What`s it All About? lyrics

Artist  : Run-D.M.C. 
Song : What`s it All About?
 


[Run] I would like to throw "Rock Box" in the
start of this one..

{*Jam Master Jay
obliges with the cut..
"Run.. Dee.. Run.. D..
M.. C.."
"Here we go again!" -> Chuck
D*}

"What's it all about?" (4X with
stutter repeats)

[Run]
Livin in the
city - the crack the mack and all that
Easy
does it, is it was it
the black or white that
Friday night
in those racist places - let's
get it right
Ah to the maximum, and keep askin
'um
when the city gonna fix where the BLACKS
are from
And every day around the way another
one got
bucked in his head - from a
gunshot
No chance in advance for the
ambulance
Cause he was just another victim of
the circumstance
A brother died, the mother
cried, it was a pity
But that's how it goes
down when you're livin in the city

{*Jam
Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?"
samples*}

[D.M.C.]
Just a hard rock,
call him a hard rock
in the metropolis there's
no stoppin this
Can't agree with society poppin
this
Disagree with the plea when they coppin
it
Some men pretend the end will come
soon
They gather what they can and them
BOOM
You played yourself, you made your
wealth;
the deal was dealt - now your health
is in question
Three Card Molly, hoodlums -
who are we?
Pollution, prostitution, In God We
-
- need a solution, revolution,
substitution
for the thing's that we're
abusing
Pity the city, for the people livin
out on the streets
Yo we homeless, the
homeless need to eat
There's no progress for
the rest
God bless for less

{*Jam
Master Jay cuts "What's it all about?"
samples*}
(*musical breakdown*}

[Run]
What it is?
[DMC] What's it all
about?
[Run] Whassup G?
[DMC] What it
be?
[Run] How you livin HOMELESS
PROBABLY
Mandela's free
[DMC] and they're
rollin with D
[both] In history you cannot see
em like they cannot see me
[Run] The Berlin
Wall
[DMC] It all had to fall
[Run] They
said no but..
[Jay] "Yo!" "Yes
y'all!"
[Run] The people that spoke were never
provoked
and now it's tumblin down
Freedom
of speech for each
[DMC] Now how that
sound?
[Run] Try to stop me from sayin what I
want to say
My funky rhyme I never quit until
the break of day
NOW HERE WE GO as I flow and
show and kick
[DMC] Infor-mation, teach and ?
reach inside the nation
and be a.. SEER CAUSE
I'M REASON WITH RUN
[Run] And now that the
point is out
Let the jam slam my man and tell
me
what's it all about?

{*Jam Master
Jay cuts "What's it all about?"
samples*}
(*musical
breakdown*}

[D.M.C.]
I flex my muscle,
what I must do
is bumrush you, FUCK YOU I'll
crush you
The Ku Klux Klan is fucked up
And
every good man'll understand
Beginnin and
winnin, from the first fuckin vocal
I spoke to
you, I ain't no joke to you
I do what I want to
do
If you don't like what me and my crew is
doin then FUCK YOU
What I do and what I done
with Jay and Run
None could ever become, to
sum it up bum..
get off my DICK and out my
KINGDOM
(Yo yo D tell em where you're
from)
Straight from Hollis, Queens
I'm
still eatin collard greens and I'm doin the same
things
I ain't never goin out
suckers..
punk motherfuckers!
What's it all
about?

(*musical breakdown*}