I Was There

Do it Marley, ha, killin' 'em

You killin' 'em, where were you?

I wanna talk about these rap historians

Y'all better get it together, where were you?

I be readin' your books, where were you?

Y'all better get it together, word up

When Hot 97 started

I was there

When Rap City got started

I was there

When KDAY got started

I was there

When Jive

Records got started

I was there

When Yo MT

V Raps started

I was there

When The Source magazines started

I was there

When Cedric and

Seda started

I was there

When Biggie was doin' his album

I was there

When Tookie

Williams was buried

I was there'73,

Cedar Park

I was there

One-twenty-three park

I was there

You ain't tellin' me the history 'cause

I was there,

I was there

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

Where were you?

When Moe Dee challenged

LL I was there

When that bus blew up in

London I was there

When Death

Row challenged

Bad Boy at the

Source Awards

In New York at the

Garden, yup

I was there

When Kwame

Toure formerly known as

Stokely Carmichael

Was passin' on

I was there

When Nelson

Mandela was freed from prison

And spoke out at

Yankee Stadium in

New York I was there

For all the births of my children

I was there

When the Rodney

King uprisings happened

I was there

These objective rap historians tryin' to document

Hip hop from outside forget it

I was there,

I was there

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

Where were you?

Look, The

Jive Records label,

I was there

The Columbia

Records label,

I was there

The Elektra

Records label,

I was there

The Warner

Brothers Records label,

I was there

The Koch Records label,

I was there

The Capitol

Records label,

I was there

I know about they contracts 'cause

I was there

I wrote and rewrote most of 'em when

I was there

I ain't readin' a book or recitin' a hook

I am hip hop itself 'cause yup

I was there

Y'all need to get it together with hip hop's history

And get it right 'cause yup

I was there,

I was there

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

And where were you?

Where were you?

Where were you?