History of Rap 4 Lyrics

[Performed by Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake]

[Sugarhill Gang, "Apache (Jump on It)"]
Tonto, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it
Kemosabi, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it

[Grandmaster Flash, "White Lines"]
Visions, dreams of passion
And all the while I think of you

[Kurtis Blow, "Basketball"]
Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I'm the king on the microphone
So is Dr. J and Moses Malone

[Fat Boys, "The Fat Boys"]
The Fat Boys
(beatboxing)

[Run-DMC, "It's Tricky"]
It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
It's tricky, it's tricky
Tricky, tricky, tricky

[Beastie Boys, "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn]
No sleep 'til Brooklyn
Born and bred Brooklyn, U.S.A
They call me Adam Yauch, but I'm M.C.A
Well like a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fly women
[LL Cool J, "Going Back to Cali]
I'm going back to Cali
To Cali, to Cali
I don't think so

[Slick Rick, Children's Story]
Once upon a time not long ago
When people wore pajamas and lived life slow
When laws were stern and justice stood
And people were behavin' like they ought ta good
There lived a lil' boy who was misled
By anotha lil' boy and this is what he said

[2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny"]
Ahh, me so horny
Me love you long time

[A Tribe Called Quest, "Scenario"]
Here we go yo, here we go yo
So what, so what, so what's the scenario

[Cypress Hill, "Hand on the Pump"]
Sawed off shotgun
Hand on the pump, left hand on a forty
Suckas get jumped
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, laaaaa
[Wrecks N'Effect, "Rump Shaker"]
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom
And a poom-poom
Just shake your rump

[Salt 'N' Pepa, "Shoop"]
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
So well it's a spell, hell, makes me wanna shoop, shoop, shoop
Shoop shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop

[Snoop Dogg, "Gin and Juice]
With so much drama in the L-B-C
It's kinda hard being Snoop D-O-double-G
But I - somehow, some way
Keep coming up with funky ass stuff like every single day
Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice
Laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind

[Busta Rhymes, "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"]
Ya, ya, ya ya ya
Woo-hah, got you all in check

[Notorious B.I.G., "Hypnotize"]
Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me
And I just love your flashy ways
Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid (holla)
[Missy Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"]
Go, get your freak on
Go, get your freak on
Go, get your freak on
Go, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha freak on

[Jay-Z, "Izzo"]
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
For shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
That's the anthem, get your damn hands up

[Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"]
If you want to go and take a ride with me
We 3-wheeling in the fo' with the gold D's
Oh, why do I live this way
Hey, must be the money

[50 Cent, "P.I.M.P."]
I don't know what you heard about
But a bitch can't get a dollar out of me
No Cadillac, no perms, you can't see
That I'm a motherwhat P-I-M-P

[Chamillionaire, "Ridin' Dirty"]
They see me rolling
They hating, patrolling and trying to catch me riding dirty
Trying to catch me riding dirty
Trying to catch me riding dirty

[Wiz Khalifa, "Black and Yellow"]
Black and yellow, black and yellow

[Trinidad James, "All Gold Everything"]
Gold all in my chain, gold all in my ring
Gold all in my watch
Don't believe me, just watch
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy

[Macklemore, "Thrift Shop"]
I’m gonna pop some tags, only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I’m, I’m, I’m hunting, looking for a come up
This is freaking awesome

[Eminem, "Lose Yourself"]
Look, Jimmy
If you had, one shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

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The fourth rendition of Justin and Jimmy’s “History of Rap” series, the two perform some of the greatest hits in hip-hop history on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

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March 14, 2013
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