Rising To The Top

[Incomprehensible] to you super listeners how you doing tonight?

All you fly guys and fly girls

Welcome once again to the world famous

Mister Magic Rap Attack and of course I am [Incomprehensible]

Way way back before the 'Hots' and the 'Powers'

We used to listen to live mixin' for hours

Roxanne Shanté, U.T.F.O.

Mister Magic Rap Attack some of y'all know

But I was in the shelter in weakness

Homeless, turntableless and microphoneless

Fresh gearless but still I was fearless

And focused on being the dopest MC alive

It's '85, LL's on Def Jam with the best jam

And Whodini's on Jive, man you know I had to survive

New York City was crazy in the 80's but damn it was live

So here comes the Juice Crew with MC Shan

Shanté's already the queen, Marley's already the man

Y'all don't really understand

When you throw on Shanté or Shan it got live in the jam

So we went to Mister Magic

If anybody had to power to put you on he had it

We gave up the demo tape no love lost

But it seems Mister Magic just brushed us off

Somehow we heard we were whack

Every track, and that we shouldn't even call back

Right there my jaw dropped, no doubt

But it made me see what I was all about

And I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

I'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got

We'll keep rising to the top while my mind go

Give it all you got, give it all you got, give it all you got

In the spot new hip hop and Latin Quarters

And the Union Square and the rooftop

We used to hear them tunes pop in the parking lot

Where it got dark a lot me and Scott La Rock

But it was all for the hip hoppers

Salt-N-Pepa answered Doug E Fresh with 'The Show Stoppa'

MC Shan was gonna challenge LL