[00:04.220]Here we go we gonna send this one out to the old school
[00:13.810]All these ************* in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and Staten Island
[00:16.180]Queens, and all the ************* that laid it down, the foundation
[00:19.290]yaknowhatI'msayin? Nuttin but love for the old school
[00:22.880]That's who we gonna do this one for, ya feel me?
[00:26.310]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[00:29.860]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[00:33.880]repeat 3X]
[00:36.780]Nothin like the old school/ain't nuttin like the old school
[00:38.020]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[00:38.860]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[00:41.150]I remember Mr. Magic, FLASH, Grandmaster Caz
[00:43.800]LL raisin hell but, that didn't last
[00:47.910]Eric B. & Rakim was, the **** to me
[00:50.480]I flip to see a Doug E. Fresh show, with Ricky D
[00:53.270]and Red Alert was puttin in work, with Chuck Chill
[00:55.220]Had my homies on the hill gettin ill, when **** was real
[00:58.380]Went out to steal, remember Raw, with Daddy Kane
[01:01.250]when De La Soul was puttin Potholes in the game
[01:03.590]I can't explain how it was, Whodini
[01:05.780]had me puffin on that buddha gettin buzzed, cause there I was
[01:08.860]Them block parties in the projects, and on my block
[01:11.800]You diggi don't stop, sippin on that Private Stock
[01:14.530]Through my speaker Queen Latifah, and MC Lyte
[01:17.240]Listen to Treach, KRS to get me through the night
[01:19.650]With T La Rock and Mantronix, to Stetsasonic
[01:21.450]Remember "Push It" was the bomb ****, nuttin like the old school
[01:26.970]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:29.500]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[01:30.600]Heheheh, it ain't nuttin like the old school
[01:33.350]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:35.630]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[01:38.790]Ain't nuttin like the old school
[01:40.150]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:43.690]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[01:44.590]Yeaheheh, it ain't nuttin like the old school
[01:44.890]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:49.570]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[01:53.690]Nuttin like the old school
[01:53.900]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:57.790]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[01:58.410]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[01:58.750]Ain't nuttin like the old school
[01:59.390]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[02:00.290]Heheh... I had, Shell Toes, and BVD's
[02:01.720]A killer crease inside my Lee's when I hit the streets
[02:02.930]I'm playin skelly, ring to leavey, or catch a kiss
[02:04.400]before the homies in my hood learned to smack a *****, I remember
[02:07.280]way back, the weak **** they had
[02:09.210]Too many seeds in the trey bag
[02:12.030]I'm on the train headin uptown, freestylin
[02:13.740]with some wild kids from Bucktown, profilin
[02:17.690]cause the hoochies was starin, thinkin, "Why them ****** swearin?"
[02:21.410]I'm wonderin if that's her hair, I remember
[02:23.660]Stickball, pump the hoochies on the wall
[02:25.600]or takin leaks on the steps, stinkin up the hall
[02:28.610]Through my childhood, wild as a juvenile
[02:30.410]A young ***** tryin to stay away from Riker's Isle
[02:33.130]Me and my homies breakin nights, tryin to keep it true
[02:36.760]Out on the roof sippin 90 proof, ain't nuttin like the old school
[02:39.440]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[02:41.090]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[02:44.750]Heheheyah, that's right, it ain't nuttin like the old school
[02:48.770]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[02:52.000]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[02:55.210]Ain't nuttin like the old school
[02:57.110]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[02:59.710]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[03:00.870]Nuttin like the old school
[03:01.910]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[03:04.890]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[03:06.590]Nuttin like the old school
[03:06.780]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[03:08.810]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[03:10.180]"What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
[03:10.430]Hahah... remember poppin and lockin to Kurtis Blow, the name belts
[03:10.560]Ain't nuttin like the old school
[03:10.790]if the old school didn't pave the way" -- Grand Puba]
[03:11.510]
[03:12.870]And Scott LaRock the Super Hoe back in Latin Quarters
[03:16.150]When Slick Rick was spittin La-Di-Da-Di
[03:17.860]Gamin the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties, I remem-ber
[03:20.310]breakdancin to Melle Mel
[03:23.580]Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he Rocks the Bells
[03:25.660]Forget the TV, about to hit the streets and do graffiti
[03:28.350]Be careful don't let the transit cops see me
[03:30.470]It ain't nuttin like the old school!
[03:32.040]Grand Puba sample repeats every bar to end]
[03:35.230]It ain't nuttin like the old school
[03:36.770]Hahahah, it ain't nuttin like the old school
[03:38.510]Hey, heheaha, on the real though, ain't nuttin like the old school
[03:43.630]
[03:48.470]...
[03:58.610]Remember seein Brooklyn go crazy up in the ************ party?
[04:00.830]Member how ******* used to go, "Is Brooklyn in the house?"
[04:03.800]and ************* would lose they GOD DAMN MIND
[04:07.270]That's the old school to me; that's what I'm sayin (Su-per, Sperm)
[04:10.380]I remember goin places that ************* was scared to say
[04:14.330]they was from anywhere but Brooklyn; that **** was the bomb
[04:21.940]Back in the ************ old school *****
[04:25.130]Remember skelly *****? Knockin ****** out the box, poppin boxes?
[04:27.980]Member stickball? Member ****** to run that **** like that?
[04:30.210]Member the block members screamin up at your mom from the window?
[04:33.150](LL Cool J is hard as HELL...)
[04:34.310]The ice cream truck, member all the mother...
[04:35.110]Member the italian icey's yo?
[04:35.540]Yo remember the italian icey's the spanish ****** comin down
[04:35.910]with the coconut icey's and ****?
[04:36.140]I came through the door, said it before
[04:36.450]That was the ****!