I Was There
Do it Marley, ha, killin em
You killin em, where were you?
I wanna talk about these rap historians
Yall better get it together, where were you?
I be readin your books , where were you?
Yall better get it together, word up
When Hot 97 started
I was there
When Rap City got started
I was there
When KDAY got started
I was there
When Jive
Records got started
I was there
When Yo MT
V Raps started
I was there
When The Source magazines started
I was there
When Cedric and
Seda started
I was there
When Biggie was doin his album
I was there
When Tookie
Williams was buried
I was there73,
Cedar Park
I was there
One-twenty-three park
I was there
You aint tellin me the history cause
I was there,
I was there
And where were you?
Where were you?
And where were you?
Where were you?
And where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you?
When Moe Dee challenged
LL I was there
When that bus blew up in
London I was there
When Death
Row challenged
Bad Boy at the
Source Awards
In New York at the
Garden, yup
I was there
When Kwame
Toure formerly known as
Stokely Carmichael
Was passin on
I was there
When Nelson
Mandela was freed from prison
And spoke out at
Yankee Stadium in
New York I was there
For all the births of my children
I was there
When the Rodney
King uprisings happened
I was there
These objective rap historians tryin to document
Hip hop from outside forget it
I was there,
I was there
And where were you?
Where were you?
And where were you?
Where were you?
And where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you?
Look, The
Jive Records label,
I was there
The Columbia
Records label,
I was there
The Elektra
Records label,
I was there
The Warner
Brothers Records label,
I was there
The Koch Records label,
I was there
The Capitol
Records label,
I was there
I know about they contracts cause
I was there
I wrote and rewrote most of em when
I was there
I aint readin a book or recitin a hook
I am hip hop itself cause yup
I was there
Yall need to get it together with hip hops history
And get it right cause yup
I was there,
I was there
And where were you?
Where were you?
And where were you ?
Where were you?
And where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you?