:33.24]...it's about my dear old dad
[03:35.02]He's tired, and worn, and works a nine to five
[03:37.88]Clockin thirty G's a year to survive
[03:39.97]But I know kids who in a month or so
[03:42.35]Make that money selling the llello
[03:44.97]Pushin a drug, I can't understand
[03:47.41]Destroyin a life with a buck in the hand
[03:49.70]Play rotten slum chain, local street hero
[03:52.24]But if you ask Serch, you're just a bunch of zeroes
[03:54.74]Too bad cause when you're older, you won't have a cent
[03:57.23]Cause you're a product, of the environment
[04:01.96]*There it is, black and white*
[04:11.64]*There it is, black and white*
[04:16.79]Verse 5: Pete Nice
[04:19.07]You hear it in the strength of my voice and in my rhythm
[04:22.00]Now you know, how I was livin
[04:24.03]It happened to me, like it happened to Serch
[04:26.42]Prime Minister Pete Nice'll kick the verse
[04:28.81]In Bed-Stuy with my boy, Kiwai Height
[04:31.36]The K to A Kingston, Wednesday night
[04:33.75]To the Empire, show slammin
[04:36.41]Open for Dana, crew flammin
[04:38.81]Mouth open wide, or listening
[04:41.41]Dumb **** with a forty in my system
[04:43.86]Unprotected but respected for my own self
[04:46.40]Cause of talent, no shade, or nothin else
[04:48.73]A time of tension, racially fenced in
[04:51.28]I came off (and all the brothers blessed him)
[04:53.73]I left more than a mark, I left a dent
[04:56.11]Cause I'm a product, of the environment
[04:57.56]Outro: K.M.D. and Serch
[04:58.56]Aiyyo Serch, skin is just a color of the mind and the soul
[05:01.97]And a brother ain't a brother if his heart is cold
[05:04.00]You know what I'm sayin fellas? - Word
[05:06.65]And I think we need a positive Kause in a Much Damaged society
[05:10.53]Word up man nubians killin nubians
[05:12.59]Brothers just don't understand, man
[05:14.63]Word maybe it's some of that crime that's stoppin the growin
[05:17.28]The drug pollution and all needs to calm down
[05:19.41]Word man, cause that's what we need, we need Griff Productions
[05:22.83]We need a K.M.D. man to uplift the race
[05:25.04]and bring Kause in the beginning
[05:26.62]And a Posse called Get Yours
[05:29.35]There it is, to all y'all bigots who want us to bend
[05:33.78]We're just products of the environment, peace!!
[05:38.78]Hopefully...
[05:40.00]*There it is, black and white*