Young MC Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Coast 2 Coast Lyrics

I met a girl named hip hop in seventy eight

 Hollis Queens New York gave us our first date

 man she broke me off proper yo the girl was fast

 and everybody kept telling me it would not last

 cause ain't no women in the world supposed to be that sweet

 and ya just can't trust a hot chick from the street

 I could tell she had been through lots of struggle and strife

 but yet in still she'd been with me over half of my life

 born key Jeff Taylor took me into his home

 and intrduced me to some tables and a microphone

 hip hop talked to me told me take your time

 at the age of eleven I bust my first rhyme

 block partys in the day house partys at night

 just about one year before Rapper's Delight

 everybody in the crew called to make a request

 cause rap's on the radio and hip-hop was blessed

 didn't go to many clubs I wasn't old enough

 And if it try to sneak it out my folks is scolding up

 but I still do anything to get on stage

 and once I got a club gig I lied about my age

 just a couple blocks away was the Hollis crew

 Run and them used to rock at one ninety two

 up the street was a crew called Solo Sounds

 where Davey D and Mex used to throw it down

 man I wouldn't trade rap for anything in the world

 hip hop meant more to me than diamonds and pearls

 and I still reminicse to this very day

 and I remember those words hip hop would say

 

 (Do you have love for the east coast?)

 yes I do

 (the hip hop on the east coast?)

 yeah that's true

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 east coast played a role in making a hip hop

 (Do you have love for the east coast?)

 yeah that's right

 (the hip hop on the east coast?)

 yeah that's tight

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 east coast played a role in making a hip hop

 

 now I gotta get busy time to make that move

 high school over with gotta sho' improve

 got college on the coast and I'm makin' plans

 so hip hip went and told me go west young man

 it was a different kind of style but I liked the sound

 everybody in the house gauranteed to get down

 I did the casa skateland word on wheels

 and the crazy crazy world of the record deal

 K-day was the station that played my song

 I got love from the people it's a shame they gone

 Julio and Tony G yo was keeping it real

 and Baker Boys doin' they own up in Bakersville

 I remember other brothers putting out the gin

 like six in the morning and the battle ran

 there were boys in the hood and little Nenah Cherry

 and oh I can't forget about ooh Rock Berry

 before the madness when I made my fame

 alot of people on the west coast knew my name

 before the big magizines even wanted to meet me

 I checked the back pages of the L.A. weekly

 to see if they would write and recognize the sound

 cause in those days Young MC was underground

 lot of times I would rhyme and I'd get no pay

 but I remember those words hip hop would say

 

 (Do you have love for the west coast?)

 yes I do

 (the hip hop on the west coast?)

 yeah that's true

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 west coast played a role in making a hip hop

 (Do you have love for the west coast?)

 yeah that's right

 (the hip hop on the west coast?)

 yeah that's tight

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 west coast played a role in making a hip hop

 

 talk of an east coast west coast beef makes me panic

 I love both sides so I'm straight skitzafrenic

 got my skills in the east got my deal in the west

 so I just can't say what side is the best

 now you love where you live that's true indeed

 cause your family and friends give you what you need

 stand up for yo' hood and you do it with pride

 but the media tells you hate the other side

 now it's hard to hate a man that I have not met

 or hate a whole damn coast like a ????

 cause hip hop is wit ya no matter where you stay

 so remember these words hip hop would say

 

 (Do you have love for the east coast?)

 yes I do

 (the hip hop on the east coast?)

 yeah that's true

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 east coast played a role in making a hip hop

 (Do you have love for the west coast?)

 yeah that's right

 (the hip hop on the west coast?)

 yeah that's tight

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 west coast played a role in making a hip hop

 (do you have love for the east coast?)

 yes I do

 (the hip hop on the west coast?)

 yeah that's true

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 both coasts played a role in making hip hop

 (do you have love for the west coast?)

 yeah that's right

 (the hip hop on the east coast?)

 yeah that's tight

 from the 'yes yes y'all' to 'and you don't stop' 

 both coasts played a role in making hip hop

 (coast to coast)