Old School

Song Old School
Artist Tupac
Album Me Against the World

Lyrics

[00:04.220] Here we go; we gonna send this one out to the old school
[00:13.810] All these mother****ers in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and Staten Island
[00:16.180] Queens, and all the mother****ers 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 shit 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 shit 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 shit, 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 bitch, I remember
[02:07.280] way back, the weak weed 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 niggaz 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 nigga 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 mother****in party?
[04:00.830] Member how ****ers used to go, "Is Brooklyn in the house?"
[04:03.800] and mother****ers 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 mother****ers was scared to say
[04:14.330] they was from anywhere but Brooklyn; that shit was the bomb
[04:21.940] Back in the mother****in old school nigga
[04:25.130] Remember skelly nigga? Knockin niggaz out the box, poppin boxes?
[04:27.980] Member stickball? Member niggaz to run that shit 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 niggaz comin down
[04:35.910] with the coconut icey's and shit?
[04:36.140] I came through the door, said it before
[04:36.450] That was the SHIT!

Pinyin

[00:04.220] Here we go we gonna send this one out to the old school
[00:13.810] All these mother ers in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and Staten Island
[00:16.180] Queens, and all the mother ers 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 shit 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 shit 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 shit, 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 bitch, I remember
[02:07.280] way back, the weak weed 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 niggaz 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 nigga 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 LaDiDaDi
[03:17.860] Gamin the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties, I remember
[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 mother in party?
[04:00.830] Member how ers used to go, " Is Brooklyn in the house?"
[04:03.800] and mother ers would lose they GOD DAMN MIND
[04:07.270] That' s the old school to me that' s what I' m sayin Super, Sperm
[04:10.380] I remember goin places that mother ers was scared to say
[04:14.330] they was from anywhere but Brooklyn that shit was the bomb
[04:21.940] Back in the mother in old school nigga
[04:25.130] Remember skelly nigga? Knockin niggaz out the box, poppin boxes?
[04:27.980] Member stickball? Member niggaz to run that shit 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 niggaz comin down
[04:35.910] with the coconut icey' s and shit?
[04:36.140] I came through the door, said it before
[04:36.450] That was the SHIT!