[00:10.616]Now I'ma say this once again open up your mind
[00:13.043]Shot heard around the world came from our fresh rhymes
[00:15.838]The contribution to showbiz, mixed with entertainment
[00:18.802]Resurrected rhymes, not the same old same
[00:21.212]Now if you like what we came with
[00:22.822]And you feel you can sang wit it
[00:23.979]Peep the verbal language and the way we arranged it
[00:26.862]Now entertainment to make the people applaud
[00:29.296]I'm not trying to say my style is better than yours
[00:32.006]I'm from the graduating class of one-nine-eight-eight
[00:34.722]L.A. Unified School M A H
[00:37.436]A gangbanger from the streets taught me how to break
[00:40.083]In South Central L.A., ay yo, can you relate?
[00:42.582]I'm Chali 2na
[00:43.534]The one who puff the buddha keep the Snapple in the cooler
[00:46.553]Used to go to junior high with Son Doola
[00:48.619]Old skoola - a permanent, element, in ya tournament
[00:50.741]Tellin it prevalent never delicate when we burnin it
[00:53.519]Now from L.A. to the U.K. we attempt to rock a party
[00:56.212]The rhyme and the music you don't hear that no more hardly
[00:59.014]I can say it's partly, all our faults smarty
[01:01.623]J5'll bring you more than the shakin of a body
[01:04.157]Ay yo a child is born but no state of mind
[01:06.673]But when I first heard it, put words to rhymes
[01:09.325]I went from hypercars, to powder blue All-Stars
[01:11.944]To hangin on monkey bars catchin spiders in jelly jars
[01:25.540]So uh, let's take it back to the concrete streets
[01:28.314]Original beats with real live MC's
[01:31.194]Playground tactics, no rabbit-in-a-hat tricks
[01:33.852]Just that classic, rappin from Jurassic
[01:47.169]I bring the noise plus the funk, entertainin like a dunk
[01:49.599]From a snotty-nosed prima donna millionaire punk
[01:52.137]But uh, I heard a hunch, that somebody might munch
[01:54.943]Cause J5 go together just like parties and spiked punch
[01:57.738]Your crew's captain crunch, and I'm the seven seas
[02:00.508]Bombin on MC's, crushin crews with ease
[02:03.341]Brother please you know my steez is 100 degrees
[02:05.469]With no era bring it live like the Trio of Terror
[02:08.446]Trio of Terror no mascara, at last your brass surpass pleasure
[02:11.139]We the last treasure set to entice the cash bearer
[02:13.731]Mask wearers who bite my reflection like glass mirrors
[02:16.329]Be trash pickers who need to consider the past clearer
[02:19.129]Now what you thought was old and out of date
[02:21.741]We brought it back alive and changed the shape
[02:24.601]We put it on wax for those who think that
[02:26.624]The 5 we energize has been extinct
[02:51.641]We takin it back like battles in hallways and bathrooms
[02:54.698]And battles in the back of the classroom
[02:56.544]And in the bungalows game of death with flows
[02:59.435]Lunchtime rhymes you had to prove and show
[03:01.760]Never the school type, couldn't pronounce the words right
[03:04.617]The class jester, I was flunkin every semester
[03:07.229]The summer hit, had it burnin in '86
[03:09.896]Class cuttin and runnin wit all the neighborhood derelicts
[03:12.577]Within the concrete jungle (huh!) we remain humble
[03:15.356]Akil and Akir, bounce, flip and tumble
[03:17.918]Uh, we never fumble, break down or stumble
[03:20.794]Hot mumbo jumbo, just bring it when we rumble
[03:23.286]We push it like the Daytona
[03:24.195]Fresh rhymes we blaze on yas
[03:26.013]Strictly from California old skool public diplomas
[03:28.607]We spittin from every corner we flippin it when we wanna
[03:31.207]Beneath the concrete be street word on ya