Old School

Eric B. and Rakim was the shit to me
Member stickball, member niggaz to run that shit like that?
Remembers screamin' up at your mom from the window?
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Out on the roof sippin' 90 proof, ain't nuttin' like the old school
Or takin' leaks on the steps, stinkin' up the hall
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Before the homies in my hood learned to smack a bitch

I'm wonderin' if that's her hair, I remember
Them block parties in the projects and on my block
You diggi don't stop, sippin' on that Private Stock
Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he rocks the bells
If the old school didn't pave the way
That's who we gonna do this one for, ya feel me?
(Ain't nuttin like the old school)
I'm on the train headin' uptown

When Slick Rick was spittin' La-Di-Da-Di
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way
If the old school didn't pave the way
If the old school didn't pave the way
And Red Alert was puttin' in work with Chuck Chill

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
If the old school didn't pave the way
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Had me puffin' on that Buddha gettin' buzzed, 'cause there I was
Remember Push It was the bomb shit, nuttin' like the old school
Remember seein' Brooklyn go crazy up in the motherfuckin' party?
Went out to steal, remember Raw with Daddy Kane

Had my homies on the hill, gettin' ill, when shit was real
I came through the door, said it before
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Thinkin' why them niggaz swearin'?
Freestylin' with some wild kids from Bucktown
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Queens and all the motherfuckers that laid it down the foundation

I can't explain how it was, Whodini
Stickball, pump the hoochies on the wall
If the old school didn't pave the way
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
I remember way back, the weak weed they had
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
I flip to see a Doug E. Fresh show with Ricky D
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today

If the old school didn't pave the way

When De La Soul was puttin' Potholes in the game
I remember goin' places that motherfuckers was scared to say

A killer crease inside my Lee's when I hit the streets
If the old school didn't pave the way
I remember breakdancin' to Melle Mel
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Through my childhood, wild as a juvenile
Profilin, 'cause the hoochies was starin'
If the old school didn't pave the way
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Member the block
Member the Italian icey's yo?
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
I'm playin' skelly, ring to leavey or catch a kiss
(Yeah, it ain't nuttin like the old school)
They was from anywhere but Brooklyn

I remember Mr. Magic Flash, Grandmaster Caz

Back in the motherfuckin' old school nigga
If the old school didn't pave the way
Yo, remember the Italian icey's the Spanish niggaz comin' down

If the old school didn't pave the way

(It ain't nuttin like the old school)
Member how fuckers used to go, "Is Brooklyn in the house?"

(Ain't ain't nuttin' like the old school)
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Gamin' the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties
(Nuttin' like the old school)
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today

Through my speaker Queen Latifah and MC Lyte
I had, Shell Toes and BVD's
Remember skelly nigga, knockin' niggaz out the box, poppin' boxes?
If the old school didn't pave the way
Remember poppin' and lockin' to Kurtis Blow the name belts
The ice cream truck, member all the mother

And Scott La Rock the Super Hoe back in Latin Quarters
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
Ya know what I'm sayin'? Nuttin' but love for the old school
If the old school didn't pave the way
Forget the TV, about to hit the streets and do graffiti
It ain't nuttin like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
With T La Rock and Mantronix to Stetsasonic

Too many seeds in the trey bag
That shit was the bomb
And motherfuckers would lose they goddamn mind
If the old school didn't pave the way
(It ain't nuttin like the old school)

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
LL raisin', hell but, that didn't last
A young nigga tryin' to stay away from Riker's Isle
Me and my homies breakin' nights, tryin' to keep it true
If the old school didn't pave the way
If the old school didn't pave the way
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
With the coconut icey's and shit?
If the old school didn't pave the way
(Nuttin' like the old school)
(Ain't nuttin' like the old school)
If the old school didn't pave the way
Listen to Treach, KRS to get me through the night
Be careful don't let the transit cops see me
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
That's the old school to me, that's what I'm sayin'