Story Behind the Song
This song was written right before the spring of 2000.According to TG,it wasn't originally intended for him to do the song.He wanted to have a white girl rhyme all the lyrics(which to most people is somewhat odd).As chance would have it,he found one.Not really an MC,but a girl who wanted to be someone in the music business.She agreed to collaborate with T and the two went to work right away.Unfortunately,the results did not come out well.It took over ten Maxell cassette tapes,$50 worth of fast food,5 bottles of water,5 subway trips and 5 days to record.Pathetic,isn't it? TG parted ways with her a few months and threw everything that had to do with the song away.Later in the summer of 2001 while cleaning up his bedroom,he found the original lyrics of the song.Thinking back to the past experiences,he decided that he should record the song himself so he went to work,rewrote the lyrics,added new parts and rushed to the studio.He added that old school feeling into everything in the song.Unlike the original version,it took TG 2 hours to record and one take along voice and scratch overdubs.
Lyrics
1ST VERSE:"I got my lyrical force my rhymes are never off course I pack more power than a horse my beats are from the source of the sounds I be laying down I come from downtown my skills are by the pound coming from Fantastisound it's so sensational i'm rocking international my style is so irrational my sound is so essential at my discretion gotta learn a little lesson while i'm chilling in my session can't forget to count my blessing of a talent i obtained i'm lyrically refrained my time is yet to wane living out the growing pains of a life that i like since i was a little tyke it's always been a dream to rock the mic. (CHORUS) "Rock the mic and tell me what you like,rock the mic and tell me who you like,rock the mic cause it's sure delight,rock the mic,rock the mic"(repeat once more) 2ND VERSE:"I be on and on and on to the breakabreaka dawn when it's time to perform I have my skills on the norm I be rocking on I be rock shocking it on y'all yes yes y'all and you don't stop and all my people get down to the sure shot sounds of a Mean Joe Green that we call TG and a my fresh body rocking beatboxing machine,hit it I'm on a mission so you haters better I'm a old school head to keep it real with the tradition of moving the crowd to dazzle the crowd enlighten the crowd and entertaining the crowd and when i'm done with the crowd i'm feeling high as a cloud cause my set be off the hook and my bass be pumping loud while i'm doing "Planet Rock" with tight beatbox and i start breaking and popping to the top,get down!" (CHORUS 2X) 3RD VERSE:"DJs are cutting while the MC keeps flowing taggers are writing while the breaker keeps going i'm living in the game that'll take me to the top with the fresh generation that we call hip hop rip it up tear it up with this funky cut i'm flowing all the way to Egypt with my man,King Tut the beat keeps rocking while the snare keeps socking and the popper keeps popping yo it ain't no stopping cranking up the sound while the crowd's getting down everybody talking bout with this beat that we found its a new decade so don't try to persuade the psychological production of the track that i just laid." (CHORUS 2X) (BRIDGE) "Throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care and if you got on clean underwear,say yeah." (yeah) "If you got on clean underwear,say yeah." (yeah) (repeat once more) "With the beat and the people i'm pursuing ,tonight we trying to chill so don't try to ruin". "Say I feel (I feel) say real good(real good)(repeat 2 times) "The song is tight,so chill not fight,you know why? cause I just fulfilled my dream to rock the mic."(repeat chorus 4X,adlib to fade)
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